Threading My Prayer Rug: One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01L2TQUDS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 418 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. 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. This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on being Muslim in America today. In chapters leavened with humor, hope, and insight, she recounts an immigrant's daily struggles balancing assimilation with preserving heritage, overcoming religious barriers from within and distortions of Islam from without, and confronting issues of raising her children as Muslims - while they lobby for a Christmas tree! Sabeeha Rehman was doing interfaith work for Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the driving force behind the Muslim community center at Ground Zero, when the backlash began. 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 40 years; from secular Muslim in an Islamic society to devout Muslim in a society ignorant of Islam, and fr
funny but sweet and true Khalid Rehman Humorous, funny but sweet and true: Sabeeha tells her story as she traces her journey from a young bride to a mother, to an immigrant trying to make America home, to a community leader, a professional an activist, an interfaith leader and much more.The book will resonate and enthral if you are:From Pakistan or the Indian subcontinent : It will bring back sweet memoriesAn immigrant: You will relive your experienceA woman: You will remember. Redesigning and Re-threading of her rug in to Red White and Blue Salman Zafar Sabeeha Rehman’s book “Threading My Prayer Rug “ I received my copy and I was curious to know about her journey. As an immigrant we all have an experience of coming to America from somewhere on the globe with our culture and local traditions and then we all are somehow shaped up to become American. That’s the beauty of American culture that it absorbs you and molds you in such a way that you keep your cultural dive. "I wanted to know more about what it is like to be a Muslim women in America" according to Samantha Gibson. I read this for a book challenge; the subject for this week was a book about a different culture, religion or sexual orientation. I wanted to know more about what it is like to be a Muslim women in America. This was a wonderful peek into another culture and I loved the stories around her wedding, moving to America and her religious development. I think the one thing that really stood out was that Sabeeha Rehman is just another American; s