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The Daughter of a Muslim Man: A Novel of Faith, Family, and Finding God
Paperback
Christian FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Leila Ahmadi has always known where she comes from.
She is the daughter of an Iranian Muslim family, raised in Houston between Persian traditions, family expectations, prayer, and a faith that has been part of her life for as long as she can remember. She loves her parents. She loves the life they built. And she has never thought of herself as someone searching for God.
Then she meets Patricia.
A mother whose child is fighting for his life, Patricia carries an unexpected kind of peace. Not certainty that everything will be fine. Not denial. Something deeper. A faith that seems to hold even when everything else falls apart.
Leila cannot stop thinking about it.
One conversation leads to another. Then comes a Bible study. The Gospel of John. Questions she never thought to ask. Prayers she is suddenly afraid to say out loud.
And somewhere along the way, curiosity becomes belief.
For the first time in her life, Leila feels that she may have found something that belongs entirely to her. But there is a cost to discovering a faith of your own when the people you love have already given you one.
How do you tell your father?
How do you explain yourself to your mother?
And how do you follow a new path without pretending that the old one never shaped you?
As Leila's secret becomes impossible to keep, her family is forced to confront something none of them expected. Leila is changing, but she is not disappearing. She is still their daughter. Still Persian. Still part of the family.
The Daughter of a Muslim Man is an intimate story about the dangerous beauty of asking what you truly believe, the complicated bonds between parents and children, and the search for a faith that feels chosen rather than inherited.
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