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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Taseer, Aatish, 1980-     Subjects     Taseer, Aatish, 1980- -- Travel -- Islamic countries.     Taseer, Aatish, 1980- -- Travel -- Middle East.     Taseer, Aatish, 1980- -- Family.     Muslims -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.     Islam -- Social aspects -- Islamic countries.     Fathers and sons.     Muslims -- Family relationships.     Islamic countries -- Description and travel.     Middle East -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Taseer, Aatish, 1980-       by title:      Stranger to history ...         MARC Display

Stranger to history : a son's journey through Islamic lands / Aatish Taseer. by Taseer, Aatish, 1980- Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2012. Subjects Taseer, Aatish, 1980- -- Travel -- Islamic countries.   Taseer, Aatish, 1980- -- Travel -- Middle East.   Taseer, Aatish, 1980- -- Family.   Muslims -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions.   Islam -- Social aspects -- Islamic countries.   Fathers and sons.   Muslims -- Family relationships.   Islamic countries -- Description and travel.   Middle East -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9781555976286 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : 155597628X (acid-free paper) Description:  xxiii, 323 p. : map ; 21 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 910.91767 Taseer   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library Adult Nonfiction 910.91767 Ta pap Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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