Ali, Tariq
by The Book of Saladin
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1859848346
- ISBN 13
- 9781859848340
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About This Item
New York. 1998. Verso. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1859848346. 367 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Islam Pakistan. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. inventory #26041 ISBN: 1859848346.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26041
- Title
- Ali, Tariq
- Author
- The Book of Saladin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1859848346
- ISBN 13
- 9781859848340
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 1998-10-17
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.