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  • Published: 15 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780385740968
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $16.99

Growing Up Muslim

Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam




Through firsthand experience and based on historical and cultural history, author Sumbul Ali-Karmali presents a candid account of her experience as well as a comprehensive introduction to one of the world's major religions.

Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali offers her personal account, discussing the many and varied questions she fielded from curious friends and schoolmates while growing up in Southern California—from diet, to dress, to prayer and holidays and everything in between. She also provides an academically reliable introduction to Islam, addressing its inception, development and current demographics.

Through this engaging work, readers will gain a better understanding of the everyday aspects of Muslim American life, to dispel many of the misconceptions that still remain and open a dialogue for tolerance and acceptance.

  • Published: 15 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780385740968
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $16.99

About the author

Sumbul Ali-Karamali

SUMBUL ALI-KARAMALI grew up in Southern California, answering questions about Islam. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a J. D. from the University of California at Davis, and a graduate degree in Islamic Law from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. She has served as a teaching assistant in Islamic Law at SOAS and a research associate at the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law in London. Her highly praised adult book is The Muslim Next Door: The Qur'an, the Media, and that Veil Thing, an academically reliable introduction to what Muslims believe and practice, but one written in the personal, anecdotal, everyday context of growing up Muslim in America.

Praise for Growing Up Muslim

Praise for Growing Up Muslim:

"Ali-Karamali adapts many of the concepts she explained in her well-received The Muslim Next Door: The Qur'an, the Media, and that Veil Thing for a middle-grade audience. Citing anecdotes from her own childhood, Ali-Karamali lays out the basics. A helpful, easy-to-read update."--Publishers Weekly