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The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC

AMERICAN CALIPH

The first full account of the largest-ever hostage taking on American soil and of the tormented man who masterminded it

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Shahan Mufti is the chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Richmond and a former daily news reporter for The Christian Science Monitor. He is the author of The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War, and his writing has appeared in Harper’s MagazineThe New York Times MagazineThe Atlantic, and The Nation, among other publications.

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AMERICAN CALIPH

The first full account of the largest-ever hostage taking on American soil and of the tormented man who masterminded
it.

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THE FAITHFUL SCRIBE

A journalist explores his family’s history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the world’s first Islamic democracy.

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