My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind---and Doubt Freed My Soul
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Amir Ahmad Nasr is a young Muslim man with something explosive in his hands: a computer connected to the Internet. And it has the power to help ignite a revolution and blow apart the structures of ignorance and politicized indoctrination that too often still imprison the Muslim mind.
Part memoir, part passionate call for liberty, reason and doing work that matters, My Isl@m tells the tale of how the internet opened the eyes and heart of a once fearful young Muslim to a world beyond the dogmatism of his upbringing, and recounts his transformation into a defiant digital activist.
In his honest, provocative, and courageous debut, Nasr–a popular Afro-Arab Sudanese blogger–steps out from behind the curtain of anonymity and emerges as a voice of a new generation of tech-savvy liberal Muslims.
Set in war-ravaged Sudan, oil-rich Qatar, multi-cultural Malaysia, the United States, Turkey and the new frontiers of cyberspace, My Isl@m is a fascinating prelude to the Arab Spring and a disarming and uplifting tale of doubt, soul-searching, Islam, and finding freedom in the Middle East and the rest of the Muslim world.
A poignant, honest, and uplifting memoir of how blogging and the internet opened the eyes and heart of one young Muslim man to a world beyond his religious fundamentalist upbringing.
Amir Ahmad Nasr
AMIR AHMAD NASR is the author of My Isl@m and the blogger behind The Sudanese Thinker, a three-time finalist for the Weblog Awards. He is pursuing a master's degree in philosophy with a focus on Islam and ethics and is also researching the impact of new media on contemporary Islamic thought. His writing appears regularly in The Guardian, he has made appearances on Al-Jazeera and Huffington Post Live, and has been a featured speaker at Oslo Freedom Forum and other conferences. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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