My Story as a Muslim Immigrant in America

This book is a great story told about India, Pakistan, Scotland, and St. Louis (Missouri), related by a talented writer born in India who emigrated to the U.S. where he enjoyed a long career as a psychiatrist, medical director, public speaker, and author on mental health. It is an important book on Islamic issues and Muslim culture. An adventurous spirit took the author from a humble beginning in Pakistan to the highest education in the United States. It was Basheer Ahmed’s incessant wish to learn which brought him around the world. Originally born in India, he left Hyderabad to pursue higher education in Pakistan. Here began his introduction to cultural diversity as he attended medical school in Karachi which was at the time like a laboratory of political and religious diversity (p. 45). Very soon, after finishing his medical studies, he had the opportunity to work as a physician on a ship destined for Makkah and thus had a chance to stay in Saudi Arabia to do the Hajj himself – an experience which changed his life.