TY  - BOOK
AU  - Malik,Iftikhar Haider
TI  - The silk road and beyond: narratives of a Muslim historian 
SN  - 9780199405961 (hbk)
U1  - 900 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Karachi : 
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - Historians
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - History
KW  - Islam
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Islam and culture
N1  - 1.	Memoirs
2.	Traversing the Silk Road
3.	Nestling in the west


N2  - "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
ER  -