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Author Nasr, Amir Ahmad.

Title My Isl@m : how fundamentalism stole my mind--and doubt freed my soul / Amir Ahmad Nasr.

Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 GDL Central Library Non-Fiction    297.0905 NAS    Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 322 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The arranged marriage. The chessboard ; Bullied into belief ; Warning signals ; Blogs, bastards, and heretics -- The fall from grace. Conversations with little satan ; Infidelity -- The painful heartbreak. How she really lost her virtue ; Infatuated with atheism ; Discovering the dark side -- The messy divorce. No more mercy ; Loneliness -- The reconciliation. My 3-eyed beauty ; Tradition, modernity, and my beloved ; (R)evolution.
Summary "Through its pages, Khartoum-born author Amir Ahmad Nasr tells the overarching tale of how the Internet opened his eyes and heart to a world beyond the religious dogmatism and conspiracy theories of his upbringing, and recounts his transformation into a defiant digital activist and aspiring change-maker"--Book jacket.
Subject Nasr, Amir Ahmad.
Islamic fundamentalism.
Muslims -- Malaysia -- Biography.
Added Title My Islam : how fundamentalism stole my mind--and doubt freed my soul
ISBN 9781250016799 hardback
1250016797 hardback

 
    
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