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Shahan Mufti

Biography

Shahan Mufti

Shahan Mufti is a journalist who has contributed pieces on Pakistan and the political evolution of Islam to Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Magazine, Boston Sunday Globe, The Nation, Bloomberg Businessweek, Columbia Journalism Review, and many others. He teaches journalism at the University of Richmond and splits his time between the United States and Pakistan.

Shahan Mufti

Books by Shahan Mufti

by Shahan Mufti - History

Shahan Mufti's family history, which he can trace back fourteen hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened perspective on 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 many centuries, to reveal the deepest roots-real and imagined-of Islamic civilization in Pakistan.