The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family and War

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A journalist explores his circle of relatives’s history to show the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the sector’s first Islamic democracy
 
Shahan Mufti’s circle of relatives history, which he can trace back fourteen hundred years to the internal circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened viewpoint at 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 lots of centuries, to show the deepest roots—real and imagined—of Islamic civilization in Pakistan.
 
More than a private history, The Faithful Scribe captures the bigger story of the sector’s first Islamic democracy, and explains how the state that after 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 all.

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