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What does it mean to be queer and Muslim in a world that insists you cannot be both?
Queer and Muslim is a powerful collection by and for LGBTQ+ Muslims navigating layered identities across lines of faith, family, culture, and community. With contributions spanning essays, poems, letters to past and future selves, and more, the book explores the emotional and spiritual dimensions of queer Muslim life and challenges the perception that faith and queerness are inherently incompatible.
These raw accounts confront the psychological toll of grappling with tensions between religious expectations and queer identity and offer rare insight into the ways mental health is lived, expressed, and supported across diverse cultural and theological landscapes. They tell of building chosen families and reconnecting with birth families, radical healing, cultivating spaces of belonging, and reclaiming faith on your own terms.
In an era of rising Islamophobia and escalating threats to queer and trans lives, the stories contained within Queer and Muslim—stories of resilience, grief, pleasure, rage, and joy—are vital, each of them an affirmation of the multiplicity of queer Muslim identities. Queer and Muslim invites readers to listen deeply, think expansively, and care more courageously.
Contents
Foreword—Imam Mushin Hendricks
Introduction—Rahim Thawer and Maryam Khan
PART ONE. IDENTITY AND FAMILY
Pagal Ke Beta Chaka Ka Ma: Son of Mad, Mother of Fag—Sami Sharif
Wound (Open) Letter to My Mother—Saara
Samajhdaar—Y.K.
The glass from my chest is melting into my toes—Maha Noor
Me My Mama and My Mama's Racism—Ayan Yusuf Karshe
Self-Care? No, Thank You—Maryam Khan
PART TWO. STRUGGLES AND RESILIENCE
Lessons of Resistance—Fira
Fighting the Islamic State and Islamophobia—Nazanin Moghadami
An Overdue Letter to My Inner Child—Adnan Patel
Rethinking Therapy: Building Resilience through Culture and Spirituality—Robbie Ahmed
PART THREE. HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION
Honouring Shame: An Embodied Experience of Queering Islam—Sarah Shah
Psychedelics and Possibilities—S.H.
Party 'n' Pray: A Conversation about Substances and Spirituality—Shafik Kamani and Rahim Thawer
PART FOUR. COMMUNITY AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES
Trans Wudu—Aaron El Sabrout
The Garden Is My Home—Nathan Viktor Fawaz
Queer Conversations with Allah—Mond Motadi
Is That Muslim?: Building Community in Diverse Ways—El-Farouk Khaki in collaboration with Troy Jackson
Diving Into Allah's Mercy—Elias B.
Clustering Into Collective Care—Amal Ishaque
quasa Meeting Minutes—Nas
Conclusion
Epilogue: Honoring Imam Muhsin Hendricks
