Haroon moghul biography definition

This year, I’m teaching forty kids. Nearly two-thirds of them are high schoolers, split into three classes (one for young women and the other two for young men) pursuing a simple goal: a book a month. We started with The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley though our progress has been uneven; we pivoted as earlier posts indicated, to talk about Gaza and our civic responsibilities as American Muslims.

But even that goes back to the life and legacy of Malcolm X. What does it mean to be an American and a Muslim? How is that identity even possible? And how can we define our futures if we don’t know our pasts? The model has worked out so well that even when we’re not talking about Malcolm X, we’re still talking about Malcolm X, which is what you want out of a great books course: Great conversations.

I’d encourage you (whether you’re a parent, teacher, or community leader) to build this kind of reading and learning together for your high schoolers.

Though a book a month is definitely going to get you some eye-rolls and audible groans, reading regularly is good for spiritual health, intellectual health, and mental health. We’re encouraged to read the Qur’an daily, coming back again and again to the same text, to sit with and think with and grow with s

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How to Be a Muslim: An American Story

July 27, 2017

I've always been fascinated by religion, but this book has shown me that my knowledge of Islam, though greater than most Americans', is sorely lacking. Moghul does an excellent job of informing his readers of the true Islam, the religion of love, not the fundamentalist version that leads to suicide bombers and membership in al-Qaeda.

It's also a coming of age memoir, one in which we journey with Haroon as he grows from a teenager who wants to fit in with his peers in white America to a man who realizes he cannot deny either Mohammed or his God, and tries to come to terms with the fact that he deserves the salvation that his religion offers. As a result, there is a lot of pages where we live in Haroon's head with him. The issue with this is simply that it becomes quite clear throughout that Moghul was a philosophy major, and he tends to throw in various philosophers and their themes mid-sentence without much of an explanation. He also tends to use rare and difficult words, ones even I've never heard of (and I have a fairly decent grasp of the English language). I began to feel as though I was back in my freshman year of college, taking a class called Religion & Ethics, taught by a professor who delighted in being as ob

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