Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
By: Mana Kia
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia,…
Want to Read $ 28.49If you liked the history plot in Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism by Mana Kia , here is a list of 19 books like this:
1. The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan
By: Ayesha Jalal
4.05
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India.… read more
Want to Read $ 31.49Similar categories in Ayesha Jalal's The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- nonfiction
- india
- history
2. The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800
By: Muzaffar Alam
4.03
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The Languages of Political Islamilluminates the diverse ways in which Islam, from the time of its a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Muzaffar Alam's The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800 book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- nonfiction
- india
- history
3. The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History
By: Cemil Aydin
3.10
Format: 151 pages, Hardcover
When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he fo… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Cemil Aydin's The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
4. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
By: Jasbir K. Puar
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, na… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jasbir K. Puar's Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
5. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
6. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
By: Kenneth Pomeranz
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustain… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kenneth Pomeranz's The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
7. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
Want to Read $ 7.85Similar categories in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
8. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Benjamín Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
10. The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.44
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times -bestselling author of Exit West , a story of love, loss, and rediscovery i… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
"…the way people act around you, it changes what you are, who you are."-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"If he stayed, it would not be for them--need not be for them--but for himself. And yet each day he did stay. Bored and tense, true, but he stayed. And he discovered thereby how badly he wanted to sta…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Online you could form your own opinion of what was going on and your opinion was, likely as not, different from the next person's, and there was no real way to determine which of you was right, and t…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
"Anders knew he would soon lose his father, and that impending loss seemed more concrete now, more real, not like air but like a door or a wall, something you could bang against, bang into, and of cou…"-Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
11. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
By: Christopher Clark
4.18
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Christopher Clark's Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
12. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
13. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
Want to Read $ 8.61Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
14. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Antony Beevor's Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
15. The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
By: David I. Kertzer
4.15
Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE From… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in David I. Kertzer's The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
"I never want to see umbrellas around me." he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire."-David I. Kertzer, The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
16. Liberalism and Its Discontents
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.93
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Francis Fukuyama's Liberalism and Its Discontents book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
17. India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
By: Richard M. Eaton
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Richard M. Eaton's India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765 book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- nonfiction
- iran
- india
- history
"[D]uring the years 1219-21 Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire in eastern Asia, burst into western Asia. Offended by the insolent behaviour of the same ruler of Khwarazm who a few years ea…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"In addition, Sultan Iltumish, for all his rhetoric of being India's sole legitimate Muslim ruler, continued to issue coins with the old bull-and-horseman motif and a Sanskritized form of his name and…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"[T]he demonization of Mahmud [of Ghazni] and the portrayal of his raid on Somnath as an assault on Indian religion by Muslim invaders dates only from the early 1840s. In 1842 the British East Indian …"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"['A]lamgir [Aurangzeb] came to formulate a very different model of sovereignty for himself and for the empire he ruled. In this new dispensation, the kingdom would be governed not by a charismatic, s…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
18. The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India
By: Manan Ahmed Asif
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A field-changing history explains how the subcontinent lost its political identity as the home of a… read more
Want to Read $ 14.72Similar categories in Manan Ahmed Asif's The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- nonfiction
- india
- history
19. Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea
By: Faisal Devji
3.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India’s Muslims was proposed, is both the… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Faisal Devji's Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- nonfiction
- india
- history
"Some speculate that Muslim nationalism was intended by its leaders and in particular the country’s founding father, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, as a movement whose goals were open-ended enough to allow for …"-Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea
20. Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
By: Mana Kia
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia,… read more
Want to Read $ 28.49Similar categories in Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- nonfiction
- iran
- india
- history
21. Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire (Religion, Culture, and Public Life Book 49)
By: Sherali Tareen
4.83
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
Friendship--particularly interreligious friendship--offers both promise and peril. After the end of… read more
Want to Read $ 32.58Similar categories in Sherali Tareen's Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire (Religion, Culture, and Public Life Book 49) book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
22. The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe
By: Gábor Ágoston
4.45
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of … read more
Want to Read $ 16.17Similar categories in Gábor Ágoston's The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
23. Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (LSE International Studies)
By: Ayşe Zarakol
4.07
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read… read more
Want to Read $ 31.49Similar categories in Ayşe Zarakol's Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (LSE International Studies) book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
- nonfiction
24. Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought
By: Hüseyin Yılmaz
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority Th… read more
Want to Read $ 17.60Similar categories in Hüseyin Yılmaz's Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought book and Mana Kia's Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
- history
