Product DescriptionThis volume addresses some of the key issues marking the process of decolonization in India and Pakistan. It looks at decolonization as a long-term process and highlights some of the historical…
Category: Books about Pakistan
Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin
Product DescriptionBy revealing Jinnah’s human face alongside his heroic achievement, Akbar Ahmed makes this statesman accessible to the current age. Drawing on history, semiotics and cultural anthropology, the author shows the relevance…
Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin
Product DescriptionBy revealing Jinnah’s human face alongside his heroic achievement, Akbar Ahmed makes this statesman accessible to the current age. Drawing on history, semiotics and cultural anthropology, the author shows the relevance…
The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization
Product DescriptionEssays by leading specialists that outline the issues, hypotheses, and questions raised over the last decades. The editor presents a lengthy introduction that outlines the history, developments and complexities of the…
Among Muslims: Everyday Life on the Frontiers of Pakistan
Product DescriptionAs a woman traveling alone in the early 1990s, Kathleen Jamie had exceptional access to the people inhabiting the remote Northern Areas of Pakistan: She befriended not only the men, but…
Insight Guide Pakistan
Product DescriptionInsight Guide: Pakistan provides everything you’ll ever need in a guidebook. It is an inspiring background read, an invaluable on-the-spot companion and a superior souvenir of your visit. Evocative photography-Insight Guides…
India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad: The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004
Product Description India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad?explores the history of jihadist violence in Kashmir, and argues that?the violent conflict which exploded after 1990 was not a historical discontinuity, but,?rather, an escalation…
Nations in Conflict – India & Pakistan
Product DescriptionAs a relatively young nation–only created in 1947–Pakistan has been in a near constant state of conflict and upheaval. At odds with its huge neighbor India, Pakistan has struggled to create…
The Indus Civilization
Product DescriptionIn 1921 at Harappa, a small town in the Punjab, and in 1922 at Mohenjo-daro in Sind, evidence was discovered of an evolved urban culture nearly two thousand years older than…
Secrets From The Field: An Ethnographer’s Notes From North Western Pakistan
Product DescriptionThe personal accounts contained here, reveal the untold experiences and relationships of an ethnographer with the people she lived and worked among for over 10 years in northwestern Pakistan among Afghan…
The Rites of Hajj and Umrah : From the Book of Sunnah and Narrations From the Pious Predecessors
Product DescriptionThis book offers advise for those about to perform Hajj, assuming ihraam, the meeqats, performing Hajj at Tamattu, making conditions, prayer Waadi al Aqeeq, talbiyyah and raising the voice, taking ghusl…
Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier
Product DescriptionPopular representations of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of tribal blood feuds, fanatical religion, and the seclusion of women. The rise to power of the radical Taliban regime…