The Koran and the Flesh
the pilgrimage of a gay imam
$33.59
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2025
Summary
The Imam Who Dared: A Journey of Faith, Love, and Identity
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 pu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800754904 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1800754906 |
| Author: | Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed |
| Publisher: | Swift Press |
| Imprint: | Forum |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm |
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Critics Review
‘Zahed’s is a moving, courageous voice, but he also acknowledges the isolation of his position in an Islamic world where attitudes to sexuality have only hardened in recent years. But it is for this very reason that Muslims and others alike need to listen to him’ - The Observer
About The Author
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed
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.
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