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With his powerful, brave book, a sinner in mecca, parvez sharma takes us on his heros pilgrimage, teaching us of an ethereal truth. Islamic bill of rights for women in the bedroom, the islamic bill of rights for women in the mosque, and 99 precepts for opening hearts, minds and doors in the muslim world. Nomani, author of standing alone in mecca parvez sharmas hajj pilgrimage is not only a journey to mecca but to his deepest self. Standing alone asra nomani paperback harpercollins publishers. Muslim feminist asra nomani, a former wall street journal reporter, recently spent a fellowship covering a muslim woman who was building a womens mosque in india. An american womans struggle for the soul of islam asra nomani isbn.
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An american womans struggle for the soul of islam by asra nomani february 15, 2005, 9. Nomani bears particular significance within the feminist struggle and emancipation of womans right. Standing alone in mecca is a personal narrative, relating the modernday lives of the author and other muslim women to the lives of those who came before, bringing the changing face of women in islam into focus through the unique lens of the hajj. The paper discusses her experiences and highlights the difference between the written facts in the holy book of islam i.
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It tells us the history and the recent dispatches of battles within islam, but the storys barely begun. Asra nomani s standing alone in mecca is the ideal introduction to contemporary islam. Both a muslim and an out gay man, sharma writes bravely and brilliantly. It seems unfair to judge standing alone in mecca as a memoir when its clearly unfinished. The muslim woman in standing alone in mecca by asra nomani. This should be obvious, but i dont think it is to many people. Her expose of islam is the expose of abuse that every religion has gone through at the hands of dogmatic zealots.
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