Pakistan | Asian History Books

Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir

March 22, 2015

In September 1996, fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her baby brother, while shots rang out in the dark outside the family home in Karachi. This was the night her father Murtaza was murdered. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies for one of the world’s best-known political […]
Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam – The First Muslim Nobel Scientist

March 22, 2015

This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre […]
The Grandeur of Gandhara: The Ancient Buddhist Civilization of the Swat, Peshawar, Kabul and Indus Valleys

March 22, 2015

The northwestern regions of Pakistan and southeastern regions of Afghanistan were once the heart of a highly developed civilization whose cultural impact was felt from China to Persia. A major center of Buddhism, its cultural attainments were highlights of ancient civilization. The author’s research, accompanied by some 60 illustrations, offers Americans an entirely new understanding […]
The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama’at-i Islami of Pakistan (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies)

March 22, 2015

In this groundbreaking study, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr examines the origins, historical development, and political strategies of one of the oldest and most influential Islamic revival movements, the Jama’at-i Islami of Pakistan. He focuses on the inherent tension between the movement’s idealized vision of the nation as a holy community based in Islamic law and […]
Stallion of the Sun and Other Stories

March 22, 2015

The seven masterful stories in this collection, many of which have been translated into English for the first time, affirm Anantha Murthy as one of India’s foremost fiction writers. Sale Price:$9.51 0140285245
Elite Forces of India and Pakistan

March 22, 2015

Influenced by the German use of paratroopers early in World War II (1939-1945), General Sir Robert Cassels, the Commander-in-Chief India, ordered the formation of an airborne cadre in October 1940. Thus marked the origins of India’s first élite units. Pakistan can trace the origins of its own army airborne to the common parentage of British-raised […]
Secularizing Islamists?: Jama’at-e-Islami and Jama’at-ud-Da’wa in Urban Pakistan (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

March 22, 2015

Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama‘at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama‘at-ud-Da‘wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily […]
Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Vintage Departures)

March 22, 2015

First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin—the “soldiers of god”—whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled their mission to oust the formidable Soviet invaders. In Soldiers of God we […]
The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire & Invasion

March 22, 2015

Khyber Pass, invasion, 20th century history Sale Price:$3.50 1402756968
Soldier Sahibs: The Daring Adventurers Who Tamed India’s Northwest Frontier

March 22, 2015

Drawing extensively upon diaries, letters, and family mementos as well as his own frequent travels in the northwest region of India, author Charles Allen here recounts a lively chapter out of British colonial history that prominently featured his ancestor Brigadier General John Nicholson. In 1840, six ambitious young officers, inflamed with patriotism and religious evangelism, […]

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