num_pages: 304
description: The extraordinary story of an all-American girls conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world.When G. Willow Wilsonalready an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just twenty-sevenleaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University she enrolls in an Islamic Studies course that leads to her shocking conversion to Islam and sends her on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future.She settles in Cairo where she teaches English and submerges herself in a culture based on her adopted religion. And then she meets Omar a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. They fall in love entering into a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family belief and tradition. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East Willow records her intensely personal struggle to forge a third culture that might accommodate her own values without compromising the friends and family on both sides of the divide.
language: English
title: The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press