A Heart Turned East: Among Muslims of Europe and America by Adam LeBor-Hardcover- 1st UK edition.

It began in Bosnia, where Islamic nationalism was reborn as Serb shells rained down on Europe's ancient Muslim heartland. It was the start of a three-year odyssey into the hearts and minds of Muslim Europe and America, a journey by which Adam LeBor set out to discover what it means to be a Muslim in the 90s, living in the West, but with a heart turned east. He met Muslim soldiers on the front lines of Bosnia who, abandoned by Europe, rediscovered Islam. He met with exiled Muslim dissidents in London - a city now referred to as the intellectual capital of the Arab world. He spoke to Turkish rappers in Berlin and young Algerian artists in Marseilles, both in the vanguard of a new European-Muslim culture that straddles the gulf between two disparate worlds. And in the United States he met with Muslim lobbyists who are demanding a presence in the corridors of power as a new wave of Black Americans are turning to Islam in their rage against the white establishment.

East and West, Christianity and Islam are at a crossroads, argues LeBor, but a global media, a global economy and a new mix of cultures mean that , instead of a clash of beliefs, a symbiosis of the best of both worlds I emerging.

Product details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown & Company; January 1, 1997
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316878030
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316878036
• Hardcover: 332 Pages
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket: Fine