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The butterfly mosque

Author: G Willow Wilson
Publisher: New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Overview: The Butterfly Mosque, Inspired by her experience during a college Islamic Studies course, Wilson, who was raised an atheist, decides to risk everything to convert to Islam and embark on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future. She settles in Cairo, where she attempts to submerge herself in a culture based on her adopted religion and where she meets Omar, a man with a mild  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: G Willow Wilson
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: G Willow Wilson
ISBN: 9780802118875 0802118879
OCLC Number: 475444742
Description: 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: G. Willow Wilson.

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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  Read more...

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""The Butterfly Mosque" is replete with insights into faith, family, cross-cultural courtship and the inevitable 'clash of cultures, ' making it an absorbing read. . . . Wilson's memoir offers the Read more...

 
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