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. They fall in love, entering into a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. It is a rare and important insight into the evolving relationship. The Butterfly Mosque is a riveting personal account, an investigation into what it means to have faith in our broken society. Willow Wilson (Author) 221 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 2.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. And then she meets Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. Drawing together the values of both cultures, she began to move in the world as a liberal and outspoken Muslim woman, a curious mixture of East and West. Willow Wilson The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam Hardcover Deckle Edge, Jby G. 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. Willow Wilsons remarkable story of converting to Islam and falling in love with an Egyptian man in a volatile post-9/11.

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