A Heart Turned East: Among the Muslims of Europe and America by Adam Lebor

A Heart Turned East: Among the Muslims of Europe and America by Adam Lebor is the account of a three-year journey to discover what it means to be Muslim while living in the West, with a heart turned to the East. Beginning in Bosnia, where Islamic identity was reborn amid war in Europe’s ancient Muslim heartland, it travels through the Muslim communities of Europe and America in the 1990s.

Along the way the book meets Muslim soldiers who rediscovered Islam on the frontlines, Turkish voices in Berlin, French-Algerian artists in Paris, and women at the forefront of Turkey’s Islamic revival, before turning to a new generation of Muslim voices in the United States seeking a place in public life. It presents East and West, and Christianity and Islam, at a crossroads, and asks whether a global media and a new mix of cultures might produce understanding rather than a clash of beliefs.

Readers will explore:

• Muslim identity in Bosnia, Western Europe and America
• How Muslims in the West balance faith with the societies around them
• The revival of Islamic life in Turkey and its wider resonance
• The search for a Muslim voice in public and political life

This book is well suited to readers interested in Islam in the West, in Muslim identity and history, and in the meeting of cultures in the modern world. Order online from Books Garden with cash on delivery in Dhaka and delivery across Bangladesh.