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He lost his faith in the Mediterranean. He found a new one on the Bridge of the Enterprise. Hamid Rahman survived the crossing from Syria to England, but his belief in God drowned somewhere in the dark waters of the Channel. Now living in Birmingham, trapped in the grim bureaucracy of the asylum system, Hamid is a man spiritually orphaned - unable to accept the rigid certainty of the local mosque, yet crushed by the loneliness of doubt. Then, a chance encounter with a British convert introduces him to an unexpected source of moral wisdom: Star Trek. In the logic of Spock, the compassion of Kirk, and the bridge-building communication of Lieutenant Uhura, Hamid begins to see a new way to live. He begins to write a ""Captain's Log"" for his own life, navigating the hostile territory of displacement using Starfleet protocols. But can a fictional utopia really sustain a man facing real-world prejudice, family conflict, and the rise of extremism? The Gospel According to Uhura is a moving, unexpected novel about the stories we tell to survive, and how the search for ""strange new worlds"" can sometimes lead us home

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