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    Among Muslims: Meetings at the frontiers of Pakistan
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    Among Muslims: Meetings at the frontiers of Pakistan

    By Kathleen Jamie

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    When ten Pakistani men walk into Kathleen Jamie's small Scottish town on a peace march, in November 2001, she is thrown back to her own travels in Northern Pakistan and a book she wrote a decade earlier.

    Among Muslims is the account of Jamie's time travelling alone and living among the Shia and Ismaili Muslims in the Northern Areas - the mountainous regions wedged between Afghanistan, India and China and one of the most volatile borderlands in the world.

    A bold, sympathetic and superbly written book, Among Muslims delves into Jamie's own Scottish upbringing to find links with the purdah-observing lifestyle of her Shia Muslim hosts. It is a privileged account from an acclaimed poet, who during her travels was often literally the only woman on the bus.

    Among Muslims was originally published as The Golden Peak. For this edition, Kathleen Jamie returned to Pakistan to write an Afterword and Preface.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSort Of Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2012
    ISBN9781908745248
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    Among Muslims: Meetings at the frontiers of Pakistan
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    Kathleen Jamie

    Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. Her poetry collection The Tree House (Picador, 2004), won both the Forward Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead was shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Prize. Her most recent collection, The Overhaul, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2012 and won the Costa Poetry Award 2012. Kathleen Jamie’s non-fiction books include the highly regarded Findings and Sightlines. She is Chair of Creative Writing at Stirling University, and lives with her family in Fife.

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      One of those travel books that's more than a travel book. Jamie is a brilliant poet with a generous heart and brave spirit. Opening this book is like entering a secret world. There's analysis as well as lyric observation, a keen sense of gendered hierarchies.