Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
A Novel
Published on 15. October 2013
242 pages
978-1-4804-4853-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Tariq Ali captures the humanity and splendor of Muslim Spain ... real history as well as fiction ... a book to be relished and devoured" (
The
Independent
).
The savagery of the Reconquest tore apart the world of the Banu Hudayl family. For the doomed Muslims of late-fifteenth-century Spain, the approaching forces of Christendom bring not peace but the sword. Capturing the brutality of a war both military and cultural-and the price paid by the innocent-Tariq Ali opens his Islam Quintet with a harrowing and profound historical fiction.
The savagery of the Reconquest tore apart the world of the Banu Hudayl family. For the doomed Muslims of late-fifteenth-century Spain, the approaching forces of Christendom bring not peace but the sword. Capturing the brutality of a war both military and cultural-and the price paid by the innocent-Tariq Ali opens his Islam Quintet with a harrowing and profound historical fiction.
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Person
Tariq Ali is a novelist, journalist, and filmmaker. His many books include
The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity;
Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq;
Conversations with Edward Said;
Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties; and the novels of the Islam Quintet. He is the coauthor of
On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation and an editor of the
New Left Review, and he writes for the
London Review of Books and the
Guardian. Ali lives in London.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Author's Note
- Prologue
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- About the Author
- Preview: The Book of Saladin
- Copyright
