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020			_a9780199405961 (hbk)
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100	1		_aMalik, Iftikhar Haider,
245	1	4	_aThe silk road and beyond : _bnarratives of a Muslim historian / _cIftikhar H. Malik.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aKarachi : _bOxford University Press, _c2020
300			_axv, 368 p. _c23 cm
650		0	_aHistorians _zPakistan
650		0	_aMuslims _xSocial life and customs.
650		0	_aMuslims _xHistory.
650		0	_aIslam _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aIslam and culture.
942			_cBK
505	0		_a1. Memoirs 2. Traversing the Silk Road 3. Nestling in the west
520			_a"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.