Recommended Readings
19 January 2009
General Islam
- The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook
By Dilara Hafiz, Imran Hafiz, and Yasmine Hafiz. Acacia Publishing (2007).
MPV Book Review - Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
By Mark Levine. Three Rivers Press (2008).
MPV Book Review - Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam
- Noel J. Coulson, A History of Islamic Law
- Reza Aslan, No God but God
- Akbar S. Ahmed, Postmodernism and Islam
- Progressive Muslims
Omid Safi (Editor) - Hassan Hathout, Reading the Muslim Mind
- Tariq Ramadan, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam
- Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust
Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny, and Azizan Baharuddin (Editors), Center for the Study of World Religions (2003)
Islam and Politics
- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari’a
Book Review (external site -- not affiliated with MPV)
Prophet Muhammad
- Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
- Karen Armstrong, Muhammad - A Prophet for Our Time
Women in Islam
- Asma Barlas, “Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an
- Fatima Mernissi, Forgotten Queens of Islam
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad
- Jennifer Heath Collum, The Scimitar and the Veil
- Kecia Ali, Sexual Ethics and Islam
- Khaled Abou El Fadl, Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women
- Asra Nomani, Standing Alone in Mecca
- Fatima Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite
Fiction and Poetry
- Naguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy
- Mohja Kahf, Emails from Scheherazad
- Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
- Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
- Sarah Husain, ed., Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality
