by Tariq Ali · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420656915
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«El libro de Saladino» is the historical novel by Tariq Ali, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
The historical novel follows Salah al-Din, the great political figure of medieval Islam who led the Third Crusade, recovered Jerusalem in 1187, and measured himself against Richard the Lionheart. With a cast of secondary characters, Ali recreates the political-religious intrigues and the life of the cities of Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad.
The book belongs to Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet series, of which it is the second instalment; the English original, The Book of Saladin, was published in 1998.
Readers of historical fiction interested in the Crusades and the medieval East from a Muslim perspective.
Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He reads Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
