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Historical person
1436–1517
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros was a Spanish cardinal, reformer and statesman under the Catholic Monarchs. He served as confessor to Isabella I, promoted church reform and scholarship, supported the conquest of Oran and acted as regent of Castile.
Tariq Ali’s Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree places Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.
Series
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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