The Book of Saladin: A Novel (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Book of Saladin Set in 12th-century Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem, this is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem, as dictated to a Jewish scribe, Ibn Yakub. It is the second in a series of historical novels depicting the confrontation between Islamic and Christian civilizations.
Full description- Publisher: Verso Books
- Published: 10 November 1998
- Format: Hardback 280 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781859848340 ISBN 10: 1859848346
- Sales rank: 815,548
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Full description for The Book of Saladin
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.
