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Undivided
A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
“Mom, I have something I need to tell you…”
They didn’t talk. Not for ten years. Not about faith anyway. Instead, a mother and daughter tiptoed with pain around the deepest gulf in their lives – the daughter’s choice to leave the church, convert to Islam and become a practicing Muslim. Undivided is a real-time story of healing and understanding with alternating narratives from each as they struggle to learn how to love each other in a whole new way.
Although this is certainly a book for mothers and daughters struggling with interfaith tensions , it is equally meaningful for mothers and daughters who feel divided by tensions in general. An important work for parents whose adult children have left the family’s belief system, it will help those same children as they wrestle to better understand their parents.
Undivided offers an up close and personal look at the life of an Islamic convert—a young American woman—at a time when attitudes are mixed about Muslims (and Muslim women in particular), but interest in such women is high. For anyone troubled by the broader tensions between Islam and the West, this personal story distills this friction into the context of a family relationship—a journey all the more fascinating.
Undivided is a tremendously important book for our time. Will Patricia be able to fully trust in the Christ who “holds all things together?” Will Alana find new hope or new understanding as the conversation gets deeper between them? And can they answer the question that both want desperately to experience, which is “Can we make our torn family whole again?”
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Can a Christian and a Muslim work through their differences to find peace? Patricia Raybon (I Told the Mountain to Move) and daughter Alana Raybon try to do just that by sharing their thoughts in alternating passages. Alana's conversion to Islam causes estrangement for a decade before the two agree to start talking. The process proves difficult, and the authors seem to find it easier to share thoughts with the reader than with each other. Patricia hurts over a lost daughter who has turned from her Christian roots; Alana resents her mother's judgments (which she feels are influenced by news reports) and the assumption that she doesn't know God too. By examining their motives, recognizing prejudices, and putting faith first, the women discover that their approach toward each other in love is more important than solving any conflict. Some areas aren't explored, like details about Alana's conversion and how Patricia and her husband feel about their grandchildren being raised as Muslims. This interfaith encounter illustrates how deeply love and difference are rooted.