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Islam: Culture, Diversity, and Religion
Islam is the second-largest world religion. These books explore the religion, the current struggles the Muslim community is facing, and its influence in people's lives in their own voices as written in memoirs.
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The Life of the Qurʼan: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy
2024 by Jebara, MohamadGet this itemIslamic scholar Mohamad Jebara presents an accessible and well-researched biography of the Qur’an, from its origins in a series of holy revelations received by the Prophet Muhammad beginning in 610 CE to today. Suggested by Rummanah.
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The Islamic Moses: How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change the World
2024 by Akyol, MustafaGet this itemJournalist Mustafa Akyol draws theological, philosophical, and cultural links between Islam and Judaism in this innovative study inspired by the Prophet central to both faiths. Suggested by Rummanah.
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30 Rights of Muslim Women: A Trusted Guide
2024 by Khan, DaisyGet this itemDaisy Khan, founder of the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, cites verses from the Quran and the Hadith, writings by religious scholars and jurists, and latter-day feminist intellectuals to argue that Islam reserves 30 crucial rights for women that have often been overlooked in Muslim society. Suggested by Rummanah.
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Woman, Life, Freedom
2024 by Satrapi, MarjaneGet this itemAn eye-opening and highly political graphic novel that provides history and everything you need to know to understand the current Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran. The movement began after the murder of Mahsa Amini on Sept 16, 2022, by the Iranian morality police for not wearing the veil in accordance with Iranian law. Suggested by Rummanah.
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A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
2024 by Cook, MichaelGet this itemMichael Cook, a professor of Near Eastern studies, describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. Kirkus Reviews calls it, "a timely, wide-ranging examination of the Muslim world." Suggested by Rummanah.
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Being Muslim Today: Reclaiming the Faith from Orthodoxy and Islamophobia
2024 by Qureshi, Saqib IqbalGet this itemIn his thought-provoking work, Saqib Iqbal Qureshi provides a critical assessment of modern Islam and argues how modern Islamic orthodoxy and Islamophobia warped perceptions of Islam into something it is not. Suggested by Rummanah.
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Sorry for the Inconvenience
2024 by Rishi, Farah NazGet this itemYoung adult author Farah Naz Rishi pens a candid and moving memoir of about growing up Pakistani Muslim American, tradition, upending expectations, and the volatility of family, friendship, loss, and love. Suggested by Rummanah.
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Desified: Delicious Recipes for Ramadan, Eid & Every Day
2024 by Din, ZaynahGet this itemInspired by the core principles of Ramadan, this book has more than 90 recipes, including show-stopping breakfasts, simple and satisfying dinners, and feasting dishes to share. Whether you're looking for the best ways to break your fast or you simply want to eat well throughout the year, a desi twist is always delicious. Suggested by Rummanah.
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
2023 by Izgil, Tahir HamutGet this itemWinner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, Tahir Hamut Izgil is among the leading Uyghur intellectuals and writers. He is the only one known to have escaped China since the mass internments of Uyghur Muslims began. His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe, and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced. To get an inside look of what life is like in a Chinese internment camp, see Fahmida Azim's graphic novella "I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp." Suggested by Rummanah.
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From Here
2023 by Mufleh, LumaGet this itemLuma Mufleh, a refugee advocate who runs the nonprofit organization, Fugees Family, recounts her own inner struggle to come to terms with her identity as a gay Arab Muslim woman. Suggested by Rummanah.
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Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
2022 by Abdelmahmoud, ElaminGet this itemIn this candid and witty memoir, BuzzFeed culture writer Elamin Abdelmahmoud touches on such topics as Blackness, faith, and pop culture as he explores how our experiences and our environments help us in the continuous task of defining who we really are. Suggested by Rummanah.
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In Sensorium: Notes for My People
2022 by Islam, Tanwi NandiniGet this itemThe author, a self-described "American Bangladeshi Muslim femme," has written an ambitious, lyrical memoir that seeks to embrace multitudes. Perfume, its redolent allure and tangled history, is used as a lens through which the book explores, as Publisher's Weekly so aptly puts it, "exile and liberation." Suggested by Chris.
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Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas
2021 by Mouallem, OmarGet this itemA Canadian writer who has a complicated relationship with his faith visits 13 mosque communities, from Brazil to the Arctic. "Omar Mouallem has excavated so many buried stories of Islam’s relationship with this part of the world, and in doing so created a timely, vital, and thoroughly readable biography" (Omar El Akkad). Suggested by Andrew.
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
2020 by Payne, LesGet this itemThis Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, based on nearly three decades of assiduous research, offers a comprehensive look into the life of Malcolm X/El-hajj Malik El Shabazz, that strips away the iconic layers to present a rich, nuanced portrait of one of America's most famous and transformative Muslims. Suggested by Chris.
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