Zusatztext A marvelously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue! love! insurrection and manipulation. The Guardian Informationen zum Autor Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politicsincluding Pirates of the Caribbean ! Bush in Babylon ! The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London. Zusammenfassung The fourth novel in Tariq Ali's 'Islam Quintet' charts the life and loves of the medieval cartographer Muhammed al-Idrisi. Torn between his close friendship with the sultan and his friends who are leaving the island or plotting a resistance to Norman rule! Idrisi finds temporary solace in the harem; but his conscience is troubled... A Sultan in Palermo is a mythic novel in which pride! greed! and lust intermingle with resistance and greatness. It echoes a past that can still be heard today. Praise for the Islam Quintet: A richly woven tapestry that even before its completion meritscomparison with Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy. Kirkus Reviews

ldquo;A marvelously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue, love, insurrection and manipulation.”—The Guardian

Autorentext
Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.

Klappentext

What links them is that each is set in a colourful period from the Islamic past and tells an intimate story set against the sweep of history.

Zusammenfassung
The fourth novel in Tariq Ali’s ‘Islam Quintet’ charts the life and loves of the medieval cartographer Muhammed al-Idrisi. Torn between his close friendship with the sultan and his friends who are leaving the island or plotting a resistance to Norman rule, Idrisi finds temporary solace in the harem; but his conscience is troubled...

A Sultan in Palermo is a mythic novel in which pride, greed, and lust intermingle with resistance and greatness. It echoes a past that can still be heard today.

Praise for the Islam Quintet:

“A richly woven tapestry that even before its completion meritscomparison with Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo trilogy.” Kirkus Reviews