The Koran and the Flesh
The Pilgrimage of a Gay Imam
Seiten
2025
Forum (Verlag)
9781800754904 (ISBN)
Forum (Verlag)
9781800754904 (ISBN)
'A moving, courageous voice ... Muslims and others alike need to listen to him’ Observer
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an imam and Koranic scholar. He is also gay.
In this memoir, he explains the journey he has taken to be both the founder of a mosque in Paris and to be openly gay, after a troubled childhood in Algeria in poverty and living with an aggressive and often violent father. Having found it impossible in that society to be both religious and true to himself, and being abandoned by a fellow school pupil with whom he was in love, he lost his faith.
Trained as an imam, though, he became an accomplished Koranic scholar. He concluded that there was nothing in the Koran that condemned same-sex attraction or committed same-sex relationships. Finally, during a pilgrimage to Mecca, he understood that he could be fully himself and practise his religion with sincerity and commitment.
The Koran and the Flesh tackles these subjects with originality and is a book of real bravery, that shows how it is possible to reconcile homosexuality and religion.
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an imam and Koranic scholar. He is also gay.
In this memoir, he explains the journey he has taken to be both the founder of a mosque in Paris and to be openly gay, after a troubled childhood in Algeria in poverty and living with an aggressive and often violent father. Having found it impossible in that society to be both religious and true to himself, and being abandoned by a fellow school pupil with whom he was in love, he lost his faith.
Trained as an imam, though, he became an accomplished Koranic scholar. He concluded that there was nothing in the Koran that condemned same-sex attraction or committed same-sex relationships. Finally, during a pilgrimage to Mecca, he understood that he could be fully himself and practise his religion with sincerity and commitment.
The Koran and the Flesh tackles these subjects with originality and is a book of real bravery, that shows how it is possible to reconcile homosexuality and religion.
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is a French-Algerian imam. He was born in Algiers in 1977, and as a teenager moved to France with his family. Aged 21, already HIV positive, he came out as gay to his family. In 2010 he founded the organisation Muslim Homosexuals in France, and in 2012 set up Europe’s first gay-friendly mosque in Paris. He now lives with his husband in Marseilles, where he founded Celem, an institute to raise awareness of progressive values within the Muslim world.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.05.2025 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781800754904 / 9781800754904 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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