The Colour of God

Name: The Colour of God
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Author: Ayesha S. Chaudhry
ISBN: 9781696600781

Author: Ayesha S. Chaudhry

Narrator: Ayesha S. Chaudhry

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 05/11/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Religious Nonfiction

Synopsis

At the age of twenty-three, Ayesha removed her face veil to begin her studies in New York City.

Braiding together Western, South Asian, and Qur'anic storytelling styles, the author illuminates what it means to exist in a world that demands something different from each of her identities. With lyrical prose and scholarly precision, she weaves her personal experiences with incisive social commentary to uncover the meaning of faith and belonging, love and betrayal, family and womanhood. In so doing, she offers us a vision of freedom that isn't measured in fabric.

About Ayesha S. Chaudhry

Ayesha S. Chaudhry is Canada Research Chair, and professor of gender and Islamic studies at the University of British Columbia. In 2018, she was named a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition. Her research focuses on women's rights and Islamic reform.

Reviews

Goodreads review by L. on July 05, 2021

I have a mixed feelings about this book and it got me in every ways. As this book circles around the theme of religion and racial discrimination, I’m not sure whether the term “agree to disagree” would come handy for this one. Yikes! 1. About. The Colour Of God is a memoir written by Ayesha S. Chaudhry......more

Goodreads review by Puty on February 05, 2022

Giving it 5 stars as a memoir, and I'd underline this fact because the subjects (especially when it comes to Islam as a religion) were mostly written based on the Ayesha S Chaudry's, the author, personal perspective. There were many rooms for debate and discussion, but let's not go there, because ag......more

Goodreads review by Halema on April 15, 2021

It's publication day! The Colour of God is a memoir written by Ayesha Chaudhry and looks at the experience of a Canadian Muslim and how she navigates her life. I learnt that Ayesha S. Chaudhry is a Professor of Islamic and Gender Studies, so naturally I was expecting an academic text. However, I was......more

Goodreads review by Indah on March 12, 2021

When @sofia_reading mentioned that Ayesha S. Chaudhry is going to publish a book, I immediately check it up and it turned that the book is not an academic text but a memoir! It is always compelling that the scholar that you used to read their works for education purpose is writing something less the......more

Goodreads review by Sofia on April 23, 2021

The joy of receiving an ARC is that I get to discover and enjoy books ahead of publication. The sorrow is that when I come across an incredible book which I want to immediately thrust into the hands of everyone I know, I have to wait until publication, and this is what I must suffer with The Colour......more