The End of History: A Postcolonial Study of Ali’s Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
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Key Words: The end, History, Idealized, State, democratic principles, Confine, Power.Abstract
The present study attempts to analyze Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree written by Ali in the light of Fukuyama's notion ‘The End of History’ to highlight the way the Muslims achieved and concretized the notion of the end of history during their reign in Spain. The study also aims at finding out the reforms through which the Muslims achieved this glory as well as how the glory and harmony were destructed by the Christian colonizers. It takes a postcolonial stance for the analysis of the data. The method employed for the collection and analysis of the data is Textual Analysis. It has been found through a systematic investigation that the Muslims during their rule in Spain achieved the idealized harmonic state in the social order where people of various religions and classes were equal and prosperous. Moreover, it also finds out that the Muslims achieved the ideal state through good governance and democratic principles. They gave women due rights in various spheres of life. It has also been examined that the Christians, after occupying the land, destructed the whole system of peace and prosperity in a planned manner to confine the power to the center, prolong their rule and justify their conquest.
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