If the oceans were ink an unlikely friendship and a journey to the heart of the Qurʼan
The eye-opening story of how American Carla Powers and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities.
| Main Author: | Power, Carla (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Henry Holt and Company,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a map for the journey
- The origins
- The Qurʼan in twenty-five words
- An American in the East
- A Muslim in the West
- Road trip to the Indian madrasa
- A migrant's prayer mat
- The home
- Pioneer life in Oxford
- Nine-thousand hidden women
- The little rosy one
- Veiling and unveiling
- Reading the women
- The world
- A pilgrim's progress
- Jesus, Mary, and the Qurʼan
- Beyond politics
- The pharaoh and his wife
- War stories
- The last lesson
- Conclusion: everlasting return
- Author's note
- Glossary.