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The Butterfly Mosque
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Author : G. Willow Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2010-08-01
The Butterfly Mosque written by G. Willow Wilson and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-01 with Religion categories.
After taking an Islamic Studies course in Boston, G. Willow Wilson quietly found herself adopting the tenets of the religion as her own. This intellectual and emotional exercise created a unique challenge; how could she reconcile a devout and conservative lifestyle with the highly secular society in which she was raised? Taking a leap of faith, Wilson accepted a position to teach English in Cairo, where her guide to the bustling city was a student of astrophysics named Omar. Led by his passions, she discovered a young and moderate nationalist movement that promoted both tolerance and the celebration of identity. Omar's ideas and experiences reflected her own search for meaning and in the tangled thicket of their differences and their similarities, an unlikely romance blossomed. Although Wilson immersed herself in Islamic culture - learning Arabic, worshipping as a Muslim and adopting a veil - she never rejected her Western identity. Drawing together the values of both cultures, she began to move in the world as a liberal and outspoken Muslim woman, a curious mixture of East and West. The Butterfly Mosque is a riveting personal account, an investigation into what it means to have faith in our broken society. It is a rare and important insight into the evolving relationship between the boundaries of contemporary religion and culture.
The Butterfly Mosque
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Author : G. Willow Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2010-06-01
The Butterfly Mosque written by G. Willow Wilson and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“In this satisfying, lyrical memoir,” an American woman discovers her true faith—and true love—by converting to Islam and moving to Egypt (Publishers Weekly). Raised in Boulder, Colorado, G. Willow Wilson moved to Egypt and converted to Islam shortly after college. Having written extensively on modern religion and the Middle East in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine, Wilson now shares her remarkable story of finding faith, falling in love, and marrying into a traditional Islamic family in this “intelligently written and passionately rendered memoir” (The Seattle Times, 27 Best Books of 2010). Despite her atheist upbringing, Willow always felt a connection to god. Around the time of 9/11, she took an Islamic Studies course at Boston University, and found the teachings of the Quran astounding, comforting, and profoundly transformative. She decided to risk everything to convert to Islam, embarking on a journey across continents and into an uncertain future. Settling in Cairo where she taught English, she soon met and fell in love with Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow—with her shock of red hair, shaky Arabic, and Western candor—struggled to forge a “third culture” that might accommodate her values as well as her friends and family on both sides of the divide. Part travelogue, love story, and memoir, “Wilson has written one of the most beautiful and believable narratives about finding closeness with God” (The Denver Post).
Alif The Unseen
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Author : G. Willow Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2012-06-19
Alif The Unseen written by G. Willow Wilson and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with Fiction categories.
“[A] Harry Potter-ish action-adventure romance” set during the Arab Spring, from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Ms. Marvel comic book series (The New York Times). In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker, who goes by Alif, shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, revolutionaries, and other watched groups—from surveillance, and tries to stay out of trouble. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the state’s electronic security force, putting his clients and himself on the line. Then it turns out his lover’s new fiancé is the “Hand of God,” as they call the head of state security, and his henchmen come after Alif, driving him underground. When Alif discovers The Thousand and One Days, the secret book of the jinn, which both he and the Hand suspect may unleash a new level of information technology, the stakes are raised and Alif must struggle for life or death, aided by forces seen and unseen. This “tale of literary enchantment, political change, and religious mystery” was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (Gregory Maguire). “Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic.” —Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods
Shame And Grace
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Author : Lewis B. Smedes
language : en
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Release Date : 1992-12-01
Shame And Grace written by Lewis B. Smedes and has been published by Harper San Francisco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-12-01 with Self-Help categories.
Aya And The Butterfly
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Author : Maysoon Salama
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Aya And The Butterfly written by Maysoon Salama and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Christchurch Mosque Shootings, Christchurch, N.Z., 2019 categories.
Aya and her grandad grow swan plants in their garden. Dedicated to the children and whānau of the Aotearoa New Zealand Muslim community, whose lives were changed forever on 15 March 2019.
The Bird King
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Author : G. Willow Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2020-02-06
The Bird King written by G. Willow Wilson and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-06 with Fiction categories.
The Butterfly S Cage
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Author : Shahnaz Khari
language : en
Publisher: Memoirs Publishing
Release Date : 2011-05-31
The Butterfly S Cage written by Shahnaz Khari and has been published by Memoirs Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Shahnaz refused to accept the abuse, she was plunged into violent conflict with her family, who condemned her for bringing disrespect on their name by trying to win her independence. They repeatedly assaulted and humiliated her to make her toe the line. After she left her second husband to get away from the beatings, they imprisoned her in her own bedroom. When they later tricked her into joining them in Pakistan she was beaten, stripped of her possessions, threatened with shooting and drowning and put under house arrest. It was only through her intelligence and extraordinary courage that Shahnaz was eventually able to win her freedom and her family’s respect and start building an independent life in England with her daughter and third husband. Now Shahnaz (she has used a pen-name to avoid embarrassment for her family) has written her extraordinary, compelling story.
The Arch And The Butterfly
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Author : Mohammed Achaari
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Release Date : 2015-01-20
The Arch And The Butterfly written by Mohammed Achaari and has been published by Bloomsbury USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-20 with Fiction categories.
A moving novel of identity, extremism, culture and generational change set in modern-day Morocco.
The White Mosque
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Author : Sofia Samatar
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2022-10-25
The White Mosque written by Sofia Samatar and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award) Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identity In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva. Named Ak Metchet, “The White Mosque,” after the Mennonites’ whitewashed church, the village lasted for fifty years. In pursuit of this curious history, Samatar discovers a variety of characters whose lives intersect around the ancient Silk Road, from a fifteenth-century astronomer-king, to an intrepid Swiss woman traveler of the 1930s, to the first Uzbek photographer, and explores such topics as Central Asian cinema, Mennonite martyrs, and Samatar’s own complex upbringing as the daughter of a Swiss-Mennonite and a Somali-Muslim, raised as a Mennonite of color in America. A secular pilgrimage to a lost village and a near-forgotten history, The White Mosque traces the porous and ever-expanding borders of identity, asking: How do we enter the stories of others? And how, out of the tissue of life, with its weird incidents, buried archives, and startling connections, does a person construct a self?
Muslim Mosque
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Author : Angela Wood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Muslim Mosque written by Angela Wood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Islam categories.
Places of Worship is an informative series designed to introduce young readers to different religions. Each book centers on the details of a particular faith and describes the basic doctrines and practices associated with that religion.