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Carla Power

Biography

Carla Power

Carla Power is the author of THE LADY IMAM. Her previous titles include HOME, LAND, SECURITY and IF THE OCEANS WERE INK, which was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She was raised in St. Louis, with years in Iran, India, Afghanistan, Egypt and Italy. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Time, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Vogue, Vanity Fair and The Guardian. She lives with her family in East Sussex, England.

Books by Carla Power

The Lady Imam: How amina wadud's Life and Faith Changed the World
by Carla Power - Biography, Nonfiction

A feminist scholar-activist, single mother of five, and queer advocate, amina wadud has led a decades-long struggle against Islam’s patriarchal establishment. Like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X before her, wadud has mobilized faith’s moral power as an engine for justice and equality. Yet the extraordinary story of this American trailblazer has never been told in book form, until now. THE LADY IMAM chronicles the life of a singular figure whose influence reaches beyond Islamic scholarship into feminism, Black history and global movements for gender justice. With unprecedented access through years of interviews and archival research, Carla Power delivers the definitive portrait of wadud’s extraordinary life while illuminating the enduring struggle to reconcile faith, family and the pursuit of justice.