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 [...]
Embroidery from India and Pakistan (Fabric Folios)
By Sheila Paine Focusing on over 20 textiles from the British Museum’s fabulous collection, this book explores the wonderful folk embroidery of Indian and Pakistan–in particular the domestic work made by women for their own dowry or family. Illustrated in full and in detail, these richly decorated items–costumes and household textiles–will provide designers at all [...]
Daughter of the East: An Autobiography (Revised & Updated with New Chapters)
By Benazir Bhutto Beautiful, charismatic, and the first and only woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, Benazir Bhutto achieved international renown in her native Pakistan until charges of corruption forced her into exile in the late 1990s. From her upbringing in one of Pakistan’s richest families to her subsequent politicization and her arrest following [...]
Kashmir : The Untold Story
By Humra Quraishi Since 1989, Kashmir has rarely been out of the headlines, as local militants, foreign terrorists and Indian security forces battle it out in a region once known as `paradise on earth’. In all the propaganda, and news and statistics about terrorist strikes, counter insurgency operations and the foreign hand, the human stories, [...]
A Very Short History of the World
By Geoffrey Blainey A Very Short History of the World” is the story of the world’s people during the last four million years. It begins before human beings moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and of it coming together [...]
The Glory of the Sultans: Islamic Architecture in India 1100-1880
By Yves Porter and Gerard Degeorge Between the twelfth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, most of the Indian subcontinent was under Muslim domination, giving rise to a unique architectural blend of Islamic, Turkish, and Persian influences. This scholarly work provides a comprehensive view of this architectural fusion, explaining in depth the key monuments of each period [...]
JINNAH: India Partition Independence
By Jaswant Singh ‘Lord Mountbatten: I tried every trick I could play… to shake Jinnah’s resolve….Nothing would…move him from his consuming determination to realise the dream of Pakistan…The date I chose (for Independence) came out of the blue. I was determined to show I was master of the whole event.’ This is paralysing in its [...]
Pakistan at Knife’s Edge
By M. B. Naqvi Pakistan at Knife’s Edge is veteran journalist M.B Naqvis’s understanding of contemporary Pakistan and the directions the country could take or ought to. From the sacking of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, by General Pervez Musharraf, to the return of Benazir Bhutto and her assassination on [...]
Empires of the Indus: From Tibet to Pakistan – The Story of a River
By Alice Albinia One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistans fractious union. Five [...]
The Muqaddimah: The Classic Islamic History of the World
By Ibn Khaldun The Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete [...]
