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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree

By Tariq Ali

ظل شجرة الرمان

Tariq Ali's first Islam Quintet novel — an Andalusi family after Granada's fall, as the books are burned.

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1980199020002010

LiteratureMuslim minorities under non-Muslim rule

Overview

The novel by Khaled Hosseini (2013): the story of an Afghan family branching from Kabul to Paris and California, asking how a people scatters across continents and yet stays connected to the first catastrophe. 1

Legacy

The most temporally intricate of his novels; it extended Afghan diaspora literature to questions of memory and identity across generations. 1

People and things also explored

Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Babri Masjid· Integration and identity (al-indimaj wa-l-huwiyya)· The contemporary Islamic discourse — maturity versus reactivity· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Patriotism, nationalism and Arabness — the boundary with Islam· Arab naming of children after plants· The wise sayings attributed to Ali

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Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)

Aljamia is the Spanish form of the Arabic al-'ajamiyya ('non-Arabic'), a term the Muslims of al-Andalus used for the Romance dialects of their northern neighbours, dialects coloured with Arabisms introduced from the 9th century by Mozarab emigrants. In the later Middle Ages the word came to mean Spanish written in Arabic script, and the literature in that script is called aljamiado.