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Title	:	The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
Author	:	Tahir Shah
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	December 26th 2006 by Bantam (first published January 1st 2006)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Northern Africa. Morocco. Autobiography. Memoir. Cultural. Africa

The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

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In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge–and nothing is as easy as it seems….

Inspired by the Moroccan vacations of his childhood, Tahir Shah dreamed of making a home in that astonishing country. At age thirty-six he got his chance. Investing what money he and his wife, Rachana, had, Tahir packed up his growing family and bought Dar Khalifa, a crumbling ruin of a mansion by the sea in Casablanca that once belonged to the city’s caliph, or spiritual leader.

With its lush grounds, cool, secluded courtyards, and relaxed pace, life at Dar Khalifa seems sure to fulfill Tahir’s fantasy–until he discovers that in many ways he is farther from home than he imagined. For in Morocco an empty house is thought to attract jinns, invisible spirits unique to the Islamic world. The ardent belief in their presence greatly hampers sleep and renovation plans, but that is just the beginning. From elaborate exorcism rituals involving sacrificial goats to dealing with gangster neighbors intent on stealing their property, the Shahs must cope with a new culture and all that comes with it.

Endlessly enthralling, The Caliph’s House charts a year in the life of one family who takes a tremendous gamble. As we follow Tahir on his travels throughout the kingdom, from Tangier to Marrakech to the Sahara, we discover a world of fierce contrasts that any true adventurer would be thrilled to call home.


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Original Title:	The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
ISBN:	0553383108 (ISBN13: 9780553383102)
Edition Language:	English

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Another book that I don't know how to rate. It was amusing, I'll give it that. I think I would have gotten more out of it if I hadn't been living in Morocco for so long. During a lot of the book, I was thinking that the author was stupid or that he had done things that were really stupid/ naiive. Then the language thing - I guess he speaks fluent French and in Casablanca that works fine because everyone there speaks French but things were so easy for him because he always seemed to have either a

The title sounded good and maybe that is how I ended up with this book in my bookcase. Good thing it did, because it was a very fun read, and so I couldn't put it down.Tahir Shah had been to Morocco when he was a kid and never forgot the place. I had been to Morocco at the Epcot Center in Florida's Disneyworld and never forgot my meal there. Mix dried fruits in meats or any food, and yum. I have a meatloaf recipe with groundup dried apricots in the center that I used to make for myself when I

I did not particularly enjoy this book. I had expected to get a bit more insight as to the culture of Morocco, but the scope is so very narrow throughout the book, that the most educational part for me was the glossary at the end. I would have liked it to have included a little bit of background history and politics with regards to Morocco. The foundations of a country are very important to me when reading a "travelogue" sort of book.The format of the book was bizarre to me. It read a lot more

Take the movie "The Money Pit", move it to Casablanca, give the Shelley Long character two children but her only role is to get really angry a couple of times, give all the characters a language barrier with the locals, make the Tom Hanks character an idiot, give them a gardener, a nanny, a maid, three guardians and a personal assistant who cause more problems than they solve and you've got this mess of a book. The flow was weird - the author would describe something, say a search for new engine



Around this time every year I gravitate to travel literature. The locale doesn't have to be exotic to capture my interest, sometimes a writer explores the ordinary in an extraordinary way. This book is a memoir of Shah's move to Morocco with his young family and his experience of renovating an old house. The book is in the tradition of Peter Mayle, entertaining, with colorful local characters (everyone in Morocco seems to believe in djinns) but not much insight. Shah is neither a poet or

Tired of what he describes as his meager existence under the wet, grey skies of England, Tahir Shah decides to uproot his wife and young children and move to Morocco, chronicling their experience in The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca. Shah purchases the Caliphs house (Dar Khalifa) in Casablanca, a dilapidated home, empty for ten years and situated on the edge of a shantytown. Upon entering his new home, he discovers his house comes equipped with a staff of three guardians and a she-jinn