How to be a Muslim : an American story /

How to be a Muslim : an American story /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Moghul, Haroon, author.
Imprint:	Boston : Beacon Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	231 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Moghul, Haroon. Muslims -- United States -- Biography. Islam -- Essence, genius, nature. Identification (Religion) Pakistani Americans -- Biography. Autobiographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13180400

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ISBN:	9780807020746 0807020745
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	Haroon Moghul was first thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, as an undergraduate leader at New York University's Islamic Center. Suddenly, he was making appearances everywhere: on TV, talking to interfaith audiences, combating Islamophobia in print. He was becoming a prominent voice for American Muslims. Privately, Moghul had a complicated relationship with Islam. In high school he was barely a believer and entirely convinced he was going to hell. He sometimes drank. He didn't pray regularly. All he wanted was a girlfriend. But as Haroon discovered, it wasn't so easy to leave religion behind. To be true to himself, he needed to forge a unique American Muslim identity that reflected his own beliefs and personality. How to Be a Muslim is the story of a young man coping with the crushing pressure of a world that shuns and fears Muslims, struggling with his faith and searching for intellectual forebears, and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is the story of the second-generation immigrant, of what it's like to lose yourself between cultures, and how to pick up the pieces.
Other form:	Online version: Moghul, Haroon, author. How to be a Muslim Boston : Beacon Press, 2017 9780807020753
Standard no.:	99972861794

Table of Contents:

1. You Go To Sleep, and You Wake Up Dead
2. How the Hell the Apple Fell
3. Linda Was a Cheerleader
4. Judge None Choose One
5. Catholic Girls
6. Hi, I Am Not a Christian
7. Which of These Two Land Cruisers Will You Deny?
8. And Shams Is the Sun
9. "Are You There, Muhammad? It's Me, God."
10. A Planet Called Medina
11. The Falafel Philosophy
12. You Think You Need to Get Married
13. Between the Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
14. Wake Me Up When September Ends
15. Make It Look Like You're Working
16. The Gravedigger Said
17. The Late, Great Mosque of Córdoba
18. How to Be an Idiot
19. The Bigamist
20. Emirate State of Mind
21. Jet Engine Oven
22. Matthew and Son
23. Who Shot the Shatri
24. Gazi Husrev Begging the Question
25. Muslim Prefers Virgin
Acknowledgments