Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women

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Overview

Romance, dating, sex and - Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, 25 American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be—from singles' events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist.

These stories are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing: A quintessential blonde California girl travels abroad to escape suffocating responsibilities at home, only to fall in love with a handsome Brazilian stranger she may never see again. An orthodox ...

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Overview

Romance, dating, sex and - Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, 25 American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be—from singles' events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist.

These stories are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing: A quintessential blonde California girl travels abroad to escape suffocating responsibilities at home, only to fall in love with a handsome Brazilian stranger she may never see again. An orthodox African-American woman must face her growing attraction to her female friend. A young girl defies her South Asian parents' cultural expectations with an interracial relationship. And a Southern woman agrees to consider an arranged marriage, with surprising results.

These compelling stories of love and romance create an irresistible balance of heart-warming and tantalizing, always revealing and deeply relatable.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
American Muslim women give first-person accounts of the challenges and joys of falling in love in this well-meaning but uninspired collection of essays. Punk rocker Tanzila Ahmed finds herself entranced by a bad boy musician with a "six-month itch;" Leila Khan's mother prepares dinner for her and her Italian suitor, but in protest of her daughter's relationship with a non-Muslim refuses to remain in the house during his visit; and Yasmine begins a long-distance relationship with a Muslim man who is divorced and has a 6-year old. In the opening essay, "Leap of Faith," Aisha ultimately chooses an arranged marriage despite her initial reluctance, a predicament also explored, albeit in a more complicated and nuanced way, by Mira Nair's film Monsoon Wedding. The stories here have a lot in common with each other-strict parents and internal guilt make appearances in many of the essays, rendering this volume insufficiently distinct and less well written than other first-generation immigrant writing by women. In addition, the prose is often clunky and full of truisms-lines like "I finally felt like a woman" and "I had finally married the man of my destiny" are not out of place here. Good intentions coupled with poor execution make this an admirable, but ultimately disappointing collection.
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The Brooklyn Rail
...the stories transcend stereotypical conceptions with humor and heartbreak; which is to say, with humanity. Whether introducing Catholic beaus to immigrant parents or cyber-eloping as an Islam-convert in a post-9/11 America, the collection does not unveil repressed, obedient girls, but willful women whose search for love is at once complex and joyful.
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The New York Times
The two editors, Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi, sought to create a book that dispelled the stereotype of Muslim women as mute and oppressed. They gathered 24 portraits of private lives that expose a group in some cases kept literally veiled, yet that also illustrate that American Muslim women grapple with universal issues.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781593764289
  • Publisher: Soft Skull Press, Inc.
  • Publication date: 2/17/2012
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 66,150
  • Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Ayesha Mattu is a writer and international development consultant. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, the International Museum of Women, Religion Dispatches, and the award-winning blog, Rickshaw Diaries. She was selected a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the UN Alliance of Civilizations and the ASMA Society in 2009. Ayesha is working on a memoir about losing faith and finding love which is excerpted in Love, InshAllah. She lives with her husband and son in Northern California.

Nura Maznavi is a civil rights attorney, writer, and Fulbright Scholar. She has worked with migrant workers in Sri Lanka, on behalf of prisoners in California, and with a national legal advocacy organization leading a program to end racial and religious profiling. She lives in California.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Allahu Alirn: In Search of the Beloved 1

Leap of Faith Aisha C. Saeed 3

Love in the Time of Biohazards Melody Moezzi 10

A Prayer Answered Tolu Adiba 18

Love at Third Sight Patricia M. G. Dunn 28

Wild Wind Nijla Baseema Mu'min 39

The Opening Ayesha Mattu 46

Punk-Drunk Love Tanzila Ahmed 58

Alif: Where It All Begins 75

The Birds, the Bees, and My Hole Zahra Noorbakhsh 77

Sex by Any Other Name Insiya Ansari 87

Otherwise Engaged Huda Al-Marashi 97

The First Time Najva Sol 112

The Hybrid Dance Chinyere Obimba 118

International Habibti: Love Overseas 129

Love in the Andes Angela Collins Telles 131

Last Night on the Island Nura Maznavi 145

Even Muslim Girls Get the Blues Deonna Kelli Sayed 152

Rerouting Leila N. Khan 162

So I Married a Farangi Nour Gamal 179

Third Time's the Naseeb: Loving After Loss 189

Three Asiila Imani 191

A Journey of Two Hearts J. Samia Mair 204

From Shalom to Salaam S. E. Jihad Levine 217

You've Got Ayat: Finding Love Online 231

Cyberlove Lena Hassan 233

Kala Love Suzanne Syeda Shah 249

Brain Meets Heart Aida Rahim 258

A Cairene Kind of Love Molly Elian Carlson 267

It Will Be Beautiful Yasmine Khan 278

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