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On The Table Read, “the best book magazine in the UK“, new book, Diary Of A Muslim Nobody by Reaz Rahman, explores one man’s journey to find his place in the world.
Reaz Rahman’s ‘Diary of a Muslim Nobody’ is a compelling, reflective look at the world through one man’s eyes – its language, human relationships and spirituality. Rahman has spent a lifetime fascinated with how the small pieces of life and language come together to orchestrate the individual experience and wider human condition. This is a powerful book designed to leave readers with plenty to think about.
It’s extremely tough to squeeze Reaz Rahman’s new book into any particular genre. In fact, just like humanity itself, ‘Diary of a Muslim Nobody’ is a multi-faceted journey through time, place and person.
It was written to help readers better understand how they fit into the world around them, and how even the universe’s smallest pieces play a vital part in the grand scheme of life itself.
Diary Of A Muslim Nobody
Diary of a Muslim Nobody attempts to reach out to society as a whole, regardless of affiliations and the social constructs of the labels we place ourselves in, with the intention to reach out to the commonality of the human experience.
Interweaving between personal reflections of the human experience and commentary of global issues with touches of affection & humour through his relationship with his parents, Reaz attempts to demonstrate the multiplicity of experiences as we live our everyday lives.
Reaz Rahman
I have always been very aware of the power of language and the potential of its impact upon our own selves as individuals, our relationships and interactions and indeed our perceptions. Perhaps the intrinsic relationship between our language and humankind may be best understood when we consider letters, by themselves, important in their own entity and when placed together becoming even more powerful to become words – giving them substance and meaning.
In this instance, human beings may be aligned to letters – each important within our right and when we recognise our own value, we are then able to understand this in context to our relationship to one another. In that moment we are able to have the most profound and positive of impact in our own lives and in the lives of others around us.
The Human Experience
Unlike the majority of books presented in the mainstream from an Islamic/Muslim perspective, I am not writing from a position where I claim any scholarly or religious knowledge of any notable level. I wanted to write a book that appeals to the commonality of the human experience, deeply personal in some parts whilst presenting a social commentary on the world at large in others.
As human beings each and every one of us our perspectives and personal struggles and we are all shaped by the world around us, whilst our differences are many that which binds is together is much more and often more obviously apparent when we look just slightly beyond the superficial levels on which much of society often operates.
Representative Of The Everyday Person
Diary of a Muslim Nobody from this perspective is a representative of the everyday person reaching out to evoke the reader into questioning and reflecting on what our universal truths are(?) and how our humanity can intimately connect to understand ourselves and our one world. (?)
From relatable family conversations that evoke comedic humility and simple life lessons to powerful spoken word poetry on topics of social injustice and deeper reflections on life and it’s connections Diary of a Muslim Nobody isn’t easily categorised into a genre and therein is the very point of the book – just as it seeks to appeal and relate on different levels it seeks to reflect the multiplicity of the human experience and the different levels on which we all operate and live.
With a ‘readers notes’ section to write a commentary and thoughts on what Reaz himself has written on every left side page, The Diary of a Muslim Nobody serves as a platform to encourage a uniquely involved experience – inviting the reader to reflect, challenge, comment on the topics and writing and continue the conversations in reading groups and into wider society…
About Reaz Rahman
The author is British Bangladeshi, and grew up on the border of East London & Essex.
The author works as a behavioural mentor with some of London’s most social and economically challenged young people in a Hackney independent sixth form.
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