Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam, the
Quotations:
Personality, that compromise between one's soul and one's culture.
reviewdate:
Mar 8 2013
isn:
978-0-8021-1887-5
Personality, that compromise between one's soul and one's culture.
Twenty five Muslim women, most of them pretty observant, many of them converts, share their love stories. To a heathen like me the mystery of these women's lives isn't Islam; it's their devotion to it. Maybe I was expecting some secular Muslim contributions, but that was probably dumb. Anyway, the women's tales are heartfelt and straightforward. Surprises include the two chapters written by lesbians and the matter-of-fact and reasonable sounding appeal of polygyny.