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Books by Tariq Ali
  | | The Clash of Fundamentalisms(Updated) Crusades, Jihads and Modernity by Tariq Ali Paperback, 342 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-457-1, ISBN: 1-85984-457-X "After the events of September 11, 2001, the veteran writer, filmmaker and political activist Tariq Ali has been in great demand to provide his own radical perspective on the significance of the attacks, and the result is The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Ali's book explores the history that preceded these events, and deals directly with the political history of Islam, its founding myths, its origins, its cult ..." |
 | | The Obama Syndrome(Updated) Surrender at Home, War Abroad by Tariq Ali Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2011 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-757-3, ISBN: 1-84467-757-5 "A prescient dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat, fully updated.Written early in 2010 and initially published in September 2010, The Obama Syndrome predicted the Obama administration’s historic midterm defeat. But unlike myriad commentators who have since pinned responsibility for that Democratic Party collapse on the “reform” president’s lack of firm resolve, Ali’s critique located the problem in Obama’s notio ..." |
 | | The Idea of Communism (What Was Communism?) by Tariq Ali Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-26-2, ISBN: 1-906497-26-5 "November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Yet, why was this collapse of Communism considered final, but the many failures of capitalism are considered temporary and episodic? In The Idea of Communism, Tariq Ali addresses this very question.The idea of Communism, argues Ali, was simple and noble. The Communist ..." |
 | | The Dilemmas of Lenin(Illustrated) Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution by Tariq Ali Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2017 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-110-7, ISBN: 1-78663-110-5 "On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin“Without Lenin there would have been no socialist revolution in 1917. Of this much we can be certain.” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual an ..." |
 | | The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan A Chronicle Foretold by Tariq Ali 272 Pages, Published 2021 by Penguin Random House ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-817-0, ISBN: 1-83976-817-7 "They take orders only from some distant agency , but then the same goes for the American army , NATO , the UN , the EU and the supposedly sovereign Afghan government.16 14 Ajmal Maiwandi , ' Re - Doing Kabul , presented at the London ..." |
 | | The Book of Saladin(Updated) A Novel by Tariq Ali Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1999 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-231-7, ISBN: 1-85984-231-3 "Tariq Ali has been a British national treasure for almost five decades. Revolutionary, writer, broadcaster, filmmaker, polemicist--fighter in the street--and general all-round trouble-maker (in the nicest possible sense), he's been them all, and usually at the same time. Since 1990 Ali has also worked in fiction, firstly with Redemption, and now with a planned quartet of historical novels, of which The Book of Saladin is the second ..." |
 | | The Book of Saladin(1st Edition) A Novel (The Islam Quintet) by Tariq Ali Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1998 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-834-0, ISBN: 1-85984-834-6 "Tariq Ali has been a British national treasure for almost five decades. Revolutionary, writer, broadcaster, filmmaker, polemicist--fighter in the street--and general all-round trouble-maker (in the nicest possible sense), he's been them all, and usually at the same time. Since 1990 Ali has also worked in fiction, firstly with Redemption, and now with a planned quartet of historical novels, of which The Book of Saladin is the second. (Th ..." |
 | | Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (The Islam Quintet) by Tariq Ali Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-002-5, ISBN: 1-78168-002-7 "Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada by narrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapse of their world. Ali is particularly deft at evoking what life must have been like for those doomed inhabitants, besieged on all sides by intolerant Christendom. “This is a novel that have something to say, and says it well.” —The Guardian" |
 | | Night of the Golden Butterfly A Novel (The Islam Quintet) by Tariq Ali Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2010 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-654-5, ISBN: 1-84467-654-4 "The final volume in Tariq Ali's acclaimed cycle of historical novels, The Islam Quintet.Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, Night of the Golden Butterfly moves between the cities of the twenty- first century, from Lahore to London, from Paris to Beijing. The narrator is rung one morning and reminded that he owes a debt of honor. The creditor is Mohammed Aflatun—known as Plato—an irascible but gifte ..." |
 | | The Duel(1st Edition) Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power by Tariq Ali, Agent Tariq, John Radcliffe Hospital Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-6101-9, ISBN: 1-4165-6101-3 "Pakistan stands on the front line of the war against terror. Yet this long-time ally of the West, whose links with the US have caused enormous friction within the country, is in deepening crisis. As President Pervez Musharraf struggles to cling to power through states of emergency, press curbs and imprisonment of his opponents, a range of forces threaten to destroy him and tip the country into a full-blown civil war. Drawing on extensiv ..." |
 | | Pirates of the Caribbean(Updated) Axis of Hope by Tariq Ali Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2008 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-248-6, ISBN: 1-84467-248-4 "Fully updated edition of this fiery polemic on Latin America’s challenge to US-led neoliberalism.The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chávez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chávez, Tariq Ali shows how Chávez’s views have polarized Latin America and examines the hostility directed a ..." |
 | | Bush in Babylon The Recolonisation of Iraq by Tariq Ali, Dawn-Michelle Baude Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-583-7, ISBN: 1-85984-583-5 "The bestselling history of the resistance in Iraq that vitalized the antiwar movement.The assault and capture of Iraq — and the resistance it has provoked — will shape the politics of the twenty-first century. In this passionate and provocative book, Tariq Ali provides a history of Iraqi resistance against empires old and new, and argues against the view that sees imperialist occupation as the only viable solution to bring about regime- ..." |
 | | The Stone Woman(Updated) by Tariq Ali Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-364-2, ISBN: 1-85984-364-6 "Each year, when the weather in Istanbul becomes unbearable, the family of Iskender Pasha, a re-tired Ottoman notable, retires to its summer palace overlooking the Sea of Marmara. It is 1899 and the last great Islamic empire is in serious trouble. A former tutor poses a question which the family has been refusing to confront for almost a century: ‘Your Ottoman Empire is like a drunken prostitute, neither knowing nor caring who will take ..." |
 | | The Leopard and the Fox(Reprint) A Pakistani Tragedy (Paperback) by Tariq Ali Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-639-0, ISBN: 0-85742-639-7 "Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edition. Fast delivery through DHL/FedEx express." |
 | | The Assassination by Tariq Ali 152 Pages, Published 2019 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85742-638-3, ISBN: 0-85742-638-9 "Provocative and suggestive, this script planned as the second of a series was never completed. The Assassination is published here for the first time and completes Ali's trilogy, with The Leopard and The Fox and A Banker For All Seasons." |
 | | Street Fighting Years An Autobiography of the Sixties by Tariq Ali Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2018 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-600-3, ISBN: 1-78663-600-X "One of the world’s best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movementWhat makes a young radical? Reissued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, Street Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of an era of hope and passion as Tariq Ali tracks the growing significance of the 1960s protest movement, as well as his own formation as a leading political activist.Through his personal story, he recounts a counte ..." |
 | | Leon Trotsky(Reprint) An Illustrated Introduction by Tariq Ali, Phil Evans Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 2013 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-186-8, ISBN: 1-60846-186-6 "Amusing, well researched, and surprisingly sophisticated, Leon Trotsky: An Illustrated Introduction is the perfect primer on the life and thought of the great leader and chronicler of the Russian Revolution. With sympathy and humor, Tariq Ali and Phil Evans trace his political career, from prison to the pinnacle of revolutionary power to his eventual exile and murder by Joseph Stalin. Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written ..." |
 | | The Obama Syndrome(1st Edition) Surrender at Home, War Abroad by Tariq Ali Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2010 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-449-7, ISBN: 1-84467-449-5 "A merciless dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat.“Our country has borne a special burden in global affairs. We have spilled American blood in many countries on multiple continents ... Our cause is just, our resolve unwavering. We will go forward with the confidence that right makes might.” âBarack Obama, West Point, December 1, 2009 What has really changed since Bush left the White House? Very ..." |
 | | A Sultan in Palermo (The Islam Quintet, Vol. 4) by Tariq Ali Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 2006 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-101-4, ISBN: 1-84467-101-1 "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' 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 his conscience is troubled... A Sultan in Pa ..." |
 | | Conversations with Edward Said(1st Edition) by Edward W. Said, Tariq Ali, 39 Plt Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2005 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-1-905422-04-3, ISBN: 1-905422-04-0 "In these conversations with Tariq Ali, recorded in Edward Said's Riverside Drive apartment in New York in June 1994, about a decade before he finally lost his battle with cancer, Said brings his considerable intellect and deep personal engagement to bear on some of the most troubling and volatile issues of our time as he ranges back over his own dislocated existence, his initiation into politics, his involvement with the Palestine cause ..." |
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