Al-Deen, Aminah BeverlyAyubi, ZahraHammer, JulianeHaqqani, ShehnazMajeed, DebraQuraishi-Landes, AsifaShahar, ZaynabYousuf, ShereenYousuf-Sadiq, NousheenAli, KeciaAli, Kecia2022-03-242022-03-24Kecia Ali, ed. Tying the knot: a Feminist/Womanist guide to Muslim marriage in America (Boston: OpenBU, 2022). https://hdl.handle.net/2144/44079https://hdl.handle.net/2144/44079"Tying the Knot" is a follow up to the open-access reader Half of Faith: American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century (Boston: OpenBU, 2021). https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42505"Tying the Knot: A Feminist/Womanist Guide to Muslim Marriage in America" is a follow up to the open-access reader "Half of Faith: American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century" (OpenBU, 2021; https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42505). The all-new work published here is geared toward American Muslims thinking about and planning for getting married and being married, with all the promise and pitfalls that entails. We cover topics including premarital counseling, marriage contracts, finding an officiant, interreligious marriages, mut‘ah, LGBTQ marriage, and wisdom from married women and widows from African American Muslim communities. The contributors to this volume are American Muslim cis women and non-binary scholars from a range of backgrounds and with a range of perspectives. Our ethic is informed and thoughtful engagement with a range of perspectives. We have more questions than answers. Those questions have emerged from our years—in some cases, decades—of engagement with diverse Muslim communities and organizations. In the essays collected here, we draw on both our academic expertise, where relevant, and our practical experiences to help frame and consider issues that arise in what is a complicated and fraught as well as exciting and joyful life transition. We span the gamut from weddings to widowhood, treating the latter as something anyone embarking on marriage should consider.en-USThe work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Muslim marriageAmerican MuslimsLGBTQ marriageInterreligious marriagesMut‘ahBook