Wandering Lonely in a Crowd: Reflections on the Muslim Condition in the West (Paperback)

from SherylHendrix

Wandering Lonely in a Crowd: Reflections on the Muslim Condition in the West was a book I selected as an early reviewers choice because the title suggested a populist understanding of Muslims by a Muslim writer. In fairness, I must say that this is most likely an important work and one that shoul...

from jaredbyas

I was excited to get the chance to read S.M. Atif Imtiaz's Wandering Lonely in a Crowd: Reflections on the Muslim Condition in the West. I wanted to peer into the window of Islamic life in the West but I feel like I was only given access to Imtiaz's someone narrow and polemical view. Normally thi...

from RhodestoRome

In general, I would have to agree with what many of the other reviewers here have said. In many places this book seemed more like a diatribe or rant than a carefully crafted expose or memoir. One of the keys to writing a good memoir is certainly to allow the reader to feel your emotions as you fe...

from Fledgist

This is a collection of essays and speeches by a British Muslim scholar and activist who has some interesting and important things to say about the place of Islam in the West, and in Britain in particular. Imtiaz responds carefully and intelligently to post-modern ideas, to contemporary events, a...

from 06nwingert

S.M. Atif Imtaz is a Muslim scholar who argues that Muslims can have a spot in western culture, and Wandering in a Lonely Crowd is an anthology of letters, poems, short stories, essays and speeches that reflect that argument. Imtiaz discusses how Muslims have faced adversity in western culture, s...