Editor Khan and other British or Britishish Muslim women share knowledge and experiences living while Muslim. The contributors hold a range of racial and sexuality identities and write in different styles. I prefer personal narratives, which comprise probably half (or more?) of the entries.

My savior box was ticked with these sentences from Mona Eltahawy in "Too Loud, Swears Too Much and Goes Too Far"

When I was nineteen, I finally found, among the books and journals in the library of the university I attended in Jeddah, the word--feminism--that would give me a way to fight back. Feminism saved my mind. There was no women's or gender studies department at the university, so I imagined a renegade librarian or professor had put those books and journals there.

She also writes

Revolutions "go too far": if your community is ready for you, then you are too late.

We have our orders!

Coco Khan's entry "Immodesty Is the Best Policy" is funny.

I am curious what happens on these platforms [online matrimonial sites], imagining an ocean of aunties writing slightly insulting profiles of their daughters and nieces. I can see Auntie B's listing for me: "Looking for a man to bring wayward niece back to the light. She cannot cook, likes to argue and could be slimmer."

And here's a fun fact from Sufiya Ahmed in "The First Feminist"

the person credited for founding the first degree-awarding educational institution in the world, the in Fes, Morocco, in the year 859, was a Muslim woman."

And a funny because it's true

Islam sees women as practical in matters of divorce; we think deeply before leaving a man. Men can be hot-headed. Women, less so.