from Jihad Fi Sabil Allah: A Muslims Woman's Faith Journey from Struggle to Struggle to Struggle
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While my personal life has been filled with momentous crises and upheavals throughout the years I have lived in this country, by the grace of God I have done well professionally. I am now a professor and chairperson of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Lousville. My specialization is in the area of Islamic Studies, and it was due to this expertise that I became involved in various ways at various levels, in the discussions going on around the country regarding Islam, after the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the Iranian revolution of 1979 convinced the Western world that Islam was a living reality in the world. While I found many of these discussions, in which I was called upon to explain "Islamic revival" to Americans, interesting and stimulating, it was another setting-that of interreligious dialogue among believers in the one God-that I found the community of faith I had sought all my life. In this community of faith I have found others who, like myself, are committed to creating a new world in which human beings will not brutalize or victimize one another in the name of God, but will affirm, through word and action, that as God is just and loving so human beings must treat each other with justice and love regardless of sex, creed, or color. I have found in my community of faith what I did not find in my community of birth: the possibility of growing and healing, of becoming integrated and whole. Due to the affirmation I have received from men and women of faith I am no longer the fragmented, mutilated woman that I once was. I know now that I am not alone in the wilderness, that there are some people in the world who understand my calling, and that their prayers are with me as I continue my struggle on behalf of the millions of nameless, voiceless, faceless Muslim women of the world who live and die unsung, uncelebrated in birth, unmourned in death.
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