Islam In America Biography
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Ahmed was the Pakistan High Commissioner (Ambassador) to the UK and Ireland. He is the author of over a dozen award-winning books, including Discovering Islam, which was the basis of a six-part BBC TV series called "Living Islam"; the critically acclaimed Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization; Suspended Somewhere Between, a book of verse; and Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam, which culminated in the full length documentary "Journey into America" and won the American Book Award for 2011. Two of his books were re-published in 2011 as part of the Routledge Revivals—“restoring to print books by some of the most influential academic scholars of the last 120 years.” Ahmed has recently completed The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror became a Global War on Tribal Islam, to be published by Brookings Institution Press in February 2013.
Islam is one of the fastest-growing religions in the United States, but its estimated 2.6 million adherents still face misunderstanding and prejudice, especially in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. As the annual fast month of Ramadan draws to a close (the closing feast of Eid al-Fitr will begin this year at sundown on August 7), we celebrate the lives of ten Muslim Americans, whose life stories explore cultural conflict, prejudice, and religious doubt, as well as celebrating acceptance, education, and spiritual fulfillment.
Eboo Patel is the founder and president of the Chicago-based nonprofit Interfaith Youth Core and helps advise President Obama on faith-based neighborhood initiatives. His memoir, Acts of Faith, opens at the criminal trial of an extremist Christian terrorist in North Carolina, in order to reflect on the power of teachers and preachers to indoctrinate young people in hatred, or in tolerance and empathy. Patel’s personal evolution, from dogmatism to passionate pluralism, offers plenty of lessons for improving cross-cultural understanding.
Few non-Muslim Americans are likely to have heard of Zaytuna College or the quietly revolutionary mission of its founders, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir. In his illuminating book, Light Without Fire, journalist Scott Korb tells the story of the creation of the first Muslim liberal arts college in the United States, founded in Berkeley in 2010, and profiles the founders and their first students. He finds an undergraduate body that has embraced its professors’ zeal to establish an institution combining Islamic tradition and American academic rigor, and students who dream of becoming future leaders and ambassadors of their faith.
Life as a Muslim in the West is a particularly fraught experience for women. Novelist and essayist G. Willow Wilson, author of the memoir The Butterfly Mosque, was raised in an atheist family in Denver, and at college finds herself strongly and unexpectedly drawn to the teachings of the Qu’ran. She converts to Islam and travels to Cairo in order to teach English and learn more about her adopted religion -- a prospect that is deepened and complicated when she falls in love with an Egyptian man. Wilson’s memoir is a forthright and revealing account of her efforts to reconcile faith, family, and culture.
Unlike Wilson, Chicago-born Asma Gull Hasan is the child of Muslim parents, immigrants from Pakistan. For Hasan, faith is a matter of choice as well as birth, and her willingness to explore that choice lends her writing power and authority and has made her a leading voice within the American Muslim community Her memoir, Red, White, and Muslim, tells the story of her striving to assert her spirituality and correct the misperceptions of her religion.
Many of the challenges Wilson and Hasan describe when writing about the gulf between America and Islam are echoed in the anthology Living Islam Out Loud, edited by interfaith activist Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur. In this unique volume, a group of fifteen diverse Muslim women living in the United States speak candidly on a range of subjects, including sex and relationships, spirituality, religious observance, and political engagement.
During a two-month, 20-000-mile journey, iconoclastic author Michael Muhammad Knight set out to identify a homegrown American version of Islam. His memoir Blue-Eyed Devil tells the story of his interstate odyssey by Greyhound bus, in the course of which he meets a diverse cast of modern American Muslims: feminists, punks, vegans, drug dealers, entrepreneurs, heretics, converts, and Bush supporters. A rambunctious memoir that’s part travelogue, part autobiography, and part spiritual quest, this is a unique take on modern Islam by a writer whom The Guardian newspaper dubbed the “Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature.”
Ali Eteraz’s darkly comic memoir, Children of Dust, makes it clear that the battle to reconcile a fundamentalist upbringing and an American character is a lifelong one. Raised in Pakistan and schooled at a madrassa, Eteraz traveled to the west as a teenager, only to wind up in the hostile and similarly dogmatic American Bible Belt. Eteraz’s smart, skeptical vision makes him a compelling guide as he searches for an authentic spiritual identity.
On the day after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, children’s author Tamim Ansary emailed several of his friends to offer his own pained response as an Afghan immigrant to the United States. The email quickly went viral, and Ansary’s thoughts on religion, violence, and displacement were shared by millions of people desperate to understand the unthinkable. In his memoir, West of Kabul, East of New York, Ansary expands on that immediate, visceral response with a thoughtful meditation on his upbringing as the child of a Afghan father and an American mother, his childhood in Afghanistan and adulthood in San Francisco, and his struggle to find a place where he belonged.
Along with its important ties with the Middle East and South Asia, Islam in America has long played a central role in the black community, particularly during the 1960s civil rights era. The story of the religion’s role in the United States would be incomplete without two icons of that time, Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, whose involvement with the controversial Nation of Islam would bring them particular notoriety. New Yorker editor David Remnick’s biography of Ali, King of the World, attracted high praise for bringing new and exhilarating life to its familiar subject. Meanwhile, no account of the life and spiritual journey of Ali’s one-time mentor Malcolm X can surpass his own autobiography, written in collaboration with novelist Alex Haley, and an enduring classic.
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Islam In America Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers
Islam In America Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers
Islam In America Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers
Islam In America Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers
Islam In America Islam Facts For Kids Pictures About Religion Wikipedia And History And Beliefs Worksheet On Women Today And Information Images Wallpapers
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