Muhajababes

[alonewiththemoon]

Interesting article in Salon about being a young, hip Muslim today.  It's a review of two books, one titled Muhajababes that focuses more on ordinary people's lives and how they navigate/negotiate sex, relationships, haram things like booze and smoking, dress style and a new trendy sort of piety, and the other titled Heavy Metal Islam:  Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam, which focuses more on the producers of heavy metal, the musicians themselves.  Buried within the reviews is another story begging to be told about the charismatic Egyptian preacher/social leader Amr Khaled.  Anyway, if you're interested in this stuff, go read it.

Comments

[alonewiththemoon]

You know, I noticed that the book spelled it "muhaja" instead of "mujaha"--I wonder if it's a different word, or if it's somebody picking their own letters to transliterate with. Mujahateen sounds like a comic book superheroine :)

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

You are right! It *is* a different word. They say it's from muhajab, which is another word for hijab. Similar, maybe related, but different.