The silk road and beyond : narratives of a Muslim historian /
The Silk Road and Beyond attempts to capture lived realities across central Asia, Iran, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Finland, Britain, the United States, Palestine, Switzerland and the subcontinent. It also aims at initiating readers into encountering Muslim heritage across the four continents whe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Karachi :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | The Silk Road and Beyond attempts to capture lived realities across central Asia, Iran, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Finland, Britain, the United States, Palestine, Switzerland and the subcontinent. It also aims at initiating readers into encountering Muslim heritage across the four continents where cultures share commonalities beyond the narrowly defined premise of conflicts. This book is an effort to capture history, literature, mobility, crafts, architectural traditions and cultural vistas by focusing on diverse Muslim individuals, communities, cities and their edifices. It attempts to reconstruct deeper and munificent aspects of Muslim histories and lived experience that often stay ignored by the writers and travellers. Normative accounts of cities such as Bukhara, Jerusalem, Isfahan, Fes, Samarkand, Granada, Palermo, Cordova or Konya may lifelessly posit them as sheer tourist destinations, ignoring their cultural and historical depth. Written in an autobiographical genre, this book benefits from a forty year-long exposure and encounters with the vibrant lives across the four continents as experienced by a curious Muslim academic at different stages of his life. The reader can explore and relish these predominantly Muslim locales along with a frequent exposure to sociointellectual institutions in Europe and the United States. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 368 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199405961 0199405964 |