My Islam
Subtitle: how fundamentalism stole my mind--and doubt freed my soul
By: Amir Ahmad Nasr
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781250016799
Subjects: Muslims; Islamic fundamentalism; Biography
Other titles: My Isl@m
Description: "Part memoir, part passionate call for liberty, reason, and doing work that matters, [this book] the tale of how the Internet opened the eyes and heart of a once fearful young Muslim to a world beyond the dogmatism of his upbringing, and recounts his transformation into a defiant digital activist"--Amazon.com.
Notes: On title page, the letter "a" is represented by the symbol @.
Table of contents: title: The arranged marriage. The chessboard; title: Bullied into belief; title: Warning signals; title: Blogs, bastards, and heretics; title: The fall from grace. Conversations with little satan; title: Infidelity; title: The painful heartbreak. How she really lost her virtue; title: Infatuated with atheism; title: Discovering the dark side; title: The messy divorce. No more mercy; title: Loneliness; title: The reconciliation. My 3-eyed beauty; title: Tradition, modernity, and my beloved; title: (r)evolution.