The Islam Quintet

The five novels of the acclaimed Islam Quintet, together in one volume

Celebrated journalist and author Tariq Ali’s Islam Quintet takes readers from the streets of medieval Muslim Spain to twenty-first-century London and Lahore. At once a meditation on the millennia-spanning clash of Islam with the West and a series of riveting fictions, these five works are a compelling portrait of worlds in conflict and the lives lived between them.

Tariq Ali’s acclaimed series of five novels addressing the long history of the clash of Islam and the West. Together the novels form an epic panorama that begins in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain with Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, and closes in the twenty-first-century cities of Lahore, London, Paris and Beijing with Night of the Golden Butterfly.

“A richly woven tapestry that merits comparison with Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy.” —Kirkus Reviews