The Muslim (M)other: Social & Political Commentary on Contemporary Muslim Motherhood

By Mariya bint Rehan

In the quiet rhythm of lullabies, Muslim mothers carry the weight of a noisy world.

The Muslim mum is the most fertile political symbol of our times, heralded as both the solution and cause to many of the issues that erroneously come to define Muslim communities in our now globalized world. Muslim mums who are continuously spoken down to, at, or for, and very rarely conversed with in a language that sees and understands us beneath the suffocating extraneous layers of media sensationalism and political discourse.

In the first of its kind, The Muslim (M)other looks at the blessed and fraught experience of mothering when Muslim in contemporary political times. Amidst the textures of an accelerating digital age, ubiquitous Islamophobia and an increasingly commercialized cultural climate that impacts us in ways obvious and untold.

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Pages: 140