Rehman has spent the last several decades in engaging in interfaith dialogue with faith communities. Their efforts culminated in the building of a mosque. In the early 1980s, she and her husband began the work of establishing a Muslim community on Staten Island, where they were living at the time. Raising children Muslim in the absence of a Muslim community was a daunting challenge.
Her career spanned hospitals in New York, New Jersey, and Saudi Arabia. Once both her sons were enrolled full-time in school, she went back to college to get her masters in healthcare administration and began her twenty-five-year career as a hospital executive. With a bachelor’s degree in Home Economics, she settled into the life of a homemaker. She came to the United States in 1971 after a hurried arranged marriage to a Pakistani doctor in New York. Sabeeha Rehman was born and raised in Pakistan. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. She recounts what that experience revealed about American society and in a new preface discusses Islam in America in the time of Trump. Rauf, the driving force behind the Muslim community center near Ground Zero, when the backlash began. Sabeeha was doing interfaith work for Imam Feisal A. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United States in an arranged marriage that becomes a love match lasting forty-five years from secular Muslim in an Islamic society to devout Muslim in a society ignorant of Islam, and from liberal to conservative to American Muslim from bride to mother and from an immigrant intending to stay two years to an American citizen, business executive, grandmother, and tireless advocate for interfaith understanding.īeginning with a sweetly funny, moving account of her arranged marriage, the author undercuts stereotypes and offers the refreshing view of an American life through Muslim eyes. Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection. This enthralling story of the making of an American is a timely meditation on being Muslim in America today.
Honorable Mention in the 2017 San Francisco Book Festival Awards, Spiritual Category ONE OF BOOKLIST'S TOP TEN DIVERSE NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2017. ONE OF BOOKLIST'S TOP TEN RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY BOOKS OF 2016. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING.
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