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Set in medieval Palermo, this is the fourth novel in Tariq Ali's celebrated Islam Quintet.
The fourth novel in Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet is set in medieval Palermo, a Muslim city rivaling Baghdad and Cordoba in size and splendor. The year is 1153. The Normans are ruling Siqqiliya, but Arab culture and language dominate the island and the court. Sultan Rujari (King Roger) surrounds himself with Muslim intellectuals, several concubines, and an administration presided over by gifted eunuchs. The bishops, expecting to be at the pinnacle of power, are angered by the decadence of the court. In this captivating novel, Tariq Ali 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, confronted by the common people of Noto and Catania, his conscience is troubled.
A Sultan in Palermo is a mythic novel in which pride, greed, and lust intermingle with resistance and greatness. Set in the past, it has haunting resonance today.
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Islam Quintet .......2005-10-11
A sultan in palermo was the perfect final book to a wonderfully written series by tariq ali. i thoroughly enjoyed the whole group and was swept along with the main characters in all four of the books. the story of muhammad al-idrisi was supberly written, full of statesmanship, scholarship, and love. i highly recommend the whole series to anyone interested in the history of islam and of europe's encounters with muslims in the past. together these four books are a truly great addition to anyone's person library.
Read it last........2005-09-13
Having completed all the novel of the Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet, I would suggest that anyone starting this series not begin with "A Sultan in Palermo". While I enjoy and appreciate the historical and cultural backgrounds in Ali's novels, this book seemed to become somewhat preoccupied with the romantic and erotic interests of the protagonist Idrisi, to the extent that it becomes an annoying distraction to the historical plot. After Chapter Twelve, I began to find this book somewhat difficult to pick up again. No such problem with the earlier three works.
A novel unbecoming of "The Islam Quintet".......2005-08-17
Taris Ali's quintet series is a telling response to anyone accusing muslims as having no culture and civilization. The series is a sincere attempt by Tariq to convey the magnitude of the contribution made by muslims in the past 1400 years; which has so easily been forgotten. It was the insightful writings of muslim scholars that inspired Europe to greater heights and helped it transgress towards the Renaissance.
Sultan in Palermo revisits the Middle Ages, this time in Sicily, an island conquered by the Aghlabids in the 10th century then reconqured by the Normans in 1092. It takes as its main characters two major historical figures, Sultan Rujeri of Siqillya - or, as he is otherwise known, King Roger II of Sicily, and his protégé, Muhammad al-Idrisi, a cartographer. The book is set at a time where the sultan is at the end of his life and is maneuvering through politics insecuring the throne for his future generations. In a cavalier compromise the sultan had accepted the demands of the barons to persecute General Phillip (sympathetic to the muslims) on trumped up treason. The equilibrium on the muslim-christian nexus gets shifted. A peaceful society so far; is embroiled in tension and is gripped with the anxiety of persecution. In this atmosphere al-Idrisi seems torn between his affiliation with the king and his people.
I felt that "The Sultan of Palermo" failed to meet the penetrating and encompassing story of the earlier three novels. The disturbing fact is that in the perverse environment; where destiny is at the cross roads. Al-Idrisi was expected to be sagacious; exhibiting maturity; intellect and in-tune with his people. Instead he is a disdainful aphrodisiac enamored with the art of love than politics. On the eve of the execution of General Phillip; his gravest concern is whether to spend the night with his wife or his sister in law. There are more bedroom heroics than courtroom guile.
A VIVID, RELEVANT AND NECESSARY TALE OF ISLAMIC HISTORY.......2005-08-16
This is a review by Kamila Shamsie in THE GUARDIAN:
In A Sultan in Palermo, the fourth novel in Tariq Ali's Islam quintet, the 12th-century geographer al-Idrisi thinks back on his first encounter with the works of the Greek al-Homa (Homer). Al-Idrisi had been told by his father of the 12 calligraphers who transcribed Arabic translations of al-Homa's poetry, working under conditions of such secrecy that if they were even to reveal the nature of their work, "the executioner's scimitar, in a lightning flash, would detach head from body". But one of the calligraphers, undaunted, copied out parts of both al-Homa's poems and sent them to his family in Damascus, along with the information that the complete manuscripts were in secret compartments in the library of Palermo. Generations later, al-Idrisi finds himself in the library at Palermo and, of course, discovers the secret compartment.
This story echoes a tale from Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, the first novel of the quintet, which tells of the soldiers in Granada who are ordered by the archbishop to take all the manuscripts from the library and burn them, so that Moorish culture itself may be incinerated. Some of the soldiers deliberately drop manuscripts on the street, where they are gathered up by the Moors and carried to safety.
It is very much in the spirit of the calligrapher and the soldiers - who ensure that certain forms of knowledge survive the worst demands of the age - that Tariq Ali has written his Islam quintet. Prompted to start it by hearing a comment during the Gulf war that Muslims have no culture, he has gone back through different periods of Islamic history to show times when learning and culture were synonymous with Islam - and appreciated as such by the most enlightened Christians.
Among the most enlightened of these Christians is Sultan Rujeri of Siqillya - or, as he is otherwise known, King Roger II of Sicily. He is the eponymous Sultan in Palermo, and at the start of the novel, in 1153, seems likely to be one of its heroes. Rujeri is al-Idrisi's patron and friend; together they discuss such matters as the wonder of al-Homa, Rujeri's disdain for the Crusades, the weakness of Arab statecraft, and the misfortune of Rujeri's Norman cousins who conquered England - "a land of perpetual winter in the Ocean of Darkness". But Rujeri is also a man at the end of his life, concerned about securing his throne for future generations - which cannot be done, he feels, without the backing of the barons and bishops who want proof of his loyalty to the cross rather than the crescent. The "sacrifice" Rujeri makes to preserve his throne creates a rift between him and al-Idrisi - though earlier their friendship managed to survive Rujeri's decision to take Mayya, the woman al-Idrisi loves, as a concubine.
The tale of Rujeri and al-Idrisi is only one strand in this marvellously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue, love, insurrection and manipulation. There is also the tale of "the Trusted One", the broken-hearted ascetic who must find a way to transform the rhetoric of rebellion into action; the tale of al-Idrisi's children with their differing fortunes (and three different mothers); the tale of al-Idrisi on an enchanted isle, which may well be the island of the lotus-eaters which Odysseus visited with his crew; and, most compellingly, the tale of al-Idrisi and the two sisters he loves. It is this final tale alone which made me wish the novel wasn't quite so fast-paced: the sisters Mayya and Bilkas could well have done with more attention than they receive, particularly at the end.
Although events move quickly, there is plenty of space for reflection and asides. Whether the subject is heretical poetry, the disunity of the Arabs or the threat that laughter poses to those in power, these digressions only add to the richness of the novel's texture.
As with all the previous novels in the quintet, A Sultan in Palermo stands on its own, with a different location and time period. But the books do echo each other in various ways - and not only for the manner in which calligraphers and soldiers reflect each others' actions through the centuries. Al-Idrisi's reference to Gharnata (Granada) in 1153 inevitably creates a bridge to the Gharnata of 1499 which is the setting of Shadow of the Pomegranate Tree. Both novels are set at moments when Christian rulers choose violence over tolerance in their dealings with the Muslim subjects, resulting in failed and bloody Muslim rebellions. And both have a nostalgia for the time just before that moment, when tolerance was briefly the order of the day and culture and learning flourished.
It is worth noting that Ali chooses to set his "Islam" novel of 1153 in a Sicily ruled by a Christian Hauteville rather than in an Andalusia ruled by a Muslim al-Muwahiddin (Almohad). It is not Muslim military and political power that interests him so much as the co-mingling of religious cultures (Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Olympian) and all that was lost when the religions pulled violently apart from one another. For this, it is not only the Christian leaders who are to blame. Al-Idrisi recalls, with sadness, the Muslim "rebels with long beards belonging to sects that preached the virtues of purity and abstinence ... [who] burnt the books of learning, outlawed philosophical discourse, punished scholars and poets, thus beginning the process that would allow the enemy to enter through the pores of our weaknesses and destroy everything".
It should be clear by now that there is, of course, one other story - a story still being written - which A Sultan in Palermo calls to mind. The novel was written between August 2001 and August 2004; no need to state all of import that happened between those dates, or the significance of al-Idrisi's last thoughts in the novel: "He would go to Baghdad, the city that will always be ours. The city that will never fall. The city that will never fall."
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Un Sultan En Palermo/ a Sultan in Palermo (13/20)
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New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston, who "writes brisk romance chock-full of compelling conflicts and strong local color" (Publishers Weekly), evokes the grandeur, excitement, and danger of the American frontier in this sweeping historical novel.
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GREAT OLD FASHIONED WESTERN!.......2006-10-07
Wonderful story in the same vein as "Lonesome Dove". This hero is the strong, silent, hurting type that every woman wants. He's deadly with a gun, says what he means, means what he says; the heroine is part Native American and her spirit can't be broken. Her three kids are typical kids: the boys get into all kinds of mischief; the little girl is so sweet even when the hero snarls at her for small infractions because he hurts too much because she reminds him of his dead daughter. The love scenes are wonderfully written and the final ending scenes are "happy ever after". This book will stay with you long after you've read it.
A LITTLE SLOW MOVING...BUT GOOD .......2006-05-29
I liked this book it started out slow in the beginning and i found it just a little too easy to put down. I did finish it though, and I liked it. My only problem was (even though it was a little one) why was there so many typos??? Did the editor fall asleep in his cup of coffee or something? So although it's not the kind of book that you take to work to try to sneak a read whenever possible you won't feel like you wasted your time when your finished ... HAPPY READING =}
A Wonderful Tale!.......2005-01-20
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Drifter, Benjamin Colter suffered the unimaginably cruel deaths of his wife and daughter and now he found himself in the Wyoming Territory to begin anew.
Kinyan Holloway just found herself a young widow with a sprawling ranch and she had no idea on how to manage it. A marriage of convenience to experienced rancher Benjamin seems to fit everyone's needs. Through trials and tribulations they discover love.
A must read for a western historical romance readers!
OUTSTANDING!!!!! WOW!.......2004-10-28
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Very Good Book.......2004-07-25
I haven't read many of Joan Johnston's books, but I loved this one.
Kinyan Holloway was married to an older man when she was 14. Her father a Souix warrior gave her to Holloway for his wife. Now 11 years later her husband is dead is a range accident.
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The currents between all the members of the family and the battle Colter wages to regain his humanity as well as hold on to the ranch against a determined adversary make this one of the most delightful western adventures I have read.
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"Kagan, faithful to his lifelong fascination with Pericles . . . gives us an accessible and invaluable account of his life and deeds".--Allan Bloom, author of "The Closing of the American Mind".
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A Companion to the Peloponnesian War Series & A History of Athens.......2006-11-14
Donald Kagan's knowledge of the subject is likely unequaled. Having essentially written the premier history of the war Pericles hoped to avoid, The Peloponnesian War, Kagan was in the unique position to write a similarly authoritative biography of this classic statesman. And that he has.
The book is well-written, thoroughly readable, and tells the story of Pericles better than its predecessors. That said, those who've read Kagan's four volume series on the Peloponnesian War will find that most of the text in this book has already been covered. This is not to say that new insights and clever evaluations are not to be found, for they are, but only that the author is, unfortunately, a victim of his own superb and exhaustive account of Pericles' life in prior works.
Also note: this is an excellent history of the political framework of early Athens. If you require an introduction to Athens' early democratic structure, including a wonderful description of the Assembly (a fusion of legislative and judicial branches into an open forum), this is the book.
Those who are new to the author and/or the subject will not encounter an issue with the text and, indeed, could not ask for a better biography.
The First Citizen.......2006-07-19
Kagan's Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy is an extremely well-written book on a remarkable statesman who lived nearly twenty-five hundred years ago. The historian Thucydides called him Athens's `first citizen'. During his thirty years of near dominance as that city-state's leader, Athens enjoyed great wealth, a democratic form of government, and gloried in the arts and building projects that reflected that city's heightened status. Kagan's defense of Pericles (though not without criticisms) and the form of government he helped implement are admirably and ably argued.
Kagan's sources are fairly limited, which is to be expected. He relies mostly on the famed account of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, the later writings of Plutarch, and the works of some of the famed literary figures of the day. Perhaps the greatest surviving symbol of Pericles's influence in Athens is the Parthenon. Democracy in Athens began under Cleisthenes, as Kagan mentions, but Pericles advanced this system by opening political participation and voting to more of that city's citizens. He also promoted a paying system for public service. It is tempting to try to compare our political system with the system in Athens (though quite different) and say that ours is more inclusive, which though true technically doesn't mean that the political system in Athens is any less deserving of a certain amount of admiration.
Athens was also an empire, though Pericles could persuasively argue its merits despite the seeming contradictions. Athens's wealth and prestige did not come without costs. Sparta and various other Greek people were suspicious and resentful of the growing influence of Athens. The Spartans, as Kagan claimed later in the book as the Peloponnesian War began, would claim the mantle of liberators of the Greeks. Pericles's policies were seemingly always guided by an intelligent, rational way of thinking. He tried to pursue the moderate course between the extremes, as Kagan states. This seems to become most evident in the opening scenes in the war against Sparta.
I find that moderation to be very admirable, even if his policies could be wrong on occasion, as the Peloponnesian War would prove. He was perhaps too stubborn in adhering to certain strategies, but he did what he believed was right for Athens. His ability to influence his fellow citizens was indeed quite remarkable. But even Pericles had enemies and for a while even he was cast out of office when things weren't going well for Athens in the early stages of the conflict. Pericles died in 429 BC, only two and a half years into the war that would last twenty-seven years. His military strategy had not worked, though very clearly thought out and believed by its architect. But one thing was sure, after his death, Athens would sorely lack that high-minded and able leadership that he represented so well.
This is the second book by Kagan I've read and he doesn't disappoint. He makes a strong case for Pericles and Athenian Democracy, though he can be critical, especially of Pericles's strategy for fighting and winning the war with Sparta. Then again, what if Pericles had lived longer? Makes for a great what if, but then again maybe it wouldn't have changed the ultimate outcome of the war. A fascinating period, but a tragic one.
Getting to know Pericles.......2005-05-11
Donald Kagan of Yale university is perhaps the foremost authority on Periclean Athens in the world today. As such, it is only natural that he should write a treatise on the life of the great man known as Pericles.
All of the major facets of Pericles' life are brought together in this edition, from his rise to prominence to his scandalous affair with Aspasia to his strategy of fighting the Peloponnesian war against Sparta and her allies. The latter topic, of course, will gather the most interest to modern readers.
While I have read Thucydides, I felt that Kagan did a wonderful job of elaborating on a lot of details of the Peloponnesian war that were a bit unclear in primary sources. The problem with historical primary sources is that they many times take as a given the reader knows all the background information behind specific events. Kagan makes no assumptions and walks the reader through the various political and social aspects that underlie sundry events of 5th century Greece.
One of the more surprising elements of this book is that Kagan is not reticent in his criticisms of many Periclean policies and war strategies. While moderation is typically seen as a positive thing (just ask Aristotle!), Kagan points out how Pericles could over-rely on human reason and be moderate to a fault. In short, this book is NOT an encomium on the Greek leader. Rather, it is an open an honest examination of his life & times. Kagan disinters both the best and the worst in Pericles' character and foresight.
This book is highly recommended to all persons who are interested in Greek history. For those who wish to become more acquainted with Athens in the turmoil of war, this book is a can't miss.
The Churchill of the Ancient World.......2004-07-21
When I was just a youngster I remembered reading about the "Golden Age of Pericles". What was this "golden age"? Who was Pericles? What impact did he have on the world today?
To begin with, the "golden age" marked the beginnings of the Athenian Empire. Athens became the Mecca for the world, attracting the greatest minds. It became an important trade center. With this, Athens became one of the greatest cities in the mid-Fifth Century BC world. At the center was Pericles.
Pericles rose to prominence under less than favorable circumstances. He came from an old family that was involved in a sacrilege to the gods about one hundred years earlier. His family was cursed and expelled from Athens. When Pericles came of age he neglected politics, as the Athenian aristocracy was firmly entrenched. When his opportunity finally came Pericles was able to win over the citizens to his way of thinking by the power of his oratory.
Pericles didn?t invent democracy but under his leadership democracy flourished. He firmly believed that when the opportunity for power belonged to all the citizens, instead of only a few, that the best people would rise to leadership roles. This was democracy?s strength. The critics?and there were many?feared mob rule. For that reason it would be a long time before democracy rose to prominence in the world again. Even our own founding fathers feared mob rule, but representative democracy would prevent that while preserving democracy?s strength.
The legacy of Pericles was that he was a true statesman. He understood the ramifications of the peace with Sparta and what would happen to Athens if she caved into the demands of Sparta. The result was a great Peloponnesian war that would eventually cost Athens her empire. It was faulty strategy, wrong assumptions, and a lack of strong leadership after Pericles died that did Athens in. Donald Kagan mentions the connection with Winston Churchill, who found his country facing a great danger from Germany because its prime minister backed down. Like Pericles, he knew Great Britain would have to stand and fight. One can only wonder what the world would be like if Pericles? Athens had won as Churchill?s Britain had?
A worthy book.......2003-12-10
This is a good biography of a great man. Kagan not only distills a great deal of information into a very accessable book, he also manages to impart understanding and insight about Pericles and his Athens. This book is valuable to anyone interested in classical Greece. With particular emphasis - anyone contemplating an attack on "The Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides would do well to get "Pericles" as a companion. Even if you already have Thucydides under your belt, you will probably gain fresh insight into that famously difficult work through Kagan's lucid exposition.
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