![]() ![]() ![]() This eye-opening book was a finalist for both a Pulitzer and a National Book Award.Ĭarla Power was a foreign correspondent for Newsweek and a contributor for Time Magazine, writing on the culture and politics of Islamic societies. If the Oceans Were Ink is the chronicle of their unlikely friendship, their surprising findings, and the intersections between the Sheikh’s traditional Muslim worldview, and her own secular feminist outlook. She decided to embark on a close-reading along with her longtime friend and renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi. If you purchase all 8 books in the Shaykh Akram biographical series, you get a 10% discount - just apply the following discount code: SHAYKHAKRAMBIO at checkout.Īs a journalist, Carla Power frequently covered stories about Muslims and Islamic culture but had never read the religion’s most fundamental text, the Quran. ![]()
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