The Butterfly Mosque

A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

By: G. Willow Wilson

Narrated by: Catherine Byers

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world.

When G. Willow Wilson - already an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just 27 - leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University, she enrolls in an Islamic Studies course that leads to her shocking conversion to Islam and sends her on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future.

She settles in Cairo, where she teaches English and submerges herself in a culture based on her adopted religion. And then she meets Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. They fall in love, entering into a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow records her intensely personal struggle to forge a "third culture" that might accommodate her own values without compromising the friends and family on both sides of the divide.

©2010 G. Willow Wilson. Recorded by arrangement with Grove Atlantic, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Very insightful

This work is a rare look inside the mind you f a Muslim convert and her experience “becoming Muslim” in a Muslim country. The narrative is both interesting and insightful.

Engaging, Insightful, Suspenseful, Fascinating

Listened twice. Willow Wilson is an amazing, insightful lady. There's family, politics, religion, joy, adventure.

Interesting insight into female Muslim mind.

I have many Muslim friends but as a non Muslim woman I have questions. This book helps explain the constructs. Especially the American vs Arabic nuances.

Beautiful story

Really enjoyed Willow's story. I'm also a convert to Islam, so this felt very close to my heart. Her writing is candid, and I thoroughly enjoyed her views on Cairo.

From the heart!

Beautifully written personal journey story that is true to oneself.
The enunciation of Arabic words is a major drawback.
Overall I enjoyed every bit of it. A book for everyone!