The book of Saladin / Tariq Ali
- Bib ID:
- 3790821
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ali, Tariq
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Verso, 1999
- xvi, 367 p. : 1 map; 19 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1859842313
- 1859848346
- Series:
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- Islam quintet ; 2
- Ali, Tariq. Islam quintet ; 2
- Summary:
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Tariq Ali's latest novel is a 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. A series of interconnected stories follows, tales brimming over with warmth, earthy humour and passions in which ideals clash with realities and dreams are confounded by desires. At the heart of the novel is an affecting love affair between the Sultan's favoured wife, Jamila, and the beautiful Halima, a later addition to the harem. The novel charts the rise of Saladin as Sultan of Egypt and Syria and follows him as he prepares, in alliance with his Jewish and Christian subjects, to take Jerusalem back from the Crusaders.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Ali, Tariq
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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