The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali

The Book of Saladin

Islam Quintet #2

Tariq Ali

367 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction historical challenging reflective slow-paced
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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 i...

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