The Koran and the Flesh: The Pilgrimage of a Gay Imam

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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.

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Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed was born in Algiers in 1977. Trained as a Koranic scholar, he holds two doctorates from the University of Paris - one in anthropology and one in social psychology. He travels and lectures throughout the world - his English is perfect though his native languages are French and Arabic. In 2014 he gave a series of lectures at Boston University on 'Rethinking Homosexuality and Islam'.