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Ludovic Mohamed Zahed is an Imam and Koranic scholar. He is also gay. In this memoir, he explains the journey he has taken to be both the founder of a mosque in Paris and to be openly gay, after a troubled childhood in Algeria in poverty and living with an aggressive and often violent father. He explains how a journey to Mecca brought him back to a deeper understanding of his Muslim faith and how there is nothing in the Koran that condemns sexual, racial, gender or political diversity.

"The renaissance or reformation of Islam will not happen on its own, we have to act. In my opinion, homosexuality, no matter what people say, is not a choice [...] Fortunately, here in France, it is no longer an offence."

This book builds on existing scholarship in a variety of disciplines on the topic of gender and sexuality in Islam.