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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Travel narratives and the imperial imperatives: Investigating gender and Islam -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Adelard and Muslim scholarship: Connecting the medieval worlds during the Crusades and Reconquista -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Pioneer traveller-observer: Thomas Coryate's Eastern journeys and discourses -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Mary Wortley Montagu in the Ottoman World: A formidable non-orientalist -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Montagu on Gender, Janissaries, Jews, and inoculation in Ottoman Turkey -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Bridging the gaps: Fanny Parkes among the Indian Muslims -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Mapping Muslim communities: Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali in India -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Scholar, spy, and imperial socialite: Gertrude Bell among Muslims -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Lone scholar and invisible sleuth: Freya Stark and Muslims -- Notes -- Epilogue: Sojourners and academes -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Books and Journals -- Theses -- Index.

This book juxtaposes vital issues of Pashtun identity, state formation, Taliban on both sides of the Durand Line, Frontier Crimes Regulation, security prerogative and the civil societies of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which since 9/11, have been posited in a rather precarious geopolitics.

Immediate reaction to the army's countercoup in Pakistan in Oct 1999 was broadly favorable from the public at large. But Pakistan has suffered cyclical problems of governance stemming from a weak political culture & an overdeveloped state (basically colonial in its origins & present functioning) together with several economic distortions, numerous ideological dissensions & regional challenges. The main challenges for the new military-led regime are to establish a tenable legitimacy, to construct a broadly acceptable system of accountability & to induct a transparent system of governance based on proper constitutional & electoral norms. Pakistan's overall political & economic situation is becoming more complex, dispiriting & confusing. Adapted from the source document.

Examines Oct. 12, 1999 coup which elevated General Pervez Musharraf to power, in light of Pakistan's cyclic problems of governance, economic distortions, ideological dissension, and regional challenges.