Table of Contents
Foreword: Good Muslim / Bad Muslim Safia Elhillo xi
Foreword: Finding the Hammam xiv
I Shahada
Ladan Osman: Following the Horn's Call 2
I'm Trying to Stop Writing About Water 3
Why I Can Dance Down a Soul-Train Line in Public and Still Be Muslim Aisha Sharif 5
An Introduction Sheena Raza Faisal 8
Muslim Girl Preamble Rumsha Sajid 9
Glory Be to the Gang Gang Gang Momtaza Mehri 10
Jesus at Wynfield Station Sadia Hassan 11
Paulander Drive Rania El Mugammar 13
Small Talk Momtaza Mehri 14
Asmarani Is at a Party & Knows This Song Safia Elhillo 15
Muslim Girlhood Leila Chatti 16
Haram Fatimah Asghar 17
Self-Portrait as Mango Tarfia Faizullah 18
Say Love Say God Zeina Hashem Beck 19
Memory in Which We Are Not Singing but You Are Home Nadra Mabrouk 21
Brother as Younger Self 22
When You're Brown with a Hand-Me-Down Bike Inam Kang 24
My Fathers Relived My Birth Yasmin Belkhyr 25
II Sawm
Fasting in Tunis Leila Chatti 28
A Conversation with Ammi Sahar Romani 30
Nail Technician as Palm Reader Warsan Shire 31
Creation Myth Aria Aber 32
Come Here Where Are You Going Come Here Sara Elkamel 33
Mama Says Salihah Aakil 34
Ammi Saba Taj 35
Blooms Omen Nahrain Al-Mousawi 36
Ode to Swearing Safia Elhillo 37
Hypothesis: Bitch Face Noor Ibn Najam 38
A Woman Is Never Still Afshan Shafi 39
New Names for Brown Baby Girls Orooj-e Zafar 42
A Study of Anatomy, Although I Have No Desire to Study It Tasneem Maher 43
Sidi Ali Yasmin Belkhyr 45
Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968 Charif Shanahan 46
Haratin Girl, Marrakesh, 1968 47
Mother, Ka'aba Zeina Hashem Beck 48
Confession Leila Chatti 49
Nakba Day Dance Rasha Abdulhadi 50
Ode to Dalya's Bald Spot Angel Nafis 52
Hot Combs and Hijabs Aisha Sharif 54
Tapestry Saquina Karla C. Guiam 55
Loving All My Mothers / a DNA joy in Hachi Hullo Li (i love you) Jacinda Bullie 56
Unmotioning Aria Aber 58
Smell Is the Last Memory to Go Fatimah Asghar 60
The Woman in the White Chador Farnaz Fatemi 61
Sacraments Ladan Osman 62
After the Orlando Shooting Juniper Cruz 65
Anneanne Tells Me Beyza Ozer 67
III Hajj
Our Mothers Fed Us Well Yasmin Belkhyr 70
Freedom Bar Asnia Asim 71
Snake Oil, Snake Bite Dilruba Ahmed 73
Morning Prayer in Taino Warpaint Juniper Cruz 74
Elegy Lena Tuffaha 76
Geography Test Saaro Umar 77
Common Ancestors Hala Alyan 81
Ghazal Dilruba Ahmed 82
Washee/Was She Sahar Muradi 83
Human Ayman Itani 84
Sacrifice Bilal Al-Shams 85
Relinquish Kazim Ali 88
My Imminent Demise Makes the Headlines the Same Day I Notice How Even Your From Teeth Are Momtaza Mehri 90
Habeshawit Nina Getachew 91
Ars Poetica Safia Elhillo 92
How to Say Saaro Umar 93
Accent Aisha Sharif 94
Reporting Live from Hookah Lounge Noor Ibn Najam 96
Burden of Proof Sahar Romani 98
Oxygen Farah Ghafoor 99
Gerisi, Eylül / Rest, Eylül Beyza Ozer 101
Things Get Harder When It Rams 102
Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle Warsan Shire 103
Dias/phoria Suite Aaron El Sabrout 104
Hello, This Letter Was Never Finished Beyza Ozer 105
If They Come for Us Fatimah Asghar 106
IV Salah
I've Watched Myself Die Twice This Week Beyza Ozer 110
Ghazal Edil Hassan 111
What Use Is Knowing Anything If No One Is Around Kaveh Akbar 112
A Boy Steps into the Water 113
Ordinary Scripture Hala Alyan 114
Any Other Name Khadijah Queen 115
Polymath Seema Yasmin 118
Morning Nikia Chaney 119
Somewhere in California Rumsha Sajid 120
Aubade with Sage and Lemon Tarfia Faizullah 121
100 Bells 123
H.H. QM 125
For Xulhaz Lily Jamaludin 127
Blush Nasra 130
On Longing Zaina Alsous 132
Clubbing w/ Hamed Sinno Hazem Fahmy 133
In Which Iblis Lies Awake at Night 134
June 6th Edil Hassan 135
Forbidden Farnaz Fatemi 136
There Needs to Be a Different Word Rami Karim 137
V Zakat
Eid in Red and White Beenish Ahmed 142
Why Activist Blair Imani Will No Longer Wear Hijab Post-Trump Blair Imani 145
How I Learned to Accept My Queerness as a Muslim Woman Fariha Róisín 147
Queer Brown Futures (Or Lack Thereof) Lamya H 153
Say Ameen Marwa Helal 158
Some Kind of Holy Maryam Ahmad 162
Practicing Islam in Short Shorts Thanaa El-Naggar 165
How I Used My Hijab to Hide and Why I Don't Anymore Mahin Ibrahim 169
Muhammad Ali Helped Shape My Identity as a Black Muslim Najma Sharif 174
Of Dark Rooms and Foreign Languages Momina Masood 176
Neither Slave nor Pharaoh Randa Jarrar 180
Now More Than Ever Safia Elhillo 187
Acknowledgments 190
Index by Author 193
Biographies 194
