Jadwa's Story: Bride of the Prophet, Daughter of Allah

What is it like to be a young girl growing up in a repressive, extremist, and male-dominated society; a society in which all females, both young and old, have only one purpose in life? That purpose is to do whatever the males in her family tell her to do. And in Jadwa's family, she is the only female.

Her father Haamid is a violent man who is devoted to only two things: serving his own extreme version of Allah, and doing whatever his local Imam tells him to do. Haamid is barely aware he has ...