The Faithful scribe

Shahan Mufti can trace his family history back fourteen hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad and can relate the stories of his ancestors, many of whom served as judges and jurists in the sharia courts of South Asia for many centuries. He is able to capture the larger story of Pakistan, the world's first Islamic democracy that once promised to bridge Islam and the West, and is now in danger of crumbling under historical and political pressure, and why Pakistan's destiny matters to us all.