Unlike Mailer's autobiography of Christ, The Gospel According to the Son , Quarantine is lauded for its historical accuracy, lyrical prose, and risque plot.
Quarantine has a great deal of historical accuracy in his autobiography.
At the end of the 12th century, the Turks  Sultan Mohammed of Ghur and his Mameluke (slave) General Qutb-ud-din Aybak seized Ghazni in 1173 and invaded India.