World Literature Today, January 1st, 2000
Tariq Ali. The Book of Saladin. London/New York. Verso. 1998. xvi + 367 pages. [pound]17/$23. isbn 1-85984-834-6. Tariq Ali is not only a journalist and filmmaker; he is also an old- fashioned novelist who likes to write large books on important issues and big themes. The Book of Saladin is the second novel in an intended quartet treating the confrontation between Islam and Christianity. The first novel, Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, concerned the fall of Islam in Spain. The Book of Saladin is the story of the rise of Sultan Yusuf Salah al-Din's family and how Salah al-Din united the twelf...
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