Welcome to Islam: A Convert's Tale

by Lucy Bushill-Matthews

Overview

Written by a Muslim convert and mother of three, Welcome to Islam captures the occasionally poignant but often humorous reality of beinga Muslim in the current climate: as a convert, a working woman, amother, and as an active member of the local community. Discoverwhat its really like living life as a Muslim: praying the ritualprayers at work in an office when your boss walks in; going on Hajjwith hundreds of Saudi women dressed from head to toe in black; orexplaining to your six-year-old daughter, who is looking at thepictures in the newspaper, that the bearded Asian Muslim who is beingarrested for terrorism isnt in fact the family friend we all know andlove - just someone who looks extremely similar. It is rare topick up a newspaper or watch the television without encountering a'Muslim issue at least once. Lucy Bushill-Matthews story brings thefaith behind the headlines refreshingly to life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847062161
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/25/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Lucy Bushill-Matthews has been a Muslim for 16 years and is now married with 3 children under the age of 10. She has run a Muslim "madrasah" for many years, spoken about Islam with children at primary and secondary schools and those visiting the mosque, and trained teachers, police and other groups of adults about understanding Islam and Muslims. Lucy has also written a regular light-hearted column about being a Muslim mum in the Muslim lifestyle magazine Emel.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Embracing faith

2. Marriage ties and scarves

3. On foreign soil

4. In the ‘real world'

5. A Pilgrim's Progress

6. Babes in arms

7. Kids' stuff

8. Fasting and Feasting

9. Love your Neighbour

10. Organised religion

Epilogue: The Rainbow Nation

Glossary of Islamic words

Notes to chapters

Editorial Reviews

Interview with the author, by Lucy Austin Working's people

Mention Book News, November 2008

Interview with the author, by Lucy AustinWorking's people

Mention --Book News, November 2008

Mention -Book News, November 2008

Title reviewed in The Bookseller, 2008.

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