The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant StoryKanzi's family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that's why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter Habibti (dear one). When she leaves, the teasing starts. That night, Kanzi wraps herself in the beautiful Arabic quilt

Dirks uses an informal letter-writing format to raise a number of important issues

It teaches all of the aspects and categories of Islamic jurisprudence according to the four Sunni schools that are followed by the majority of Muslims: The Hanafi

Jewish and Islamic traditions have tried to reconcile modern moral certainties with the infallibility of God’s message

He also introduced the concepts of orderliness

and elevates man's aspirations towards a sublime ideal in a very simple

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Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge―vicious wolves

While we all wonder how our lives might have been

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He is currently chairman and CEO of the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies

Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past