This paper explores the role of Islam in Robin Yassin-Kassab’s 2008 novel The Road From Damascus. This novel address the role of Islam in the Arab and Muslim identity in the West. Contrary to Pierre Cachia’s argument, this novel illustrates the role of Islam in the configuration of Arab Muslim identity. Specifically, I will trace how this novel challenges Islam as a construct and dogma and offers a reconfiguration of Islam that mirrors the multiple manifestations of Muslim identity and of Islam as a lived faith. The novel engages the question of identity through the use of Islam as a framing device. In the novel, Islam emerges as an important factor in the constitution of individual and collective identity. However, it challenges the configuration of Islam as a construct that is employed in the service of political and social aims and does not reflect the lived experiences of the faith. The Road From Damascus traces multiple manifestations of the faith and the way in which it is negotiated and renegotiated across time and in response to the life experiences of the various characters. The Road From Damascus revolves around questions of representation in the contemporary setting where globalization has brought different cultural worldviews into contact, at times producing dialogue and constructive exchange and at other times leading to discernible violence, engendering a more pronounced sense of alienation and exclusion. Arabs and Muslims living in the West, in particular, face this challenge. In the novel, Islam, as a religious identity, offers a space to configure a narrative of self that addresses this sense of alienation and produces a more complex sense of belonging. This text expresses the ways in which one aspect of an identity, in this paper a religious identity, is part of a larger constellation of relationships, to borrow from Margaret R. Somers. Examining identity through this lens provides a conduit to explore and deconstruct boundaries and to call for a process of mutual recognition. I will trace how this novel utilizes Islam as an organizing principle to negotiate and construct narratives of self that counter those that have been constructed for and against Arabs and Muslims.