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Born in prepartition lahore, tariq ali describes himself as a. Iranian nights 1989 is an ironic treatment of the fatwa on salman rushdie, while moscow gold 1990 charts the rise of mikhail gorbachev. The first book in the five volume series of historical novels, the islam quintet 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 world. Tariq ali has written more than twodozen books on world history and politics the. Not only does the quintet successfully display the depth. Together the novels form an epic panorama that begins in fifteenthcentury moorish spain with shadows of the pomegranate tree, and closes in the twentyfirstcentury cities of lahore, london, paris and beijing with night of the golden butterfly. This fourth novel in tariq ali s islam quintet is set in medieval palermo, a muslim city rivaling baghdad and cordoba in size and splendor. Grippingly well told, brilliantly paced, remarkably convincing in its historical depiction of a fateful relationship, it is a narrative for our time, haunted by distant events and characters who are closer to us than we had dreamed. Written in response to a comment heard by the author during the first gulf war suggesting muslims have no culture, the five books dip in and out of history disproving this proposition. Shadows of the pomegranate tree islam quintet 1 tariq ali author. His many books include the clash of fundamentalisms. Shadows of the pomegranate tree book of the islam quintet tariq ali is a very well known leftwing historian of pakistani origin based in the uk. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the islam quintet.
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