Nura Maznavi. (2012). Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women. Catapult.

Nura Maznavi. 2012. Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women. Catapult.

Nura Maznavi, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women. Catapult, 2012.

Nura Maznavi. Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women. Catapult, 2012.

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   • bioText: Nura Maznavi is a civil rights attorney and writer. She was raised in los Angeles and now lives in San Francisco.
     Ayesha Mattu is a human rights consultant, photographer, and writer. She was selected a Muslim leader of Tomorrow by the UN Alliance of Civilizations and the ASMA Society in 2009. She lives in San Francisco.
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This “book that strips off the traditional trappings of Islamic womanhood to expose the special strengths and vulnerabilities that lie beneath” (The Washington Post) affirms the reality of the romantic lives of Muslim women.
Romance, dating, sex and—Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-five American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be—from singles’ events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist.
These stories are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing: A quintessential blonde California girl travels abroad to escape suffocating responsibilities at home, only to fall in love with a handsome Brazilian stranger she may never see again. An orthodox African-American woman must face her growing attraction to her female friend. A young girl defies her South Asian parents’ cultural expectations with an interracial relationship. And a Southern woman agrees to consider an arranged marriage, with surprising results.
These compelling stories of love and romance create an irresistible balance of heart-warming and tantalizing, always revealing and deeply relatable.
“A beautiful collection that reminds us all not only of the diversity of the American Muslim community, but the universality of the human condition, especially when it comes to something as magical and complicated as love.” —Reza Aslan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of God: A Human History
“Portraits of private lives that expose a group in some cases kept literally veiled, yet that also illustrate that American Muslim women grapple with universal issues.” —The New York Times

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     January 23, 2012
     American Muslim women give first-person accounts of the challenges and joys of falling in love in this well-meaning but uninspired collection of essays. Punk rocker Tanzila Ahmed finds herself entranced by a bad boy musician with a "six-month itch;" Leila Khan's mother prepares dinner for her and her Italian suitor, but in protest of her daughter's relationship with a non-Muslim refuses to remain in the house during his visit; and Yasmine begins a long-distance relationship with a Muslim man who is divorced and has a 6-year old. In the opening essay, "Leap of Faith," Aisha ultimately chooses an arranged marriage despite her initial reluctance, a predicament also explored, albeit in a more complicated and nuanced way, by Mira Nair's film Monsoon Wedding. The stories here have a lot in common with each other—strict parents and internal guilt make appearances in many of the essays, rendering this volume insufficiently distinct and less well written than other first-generation immigrant writing by women. In addition, the prose is often clunky and full of truisms—lines like "I finally felt like a woman" and "I had finally married the man of my destiny" are not out of place here. Good intentions coupled with poor execution make this an admirable, but ultimately disappointing collection.Â

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     February 1, 2012
     Editors Mattu and Maznavi collect 25 stories from American women of diverse backgrounds in an attempt to chip away at the stereotype that Muslim women are oppressed, submissive, and forced into arranged marriages by big-bearded men. The result is a book replete with females of diverse ethnicities, personalities, beliefs, sexual orientations, and marriage statuses who seek one common thing: Love, InshAllah. This translates as Love, God willing, and reinforces and celebrates the striking differences among a group that all self-identify as Muslims. The most interesting vignettes are those that deliver on the book's promise to upset expectations and share deep personal experiences. Contributors include a lesbian who feels blessed with enormous relief after finally coming out to her parents; a road-tripping groupie who chases down a punk band's lead singer; an Islamic school director who takes a detour with a male stranger in Argentina. Although the authors' maturity and storytelling abilities vary greatly, this kaleidoscopic anthology will surprise, instruct, and provoke. A glossary will help readers new to Islam.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)

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These stories are filled with passion and hope, loss and longing: A quintessential blonde California girl travels abroad to escape suffocating responsibilities at home, only to fall in love with a handsome Brazilian stranger she may never see again. An orthodox African-American woman must face her growing attraction to her female friend. A young girl...

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