When ten Pakistani men walk into Kathleen Jamie's small Scottish town on a peace march in November 2001 she is thrown back to her own travels in Northern Pakistan & a book she wrote a decade earlier. Among Muslims" is the account of Jamie's time travelling alone & living among the Shia & Ismaili Muslims in the Northern Areas
- the mountainous regions wedged between Afghanistan India & China & one of the most volatile borderlands in the world. A bold sympathetic & superbly written book " Among Muslims" delves into Jamie's own Scottish upbringing to find links with the purdah-observing lifestyle of her Shia Muslim hosts. It is a privileged account from an acclaimed poet who during her travels was often literally the only woman on the bus. " Among Muslims" was originally published as " The Golden Peak". For this edition Kathleen Jamie returned to Pakistan to write an Afterword & Preface."