[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$flV0Tq_aTqk2VEhmcdmZh62eDaWA1MKNplP8mbx1MFyQ":3},{"author":4,"count":5,"novels":6},"Khaled.S",1,[7],{"id":8,"title":9,"slug":10,"image":11,"chinese_title":12,"alt_titles":12,"synopsis":13,"author":4,"origin":14,"origin_language":14,"genre":15,"status":16,"translator":12,"rating":17,"review_count":18,"reader_count":18,"chapter_count":19,"totalwordcount":20,"viewsalltime":21,"first_chapter_slug":22},4548,"The Forge of the Atlas: The Rise of the Algerian Empire","the-forge-of-the-atlas-the-rise-of-the-algerian-empire","\u002Fcovers\u002F2744d9e2-255e-4853-bafb-59a1dcb29203-1781976014900.jpg",null,"Synopsis\r\n\r\nWhen a modern industrial metallurgist from Bouira suddenly wakes up in the body\r\nof Amine ibn Hussein, the nineteen-year-old second son of the Dey of Algiers, he\r\nfinds himself in late 1827. The Battle of Navarino has just decimated the\r\nAlgerian fleet, and the French invasion is looming in three short years. Blessed\r\nwith a refined, spatial engineering intellect and memory, Amine realizes he must\r\ndrag his homeland from a medieval, decaying Ottoman regency into the industrial\r\nage of steam, steel, and chemical science.\r\n\r\nRefusing to accept the inevitable French colonization, Amine exiles himself to\r\nthe rugged interior fortress of Hamza. There, he builds the physical foundation\r\nof his sovereignty: casting crucible steel, refining raw minerals from the\r\nmountains, and introducing the self-scouring steel plow, Macadam roads, and\r\npreserved food rations. He engineers revolutionary weapons—the Sabaa smokeless\r\nneedle rifle, the Zilzal rifled bronze artillery, and the Al-Asad armored\r\nsteam-corvette—turning the French invasion at Sidi Fredj into an absolute\r\ndisaster.\r\n\r\nWith his military and industrial superiority proven, Amine unites the provinces,\r\nabdicates his old father, and declares the absolute independence of the\r\nSultanate of Algeria from both France and the Ottoman Empire. Backed by a stable\r\nsilver currency, a national railway, and the first written Constitution of\r\nAfrica, the newly forged empire begins its relentless march toward continental\r\ndominance and industrial supremacy, heading toward the geopolitical chessboard\r\nof the late nineteenth century and the eve of World War I.","english","","ongoing","0.0",0,45,"81535","14","the-splintered-crescent-1"]