Postmuslim: A Testimony

An ambitious and timely essay collection exploring what it means to be Arab-Muslim in the twenty-first century

Postmuslim, Youssef Rakha’s debut essay collection, tells the story of Islam’s clash with the West in the last thirty years from a perspective rarely available to the Western reader. Impassioned, intimate, erudite, and playful, these essays trace Rakha’s intellectual and spiritual transformations across multiple decades alongside significant moments in recent history. He recounts “l...