The Koran and the Flesh

'A moving, courageous voice ... Muslims and others alike need to listen to him' Observer 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. Having found it impossible in that society to be both religious and true to himself, and being abandoned by a fellow