Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: A Novel (The Islam Quintet Book 1)
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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree: A Novel (The Islam Quintet Book 1)
“Tariq Ali captures the humanity and splendor of Muslim Spain . . . real history as well as fiction . . . a book to be relished and devoured†(The Independent).
 The savagery of the Reconquest tore apart the world of the Banu Hudayl family. For the doomed Muslims of late-fifteenth-century Spain, the approaching forces of Christendom bring not peace but the sword. Capturing the brutality of a war both military and cultural—and the price paid by the innocent—Tariq Ali opens his Islam Quintet with a harrowing and profound historical fiction.
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