The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson (.ePUB)
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The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson
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Overview: The extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world.
When G. Willow Wilson, already an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just twenty-seven, leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University, she enrolls in an Islamic Studies course that leads to her shocking conversion to Islam and sends her on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future.
She settles in Cairo where she teaches English and submerges herself in a culture based on her adopted religion. And then she meets Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. They fall in love, entering into a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief and tradition. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Wilson records her intensely personal struggle to forge a third culture that might accommodate her own values without compromising the friends and family on both sides of the divide.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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