Visiting Assistant Professor Asma T. Uddin’s book, When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom, has been selected by the University of Missouri School of Law (Mizzou Law) as their 2022-2023 One Read title. It was selected because it discusses the constitutional values of religious freedom for people of all faiths and explores the tensions that press on this American idea. Professor Uddin defends people of all religious faiths so that all can live and worship freely. She will be speaking with the Mizzou Law community in person on November 7.

Mizzou Law’s One Read program chooses one book each year to read together as a law school community. It began in 2015 (the year after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri) as a way of recognizing the importance of attorneys being exposed to and aware of aspects of the world beyond their own daily experiences, and to facilitate this understanding and strengthen the Mizzou Law community. One Read provides a focus for conversations and events within the law school exploring the issues of race and the experience of “otherness.”