The Islam Quintet: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, The Book of Saladin, The Stone Woman, A Sultan in Palermo, and Night of the Golden Butterfly (The Islam Quintet #3)

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Five nuanced and powerful historical novels depicting the clashes among Muslims, Christians, and Jews from the Crusades to twenty-first-century London. Celebrated British-Pakistani journalist and author Tariq Ali takes a mind-expanding journey through the ages with these five acclaimed works of fiction, available now in one collection. Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: &“Ali captures the humanity and splendor of Muslim Spain&” in &“an enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and verve&” (The Independent). For the doomed Moors, the fall of Granada and the approaching forces of Christendom bring not peace but the sword. The Book of Saladin: After Saladin reclaims the holy city of Jerusalem from the Crusaders, he turns to a Jewish scribe to record his story, which Edward Said calls &“a narrative for our time, haunted by distant events and characters who are closer to us than we had dreamed.&” The Stone Woman: &“Ali paints a vivid picture of a fading world,&” proclaims the New York Times Book Review, as a distant descendant of an exiled Ottoman courtier suffers a stroke in Istanbul, and his family rushes to his side to hear his last stories. A Sultan in Palermo: In &“a marvelously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue, love, insurrection and manipulation,&” cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi is caught between his friendship with King Roger of Sicily and the resentments of his fellow Muslims (The Guardian). Night of the Golden Butterfly: A Lahore-born writer living in London is called back to his homeland by an old friend who, at seventy-five, has finally fallen in love. &“If Pakistan is a land of untold stories,&” writes the New Statesman, Ali is &“the country&’s finest historian and critic.&”
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1993

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9781480448582
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Open Road Media
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Tariq Ali
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English
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History, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
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