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Disclaimer: A physical copy was provided via Pan Macmillan India in exchange for an honest review. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.

It’s Not About The Burqa is a series of essays by British Mulslim women, edited by Mariam Khan on a variety of different topics, but primarily aimed at the part of world that has its own entitled opinion towards situations, circumstances and traditions that they have absolutely no idea or even inkling about.

But this book, this collection of essays is not written with the aim of blaming these human beings, but mainly to open their eyes and minds to the myriad of misconceptions the rest of world holds towards Islam as a religions and Islam as a tradition to the female population of this religion; especially the connotation of wearing a Burqa as an individual identity and as a religious identity.

Each and every essay in this collection is an eye – opening, hard hitting and emotional writings that does its job well – hold up a mirror to the truth that none of us, no matter what religion or traditions we follow, can deny – that the females in every society have their own struggles, their own problems and their own war over identity, freedom and traditions.


Despite the focus of this collection of essays being the British Muslim women; it is easy to see that their struggles, their lives and their thoughts and opinions is eerily similar to other sect of females in almost every religion and society in the world.

Therefore, this collection of essays does its job in two fold – it is an open invite for the entitled and privileged section of the world and it does it in a way to be more relatable to other females whose struggles mirror their own, just the religious identities might change.

This book is one I would urge everyone to read – regardless of what religion or caste or creed or gender you may belong to, because this collection of essays does what every piece of written word does – gives us the chance to learn and to grow as tolerant and non – judgemental human beings.



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