Leaving Faith Behind: The Journeys and Perspectives of People Who Have Chosen to Leave Islam

Leaving Faith Behind gives voice to women and men who were born into Muslim families and communities, but who have made the decision to leave Islam or to dissent against some of the most significant aspects of Islamic doctrine.

Aliyah, who realized as a young woman that she did not have to live by rigid rules and concepts that suffocated her true self.

Hassan, who became a practicing Muslim in his teens, but for whom doubts led him to leave the faith in his fifties.

Jimmy, banished from his h...