Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam

Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali offers her personal account, discussing the many and varied questions she fielded from curious friends and schoolmates while growing up in Southern California—from diet, to dress, to prayer and holidays and everything in between. She also provides an academically reliable introduction to Islam, addressing its inception, development and current demographics. Through this engaging work, readers will gain a better understanding of the everyday aspects of Muslim American life, to dispel many of the misconceptions that still remain and open a dialogue for tolerance and acceptance.

Teen & Young Adult

Ali-Karamali, Sumbul

Religion & Spirituality

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Biographies

Ember

Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali offers her personal account, discussing the many and varied questions she fielded from curious friends and schoolmates while growing up in Southern California—from diet, to dress, to prayer and holidays and everything in between. She also provides an academically reliable introduction to Islam, addressing its inception, development and current demographics.Through this engaging work, readers will gain a better understanding of the everyday aspects of Muslim American life, to dispel many of the misconceptions that still remain and open a dialogue for tolerance and acceptance.

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Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It's Not Taking Over Our Country

A direct counterpoint to fear mongering headlines about shariah law—a Muslim American legal expert tells the real story, eliminating stereotypes and assumptions with compassion, irony, and humor\nThrough scare tactics and deliberate misinformation campaigns, anti-Muslim propagandists insist wrongly that shariah is a draconian and oppressive Islamic law that all Muslims must abide by. They circulate horror stories, encouraging Americans to fear the “takeover of shariah” law in America and even mounting “anti-shariah protests” . . . . with zero evidence that shariah has taken over any part of our country. (That’s because it hasn’t.) It would be almost funny if it weren’t so terrifyingly wrong—as puzzling as if Americans suddenly began protesting the Martian occupation of Earth.\nDemystifying Shariah explains that shariah is not one set of punitive rules or even law the way we think of law—rigid and enforceable—but religious rules and recommendations that provide Muslims with guidance in various aspects of life. Sumbul Ali-Karamali draws on scholarship and her degree in Islamic law to explain shariah in an accessible, engaging narrative style—its various meanings, how it developed, and how the shariah-based legal system operated for over a thousand years. She explains what shariah means not only in the abstract but in the daily lives of Muslims. She discusses modern calls for shariah, what they mean, and whether shariah is the law of the land anywhere in the world. She also describes the key lies and misunderstandings about shariah circulating in our public discourse, and why so many of them are nonsensical.\nThis engaging guide is intended to introduce you to the basic principles, goals, and general development of shariah and to answer questions like: How do Muslims engage with shariah? What does shariah have to do with our Constitution? What does shariah have to do with the way the world looks like today? And why do we all—Muslims or not—need to care?

Beacon Press

A direct counterpoint to fear mongering headlines about shariah law - a Muslim American legal expert tells the real story, eliminating stereotypes and assumptions with compassion, irony, and humorIn 2010, a growing number of anti-shariah activists began amassing and depositing the word "shariah" (or "shari'ah") as a scare word into the public discourse. "Anti-shariah" protests started infesting towns throughout the United States and Europe, despite no evidence of any imposition of shariah - as puzzling as if Americans suddenly began protesting the Martian occupation of Earth. This anti-shariah movement was of course nothing spontaneous, but a deliberate misinformation campaign to appropriate Islamic academic terms and redefine them to frighten non-Muslims, alienate Muslim Americans and Europeans, and portray Islam as incompatible with the Constitution. But what is shariah? If it's as draconian and oppressive as the anti-shariah activists say, then how can 1.6 billion people abide by it? If it requires the oppression of women, then why have at least thirteen Muslim women been presidents or prime ministers in recent decades? If it requires violence, then why haven't Muslims - nearly a quarter of the world's population - taken over the world by now? This book explains shariah, how it operates in the lives of Muslims, and what it means in terms of law. How do Muslims engage with shariah? What does it have to do with our Constitution? How did it develop and why was its development disrupted? What does it have to do with the way the world looks like today? And why do we all - Muslims or not - need to care?Sumbul Ali-Karamali draws on scholarship and her degree in Islamic law to explain shariah in an accessible, engaging narrative style, illustrating clear explanations with personal anecdotes. This is no book of abstract religious law! It's shariah, Islam, and Muslims described by a Muslim American in her real-world context, with compassion, irony, and humor.

Bronze Medal Winner of the Independent Publishers Award 2009 Since 9/11, stories about Muslims and the Islamic world have flooded headlines, politics, and water-cooler conversations all across the country. And, although Americans hear about Islam on a daily basis, there remains no clear explanation of Islam or its people. The Muslim Next Door offers easy-to-understand yet academically sound answers to these questions while also dispelling commonly held misconceptions. Written from the point of view of an American Muslim, the book addresses what readers in the Western world are most curious about, beginning with the basics of Islam and how Muslims practice their religion before easing into more complicated issues like jihad, Islamic fundamentalism, and the status of women in Islam. Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali's vivid anecdotes about growing up Muslim and female in the West, along with her sensitive, scholarly overview of Islam, combine for a uniquely insightful look at the world's fastest growing religion.

Islam at Home: Conversations with the Muslim Next Door

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

White Cloud Press

A direct counterpoint to fear-mongering headlines about shariah law

Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It?s Not Taking Over Our Country

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Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam

Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam

Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam

Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam

Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It's Not Taking Over Our Country

Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It's Not Taking Over Our Country

Islam at Home: Conversations with the Muslim Next Door

Demystifying Shariah: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It?s Not Taking Over Our Country