The Book of Saladin
by Ali, Tariq
Published by : Alhamra (Islamabad, Pakistan) Physical details: 407 Pages 21x13 cm | PB ISBN:9695160255.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction | Fiction | 823.914 A398B 2000 (Browse shelf) | Available | 16867 |
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Tariq Ali's "The Book of Saladin" is a rich and teeming chronicle set in the twelfth-century Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem. The Book of Saladin is a fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator he Muslim leader during the Crusades, was one of the best known figures of the Middle Ages. The West accepted him as a worthy opponent; Islam was indebted to him for the recovery of Jerusalem. Ali brilliantly weaves a fiction tale around the historical figure Saladin.
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