Aatish Taseer
â€œIndispensable reading for anyone who wants a wider understanding of the Islamic world, of its history and its politics.â€ ,
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,Aatish Taseerâ€™s fractured upbringing left him with many questions about his own identity. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his father, a Pakistani Muslim, remained a distant figure. ,Stranger to History ,is the story of the journey he made to try to understand what it means to be Muslim in the twenty-firstcentury. Starting from Istanbul, Islamâ€™s once greatest city, he travels to Mecca, its most holy, and then home through Iran and Pakistan. Ending in Lahore, at his estranged fatherâ€™s home, on the night Benazir Bhutto was killed, it is also the story of Taseerâ€™s divided family over the past fifty years. Recent events have added a coda to ,Stranger to History,, as his father was murdered by a political assassin. A new introduction by the author reflects on how this event changes the impact of the book, and why its message is more relevant than ever.
Nonfiction,Travel,Religion,Islam,Autobiography,Memoir,History,Politics,Religion,Cultural,India,Biography,Cultural,Pakistan
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands