The silk road and beyond :
Malik, Iftikhar Haider,
The silk road and beyond : narratives of a Muslim historian / Iftikhar H. Malik. - First edition. - Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2020 - xv, 368 p. 23 cm
1. Memoirs
2. Traversing the Silk Road
3. Nestling in the west
"The Silk Road and Beyond' attempts to capture lived realities across Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Finland, Britain, USA, 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 40-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 socio-intellectual institutions in Europe and the United States"--Jacket.
9780199405961 (hbk)
Historians--Pakistan
Muslims--Social life and customs.
Muslims--History.
Islam--Social aspects.
Islam and culture.
900 / M2951
The silk road and beyond : narratives of a Muslim historian / Iftikhar H. Malik. - First edition. - Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2020 - xv, 368 p. 23 cm
1. Memoirs
2. Traversing the Silk Road
3. Nestling in the west
"The Silk Road and Beyond' attempts to capture lived realities across Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Finland, Britain, USA, 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 40-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 socio-intellectual institutions in Europe and the United States"--Jacket.
9780199405961 (hbk)
Historians--Pakistan
Muslims--Social life and customs.
Muslims--History.
Islam--Social aspects.
Islam and culture.
900 / M2951
