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Chargement... Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands (édition 2012)par Aatish Taseer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Travels through islamic lands by an Indian with a Pakistani father with the goal of meeting up with is estranged father at the end of the journey. Some very important and interesting observations about Pakistan, the world's foremost failed state. Forfatteren vokste opp i India hos moren sin, og flyttet deretter til USA for å studere. Som 21-åring besøkte han faren i Pakistan, men følte at forholdet var anstrengt ettersom han selv er indisk og faren er pakistansk og muslim. I denne boken skildrer han den åtte måneder lange reisen han tok fra Istanbul til Mekka, Iran og Pakistan for å bli kjent med farens religion og kultur. © DnBB AS aucune critique | ajouter une critique
As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his Pakistani father remained a distant figure, almost a figment of his imagination, until Aatish crossed the border when he was twenty-one to finally meet him. In the years that followed, the relationship between father and son revived, then fell apart. For Aatish, their tension had not just to do with the tensions of a son rediscovering his absent father -- they were intensified by the fact that Aatish was Indian, his father Pakistani and Muslim. It had complicated his parents' relationship; now it complicated his. The relationship forced Aatish to ask larger questions: Why did being Muslim mean that your allegiances went out to other Muslims before the citizens of your own country? Why did his father, despite claiming to be irreligious, describe himself as a 'cultural Muslim'? Why did Muslims see modernity as a threat? What made Islam a trump identity? Stranger to History is the story of the journey Aatish made to answer these questions -- starting from Istanbul, Islam's once greatest city, to Mecca, its most holy, and then home, through Iran and Pakistan. Ending in Lahore, at his estranged father's home, on the night Benazir Bhutto was killed, it is also the story of Aatish's own divided family over the past fifty years. Part memoir, part travelogue, probing, stylish and troubling. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)910.91767History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel History, geographic treatment, biography - Discovery. exploration Geography of and travel in areas, regions, places in general Socioeconomic Regions By ReligionClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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