Frontier of Faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland (Columbia/Hurst)
A stimulating mixture of history and anthropology and an ambitious attempt to draw on different disciplines and sources of information to illuminate the history of the tribal territories of the North West Frontier.(David Page, author of Prelude to Partition: The Indian Muslims and the Imperial System of Control, 1920-1932)Haroon offers a fascinating street-level view of frontier life and politics.(Basharat PeerThe Nation)I think what she writes has a tremendous resonance for an understanding of what is happening today.(Anatol LievenFive Books - The Browser)