Bibliograph

Born with wings, the spiritual journey of a modern Muslim woman, Daisy Khan

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Born with wings, the spiritual journey of a modern Muslim woman, Daisy Khan

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Born with wings

Oclc number

1019833092

Responsibility statement

Daisy Khan

Sub title

the spiritual journey of a modern Muslim woman

Summary

"Raised in a progressive Muslim family in the shadows of the Himalayan mountains, where she attended a Catholic girls school, Daisy experienced culture shock when her family sent her to the States to attend high school in a mostly Jewish Long Island suburb. Ambitious and talented, she quickly climbed the corporate ladder after college as an architectural designer in New York City. Though she loved the freedom that came with being a career woman, she felt that something was missing from her life. One day a friend suggested that she visit a Sufi mosque in Tribeca. To her surprise, she discovered a home there, eventually marrying the mosque's imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, and finding herself, as his wife, at the center of a community in which women turned to her for advice. Guided by her faith, she embraced her role as a women's advocate and has devised innovative ways to help end child marriage, fight against genital mutilation, and, most recently, educate young Muslims to resist the false promises of ISIS recruiters"--Amazon.com

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