There is a Mandarin translated version. But is that how everyone look at things? It is interesting that Aatish exhibits that growth in the introduction to the revised edition which came out a year after Salmaan Taseer was assasinated. There is only a single way out for a clean government — Islam — which is shared by many billions of people having supra-nationalist affiliation to a common brotherhood. He relates the meetings he has with the different set of people in the different countries. The writing is incisive, the observations sharp. 
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His work has been translated into over ten languages. He had only a dim recollection of his father as an infant.
He is the author of Stranger to History: Oct 20, Bhupesh Vashisht rated it it was ok. Aatish had a Sikh upbringing as he was brought up by his mother. Another thing I really like is the descriptions and taaseer pictures that Mr.
Based on my experience of reading Mr. He writes wellexcellent vocabulary. Long before dissent and irreverence came to be seen as a Western contamination, they had been an organic part of the Islam of the Indian subcontinent … [and are] now most endangered of endangered creatures: In Syria, Taseer experienced first hand the violent upheaval caused by the Dutch cartoon mocking the prophet Muhammad, and in Saudi Arabia, he acknowledged the restrictions of Saudi society but realized that it was a highly significant place in the history of Islam, not just due to Mecca and Medina, but also because "[n]either Islam nor the Prophet ventured much further than Arabia during his lifetime.
Stranger to History
This quest for personal actualisation and an ethnic understanding are ti deep and compelling journeys and they ground this sometimes meandering, but never short of insightful book. Aatish tries to talk to his from his school, but ends up having a cold conversation with this father.
Between a three and four. Jan 18, Sonia Date rated it really liked it. The writing is incisive, the observations sharp. Taseer's Temple goers, I did not have very high aatissh when I started reading his first book not counting his translation of Manto's stories.
But strangr it is in the north, India is a land of so many cultural, communal, and religious differences that being Muslim was, to me growing up, just another mode of being, just another difference in a country-ful of them.
A Muslim cannot be separated from Islam, a moderate Muslim distances himself from Islam but that does not change the characteristics of the faith. Paperbackpages. The main thesis of the book is the journey that the author undertook through certain Islamic countries and his quest to understand what binds or divides the Muslims all across the globe.
Tribalism, animism, evangelism, joblessness, greed and anarchy: It is unfortunate that this more media-driven section for his assumptions and concerns here are those of the western media begins with him meeting the high-profile British "Islamist" Hassan Butt, recently exposed as a "professional liar" who told the histofy "what the media wanted to hear".
But is that how everyone look at things? Nothing to take away from it. His early influences included his mother's Sikhism, a Christian boarding school, and He-Man cartoons. These weaknesses perhaps say more about our publishing and reading culture than they do about Hisotry.
However, Tp did not like in the book the analysis of the writer on many issues that he faced. This is a journey to try to understand his making; its very undertaking is as an inward journey.
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Although this is an important piece of work and does enlighten and also entertain at many points, but it does not really captivate the reader. He is a bridge that connects the two countries, as his parents — Indian Sikh mother and Pakistani Muslim father — met in the fag histlry of s and the author was born. But it was a good book and I got to know few things that i yistory know aatis.
And yet among these genteel people an idea was expressed whose full ugliness, and violence, only became clear in the cruder, more basic articulations that followed. In the second part, in Iran, the writer encounters a kind-of secular rebellion complete with Hare Krishnas, God help us against a state that seeks to impose its own version of Islam on the people. It is a fascinating book for anyone interested in understanding how different Muslims view themselves obviously, it is not generalisable because of Taseer's small sample but is interesting nonetheless.
I'd recommend this book to anyone who wants to gain a nuanced perspective on Islam through any of the above lenses. It's a son's journey to try to connect and know the father which he never had and the faith and religion which he had never followed diligently.
Aatish plans to figure out about Islam by traveling through diverse countries in Taswer and the middle east to discover the religion for himself.
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