A Sultan in Palermo

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

A Sultan in Palermo By Tariq Ali, Verso, 2005, 246 pp. List: S24; AET: $20.

Reading any work by Tariq Ali is a treat, be it politics or fiction. Ali's readers know that his deep knowledge of history isn't limited to the Middle East and Europe, but extends to South Asia and the Americas as well, with forays into the rest of the world. A favorite subject-and clearly a crucial one in today's world-is the convergence of the Christian and Islamic worlds.

In the first three novels of Ali's "Islam Quintet," the Muslim and Christian religions cross paths in the fall of Al Andalus/Reconquista Spain ...

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