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A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War
Other Press
October 2013
On Sale: September 24, 2013
368 pages
ISBN: 1590515056
EAN: 9781590515051
Kindle: B00C4B23CQ
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Fiction
A journalist explores his family’s history to reveal the
hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the
world’s first Islamic democracy
Shahan Mufti’s family history, which he can trace back
fourteen hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet
Muhammad, offers an enlightened perspective on the
mystifying history of Pakistan. Mufti uses the stories of
his ancestors, many of whom served as judges and jurists in
Muslim sharia courts of South Asia for many centuries, to
reveal the deepest roots—real and imagined—of Islamic
civilization in Pakistan.
More than a
personal history, The Faithful Scribe captures the
larger story of the world’s first Islamic democracy, and
explains how the state that once promised to bridge Islam
and the West is now threatening to crumble under historical
and political pressure, and why Pakistan’s destiny matters
to us all.
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