Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
✍ Scribed by Rehman, Sabeeha
- Book ID
- 109229074
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781628726633
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on being Muslim in America today.
Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United States in an arranged marriage that becomes a love match lasting forty years; from secular Muslim in an Islamic society to devout Muslim in a society ignorant of Islam, and from liberal to conservative to American Muslim; from student to bride and mother; and from an immigrant intending to stay two years to an American citizen, business executive, grandmother, and tireless advocate for interfaith understanding.
Beginning with a sweetly funny, moving account of her arranged marriage, the author undercuts stereotypes and offers the refreshing view of an American life through Muslim eyes. In chapters leavened with humor, hope, and insight, she recounts an immigrant's daily...