• Hardcover
• 368
• The Faithful Scribe
• Shahan Mufti
• English
• 07 May 2020
• 9781590515051

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Read & Download The Faithful Scribe review Ú PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Õ Shahan Mufti Shahan Mufti Õ 0 review Ned perspective on the mystifying history of Pakistan Mufti uses the stories of his ancestors many of whom served as judges and jurists in Muslim sharia courts of South Asia for many centuries to reveal the deepest roots real and imagined of Islamic civilization in Pakistan   More than a pe The book kept me glued to the pages which was pretty commendable as the gist of the story was known to me and to every Pakistani The Pakistani family as an institution has grown from strength to strength as the government writ has weakened I guess the when any government grows weaker other players will fill the vacuum created The feudals together with the British laid the foundation of the state of Pakistan in 1947 hoping to keep the arrangement ticking with the new government of Pakistan But the plight of the ordinary working class and the improvised was not addressed in this feudal based model which naturally failed to deliver This major fault line is now abundantly clear with the rise of the new Islamic militias fighting the feudal government nexus across the country These militias are challenging the prevalent order and want to establish a system of adal Islamic socialist system The only issue is that even their vision of adal has no recent precedence and heavily relies on blind adherence to at least thousand year old era of mythical Islamic system which is impossible to realise in my opinion Which is precisely why I have little faith in the emerging political movements like Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf PTI to deliver because I have yet to see any proper guidelines to how such a system can actually work apart from the mere sloganeering efforts of their cherished and glamorous leader Imran Khan In the absence of a set plan enforcing writ by fear becomes the only method remaining for any new Islamic power emerging in the political vacuum This fear is a tactical solution rather than a strategic longer term solution of empowering the lower classesCurrently I don t see any political movement in Pakistan which can effectively address the plight and frustrations of the growing poor

Read & Download The Faithful Scribe review Ú PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Õ Shahan Mufti Shahan Mufti Õ 0 review Rsonal history The Faithful Scribe captures the larger story of the world’s first Islamic democracy and explains how the state that once promised to bridge Islam and the West is now threatening to crumble under historical and political pressure and why Pakistan’s destiny matters to us al I stumbled across this while sifting through books in a free little library near my house I m not a history nut I m not as up to date on politics as I feel I should be and I am pretty ignorant when it comes to world politics and international relations Having not known anything about Pakistan other than the assassination of Osama Bin Laden the Taliban shooting Malala and a vague understanding of the apartheid I felt ill prepared diving into this book If this sounds like you at all then I highly recommend giving this book a shot Mufti explores Pakistan s history from beginning to present and goes into the relationship Islam has with it s people However this book doesn t at all read like a textbook rather it explains the ideas and emotions that shaped the country not the events The story of his family is woven into the history of Pakistan as well as it s relationship with the West It is a uniue perspective from both a Pakistani and an American point of view Most uniue however is the personal and familial connections Mufti is able to make with Pakistan s major historical events and the founding of Islam After discovering a copy of his family tree that dates back fourteen hundred years Mufti uses this to explore the ideas of what family and religion mean to himself

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Read & Download The Faithful Scribe review Ú PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Õ Shahan Mufti Shahan Mufti Õ 0 review A journalist explores his family’s history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan the world’s first Islamic democracy  Shahan Mufti’s family history which he can trace back fourteen hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad offers an enlighte I am usually uite wary of non fiction and the uiet boredom it instills in my story loving soul but I bought this book after hearing of Shahan Mufti at the Lahore Literary Festival 2014 The annual book fair in Lahore offered a 15% discount on it and the cover promised to reveal a story of Islam Pakistan family and war I walked off with a staggering bill and a few other books For those of you who don t know the book costs Rs 2695 in Pakistan2695 in the USUpon finishing the brilliant Black Book by Orhan Pamuk I was not prepared for any mediocre fiction The Faithful Scribe seemed like the perfect next pick Recent political and social upheavals have compelled even the most complacent citizens to garner interest in understanding their diverse and complex countryIn all honesty my love for fiction initially gave caution to approach the book with skepticism but as I began turning the pages a lovely story about ordinary Pakistanis began to unfurl It was a story about a people torn by multiple wars a land ravaged by corruption and a nation held together by the idea of political Islam all painted against the backdrop of a personal family history that traced its lineage back to the second caliph of Islam It was also a saga cataloguing tales of life struggle and survival through the rich history of the landMufti deftly outlined the advent of Islam in the subcontinent and since then the major role the religion has played in defining the lives of the people here Starting from Mahmud of Ghazni and other Muslim invasions from Central Asian rulers the Mughal era the impact of British colonialism on Muslim life the fall of the Ottoman Empire Partition the fall of Dhaka and the subseuent Bhutto years the Islamic legacy of the Zia years Musharraf s Enlightened Moderation down to Imran Khan s modern brand of Islamic Democracy all discussed in relation to the WestSkeptical of the belief that it is Islam that holds Pakistan together Mufti actually marks the River Indus as the pulse of the region giving birth to ancient civilisations like MeharGarh and the Indus Valley It is indeed a powerful concept entrenched in the solid grounds of logicA wonderful book on self discovery through personal and land history recommended for all those with a keen interest in our region and its tumultuous political past