2. OUTLINE
• Introduction of TARIQ ALI
• Early life
• Life writing
• Fiction
• Islam quintet
• Drama
• References
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3. Introduction
• Tariq Ali was political activist and writer. He brought new directions to the
Pakistani English writing in fiction, non-fiction, and drama.
• Tariq ali was direct heir to the, UNIVERSALISM, EGALITARINISM,
AND MARXISM, which led progressive writer’s association (PWA).
• His influence extend far beyond the south Asia. He was key figure in the,
counter culture of the 1960’s
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4. . In Britain and Europe where the politics of class, race and gender gave new
direction to literature and performing arts
. He was a political analyst, essayist, journalist, film-maker, playwright,
and novelist having strong awareness of politics and history. His activism and
creative works are interlinked.
His vision transcends nation, race ethnicity. In 1963 as a committed Marxist
and a student leader, he was exiled from Pakistan
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5. Early life
• Tariq Ali was born in 1943 in Lahore into the hereditary feudal khans his
maternal grandfather SIR SIKANDAR HAYAT KHAN was prime minister
of Punjab (1937-42) and the pre- partition unionist party, dominated BY the
landlords.
• His parents TAHIRA and MAZHAR ALI Khan were cousins Tariq ali grew
up in a home where radical politics and dissent were the norm. He
developed his interest in politics as a child. He read Marxist literature.
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6. Life writing
• Street fighting years, an autobiography of sixties 1987
• Ali’s autobiography is different from other writers of Pakistan, it neither
includes family life nor looks at issues of exile or of identity or belonging.
Instead it deals with social and political vision beyond race, culture and
territory.
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7. • He begins with Marxist politics in Pakistan. In 1968 he builds up student
demonstrations that he led across Britain and Europe with his fellow
communists.
• He points out that egalitarianism is related to the American civil rights
movement and beginnings of the feminist revolution.
• A new edition of street fighting years was reprinted in 2005. It has new sixty
page introduction and chronicles of now and then, in which ali comments on
the fall of berlin wall, the two Iraq wars. And the aftermath of 9/11.
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8. Fiction
• In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the world saw great changes. Collapse of
communism in Europe, the fall of berlin wall, and the Soviet Union was
divided into different republics. The cold war came to an end. But another
political discourse had developed of Islam vs. the west. This was fueled by the
Iranian revolution, two Iraq wars, and in particular the 9/11 bombing in New
York followed by the war on terror. Both communism and Islam are addressed
in his novels.
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10. Islam quintet
• Shadows of pomegranate tree ( 1992)
• The book of Saladin (1998)
• The stone woman ( 2000)
• A sultan in Palermo (2005)
• Night of the golden butterfly (2010)
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11. • Between 1992-2011 ali completed the Islam quintet it is the course of global
politics and the general ignorance about Arab and Muslim culture in the
western media. He started to write this quintet after hearing the comments in
1991 in golf war that Muslims have no culture.
• The quintet explores the interaction of Muslim culture and Europe across
several centuries. Two novels focus on the euro-Arab culture of Spain, the
other three portray crusades ottoman turkey and contemporary Pakistan.
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12. Drama
• The leopard and fox ( 2007)
• Banker for all seasons (2007 )
• Ugly rumors ( 1998)
• Snogging ken (2000)
• The illustrious copse ( 2003)
• Collateral damage ( 1999)
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