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Travels in a Dervish Cloak
Author: Isambard Wilkinson
Publisher:
Published: 2018-03-29
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781780601502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spellbound by his grandmother's Anglo-Indian heritage and the exuberant annual visits of her friend the Begum, Isambard Wilkinson became enthralled by Pakistan as a teenager, eventually working there as a foreign correspondent during the War on Terror. Seeking the land behind the headlines, he sets out to discover the essence of a country convulsed by Islamist violence. What of the old, mystical Pakistan has survived and what has been destroyed? We meet charismatic tribal chieftains making their last stand, hereditary saints blessing prostitutes, gangster bosses in violent slums and ecstatic Muslim pilgrims. Navigating a minefield of coups, conspiracies, cock-ups and bombs, Bard is reluctant to judge; his is a funny, hashish- and whisky-scented travel book from the frontline, full of open-hearted delight and a poignant lust for life. Photographs by Chev Wilkinson.
Travels in Central Asia
Fighting to the End
Author: C. Christine Fair
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0199892709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Pakistan Army is poised for perpetual conflict with India which it cannot win militarily or politically. What explains Pakistan's persistent revisionism despite increasing costs and decreasing likelihood of success? This book argues that an understanding of the army's strategic culture explains its willingness to fight to the end
Thus Spake the Dervish
Author: Alexandre Papas
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-06-24
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9004402020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Thus Spake the Dervish Alexandre Papas traces the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years.
The Pashtun Question
Author: Abubakar Siddique
Publisher: Hurst & Company Limited
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1849042926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing hosts among their communities on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Abubakar Siddique sets out to demonstrate that the failure, or even unwillingness, of both Afghanistan and Pakistan to absorb the Pashtuns into their state structures and to incorporate them into the economic and political fabric is central to these dynamics, and a critical failure of nation- and state-building in both states. In his book he argues that religious extremism is the product of these critical failures and that responsibility for the situation lies to some degree with the elites of both countries. Partly an eye-witness account and partly meticulously researched scholarship, The Pashtun Question describes a people whose destiny will shape the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
SAUDADE
Author: Shreen Vaid
Publisher: One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
Published:
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9352010574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Knots
Author: Nuruddin Farah
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-02-01
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1101202025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" (Time) Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (The New York Review of Books), Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with Knots, the story of a woman who returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. Born in Somalia but raised in North America, Cambara flees a failed marriage by traveling to Mogadishu. And there, amid the devastation and brutality, she finds that her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. Conjuring the unforgettable extremes of a fractured Muslim culture and the wayward Somali state through the eyes of a strong, compelling heroine, Knots is another Farah masterwork.
Candide (憨第德)
Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Published: 2011-04-15
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara in the Years of 1845 & 1846
