In the 1100s, the court physician of an Islam Caliph, Ibn Rushd, is banished from Córdoba, Spain, and sent to reside in the small village of Lucena. Many other exiles, predominantly Jews, live in Lucena. Ibn Rushd sets up a medical practice and meets a 16-year-old Jewish girl named Dunia. Dunia is a jinnia, or a grand princess of a female tribe with supernatural powers. Dunia comes to Ibn Rushd to avoid having to work as a prostitute. He takes her in, and they start having an affair. They live together, and Dunia begins having many children, giving birth to as many as eleven from a single pregnancy. Although Dunia becomes dissatisfied with Ibn Rushd's lower libido, she allows him to compensate by telling her grand stories in bed. He speaks of his old philosophical ideas, and his rival, a philosopher who died 100 years before Ibn Rushd was born but hangs in the air. The perished philosopher, Ghazali of Tus, claimed that the cause and effect nature of philosophy cannot be true, for all causes and effects are linked and could be unlinked by the will of God. Although Ibn Rushd is religious, he does believe in the universe having a concrete set of rules that will never be broken. As much as he will never admit that his ideas are secular, they ring with innate skepticism about the dominion of God. Eventually, Ibn Rushd's old Caliph is restored to power, and he leaves Dunia and their children without ever marrying her and giving them his name. Instead, the children are called the Duniazát, after their mother. The children spread far and wide. Dunia returns to the magical land from which she came, while Ibn Rushd dies not long after he returns and continues his philosophical battle with Ghazali in the afterlife. Their legacy extends forward, affecting all continents and corners of the world, as the battle between secularism and religion continues.