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Why did being Muslim mean that your allegiances were to other Muslims before the citizens of your 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? As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was a photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his Muslim Pakistani father remained a distant figure, almost a figment of his imagination, until at twenty-one Aatish crossed the border to meet him. Stranger to History is the story Aatish's journey-from Istanbul, Islam's once greatest city, to Mecca, its most holy, and then home, through Iran and Pakistan. Ending in Lahore, 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, Stranger to History is an outstanding... BIO018000,BIO000000,TRV026060

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Author

Aatish Taseer

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771084256

Category

travel

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Travel

Rating

3.65 / 5 (354 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13