New Title: Sex, Drugs, and the Quran A Memoir and a Manifesto – Misha Euceph

Book Blurb says

A revolutionary vision of Islam and Muslim identity, revealing a religion that isn’t just compatible with progressive ideas about sex and politics, but which actually got there first—and got erased for it.

Did you know the Quran granted women the right to divorce in the 600s? Or that it treats sex as a form of worship? And even that it warned against exploiting the environment centuries before “sustainability” became a hashtag?

In Sex, Drugs, and the Quran, Misha Euceph redefines this 1,400-year-old spiritual text for the 21st century, turning the pages of the Quran to show its relevance for all of us. From Prophet Muhammad’s fight against the oligarchs of his time, to Islam’s reverence for nature, to the belief in the interconnectedness of us all, this memoir and manifesto sets the record straight on the world’s most misrepresented religion by tracing its impact on the author’s own life. Through one woman’s journey from girlhood to motherhood, from a childhood in Pakistan to an adolescence in Los Angeles, and from calling herself “culturally Muslim” to simply calling herself Muslim, Sex, Drugs, and the Quran shows that this ancient faith can serve as the blueprint for a kinder, more equitable world.

Misha Euceph

Misha Euceph is a Pakistani-American writer and podcaster making things that wrestle with belief and disbelief. She’s the founder and CEO of Dustlight Productions, and a Webby, Tribeca, and DuPont Award winner and the creator and host of Tell Them, I Am — an audio series about the small moments that define us, told entirely through Muslim voices. The New York Times called Tell Them, I Am “hypnotic,” the LA Times called it “quietly revolutionary,” and it landed on best-of-the-year lists everywhere from TIME to Rolling Stone.

Misha has also show-run podcasts like Mother Country Radicals, Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen’s Renegades: Born in the USA, The Michelle Obama Podcast, video series like The Seeds with Alana Hadid, and — most recently — Mehdi Hasan’s We’re Not Kidding, which won a Signal Award. Across her podcasts, she’s racked up tens of millions of views and listens.

When she’s not podcasting, Misha runs Quran Book Club on Instagram, writes the Substack newsletter Catching the Ghost, and makes Tik-Toks about philosophy and religion that rack up hundreds of thousands of views. She’s previously written for McSweeney’s and the Wall Street Journal.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and dog.