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Book of Saladin

By: Ali, Tariq

Price: $5.00

Publisher: VERSO: Aug-11

Seller ID: 155729

ISBN: 1859842313

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

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 humor 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 favored wife, Jamila, and the beautiful Halina, a later addition ...
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On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation

By: Oliver Stone,Tariq Ali

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Publisher: Haymarket Books: Nov-11

Seller ID: 411679

ISBN: 1608461491

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In working together on two challenging new documentaries--South of the Border and the forthcoming The Untold History of the United States series for Showtime--filmmaker Oliver Stone engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a probing, hard-hitting conversation on
the politics of history.

Their dialogue brings to light a number of forgotten--or deliberately buried--episodes of American history, from the US intervention against the Russian Revolution and the dynamic radicalism of the
Industrial Workers of the World to Henry Wallace's sidelining by Democratic Party ma...
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The Stone Woman: A Novel (The Islam Quintet)

By: Tariq Ali

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Verso: Jul-15

Seller ID: 460578

ISBN: 1781680043

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Each year, when the weather in Istanbul becomes unbearable, the family of Iskender Pasha, a retired Ottoman notable, retires to its summer palace overlooking the Sea of Marmara. It is 1899 and the last great Islamic empire is in serious trouble. A former tutor poses a question which the family has been refusing to confront for almost a century: 'Your Ottoman Empire is like a drunken prostitute, neither knowing nor caring who will take her next. Do I exaggerate, Memed?' The history of Iskender Pasha's family mirrors the growing degeneration of the Empire they have served for the last five hundr...
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A Sultan in Palermo: A Novel (The Islam Quintet)

By: Tariq Ali

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Publisher: Verso: Jul-15

Seller ID: 460579

ISBN: 178168930X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The fourth novel in Tariq Ali's 'Islam Quintet' charts the life and loves of the medieval cartographer Muhammed al-Idrisi. Torn between his close friendship with the sultan and his friends who are leaving the island or plotting a resistance to Norman rule, Idrisi finds temporary solace in the harem; but his conscience is troubled...

A Sultan in Palermo is a mythic novel in which pride, greed, and lust intermingle with resistance and greatness. It echoes a past that can still be heard today.

Praise for the Islam Quintet:

"A richly woven tapestry that even before its c...
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Night of the Golden Butterfly: A Novel (The Islam Quintet)

By: Tariq Ali

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Verso: Jul-15

Seller ID: 460580

ISBN: 178168006X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Night of the Golden Butterfly concludes the Islam Quintet--Tariq Ali's much lauded series of historical novels, translated into more than a dozen languages, that has been twenty years in the writing. Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, the latest novel moves between the cities of the twenty-first century, from Lahore to London, from Paris to Beijing. The narrator is rung one morning and reminded that he owes a debt of honour. The creditor is Mohammed Aflatun--known as Plato--an irascible but gifted painter living in a Pakistan where "human dignity ...
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Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution

By: Tariq, Ali

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Publisher: VERSO:

Seller ID: 412527

ISBN: 1786631113

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The secret life of the man who reshaped Russia

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read.

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali explores the two major influences on Lenin's thought--the turbulent history of Tsarist Russia and the birth of the international ...
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Author:Ali, Tariq

Book of Saladin

On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation

The Stone Woman: A Novel (The Islam Quintet)

A Sultan in Palermo: A Novel (The Islam Quintet)

Night of the Golden Butterfly: A Novel (The Islam Quintet)

Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution