Culture Shock! Pakistan: A Guide to Customs and Etiquette
By Zafar Ihsan, Karin Mittmann You’ll never feel intimidated and awkward about the customs and etiquette of another country again. With the insights provided in this CULTURE SHOCK! Guide, you’ll learn to see beyond the stereotypes and misinformation that often precede a visit to a foreign land. Whether you plan to stay for a week [...]
Jahangir: A Connoisseur Of Mughal Art
By Sanjeev P. Srivastava This book is the author’s third great work showing the character and personality of Prince Salim who ruled India after the death of Akbar. The present study based on authentic primary sources attempts to present the artistic heritage of his ancestors followed by his own innovations known as Muraqqas in miniature [...]
Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire
By Suraiya Faroqhi The cultural heritage of the Ottoman Empire has traditionally been presented to us through its monuments and high arts. Our understanding of its culture has thus come from a world created by and for sultans, viziers and the elite of the Empire. But what of the world of the craftsmen and tradesmen [...]
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West
By Benazir Bhutto RECONCILIATION is her compelling and convincing prescription for the country at the heart of the so-called Clash of civilizations. It argues that democracy, economic development, moderation and modernity are the greatest threats to international terrorism, and pledges its author to work with the United States and the West to ensure that Pakistan [...]
The Last Nizam
By John Zubrzycki The last Nizam is the story of an extraordinary dynasty, the Nizams of Hyderabad, and how the heir to India’s richest princely state gave up a kingdom and retired to the dusty paddocks of outback Australia. With vivid detail and anecdote John Zubrzycki charts the rise of the Nizams to fabulous Wealth [...]
Pashtun Tales: From the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier
By Aisha Ahmed, Roger Boase “Witty, macabre, beautiful and poignant.”—The Independent on Sunday These stories were collected in the tribal areas of the Pakistan-Afghan border, a region once described as “the last free place on earth,” where the caravan routes from Persia, India, and China historically converged. Blending wit, fantasy, comedy, and romance, these tales [...]
What Islam Did For Us: Understanding Islam’s Contribution to Western Civilization
By Tim Wallace-Murphy In these troubled and extremist times, when the religion and culture of Islam are under seemingly perpetual attack, it is salutary to consider how much we, in the Christian West, have in common with, and how much we owe to, the spiritual insights of that great culture. Religious tolerance, respect for learning, [...]
Thieves of Baghdad
By Matthew Bogdanos He’s a spit-and-polish Marine, a competitive boxer, a classics scholar, and an assistant DA in Manhattan. New York tabloids call him “pit bull” for his relentless prosecution of high-profile defendants like Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs and the “baby-faced butchers” of Central Park. When Baghdad fell, Colonel Matthew Bogdanos was in southern Iraq, [...]
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
By Justin Marozzi A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history’s most extreme tyrants ever, and the subject of Marlowe’s play. Marozzi travelled in the footsteps of the great Mogul Emperor of Samarkland to write this wonderful combination of history and travelogue. The name [...]
Lost History: The Enduring Legacy Of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers and Artists
By Michael Hamilton Morgan In an era when the relationship between Islam and the West seems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, we often forget that for centuries Muslim civilization was the envy of the world. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the major role played by the early Muslim world in influencing modern [...]
