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Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard - A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan (Paperback)
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Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard - A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan (Paperback)
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List price R581
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Discovery Miles 5 200
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An engrossing blend of travel writing and history, "Drinking Arak
off an Ayatollah's Beard" traces one man's adventure-filled journey
through today's Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, and describes
his remarkable attempt to make sense of the present by delving into
the past.
Setting out to gain insight into the lives of Iranians and Afghans
today, Nicholas Jubber is surprised to uncover the legacy of a
vibrant pre-Islamic Persian culture that has endured even in times
of the most fanatic religious fundamentalism. Everywhere--from
underground dance parties to religious shrines to opium dens--he
finds powerful and unbreakable connections to a time when both Iran
and Afghanistan were part of the same mighty empire, when the flame
of Persian culture lit up the world.
Whether through his encounters with poets and cab drivers or
run-ins with "pleasure daughters" and mujahideen, again and again
Jubber is drawn back to the eleventh-century Persian epic, the
"Shahnameh" ("Book of Kings"). The poem becomes not only his window
into the region's past, but also his link to its tumultuous
present, and through it Jubber gains access to an Iran and
Afghanistan seldom revealed or depicted: inside-out worlds in which
he has tea with a warlord, is taught how to walk like an Afghan,
and even discovers, on a night full of bootleg alcohol and dancing,
what it means to drink arak off an Ayatollah's beard.
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