Tariq Ali – From Cairo to Madison – The Arab Revolution 1/5
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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (Vol. 1) (The Islam Quintet) $9.90 “An enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and verve. Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree is quizzical as well as honest, informative as well as enjoyable, real history as well as fiction … a book to be relished and devoured.”—The Independent Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their w… |
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The Book of Saladin: A Novel $8.95 Tariq Ali’s second novel in The Islam Quintet is a rich and teeming chronicle set in twelfth-century Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem.The Book of Saladin is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. Saladin grants Ibn Yakub permission to talk to his wife and retainers so that he might present a full portrait in the Sultan’s memoirs… |
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A Sultan in Palermo (The Islam Quintet, Vol. 4) $8.82 Set in medieval Palermo, this is the fourth novel in Tariq Ali’s celebrated Islam Quintet.The fourth novel in Tariq Ali’s ‘Islam Quintet’ charts the life and loves of the medieval cartographer Muhammed al-Idrisi. Torn between his close friendship with the sultan and his friends who are leaving the island or plotting a resistance to Norman rule, Idrisi finds temporary solace in the harem; but his c… |
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