"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 wher...

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1. Verfasser:	Malik, Iftikhar Haider 1949- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Karachi Oxford University Press 2020
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Islam Malik, Iftikhar Haider / 1949- Historians / Pakistan / Biography Muslims / Social life and customs Muslims / History Islam / Social aspects Islam and culture Historians Muslims Pakistan Biographies History Reisebericht
Zusammenfassung:	"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
Beschreibung:	xv, 368 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:	9780199405961