![]() What endears me to memoirs about belief is when they're written with profound candor-ditching any sense of "holier than thou." You can see it in Kathleen Norris's classic The Cloister Walk and Shalom Auslander's caustic Foreskin's Lament. ![]() Fortunately, a Pakistani Muslim psychiatrist was able to clue him into what else was weighing him down: bipolar disorder. Originally triggered by adolescent feelings of love and lust, his dark night of the soul grew over time to swallow his marriage, mind and nearly his life. While that's an undesirable spotlight for anyone to occupy, it caught Moghul in the midst of an ongoing crisis of faith, one that began when he was a teen and frequently left him wondering if he was a fraud. Haroon Moghul was 20-something and leading New York University's Islamic Center when his religion became a lightning rod for social and political ire. ![]() Being a religious leader raises those stakes, especially if you're a Muslim one prodded in front of cameras after 9/11. Leadership is always a tough position to take. ![]()
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