Muslim Voices and Lives in the Contemporary World

This book tells the stories of eleven remarkable people in the Islamic world, from a religious musician in Pakistan who sings the sufferings of the saints and hopes to bring reconciliation to his country, to the son of one of the greatest Shi'ite scholars of Iraq who was murdered trying to restore peace in his city.

FRANCES TRIX is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Indiana University, USA.  JOHN WALBRIDGE is a professor of Near Eastern Languages at Indiana University, USA, specializing in Islamic Philosophy, Science, and Education. The late LINDA WALBRIDGE was a cultural anthropologist who specialized in Shi'ism and minorities in Islamic countries.