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Threading my prayer rug : one woman's journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim
2016
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Sabeeha Rehman came to the United States in 1971. When her sons were school age, she earned her masters in healthcare administration and began a career as a hospital administrator. After her grandson was diagnosed with autism, in 2008 she cofounded the New York Metro chapter of the National Autism Association and was its president. She has spent several decades working for interfaith dialogue and was director of interfaith programs at the American Society for Muslim Advancement and COO of the Cordoba Initiative. She lives with her husband in New York City.
- (Perseus Publishing)

Sabeeha Rehman was born and raised in Pakistan. She came to the United States in 1971 after a hurried arranged marriage to a Pakistani doctor in New York. With a bachelor’s degree in Home Economics, she settled into the life of a homemaker. Once both her sons were enrolled full-time in school, she went back to college to get her masters in healthcare administration and began her twenty-five-year career as a hospital executive. Her career spanned hospitals in New York, New Jersey, and Saudi Arabia.

Raising children Muslim in the absence of a Muslim community was a daunting challenge. In the early 1980s, she and her husband began the work of establishing a Muslim community on Staten Island, where they were living at the time. Their efforts culminated in the building of a mosque. - (Simon and Schuster)

Sabeeha Rehman was born and raised in Pakistan. She came to the United States in 1971 after a hurried arranged marriage to a Pakistani doctor in New York. With a bachelor's degree in Home Economics, she settled into the life of a homemaker. Once both her sons were enrolled full-time in school, she went back to college to get her masters in healthcare administration and began her twenty-five-year career as a hospital executive. Her career spanned hospitals in New York, New Jersey, and Saudi Arabia.

Raising children Muslim in the absence of a Muslim community was a daunting challenge. In the early 1980s, she and her husband began the work of establishing a Muslim community on Staten Island, where they were living at the time. Their efforts culminated in the building of a mosque. - (Simon and Schuster)

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Table of Contents

Prologue Not a Mosque, and Not at Ground Zero 1(10)
PART ONE An Arranged Marriage in Pakistan
1 It's Arranged
11(33)
2 I Never Said, "I Do": The Marriage Contract
44(11)
3 A Silver Watch: My Splendid Pakistani Wedding
55(7)
4 Marital Advice
62(5)
PART TWO A Pakistani Muslim in New York
5 A Pakistani Bride in New York: "I Wouldn't Do That If I Were You"
67(8)
6 Where Are You From?
75(6)
7 A Muslim Girl in New York: A Holiday Muslim
81(6)
8 Pakistani Pregnancy, American Delivery: A Baptism of Sorts, Plus a Circumcision
87(7)
9 Ramadan without Ramadan: Why I Stopped Fasting
94(4)
10 The Christmas-ization of Eid
98(3)
11 A Muslim among Orthodox Jews
101(4)
12 The Americanization of Yours Truly
105(14)
PART THREE Creating a Muslim Space
13 Where Do I Begin?
119(5)
14 Building a Muslim Community
124(5)
15 A Muslim Sunday School and a Mosque
129(12)
PART FOUR Rediscovering Islam: Religion or Culture?
16 Born-Again Muslim
141(23)
17 Lower Your Gaze
164(3)
18 Pakistani Islam or a Hybrid?
167(12)
19 Moon Sighting
179(6)
20 Tradition versus Women's Rights
185(6)
21 My Brand of Islam
191(5)
22 Abraham's Sacrifice
196(3)
23 Grounded in Roots
199(14)
PART FIVE An American Muslim in New York
24 An Arranged Marriage for My Sons?
213(29)
25 The Shia-Sunni Schism
242(7)
26 Don't Ghetto-ize Islam
249(15)
27 Flashpoints
264(16)
28 And Then Nothing Was the Same: September 11, 2001
280(6)
29 Extremism and Islamophobia: Viewed from the Eyes of a Muslim
286(6)
30 Upgrading Islam into the Twenty-First Century
292(3)
31 An American Muslim in Pakistan
295(14)
32 An American Muslim in New York
309(6)
Acknowledgments 315(2)
Glossary 317

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