β Scribed by Updike, John
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The terrorist of John Updikeβs title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three. Devoted to Allah and to the Qurβan as expounded by the imam of his neighborhood mosque, Ahmad feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping New Jersey factory town of New Prospect. Neither Jack Levy, his life-weary guidance counselor at Central High, nor Joryleen Grant, his seductive black classmate, succeeds in diverting Ahmad from what the Qurβan calls the Straight Path. Now driving a truck for a local Lebanese furniture storeβa job arranged through his imamβAhmad thinks he has discovered Godβs purpose for him. But to quote the Qurβan:Of those who plot, God is the best.
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