SHADOWS OF THE POMEGRANATE TREE (ISLAM QUINTET 1)

A family saga during the turbulent period following seven centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula. A view of Islamic civilization that runs counter to that provided by 19th-century Western Orientalists and 20th-century Islamic fundamentalists. The novels cover a vast period, beginning with the conquest of the Iberian peninsula in the 8th century, via the liberation of Jerusalem by the armies of Saladin in the 12th century, to the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire.