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Historical person
1459–1533
Muhammad XII of Granada was the last Nasrid ruler of Granada, known in Spanish tradition as Boabdil. His reign was divided by civil war within the Nasrid dynasty and pressure from Ferdinand and Isabella, ending with the surrender of Granada in 1492.
In Tariq Ali’s Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, set in al-Andalus after the surrender of Granada in 1492, the novel follows the fictional al-Hudayl family as Castilian rule closes around the remaining Muslim population. In Robyn Young’s Court of Wolves, Harry Vaughan serves Henry on a covert mission to the Spanish court, where Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon are completing the war against Granada while Christopher Columbus seeks support for a western voyage.
Series
New World Rising follows the fictional half-brothers Jack Wynter and Harry Vaughan through the dynastic upheavals that ended Plantagenet rule and opened the early Tudor age. Sons of the Blood begins in 1483 with Edward IV’s death, the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower and Richard III’s…
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The Islam Quintet is Tariq Ali’s cycle of five historical novels examining encounters between Islamic societies and the Christian West across more than five centuries. Moving from the fall of Muslim Granada and the Crusades to Norman Sicily, the late Ottoman Empire and the modern transnational world, the…
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