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Stranger to History a Son's Journey through Islamic Lands

As a child, all Aatish Taseer had of his father was a photograph. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his Muslim Pakistani father remained a distant figure. At twenty-one Aatish crossed the border to meet him. Part memoir, part travelogue, stylish and troubling, this is Aatish's journey, from Istanbul to Lahore, in search of his history.

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  • "Yi ge er zi de Yisilan zhi lü"
  • "Stranger to history"@it
  • "Stranger to history : a son's journey through Islamic lands"
  • "son's journey through Islamic lands"
  • "一个儿子的伊斯兰之旅"
  • "Charithrathinu aparichithan : Islaminte samskara bhoomikaliloode oru makante yathra"

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  • "Author's travelogue to Middle East."
  • "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, Stranger to History is an outstanding debut ... -- Product Description."
  • "As a child, all Aatish Taseer had of his father was a photograph. Raised by his Sikh mother in Delhi, his Muslim Pakistani father remained a distant figure. At twenty-one Aatish crossed the border to meet him. Part memoir, part travelogue, stylish and troubling, this is Aatish's journey, from Istanbul to Lahore, in search of his history."@en
  • "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."

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  • "Reisverhalen"
  • "Biography"
  • "rejseskildinger"
  • "Reisebericht"
  • "Reisbeschrijvingen (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Stranger to History a Son's Journey through Islamic Lands"@en
  • "Stranger to history"
  • "Terra Islamica : auf der Suche nach der Welt meines Vaters"
  • "Caritrattinȧ aparicitan : Islāmint̲e saṃskārabhūmikaḷilūṭe oru makant̲e yātra"
  • "Stranger to history : a son's journey through islamic lands"
  • "我的穆斯林父亲 一个儿子的伊斯兰之旅"
  • "Itihāsa se ajanabī"
  • "De buitenstaander : een reis door de wereld van de islam"
  • "Wo de Musilin fu qin yi ge er zi de Yisilan zhi lü"
  • "Stranger to history a son's journey through Islamic lands"@en
  • "Wo de Musilin fu qin : yi ge er zi de Yisilan zhi lü"
  • "我的穆斯林父亲 : 一个儿子的伊斯兰之旅"
  • "Straniero alla mia storia : viaggio di un figlio nelle terre dell'Islam"@it
  • "Straniero alla mia storia : viaggio di un figlio nelle terre dell'Islam"
  • "Étranger à mon histoire le périple d'un fils en contrée musulmane"
  • "Stranger to history : a son's journey through Islamic lands"
  • "Stranger to history : a son's journey through Islamic lands"@en

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