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Aatish Taseer
Born
London, The United Kingdom
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Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands
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2007
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29 editions
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The Way Things Were
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2014
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21 editions
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The Twice-born
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2018
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14 editions
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The Temple-Goers
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2010
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10 editions
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Noon
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2011
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16 editions
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A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
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2025
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4 editions
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Noon: A Novel
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Itihasa
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The Rootless Elysium: America at 250, A Journey
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The Rootless Elysium: America at 250, A Journey
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“I had begun my journey asking why my father was Muslim and this was why: I felt sure that none of Islam’s once powerful moral imperatives existed within him, but he was Muslim because he doubted the Holocaust, hated America and Israel, thought Hindus were weak and cowardly, and because the glories of the Islamic past excited him.”
― Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands
― Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands
“Why not stick with the Indic definition? Of Itihāsa! Which is a compound, as you know, iti-ha-āsa, and when broken down, means, literally, The Way indeed that Things Were. That covers everything: talk, legend, tradition, history . . .”
― The Way Things Were
― The Way Things Were
“I.P. was at that age when our sense of who we are, or of who we have been told we are, chafes against what we discover in our reading. And immediately a choice seems to appear: to let the reading show us the way forward, like water picking its course over unfamiliar ground; or to direct the reading, to channel the stream, so that it confirms what we already think we know. I.P. was among those few people who could do the former. He had a mind that welcomed doubt and uncertainty; he revelled in it, in fact; he was not one to ever make the perilous decision of deciding to know. His mind was happy to grope its way to its own conclusions, happy to breathe easy in a state of unknowing.”
― The Way Things Were
― The Way Things Were
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