Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree A Novel |
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| Author:
| Ali, Tariq |
| Series title: | The Islam Quintet Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4804-4867-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $17.99USD $17.99USD $17.99USD $2.99USD $17.99USD $2.99 |
Book Description:
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"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...
More 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.