An orphaned child whose life had passed in labor, hunger, and longing-now a weary young man in a strange city, harboring no vision of his own future. One day, he yielded to his friend's insistence to visit a renowned Haj Molla, of whose miracles all spoke. The moment this holy man's eyes fell upon Reza, his heart trembled. He rose, hand upon his breast, bowed deeply, and proclaimed: "You have graced us with your presence, Center of the Universe..." A true story told with novelistic power-the complete life of the man who would reshape a nation. Based on five years of extensive archival research, yet told with the heart of a storyteller who knows that the most powerful histories are the ones that time nearly forgot This is a love story. A war story. A story of impossible ambition in impossible times. The first volume in an epic seven-book journey through a life that defied every expectation. The hero, history overlooked. The legend time cannot erase.