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- 0060832975
- EAN
- 9780060832971
- Book Title
- Standing Alone : an American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Islamic Studies, Civil Rights, Women's Studies, Islam / Rituals & Practice
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 9.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. Mecca is Islam's most sacred city and strictly off limits to non-Muslims. On a journey perilous enough for any American reporter, Nomani is determined to take along her infant son, Shibli -- living proof that she, an unmarried Muslim woman, is guilty of zina, or "illegal sex." If she is found out, the puritanical Islamic law of the Wahabbis in Saudi Arabia may mete out terrifying punishment. But Nomani discovers she is not alone. She is following in the four-thousand-year-old footsteps of another single mother, Hajar (known in the West as Hagar), the original pilgrim to Mecca and mother of the Islamic nation. Each day of her hajj evokes for Nomani the history of a different Muslim matriarch: Eve, from whom she learns about sin and redemption; Hajar, the single mother abandoned in the desert who teaches her about courage; Khadijah, the first benefactor of Islam and trailblazer for a Muslim woman's right to self-determination; and Aisha, the favorite wife of the Prophet Muhammad and Islam's first female theologian. Inspired by these heroic Muslim women, Nomani returns to America to confront the sexism and intolerance in her local mosque and to fight for the rights of modern Muslim women who are tired of standing alone against the repressive rules and regulations imposed by reactionary fundamentalists. Nomani shows how many of the freedoms enjoyed centuries ago have been erased by the conservative brand of Islam practiced today, giving the West a false image of Muslim women as veiled and isolated from the world. Standing Alone in Mecca is a personal narrative, relating the modern-day lives of the author and other Muslim women to the lives of those who came before, bringing the changing face of women in Islam into focus through the unique lens of the hajj. Interweaving reportage, political analysis, cultural history, and spiritual travelogue, this is a modern woman's jihad, offering for Westerners a never-before-seen look inside the heart of Islam and the emerging role of Muslim women.
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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060832975
ISBN-13
9780060832971
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Book Title
Standing Alone : an American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Islamic Studies, Civil Rights, Women's Studies, Islam / Rituals & Practice
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Religion, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
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[A] life-changing experience that she chronicles with compelling detail, candor, and passion both intellectual and spiritual., "Through memorable personal narrative, Nomani gently instructs readers about modern Islam and her role as a woman in it." -- Publishers Weekly "[A] life-changing experience that she chronicles with compelling detail, candor, and passion both intellectual and spiritual." -- Booklist (starred review) "Engrossing overview of Islam's internal debates as seen through the eyes of a young single mother wrestling with her faith." -- Washington Post "Asra Nomani's Standing Alone in Mecca is the ideal introduction to contemporary Islam. " -- Chicago Sunday Tribune, Engrossing overview of Islam's internal debates as seen through the eyes of a young single mother wrestling with her faith., Through memorable personal narrative, Nomani gently instructs readers about modern Islam and her role as a woman in it.
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