12 must-read nonfiction books like Soul Rivals: State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan by Nadeem Farooq Paracha

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Soul Rivals: State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan

By: Nadeem Farooq Paracha

3.61

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

Sufism has always been a contested space in Pakistan. Successive governments, political parties and…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Soul Rivals: State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan by Nadeem Farooq Paracha , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, محمد درويش, None, ارسلان فصیحی

2. The Forty Rules of Love

By: Elif Shafak , محمد درويش , None , ارسلان فصیحی

4.12

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a lit… read more

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  • religion
"تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها."

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

"النفاق هو الذي يجعل الناس سعداء. أما الحقيقة فتجعلهم يشعرون بالحزن"

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

"لا يعنيني الحلال ولا الحرام فأنا أفضل أن أطفئ نار جهنم، وأن أحرق الجنة حتى يحب الناس الله من أجل الحب الخالص."

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

"من الغرابة أن تقول ذلك لامرأة تفكر بالماضي كثيراً, وتفكر بالمستقبل أكثر, لكن بطريقة ما, لم تمسّها اللحظة الراهنة."

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

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3. My Father's Suitcase: The Nobel Lecture

By: Orhan Pamuk

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Two years before his death, my father gave me a small suitcase full of his writings, hand writings… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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4. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

5. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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6. Toba Tek Singh: Stories

By: Saadat Hasan Manto , Khalid Hasan

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

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7. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

Similar categories in Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics book and Nadeem Farooq Paracha's Soul Rivals: State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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8. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. 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

Similar categories in Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man book and Nadeem Farooq Paracha's Soul Rivals: State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan

"…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

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10. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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11. Notes on Grief

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.22

Format: 86 pages, Hardcover

Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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12. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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13. Azadi

By: Arundhati Roy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"

-Arundhati Roy, Azadi

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14. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

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  • politics
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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15. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

By: Declan Walsh

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pakistan
"Zia perished in 1988"

-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

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16. Rule by Fear: Eight Theses on Authoritarianism in Pakistan

By: Ammar Ali Jan

4.27

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

Why have democratic institutions and norms not taken root in Pakistan? In these polemical essays, A… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pakistan
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17. Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan (Dislocations Book 29)

By: Rosita Armytage

3.96

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Inside the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marr… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pakistan
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18. En agosto nos vemos

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez   Cada mes de a… read more

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"Do you know how old I am?"

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

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19. Soul Rivals: State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan

By: Nadeem Farooq Paracha

3.61

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

Sufism has always been a contested space in Pakistan. Successive governments, political parties and… read more

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  • islam
  • history
  • politics
  • pakistan
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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20. Womansplaining: Navigating Activism, Politics and Modernity in Pakistan

By: Sherry Rehman

4.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

DECRIPTION As we enter a new century, with its promise of change, women in Pakistan often emerge a… read more

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21. The New Pakistani Middle Class

By: Ammara Maqsood

3.95

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Pakistan’s presence in the outside world is dominated by images of religious extremism and violence… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pakistan

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