Yasmin Mogahed

Reclaim Your Heart is about attachment, in the Islamic sense: that suffering comes largely from anchoring the heart to things that were always going to move.

Mogahed studied journalism and psychology and taught at Islamic institutions in the United States, and writes for a Muslim readership without assuming scholarly training in it.

The register is closer to reflection than instruction, and the chapters on grief and on unanswered prayer are the ones readers quote. It travels well beyond its intended audience, though it never pretends to be written for anyone else.