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Samatar, Sofia.
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Samatar, Sofia -- Travel -- Silk Road.
Mennonites -- Khivinskoe khanstvo -- History -- 19th century.
Asia, Central -- Description and travel.
Asia, Central -- History -- 19th century.
Silk Road -- Description and travel.
Silk Road -- History -- 19th century.
Silk Road -- Social life and customs.
Uzbekistan -- Description and travel.
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Samatar, Sofia.
Samatar, Sofia -- Travel -- Silk Road.
Mennonites -- Khivinskoe khanstvo -- History -- 19th century.
Asia, Central -- Description and travel.
Asia, Central -- History -- 19th century.
Silk Road -- Description and travel.
Silk Road -- History -- 19th century.
Silk Road -- Social life and customs.
Uzbekistan -- Description and travel.
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The white mosque : a memoir / Sofia Samatar.
by
Samatar, Sofia.
Catapult, 2022.
Call #:
915.80443 S187w
Subjects
Samatar, Sofia
--
Travel
--
Silk
Road
.
Mennonites
--
Khivinskoe khanstvo
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Asia, Central
--
Description and travel.
Asia, Central
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Silk
Road
--
Description and travel.
Silk
Road
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Silk
Road
--
Social life and customs.
Uzbekistan
--
Description and travel.
ISBN:
9781646220977 (hc)
Edition:
1st imprint ed.
Description:
314 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes biliographical references (p. 307-311).
Summary:
"A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identity. In the late nineteenth
century
, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a
century
later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva. Named Ak Metchet, “The White Mosque,” after the Mennonites’ whitewashed church, the village lasted for fifty years. In pursuit of this curious
history
, Samatar discovers a variety of characters whose lives intersect around the ancient
Silk
Road
, from a fifteenth-century astronomer-king, to an intrepid Swiss woman traveler of the 1930s, to the first Uzbek photographer, and explores such topics as Central Asian cinema, Mennonite martyrs, and Samatar’s own complex upbringing as the daughter of a Swiss-Mennonite and a Somali-Muslim, raised as a Mennonite of color in America. A secular pilgrimage to a lost village and a near-forgotten
history
, The White Mosque traces the porous and ever-expanding borders of identity, asking: How do we enter the stories of others? And how, out of the tissue of life, with its weird incidents, buried archives, and startling connections, does a person construct a self?"--Publisher.
Genre:
Travel writing.
Memoirs.
Holds:
3
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Central Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
915.80443 S187w
Core Collection - Adult
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Jul 18, 2024
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