What do you think?
Rate this book
Queer and Muslim: On Faith, Family, and Healing
What does it mean to be queer and Muslim in a world that insists you cannot be both?
Queer and Muslim is a powerful collection by and for LGBTQ+ Muslims navigating layered identities across lines of faith, family, culture, and community. With contributions spanning essays, poems, letters to past and future selves, and more, the book explores the emotional and spiritual dimensions of queer Muslim life and challenges the perception that faith and queerness are inherently incompatible.
These raw accounts confront the psychological toll of grappling with tensions between religious expectations and queer identity and offer rare insight into the ways mental health is lived, expressed, and supported across diverse cultural and theological landscapes. They tell of building chosen families and reconnecting with birth families, radical healing, cultivating spaces of belonging, and reclaiming faith on your own terms.
In an era of rising Islamophobia and escalating threats to queer and trans lives, the stories contained within Queer and Muslim-stories of resilience, grief, pleasure, rage, and joy-are vital, each of them an affirmation of the multiplicity of queer Muslim identities. Queer and Muslim invites readers to listen deeply, think expansively, and care more courageously.
Read more
Queer and Muslim is a powerful collection by and for LGBTQ+ Muslims navigating layered identities across lines of faith, family, culture, and community. With contributions spanning essays, poems, letters to past and future selves, and more, the book explores the emotional and spiritual dimensions of queer Muslim life and challenges the perception that faith and queerness are inherently incompatible.
These raw accounts confront the psychological toll of grappling with tensions between religious expectations and queer identity and offer rare insight into the ways mental health is lived, expressed, and supported across diverse cultural and theological landscapes. They tell of building chosen families and reconnecting with birth families, radical healing, cultivating spaces of belonging, and reclaiming faith on your own terms.
In an era of rising Islamophobia and escalating threats to queer and trans lives, the stories contained within Queer and Muslim-stories of resilience, grief, pleasure, rage, and joy-are vital, each of them an affirmation of the multiplicity of queer Muslim identities. Queer and Muslim invites readers to listen deeply, think expansively, and care more courageously.
Read more
216 pages, Hardcover
Published April 21, 2026
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 1 of 1 review
August 21, 2026
First off, I am not Muslim. But I wanted to pick up this book because the views on queer identity through from Muslim persons is something that I don't know about. So I picked us up wanting to learn with an open mind the views in this book.
There were some very interesting stories and views within the different works in the book that I thought were very interesting. Thought-provoking and well worth the read.
Being a member of the queer community, there are aspects that I just personally did not see as a part of the queer experience, and this book seemed to espouse that every single queer person has that experience. But from amongst my friends and other members of the community that I know we would all disagree. And that had to do with the sections on substances. If that was a part of their experience it is valid and I'm glad it helped them discover themselves. But I did not agree with the insinuation that every single queer person has to experience substance in some way to affirm themselves. That was sort of the vibe I got from those sections.
Overall I do think is a very good read. Very interesting read. And if you're somebody like me who is not Muslim and is curious about the views on queer identity from Muslim people by Muslim people, I would 100% recommend this book.
There were some very interesting stories and views within the different works in the book that I thought were very interesting. Thought-provoking and well worth the read.
Being a member of the queer community, there are aspects that I just personally did not see as a part of the queer experience, and this book seemed to espouse that every single queer person has that experience. But from amongst my friends and other members of the community that I know we would all disagree. And that had to do with the sections on substances. If that was a part of their experience it is valid and I'm glad it helped them discover themselves. But I did not agree with the insinuation that every single queer person has to experience substance in some way to affirm themselves. That was sort of the vibe I got from those sections.
Overall I do think is a very good read. Very interesting read. And if you're somebody like me who is not Muslim and is curious about the views on queer identity from Muslim people by Muslim people, I would 100% recommend this book.
Displaying 1 - 1 of 1 review