The Islam Quintet

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480448582

<DIV><B>Five nuanced and powerful historical novels depicting the clashes among Muslims, Christians, and Jews from the Crusades to twenty-first-century London.</B><BR /><BR /> 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.<BR /> &#160;<BR /><B><I>Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree</I></B><B>: </B>&ldquo;Ali captures the humanity and splendor of Muslim Spain&rdquo; in &ldquo;an enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and verve&rdquo; (<I>The Independent</I>). For the doomed Moors, the fall of Granada and the approaching forces of Christendom bring not peace but the sword.<BR /> &#160;<BR /><B><I>The Book of Saladin</I></B>: 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 &ldquo;a narrative for our time, haunted by distant events and characters who are closer to us than we had dreamed.&rdquo;<BR /> &#160;<BR /><B><I>The Stone Woman</I></B><B>: </B>&ldquo;Ali paints a vivid picture of a fading world,&rdquo; proclaims the<I> New York Times Book Review, </I>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.<BR /> &#160;<BR /><B><I>A Sultan in Palermo: </I></B>In &ldquo;a marvelously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue, love, insurrection and manipulation,&rdquo; cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi is caught between his friendship with King Roger of Sicily and the resentments of his fellow Muslims (<I>The Guardian</I>).<BR /> &#160;<BR /><B><I>Night</I></B><B><I> of the Golden Butterfly: </I></B>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. &ldquo;If Pakistan is a land of untold stories,&rdquo; writes the <I>New Statesman</I>, Ali is &ldquo;the country&rsquo;s finest historian and critic.&rdquo;<BR /> &#160;</DIV>