Oscar Wilde said God's law is love. He asked the eternal question why is there separate rules for men and women? The title of this book is a woman's struggle for the Soul of Islam, it may be more accurate to say a woman's struggle for her soul within Islam. For the generation of young people...
A Foreign Correspondent's Search for Her Cultural and Spiritual IdentityWhat began as an assignment from her editor at the Wall Street Journal to investigate "America's hottest new fad," the secrets of sexual ecstasy in Tantra, became a story that would lead reporter Asra Nomani halfway around th...
I’d traveled a distance greater than miles from Morgantown. Back in India, it was barely 4 A.M. and dark. I was supposed to meet a Tantric swami who told me the predawn hours were the most auspicious for meditation. But the gates to this tented ashram colony where I was staying were locked so tha...
“Al-Baqara” (The Cow),Qur’an 2:256 MECCA—That night we returned to the Sacred Mosque for my mother’s and Safiyyah’s first entry. Sheikh Alshareef, our guide, led us through more stretching exercises. “C’mon, Mom! Stretch!” I yelled at my mother. “Oh, Asra! I can’t,” she answered. She didn’t consi...