Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (The Islam Quintet) by Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali follows a Muslim family trying to survive the upheaval that follows the fall of Granada. Domestic lives and relationships unfold within the pressures of a society confronting religious intolerance and the loss of a familiar world.

Part of Ali’s Islam Quintet, this is historical fiction rather than a religious practice manual. Its imagined characters provide a way into questions of belonging, vulnerability and cultural change.