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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. A gut-punch of a memoir that begins with loneliness, rejection, and suicidal ideation, Haroon Moghul's book is alternately cerebral and heartfelt, visceral and allusive. Moghul proudly displays his immersion in Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, his adolescent fervor for the music of Green Day, and the deep admiration for the language of the Qur'an which shapes both his personal and professional lives. The memoir takes the reader through the cultural encounters of a child of immigrants growing up in white suburbia, struggling to fit in and struggling to love and respect himself. Religion provides no refuge for him, but its familiarity and cultural resonance make it the space where he comes of age. In spite of his religious doubts (which have both broad emotional resonance and deep doctrinal specificity), he becomes a "professional Muslim" at NYU as a way to build the kind of community space where he, and others like him, might feel welcome. He doubts, yet he preaches. He builds both a community and a brand, yet struggles to "find" himself. The 9/11 attacks deepen his commitment to public speaking on Islam and for Muslim students; "Wake Me Up When September Ends" is the greatest chapter title I've yet seen, and its callback to the music of his adolescence speaks to the distance between the piety he performs and the emptiness he describes feeling. No brief summary could do justice to Moghul's personal prose (revealing and concealing in ways that occasionally remind one of a certain memoir-writing former President named Obama) nor to his jet-setting on a shoestring from Seattle to New York to Cordoba to Dubai. His religious experiences climax in Dubai in some of the book's concluding chapters, but a rather hasty denouement (meeting, proposal, marriage, fin) seems almost tacked on to reassure the reader that the author is, somehow, in spite of all you've read, ok. Okay, but nevertheless unresolved, because Moghul is a writer and thinker who seems above all to revel in the existential wallop of a good aporia. (If you're inclined to follow his reading list, you'll find yourself wanting to spend the summer with Iqbal and Rumi, among other classics of Islamic tradition.) Moghul's subject, ultimately, is the struggle of self in society before God, in a way that connects with some of the great writers of religious experience from the past. Highly recommended!Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. his is a memoir of Haroon Moghul's coming of age in America. He struggled with an unnamed birth problem which plagued his childhood. Later he also struggled with bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation. Throughout it all, he struggled with fitting into a mostly non-Muslim America.The descriptions of his struggles, however, seem somewhat distant. I didn't feel what he was feeling and his experiences seemed more like reporting than bringing me into what was happening to him. There was one vividly described incident that did stand out for me, though in Chapter 23. Here Moghul describes hearing Imam Idrees Abkar, substituted at the last moment for a more famous imam that Moghul came specifically to hear. But Idrees Abkar, touched Mogul's soul and as he described this, I was also touched: ”Abkar was not leading us in prayer. He was talking to God and we happened to behind him, squeezed in so tightly we could hardly find place for our foreheads on flawless plush carpet. We were realizing what he was realizing, in the course of his supplicating, that he was talking to Him, and this nearly did him in.” p. 203 If other chapters had had this sort of heartfelt writing this would have been a much more interesting book. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. In this memoir, Haroon Moghul recounts his struggles with identity as a Muslim American. Moghul's voice is incredibly down-to-earth and accessible, and besides religion and faith, he explores all facets of life -- love, sickness, mental health, death, and so on -- in a way that is sympathetic and relatable. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Haroon Moghul rose to national prominence in the wake of 9/11, as an undergrad leader at NYU's Islamic Center. His memoirs promise a look at what it's like to be an American-born Muslim, pulled between personal faith and public identity. Sadly, this book doesn't quite deliver. Partly this is because the book is marketed around Moghul's prominence as what he terms a "professional Muslim", and yet steadfastly refuses to get into any kind of detail about his career beyond the fact that he's mostly made miserable by it and that he's dropped out of grad school twice because of that. But mostly it's because as the book progresses, it becomes ever more an exercise in navel-gazing, religious guilt, and tortured-MFA-style writing. Moghul undeniably had a tough time in his twenties—marital breakdown, mental illness, heart problems—but reading How to Be a Muslim feels less like discovering the insights that Moghul gained because of this than it does being asked to play the part of the therapist. I was increasingly uncomfortable with that, even before I reached the part where he talks about something that happened while separated from his (now ex) wife. He and another woman (whom he describes as "coy" and "scandalous") watch a movie about Hitler as some kind of weird foreplay, before she declares that she wants to bite his cheek and they have sex. Who knew there could be a version of "we were on a break" even more jarring than Ross Geller's? A disappointment. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I highly recommend reading the memoir, How to be a Muslim – An American Story by Haroon Moghul. Touchingly honest, the story begins with a suicide attempt and unfolds as Moghul finds his way to a deeper meaning of God, his own identity and the perception of Muslims in a post-9/11 America. Moghul’s work should be considered for book club discussion across the US. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Haroon Moghul was first thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, as an undergraduate leader at New York University's Islamic Center. Suddenly, he was making appearances everywhere: on TV, talking to interfaith audiences, combating Islamophobia in print. He was becoming a prominent voice for American Muslims. Privately, Moghul had a complicated relationship with Islam. In high school he was barely a believer and entirely convinced he was going to hell. He sometimes drank. He didn't pray regularly. All he wanted was a girlfriend. But as Haroon discovered, it wasn't so easy to leave religion behind. To be true to himself, he needed to forge a unique American Muslim identity that reflected his own beliefs and personality. How to Be a Muslim is the story of a young man coping with the crushing pressure of a world that shuns and fears Muslims, struggling with his faith and searching for intellectual forebears, and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is the story of the second-generation immigrant, of what it's like to lose yourself between cultures, and how to pick up the pieces. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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