The fourth novel in Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet is set in 1153, in Palermo, where cartographer Muhammed al-idrisi is torn between his close friendship with the sultan and his friends who are leaving the island or plotting a resistance to...

Set in 12th-century Cairo, Damascus and Jerusalem, this is the fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem. It is the second in a series of historical novels depicting the confrontation between Islamic and Christian...