The Book of Saladin

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The Book of Saladin

Ali Tariq

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"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 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. This is a medieval story, but much of it will be uncannily familiar to those who follow events in contemporary Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad. Betrayed hopes, disillusioned soldiers and unrealistic alliances form the backdrop to "The Book of Saladin."

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Ali Tariq

Tariq Ali je rođen u Lahoreu, u Pakistanu. Studirao je političke nauke, filozofiju i ekonomiju na Oksfordskom univerzitetu i za vrijeme studija istakao se kao oštar protivnik rata u Vijetnamu. Urednik časopisa New Left Review, Tariq Ali, jedan od najznačajnijih lijevo orijentiranih intelektualaca današnjice, napisao je više knjiga o svjetskoj historiji i politici – 1968: Marching in the Streets; Rough Music: Blairs, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror;... zbirke eseja – Conversations with Edward Said; The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (prevedena na naš jezik kao Sukob fundamentalizama: križarski ratovi, džihad i suvremenost); The protocols of the Elders of Sodom;...

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