- recommendations of good books (fiction or nonfiction) which might enlighten me about his possible experiences. Hmm...good movies too, if you can think of any.
- any S. Asian Muslims in Chicago (men preferred, but women too) willing to let me buy them a cup of coffee and ask them some questions for an hour or so. I'm interested in talking to people along the spectrum of devoutness/practice -- from the extremely devout to the completely non-practicing, and anything in between. I promise not to use any specific stories gathered from those discussions without your written consent; right now, I'm really just trying to get a sense of a range of experiences.
Well, I’m not a man and I don’t live in Chicago but if you want to email me questions you can. Or even talk on the phone. I am S. Asian and Muslim I guess I went from not being practicising really but certainly identifying myself as Muslim to calling myself a “social Muslim,” to being an agnostic, married to a non-Muslim and not really feeling Muslim at all.
Jawahara, thanks for offering — it looks like I’ll have some folks in Chicago to talk to, but I appreciate the offer.
No problem. Good luck with this 🙂
Hi Mary Anne,
Some links (not my sites, but ones that seem on target for you):
http://indiapost.com/article/communitypost/56/
Also: You should get The Indian Reporter, if you don’t already. It covers great lakes region, but mostly Illinois/Chicago. I think they have a free or inexpensive subscription. It’s a tabloid-sized paper.