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Standing Alone

Name: Standing Alone
Brand: HarperOne
SKU: 9780060832971
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An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam

Autor: Asra Q. Nomani

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As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, "Wall Street Journal" correspondent Asra Nomani embar...

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Autor

Asra Q. Nomani

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engleză

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Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2006

Pagini

330

EAN

9780060832971

ISBN

0060832975

Enbook ID

10963536

Editura

HarperOne

Greutate

294

Dimensiuni

133 x 197 x 25

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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 theconservative 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 befo

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