All 29 Uses of
Islam
in
Zeitoun
- Anyone who had a problem with rainbows, he said, would surely have trouble with Islam.†
Chpt 1.1Islam = the Muslim religion; second most practiced religion in the world
- She was recovering from an unsuccessful marriage and had recently converted to Islam.†
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- At noon Zeitoun made his way to the Islamic Center on St. Claude—a humble-looking mosque and community gathering place downtown.†
Chpt 1.1Islamic = relating to the Muslim religion which is the second most practiced in the world
- Ahmaad was married to a woman named Yuko, an American of Japanese ancestry who had converted to Islam.†
Chpt 1.1Islam = the Muslim religion; second most practiced religion in the world
- When she didn't want to bother worrying about clothes or how they looked on her, the shoulder-to-floor Islamic dress solved the problem, and tidily.†
Chpt 1.1Islamic = relating to the Muslim religion which is the second most practiced in the world
- With eight siblings, it had been turbulent growing up, and when she converted to Islam, the battles and misunderstandings multiplied.†
Chpt 1.2Islam = the Muslim religion; second most practiced religion in the world
- There were times, however, when her mother's loyalty to Kathy trumped her issues with Islam.†
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- What do you see in Islam?†
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- She began reading about Islam, investigating the Qur'an.†
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- Kathy began borrowing books about Islam.
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- The fact that Islam acknowledged these books was revelatory for her.†
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- She'd thought He was the actual god of Islam, the one whom Muslims worshiped.†
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- Kathy wasn't sure that Islam was the way, but she knew that Yuko had never misled her before, that Yuko was the most grounded and sensible person she knew, and if Islam was working for her, why wouldn't it work for Kathy?†
Chpt 1.2
- Kathy wasn't sure that Islam was the way, but she knew that Yuko had never misled her before, that Yuko was the most grounded and sensible person she knew, and if Islam was working for her, why wouldn't it work for Kathy?†
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- She told him that she had actually been considering converting to Islam.†
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- Yuko may have found comfort and direction in Islam, but Kathy was sure that she herself had been personally called by Christ.†
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- She was given a microphone and she spoke into it, telling the congregation what she'd told the reverend, that she had been investigating Islam, and that— The preacher cut her off.†
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- "She was looking to Islam!" he said with a sneer.†
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- Did he not know that his God and Islam's were one and the same?†
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- She talked to Yuko about it and they realized that this man, preaching to a thousand impressionable and trusting parishioners, didn't know, or didn't care, that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity were not-so-distantly related branches of the same monotheistic, Abrahamic faith.†
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- And to dismiss all of Islam with a playground sound?†
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- So by fits and starts, she followed Yuko into Islam.†
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- She liked Islam's sense of personal responsibility, its bent toward social justice.†
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- With Yuko and a handful of other women from the mosque present, she pronounced the shahadah, the Islamic pledge of conviction of faith.†
Chpt 1.2Islamic = relating to the Muslim religion which is the second most practiced in the world
- But she knew that in Islam she had found calm.†
Chpt 1.2Islam = the Muslim religion; second most practiced religion in the world
- Even her view of her family softened through the lens of Islam.†
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- She had always fought with her mother, but Islam taught her that "heaven is at the feet of your mother," and this reined her in.†
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- Like Yuko and Kathy, Mary was an American, born into a Christian household, who had converted to Islam as an adult.†
Chpt 2.8
- In Islam, the archangel Gabriel, the same Gabriel who in the Bible spoke to the Virgin Mary and foretold the birth of Jesus, is believed to be the messenger who revealed the Qur'an to the Prophet Muhammad.†
Chpt 4.27
Definition:
the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran; the world's second most practiced religion