Muslims

A Muslim, sometimes spelled Moslem, relates to a person who follows the religion of Islam, a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion based on the Quran. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad. They also follow the sunnah teachings and practices of Muhammad as recorded in traditional accounts called hadith. "Muslim" is an Arabic word meaning "one who submits (to God)". A female Muslim is sometimes called a Muslimah. There are customs holding that a man and woman or teenager and adolescent above the age of fifteen of a luna ...more

Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged (Sofia Khan #1)
American Dervish
The Ruins of Us
Watched
The Unquiet Dead (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #1)
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
The Good Muslim (Bangla Desh, #2)
Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors (A Muslim Book Of Concepts)
Bright Lines
Kingdom of Strangers (Nayir Sharqi & Katya Hijazi #3)
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
The Garden of My Imaan
A Beautiful Lie
Just a Drop of Water
The Conference of the Birds
Love from A to Z (A Coming-of-Age Romance)
Ayesha at Last
The Proudest Blue
The Kite Runner
Other Words for Home
Saints and Misfits
Huda F Are You?
Once Upon an Eid
Does My Head Look Big In This?
Amina's Voice
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Hana Khan Carries On
All My Rage
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Hijab Butch Blues
Moon Called by Patricia BriggsCry Wolf by Patricia BriggsValentine by Julie ManninoLittle Red Riding Hood by Julie ManninoAngel Devil by Julie Mannino
Diverse Genre Romances
278 books — 77 voters
Written in the Stars by Aisha SaeedA Time to Dance by Padma VenkatramanThe Love Match by Priyanka TaslimBorn Confused by Tanuja Desai HidierWhen Mimi Went Missing by Suja Sukumar
South Asians in Contemporary YA
169 books — 89 voters

The Caliph's House by Tahir ShahBrideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughDreams of Trespass by Fatima MernissiHideous Kinky by Esther FreudThe Button Box by Bridget Hodder
Books Set in Morocco
138 books — 107 voters

I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiLove in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra JanmohamedThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiIran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
Memoirs by Muslim women
31 books — 28 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonJamilia by Chingiz AitmatovMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Books Set in the -stan Countries
333 books — 172 voters


Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse aspects of thought not previously done, in a powerful and consistent way, despite surrounding ignorance and opposition. This criterion we think would include all prophets and their true followers among the Muslim scholars. He is both a great and original thinker who brings new meanings and interpreta ...more
Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud, Filsafat dan Praktik Pendidikan Islam Syed M. Naquib Al-Attas

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