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The Faithful Scribe, October 2013
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THE FAITHFUL SCRIBE
By: Shahan Mufti

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
Hardcover / e-Book
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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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