Muslim Voices and Lives in the Contemporary World

1. Introduction
Frances Trix, John Walbridge

Part I. Grounded

2. “The Seeing of Our Eyes:” An Albanian Sufi Baba (Balkan Sufi Leader in United States)
Frances Trix

3. Fadma Lhacen: Healer of Women and Weaver of Textiles (Moroccan Berber Healer)
Cynthia Becker

4. Master Singer of Pakistan: Baba Shafqat (Pakistani Religious Musician)
John Walbridge, Linda Walbridge

5. Esmat Khanum and a Life of Travail: “You Yourself Help Me, God” (Iranian Village Woman)
Mary Elaine Hegland

Part II. In a New Place

6. Emine: Muslim University Student in Berlin (Turkish Student in Germany)
Katherine Pratt Ewing

7. The Intricacies of Being Senegal’s Lebanese Shi‘ite Sheikh (Lebanese Religious Leader in West Africa)
Mara A. Leichtman

8. Son of an Ayatollah: Majid al-Khu’i (Iraqi Religious Leader in Great Britain)
John Walbridge, Linda Walbridge

Part III. Reconciled

9. The Irrepressible Salma (Afghan Aid Agency Manager)
Patricia A. Omidian

10. Growing Up Muslim in America: Dr. Anisa Cook (African American Pediatrician)
Frances Trix

11. A Javanese Muslim Life of Learning: Professor Dr. Haji Mohamad Koesnoe (Indonesian Legal Scholar)
R. Michael Feener

12. A Hometown Artist of the World: Sabah Naim (Visual Artist in Egypt)
Jessica Winegar

Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Islam, North American Literature