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{{short description|British political activist, writer, and historian (born 1943)}}
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{{Infobox writer
|name = Tariq Ali
|image = Tariq Ali 2011.jpg
|caption = Ali in 2011
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|10|21|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]], [[British Raj|British India]]
|occupation = Historian novelist activist
|alma_mater = [[Exeter College, Oxford]], [[Government College University, Lahore]]
|genre = [[Geopolitics]] History [[Marxism]] [[Postcolonialism]]
|subject =
|movement = [[New Left]]
|children = 3
|spouse = Susan Watkins
}}

'''Tariq Ali''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|æ|r|ɪ|k|_|ˈ|æ|l|i}}; born 21 October 1943)<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present Volume 2|last=Stade|first=George|year=2009|page=12}}</ref> is a [[British Pakistanis|Pakistani-British]] political [[activist]], [[writer]], [[journalist]], [[historian]], [[filmmaker]], and [[public intellectual]].<ref>[http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth164#bibliography Tariq Ali Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001020955/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth164 |date=1 October 2007 }}, Contemporary Writers, accessed 31 October 2006</ref><ref>"[http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1414233 As 250 Killed in Clashes Near Afghan Border, British-Pakistani Author Tariq Ali on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Ongoing U.S. Role in Regional Turmoil] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114152714/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07%2F10%2F10%2F1414233 |date=14 November 2007 }}", ''[[Democracy Now!]]'', 10 October 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2007.</ref> He is a member of the editorial committee of the ''[[New Left Review]]'' and ''Sin Permiso'', and contributes to ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[CounterPunch]]'', and the ''[[London Review of Books]]''. He studied [[Philosophy, Politics, and Economics]] at [[Exeter College, Oxford]].

He is the author of many books, including ''Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power'' (1970), ''Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State'' (1983), ''Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity'' (2002), ''[[Bush in Babylon]]'' (2003), ''Conversations with [[Edward Said]]'' (2005), ''Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis Of Hope'' (2006), ''A Banker for All Seasons'' (2007), ''The Duel'' (2008), ''[[The Obama Syndrome]]'' (2010),<ref name=BCL1>{{cite web|title=Tariq Ali|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/tariq-ali|publisher=British Council of Literature|access-date=24 February 2014}}</ref> and ''[[The Extreme Centre: A Warning]]'' (2015).<ref>{{cite web | title = Archives | url = http://tariqali.org/archives/2912 | website = tariqali.org | publisher = Tariq Ali | access-date = 24 April 2015 | archive-date = 20 April 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150420015310/http://tariqali.org/archives/2912 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

== Early life ==
Ali was born and raised in [[Lahore]], Punjab in [[British India]] (later part of [[Pakistan]]).<ref name="jamescampbell">{{cite news | last = Campbell | first = James | title = A life in writing: Tariq Ali | url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/08/tariq-ali-life-in-writing | work = The Guardian | date = 8 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Davies | first = Hunter | title = The Hunter Davies Interview: For you, Tariq Ali, the revolution is over: The Sixties Marxist bogeyman has matured into a minor media mogul... and he has managed to acquire a sense of humour | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-hunter-davies-interview-for-you-tariq-ali-the-revolution-is-over-the-sixties-marxist-bogeyman-has-matured-into-a-minor-media-mogul----and-he-has-managed-to-acquire-a-sense-of-humour-1395731.html | work = The Independent | date = 22 February 1994 }}</ref> He is the son of journalist [[Mazhar Ali Khan (journalist)|Mazhar Ali Khan]]<ref name='frontline2013' /> and activist [[Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan]]. Ali's mother, Tahira, was the daughter of [[Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan]], who led the [[Unionist Muslim League]] and was later Prime Minister of the [[Punjab]] from 1937 to 1942.<ref name='frontline2013'>{{cite news | first = Sashi | last = Kumar | title = In conversation with Tariq Ali: The New World Disorder | date = 9 August 2013 | url = http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/the-new-world-disorder/article4944883.ece |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728120814/http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/the-new-world-disorder/article4944883.ece |archive-date=28 July 2013 | work = [[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] | access-date = 2 February 2014}}</ref> Ali's father, Mazhar, had been "mobilising peasants in his family's fiefdom" when he was invited to join the ''[[Pakistan Times]]'' by [[Mian Iftikharuddin]],<ref name="Dawn 15 June 2017">{{cite news |last= Rehman |first= I.A. |title= An outstanding journalist |url= https://www.dawn.com/news/1339583| date= 15 June 2017|newspaper= [[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |location=Karachi| access-date= 4 September 2017 }}</ref> later becoming sympathetic to the Communist cause, although he never joined the party.<ref name="The Friday Times 27 March 2015">{{cite news |last= Mohsin |first= Jugnu | author-link= Jugnu Mohsin |title= Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan, 1925–2015|url= http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/tahira-mazhar-ali-khan-1925-2015/| date= 27 March 2015|newspaper= [[The Friday Times]] |location=Lahore| access-date= 4 September 2017 }}</ref>

Ali's father and mother, who were [[cousins]], [[eloped]]. His mother later said: "Mazhar left for the Middle East on [[military service]]. I was very pregnant by then. We didn't see each other for two years. Our son Tariq was born while Mazhar was away. By the time he returned, I had joined the [[Communist Party of Pakistan|Communist Party]]. I had given away my entire trousseau, including the family jewels, to the Party."<ref name="The Friday Times 27 March 2015"/>

===Emerging activism===
Ali first became politically active in his teens, taking part in opposition to the [[History of Pakistan (1947–present)#1958–1971: first military era|military dictatorship of Pakistan]]. An uncle who worked in the Pakistani military intelligence<ref name='frontline2013' /> warned his parents that Ali could not be protected.<ref name="jamescampbell"/> His parents therefore decided to get him out of Pakistan and sent him to England, where he studied [[Philosophy, Politics, and Economics]] at [[Exeter College, Oxford]].<ref name="jamescampbell"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/feature_tariqali.shtml |title=Tariq Ali profile |access-date=26 April 2007 |work=[[BBC Four]] Documentary article |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070917223148/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/feature_tariqali.shtml |archive-date=17 September 2007 }}</ref> At Oxford, he became a member of the Oxford University [[Humanists UK|Humanist]] Group, where he discovered "that debates and discussions here were far more stimulating than those conducted within the careerist confines of the Labour Club".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Race Today Collective |url=http://archive.org/details/racetodayreview118race |title=Race Today Review 1988: vol 18 no 2 |date=1988 |publisher=Race Today Collective |others=Darcus Howe Collective}}</ref> He was elected President of the [[Oxford Union]] in 1965. In 1967 Ali was one of 64 prominent figures, including [[the Beatles]], who signed a petition calling for the [[legalisation of marijuana]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/1967/07/24/the-beatles-call-for-the-legalisation-of-marijuana/ |title=The Beatles call for the legalisation of marijuana |date=24 July 1967|access-date=10 April 2014}}</ref> Ali's tenure at the Union included a meeting with [[Malcolm X]] in December 1964 during which Malcolm X expressed deep consternation about his own risk of assassination.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Ali | first = Tariq | title = Leaving Shabazz | journal = [[New Left Review]] | volume = II | issue = 69 | date = May–June 2011 | url = http://newleftreview.org/II/69/tariq-ali-leaving-shabazz }}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Tariq Ali.jpg|thumb|Ali, [[Imperial College London|Imperial College, London]], 2003]]
His public profile began to grow during the [[Vietnam War]], when he engaged in debates against the war with such figures as [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham|Michael Stewart]]. He testified at the [[Russell Tribunal]] over [[Role of the United States in the Vietnam War|US involvement in Vietnam]]. As time passed, Ali became increasingly critical of [[Foreign policy of the United States|American]] and [[Foreign relations of Israel|Israeli foreign policies]]. He was also a vigorous opponent of American relations with Pakistan that tended to back [[military dictatorship]]s over democracy. He was one of the marchers on the [[U.S. Embassy, London|American embassy in London]] in 1968 in a [[List of protests against the Vietnam War|demonstration against the Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/mar/22/vietnamwar|last=Ali|first=Tariq|title=Where has all the rage gone?|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 March 2008|access-date=6 January 2011}}</ref>

Active in the [[New Left]] of the 1960s, he has long been associated with the ''[[New Left Review]]''. Ali inserted himself into politics through his involvement with ''[[The Black Dwarf (Ali)|The Black Dwarf]]'' newspaper. In 1968 he joined the [[International Marxist Group]] (IMG). He was recruited to the leadership of the IMG and became a member of the International Executive Committee of the (reunified) [[Reunified Fourth International|Fourth International]]. He also befriended influential figures such as [[Malcolm X]], [[Stokely Carmichael]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/29/1968_40_years_later_tariq_ali |title=1968, Forty Years Later: Tariq Ali Looks Back on a Pivotal Year in the Global Struggle for Social Justice |publisher=Democracynow.org |date=29 May 2008
|access-date=3 August 2012}}</ref>

In 1967, Ali was in [[Camiri]], [[Bolivia]], not far from where [[Che Guevara]] was captured, to observe the trial of [[Régis Debray]]. He was accused of being a [[Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front|Cuban revolutionary]] by authorities. Ali then said: "If you torture me the whole night and I can speak Spanish in the morning I'll be grateful to you for the rest of my life."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSe-6XkzZhs |title=From Vietnam To Iraq To Bolivia-Tariq Ali |publisher=YouTube |access-date=3 August 2012}}</ref>

During this period he was an [[International Marxist Group|IMG]] candidate in [[Sheffield Attercliffe (UK Parliament constituency)|Sheffield Attercliffe]] at the [[February 1974 United Kingdom general election|February 1974 general election]] and was co-author of ''Trotsky for Beginners'', a cartoon book. In 1981, Ali quit the IMG and joined the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] to support [[Tony Benn]] in his bid to become deputy leader of the Labour Party.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1981/12/ali.htm|title=Tariq Ali: Why I'm Joining the Labour Party (December 1981)|website=www.marxists.org}}</ref>
[[File:Encuentros Averroes Córdoba. El paradigma de Córdoba (2011).jpg|thumb|Ali presenting Spanish version of ''Conversations with Edward Said'', [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]], 2010]]

In 1990, he published the satire ''[[Redemption (1990 novel)|Redemption]]'', on the inability of the Trotskyists to handle the downfall of the [[Eastern bloc]]. The book contains parodies of many well-known figures in the Trotskyist movement. In 1999 Ali strongly criticised [[NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina]] in the piece ''Springtime for NATO'',<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Ali | first = Tariq | title = Springtime for NATO | journal =New Left Review| volume = I | issue = 234 | date = March–April 1999 | url = http://newleftreview.org/I/234/tariq-ali-springtime-for-nato }}</ref> and book ''[[Masters of the Universe? NATO's Balkan Crusade]]'' in which he negated extent and nature of crimes committed by Serbian forces in Bosnia and Kosovo.<ref name="Ian-Williams-2000-Tariq">{{cite web |author1= Williams, Ian |title=More Agitprop than reasoned argument |url=http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/julsept00/too.cfm |publisher=Bosnian Institute UK |access-date=6 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302035240/http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/julsept00/too.cfm |archive-date=2 March 2019 |language=en |date=September 2000}}</ref> He also defended denialist claims espoused by figures such as [[Diana Johnstone]] and [[Edward S. Herman]].<ref name="Nick Cohen-Guardian-2011">{{cite web |title=Decline and fall of the puppetmasters {{!}} Nick Cohen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jul/17/nick-cohen-democracy-murdoch-mladic |website=The Guardian |access-date=18 May 2020 |language=en |date=16 July 2011}}</ref><ref name="Taylor-Denial-2008-p.168">{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Tony |author-link1=Tony Taylor (writer)|title=Denial: History Betrayed |date=2008 |publisher=Melbourne Univ. Publishing |isbn=978-0-522-85907-2 |page=168 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-FgN-K2zBYC&q=Tariq+Ali+genocide+denial&pg=PA168 |access-date=18 May 2020 |language=en |chapter=Denial}}</ref><ref name="Cassian-workersliberty-2011">{{cite web |author1=Dal Cassian |title=Why Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy and their co-thinkers should apologise over Mladic and Srebrenica: {{!}} Workers' Liberty |url=https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2011/06/04/why-noam-chomsky-tariq-ali-arundhati-roy-and-their-co-thinkers-should-apologise-ove |website=workersliberty.org |access-date=18 May 2020 |language=en |date=4 June 2011}}</ref>

His book, ''Clash of Fundamentalisms'', aimed to put the events of the [[September 11 attacks]] in historical [[Point of view (philosophy)|perspective]]. He followed that with ''[[Bush in Babylon]]'', which criticised the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]] by American president [[George W. Bush]]. The book uses poetry and critical essays in portraying the [[war in Iraq]] as a failure. Ali believes that the new [[Federal government of Iraq|Iraqi government]] will fail.

Ali has remained a [[Neoliberalism#Criticism|critic]] of modern [[neoliberalism|neoliberal economics]] and was present at the 2005 [[World Social Forum]] in [[Porto Alegre]], Brazil, where he was one of 19 to sign the [[Porto Alegre Manifesto]]. He supports the model of the [[Bolivarian Revolution]] in Venezuela.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://versouk.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/oliver-stone-tariq-ali-and-mark-weisbrot-respond-to-ny-times-attack-on-south-of-the-border/ |title=Oliver Stone, Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot respond to NY Times attack on South of the Border " Verso UK's Blog |publisher=Versouk.wordpress.com |date=30 June 2010 |access-date=3 August 2012}}</ref>

He has been described as "the alleged inspiration" for the [[Rolling Stones]]' song "[[Street Fighting Man]]", recorded in 1968.<ref>Hazou, Christopher Hazou, [https://archive.today/2012.05.24-150633/http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/092707/news2.html "Journalism and jingoism: Ownership and gullibility are two recurring problems for the Western press, says author and activist Tariq Ali"], ''Montreal Mirror''. Archives: 27 September – 3 October 2007, Vol. 23, No. 15.</ref> [[John Lennon]]'s "[[Power to the People (song)|Power to the People]]" was inspired by an interview Lennon gave to Ali.<ref name="companion">{{cite book |editor-last1=Thomson |editor-first1=Elizabeth |editor-last2=Gutman |editor-first2=David |title=The Lennon Companion |year=2004 |publisher=Da Capo Press |location=Cambridge, MA |isbn=0-306-81270-3 |page=165}}</ref>

Ali participated in the [[The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012|2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll]], where he listed his ten favourite films as follows: ''[[The Battle of Algiers]]'', ''[[Charulata]]'', ''[[Crimson Gold]]'', ''[[The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie]]'', ''[[Entranced Earth]]'', ''[[If....]]'', ''[[Osaka Elegy]]'', ''[[The Puppetmaster (film)|The Puppetmaster]]'', ''[[Rashomon]]'', and ''[[Tout Va Bien]]''.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/66 |title = Tariq Ali | BFI}}</ref>

Ali has also written in favour of [[Scottish independence]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/13/scots-undo-union-of-rogues-independence-1707-honour|title=Scots, undo this union of rogues. Independence is the only way to fulfil your potential|last=Ali|first=Tariq|date=13 March 2014|work=The Guardian|access-date=13 March 2014}}</ref>

During the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum]], Ali was sympathetic to a [[Brexit|Leave]] vote on [[Lexit|left-wing grounds]], whilst simultaneously criticizing [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] support for Brexit based on opposition to immigration.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2015/s4473089.htm |title=Lateline – 31/05/2016: Interview: Tariq Ali, British writer and commentator |website=Abc.net.au |date=31 May 2016 |access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref>

In 2020, Ali was a member of the Belmarsh Tribunal organized by [[Progressive International]], investigating and evaluating the war crimes committed by the [[Federal government of the United States|United States government]] in the 21st century.

In November 2020, a British public inquiry into the work of undercover police officers was provided with evidence that Ali had been spied upon by at least 14 undercover police officers over a period of decades. The surveillance began in 1965 when he became president of the [[Oxford Union]], and continued until at least 2003, when Ali was on the national committee of the [[Stop the War Coalition]] trying to prevent the invasion of Iraq. Ali said "It is incredible to think that after 35 years, in 2003, under the Tony Blair Labour government, that Special Branch were still engaging in the same anti-democratic activity as they had been at the outset".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Rob |title=Tariq Ali spied on by at least 14 undercover officers, inquiry hears |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/11/tariq-ali-spied-on-14-undercover-officers-spy-cops-inquiry-hears |access-date=14 November 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=11 November 2020}}</ref>

==Screenplay==
Tariq Ali's ''The Leopard and The Fox'', first written as a [[BBC]] screenplay in 1985, is about the last days of [[Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto]]. Never previously produced because of a censorship controversy, it was finally premiered in New York in October 2007, the day before former Pakistani Prime Minister [[Benazir Bhutto]] returned to her home country after eight years in exile.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alteregoproductions.org/blog/2007/07/the_leopard_and_the_fox_our_ne.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=20 August 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820013744/http://www.alteregoproductions.org/blog/2007/07/the_leopard_and_the_fox_our_ne.htm |archive-date=20 August 2007 }}</ref>

In 2009, Ali with [[Mark Weisbrot]] wrote the screenplay to the [[Oliver Stone]] documentary ''[[South of the Border (2009 film)|South of the Border]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://southoftheborderdoc.com/cast-credits/ |title=Cast & Credits " South of the Border – a film by Oliver Stone |publisher=Southoftheborderdoc.com |access-date=3 August 2012}}</ref> This gave a favourable account of Hugo Chávez and other left-wing Latin American leaders. Interviewed in the documentary, Ali explained the role that Bolivian water privatisation and the [[2000 Cochabamba protests]] played in eventually bringing [[Evo Morales]] to power.

==Personal life==
Ali currently lives in [[London Borough of Camden|Camden]], north London, with his partner Susan Watkins, editor of the ''[[New Left Review]]''. He has three children: Natasha from a previous relationship, and Chengiz and Aisha with Watkins. He grew up in a secular family that was more [[Cultural Muslim|culturally Muslim]] than religious, and describes himself as an [[atheist]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-hunter-davies-interview-for-you-tariq-ali-the-revolution-is-over-the-sixties-marxist-bogeyman-has-matured-into-a-minor-media-mogul----and-he-has-managed-to-acquire-a-sense-of-humour-1395731.html|title=The Independent interview with Hunter Davies|website=Independent.co.uk|date=22 February 1994|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Tariq Ali |title=This is the real outrage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/13/muhammadcartoons.comment |website=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |access-date=21 October 2020 |date=February 13, 2006 |quote=I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the "religious pain" that is felt by believers of every case when what they believe in is insulted.}}</ref>

== Works ==
{{refbegin|30em}}
* ''The New Revolutionaries: A Handbook of the International Radical Left'' (editor), New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1969. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 79-79860
* ''Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power'' (1970). {{ISBN|978-0-224-61864-9}}
* ''The Coming British Revolution'' (1971). {{ISBN|978-0-224-00630-9}}
* ''1968 and After: Inside the Revolution'' (1978). {{ISBN|978-0-85634-082-6}}
* ''Chile, Lessons of the Coup: Which Way to Workers Power'' (1978) .{{ISBN|978-0-85612-107-4}}
* ''[[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]] for Beginners'' (1980). {{ISBN|978-0-906495-27-8}}
* ''Can Pakistan Survive?: The Death of a State'' (1983). {{ISBN|978-0-8052-7194-2}}; (1991) {{ISBN|978-0-86091-260-6}}
* ''Who's Afraid of [[Margaret Thatcher]]? In Praise of Socialism'' (1984). {{ISBN|978-0-86091-802-8}}
* ''[[The Stalinist Legacy]]: Its Impact on 20th-Century World Politics'' (1984). {{ISBN|978-0-931477-56-0}}
* ''An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family'' (1985). {{ISBN|978-0-399-13074-8}}
* ''Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties'' (1987). {{ISBN|978-0-00-217779-5}}
* ''Revolution from Above: Soviet Union Now'' (1988). {{ISBN|978-0-86091-268-2}}
* ''Iranian Nights'' (1989). {{ISBN|978-1-85459-026-8}}
* ''Moscow Gold'' (1990). {{ISBN|978-1-85459-078-7}}
* ''[[Redemption (1990 novel)|Redemption]]'' (1990). {{ISBN|978-0-7011-3394-8}}
* ''[[Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree]]'' (1992; 1st in the [[Islam Quintet]]). {{ISBN|978-0-7011-3944-5}}
* ''Necklaces'' (1992)
* ''Ugly Rumours'' (1998). {{ISBN|978-1-85459-426-6}}
* ''1968: Marching in the Streets'' (1998). {{ISBN|978-0-7475-3763-2}}
* ''[[Fear of Mirrors]]'' Arcadia Books (4 August 1998). {{ISBN|978-1-900850-10-0}}; University of Chicago Press (10 Aug 2010). {{ISBN|978-1-906497-15-6}}
* ''[[The Book of Saladin (novel)|The Book of Saladin]]'' (1998; 2nd in the "Islam Quintet"). {{ISBN|978-1-85984-834-0}}
* ''Snogging Ken'' (2000). {{ISBN|978-1-84002-163-9}}
* ''[[The Stone Woman]]'' (2000; 3rd in the "Islam Quintet"). {{ISBN|978-1-85984-764-0}}
* ''[[Masters of the Universe? NATO's Balkan Crusade]]'' (2000). {{ISBN|978-1-85984-752-7}}
* ''Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity'' (2002). {{ISBN|978-1-85984-679-7}}
* ''[[Bush in Babylon]]'' (2003). {{ISBN|978-1-85984-583-7}}
* ''Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties'' (2005). {{ISBN|978-1-84467-029-1}}
* ''Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali'' (2005). {{ISBN|978-1-56584-954-9}}
* ''[[Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror]]'' (2005). {{ISBN|978-1-84467-545-6}}
* ''Conversations with [[Edward Said]]'' (2005). {{ISBN|978-1-905422-04-3}}
* ''A Sultan in Palermo'' (2005; featuring [[Muhammad al-Idrisi]] and [[Roger II of Sicily]]; 4th in the "Islam Quintet"). {{ISBN|978-1-84467-025-3}}
* ''The Leopard and the Fox'' (2006). {{ISBN|978-1-905422-29-6}}
* ''Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope'' (2006) {{ISBN|978-1-84467-102-1}}; revised edn. (2008). {{ISBN|978-1-84467-248-6}}
* ''A Banker for All Seasons: Bank of Crooks and Cheats Incorporated'' (2007). {{ISBN|978-1-905422-65-4}}
* ''The assassination: Who Killed Indira G?'' (2008). {{ISBN|978-1-905422-85-2}}
* ''[[The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power]]'' (2008). {{ISBN|978-1-84737-355-7}}
* ''The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom: and other Essays'' (2009). {{ISBN|978-1-84467-367-4}}
* ''The Idea of Communism'' (non-fiction) (2009). {{ISBN|978-1-906497-26-2}}
* ''Night of the Golden Butterfly'' (2010; 5th in the "Islam Quintet"). {{ISBN|978-1-84467-611-8}}
* ''[[The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad]]'' (2010). {{ISBN|978-1-84467-449-7}}
* ''On History: Tariq Ali and [[Oliver Stone]] in Conversation''. (2011), {{ISBN|978-1-60846-149-3}}
* ''[[Kashmir: The Case for Freedom]]'' (2011). {{ISBN|1-844-67735-4}}
* ''[[The Extreme Centre: A Warning]]'' (2015). {{ISBN|978-1-78478-262-7}}
* ''Permanent Counter Revolution'' (2016). {{ISBN|978-1-78478-432-4}}
* ''[[The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution]]'' (2017). {{ISBN|978-1-78663-110-7}}
* ''[[The forty year war in Afghanistan : a chronicle foretold]]'' 2021
* ''[[Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes]]'' (2022). {{ISBN|978-1-78873-577-3}}
{{refend}}

==See also==
* [[List of British Pakistanis]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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Tariq Ali - Revision history

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