The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

A Mystical Journey Through Islam I was required to read this as a text on Islam for my religion and literature class while taking my undergraduate degree. Now, as an atheist and a mechanical engineering student, this book challenged a lot of preconceived ideas I had about Islam. For that, I appreciate it.So, why two stars? Well, I enjoyed the look at Cairo and Egyptian society during. "Really liked it" according to Joann R. Greene. The Butterfly Mosque is the memoir of an American woman raised in a secular family who discovers the value of religion during her travel to Egypt. She is there to work and stay a year in Cairo. The book follows her encounter with Egyptian society and with her own spirituality as she converts to Islam. While in Egypt, she falls in love with Omar and th. One of the most profound and enjoyable reads I have come across in years! This little gem of a book is readable and enjoyable as either a personal memoir or a novel, although the author was obviously writing from her own specific experience. The work is more powerful than simply a personal memoir however; it has the universality of well written fiction. With it comes the ability of well written fiction to convey feelings an

Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow records her intensely personal struggle to forge a "third culture" that might accommodate her own values without compromising the friends and family on both sides of the divide.. She settles in Cairo, where she teaches English and submerges herself in a culture based on her adopted religion. Willow Wilson - already an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just 27 - leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University, she enrolls in an Islamic Studies course that leads to her shocking conversion to Islam and sends her on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future. The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world. And then she meets Omar, a