Name: Indians at Herod's Gate: A Jerusalem Tale (Hardcover) – by Navtej Sarna
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 8129134519
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rain Light; First edition (1 July 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9788129134516
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8129134516
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 381 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.6 x 21.59 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

Eight hundred years ago Baba Farid, the great Sufi saint of the Chisti order, visited Jerusalem, freshly wrested back for Islam from the Crusaders by Saladin, and meditated there for forty days in an underground room. Later, an Indian Hospice was born through a waqf endowment around that room and has welcomed Indian pilgrims and soldiers to Jerusalem ever since. For close to a century, through the tumultuous years of the British Mandate, the Second World War, the birth of Israel and the ensuing decades of conflict, the Hospice has been looked after by an Indian family first by Sheikh Nazir Hasan Ansari, a police inspector s son from Saharanpur, and then by his eldest son, Sheikh Munir Ansari. Following in the tradition of literary travellers such as Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux, Navtej Sarna wanders through the timeless narrow lanes of Old Jerusalem, sifting through fact and fable to tease out the unique story of the Indian Hospice and the Ansari family. What starts off as a personal conversation becomes a deeply researched but lightly told account that weaves historical narrative with telling personal detail.

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Indians at Herod's Gate: A Jerusalem Tale (Hardcover) – by Navtej Sarna

Indians at Herod's Gate: A Jerusalem Tale (Hardcover) – by Navtej Sarna