Fissures made by history

Irfan Husain’s new book, Fatal Faultlines: Pakistan, Islam and the West, is a lucid and modestly detailed look at the difficult collage of relationships between America and the West on the one hand, and Islam and Muslims on the other. Husain explores a complex historical period going back to the genesis of the Christian-Muslim conflict, the expansion of the Ottoman empire, the recurring conflict between Judaism and Islam, the Israel-Palestine dispute, the attitudes of the West towards Muslims and vice-versa.

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