by Tariq Ali · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420645674
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«Un sultán en Palermo» is the historical novel by Tariq Ali, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
In twelfth-century Sicily, the Norman court of King Roger brings together Muslim intellectuals, concubines and eunuchs. There, the cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi is torn between his loyalty to the sultan and his friends who fight against the Normans, all in a novel about coexistence between the Norman court and Islamic culture and its tensions.
Fourth novel of Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet, translated by María Corniero Fernández. Published in the Alianza Literaria collection.
Readers of historical fiction interested in medieval Sicily, the Islamic world and relations between East and West.
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.
