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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Samatar, Sofia.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Samatar, Sofia.       by title:      The white mosque : a...       by call number:      915.80443 S187w     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 915.80443 S187w Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 18, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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