How to Be a Muslim: An American Story Audiobook (Free)

A young Muslim leader’s memoir of his challenges to forge an American Muslim identity

Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, becoming an undergraduate leader at New York University’s Islamic Middle forced into appearances everywhere: about TV, before interfaith audiences, in print. Moghul was becoming a prominent voice for American Muslims even while he struggled along with his romantic relationship to Islam. In senior high school he was hardly a believer and entirely convinced he was going to hell. He about how exactly to be always a Muslim: An American Tale sometimes drank. He didn’t pray frequently. All he wished was a sweetheart.

But simply because he discovered, it wasn’t very easy to keep religion behind. To become true to himself, he had a need to forge a distinctive American Muslim identification that shown his values and personality. How to Be a Muslim reveals a young man dealing with the crushing pressure of a world that worries Muslims, struggling with his beliefs and searching for intellectual forebears, and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is actually the story of the second-generation immigrant, of what it’s like to drop yourself between civilizations and how to grab the pieces.