Islam

Sacred texts and scholarly works illuminate the rich tapestry of Islamic faith, from ancient wisdom and mystical poetry to contemporary Muslim experiences around the globe. These pages explore Islamic history, philosophy, and spirituality while examining both traditional Islamic teachings and modern interpretations, including interfaith perspectives and personal journeys of faith.

Islam Book Summaries

Broken. Not a halal love story

by Fatima Bala

A Nigerian student collides with her best friend's brother in Toronto. Their desire tests her faith.

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🕌 Muslim Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn

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Broken. Not a halal love story

A Nigerian student collides with her best friend's brother in Toronto. Their desire tests her faith.

by Fatima Bala 2023 439 pages

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🕌 Muslim Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn

Islam

by Karen Armstrong • 2000

Political triumph, not suffering, became Islam's proof of God. That made decline a crisis of faith.

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🕌 Islamic History 🌍 Comparative Religion 🏛️ Political Theology

Immersive

Islam

Political triumph, not suffering, became Islam's proof of God. That made decline a crisis of faith.

by Karen Armstrong 2000 230 pages

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🕌 Islamic History 🌍 Comparative Religion 🏛️ Political Theology

Pakistan

by Anatol Lieven • 2011

Why Pakistan outlasts every prediction of its collapse: kinship, not government, runs the country.

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🗳️ South Asian Politics 👥 Kinship Politics 💬 Failed State Debate

Immersive

Pakistan

Why Pakistan outlasts every prediction of its collapse: kinship, not government, runs the country.

by Anatol Lieven 2011 592 pages

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🗳️ South Asian Politics 👥 Kinship Politics 💬 Failed State Debate

The Barakah Effect

by Mohammed Faris • 2023

30 minutes of work can beat three hours. The Islamic system where blessing replaces burnout.

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality ⏸️ Anti-Hustle Culture 🎯 Intention Setting

Immersive

The Barakah Effect

30 minutes of work can beat three hours. The Islamic system where blessing replaces burnout.

by Mohammed Faris 2023 450 pages

4.62

480 ratings

🕌 Islamic Spirituality ⏸️ Anti-Hustle Culture 🎯 Intention Setting

Muhammad

by Karen Armstrong • 2006

The prophet as peacemaker: how Muhammad's greatest victories were the wars he refused to fight.

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🕌 Prophetic Biography 📜 Early Islamic History ☪️ Interfaith Dialogue

Muhammad

The prophet as peacemaker: how Muhammad's greatest victories were the wars he refused to fight.

by Karen Armstrong 2006 256 pages

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🕌 Prophetic Biography 📜 Early Islamic History ☪️ Interfaith Dialogue

Reading Lolita in Tehran

by Azar Nafisi • 2003

Risking arrest, seven Iranian women gather weekly to read forbidden classics.

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🕌 Iranian Memoir 🇮🇷 Women In Iran 📖 Literary Memoir

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Risking arrest, seven Iranian women gather weekly to read forbidden classics.

by Azar Nafisi 2003 347 pages

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🕌 Iranian Memoir 🇮🇷 Women In Iran 📖 Literary Memoir

A History of Modern Iran

by Ervand Abrahamian • 2008

Iran: three revolutions, two shahs, one coup, and the unbroken drive to build a strong state.

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📜 Iranian History 🏗️ State Building 🏛️ Authoritarian Rule

A History of Modern Iran

Iran: three revolutions, two shahs, one coup, and the unbroken drive to build a strong state.

by Ervand Abrahamian 2008 228 pages

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📜 Iranian History 🏗️ State Building 🏛️ Authoritarian Rule

Reclaim Your Heart

by Yasmin Mogahed • 2012

Why your attachments keep breaking your heart, and how to find an anchor that holds.

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📿 Muslim Self-Help 🫀 Heart Purification

Reclaim Your Heart

Why your attachments keep breaking your heart, and how to find an anchor that holds.

by Yasmin Mogahed 2012 142 pages

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📿 Muslim Self-Help 🫀 Heart Purification

The Productive Muslim

by Mohammed Faris • 2016

Productivity fails without purpose. Islam supplies both the purpose and a practical method.

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🕌 Islamic Self-Help 📿 Faith And Productivity 🤲 Islamic Spirituality

The Productive Muslim

Productivity fails without purpose. Islam supplies both the purpose and a practical method.

by Mohammed Faris 2016 236 pages

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🕌 Islamic Self-Help 📿 Faith And Productivity 🤲 Islamic Spirituality

The Muqaddimah

by Ibn Khaldun • 1377

A 14th-century scholar mapped the hidden laws that make every dynasty rise and crumble.

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🏛️ Historiography 🤔 Philosophy Of History 📖 Social Theory

The Muqaddimah

A 14th-century scholar mapped the hidden laws that make every dynasty rise and crumble.

by Ibn Khaldun 1377 480 pages

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🏛️ Historiography 🤔 Philosophy Of History 📖 Social Theory

Everything Sad Is Untrue

by Daniel Nayeri • 2020

An Iranian refugee boy tells family legends to an Oklahoma school that sees only an outsider.

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📦 Refugee Narrative 🌱 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🌍 Iranian Diaspora

Everything Sad Is Untrue

An Iranian refugee boy tells family legends to an Oklahoma school that sees only an outsider.

by Daniel Nayeri 2020 368 pages

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📦 Refugee Narrative 🌱 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🌍 Iranian Diaspora

The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science

by Maurice Bucaille • 1976

A French doctor compares scripture to science: the Qur'an is uniquely accurate where the Bible errs.

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🕌 Quranic Exegesis 🛡️ Islamic Apologetics 🔬 Scientific Miracles

The Bible, the Qur'an, and Science

A French doctor compares scripture to science: the Qur'an is uniquely accurate where the Bible errs.

by Maurice Bucaille 1976 272 pages

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🕌 Quranic Exegesis 🛡️ Islamic Apologetics 🔬 Scientific Miracles

Secrets of Divine Love

by A. Helwa • 2020

Live Islam as intimacy, not ritual, and find a God who loves unconditionally.

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality ❤️ Divine Love 🌊 God'S Mercy

Secrets of Divine Love

Live Islam as intimacy, not ritual, and find a God who loves unconditionally.

by A. Helwa 2020 387 pages

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality ❤️ Divine Love 🌊 God'S Mercy

The Masnavi

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi • 1270

The soul is an exile; love is the homecoming. The 13th-century Sufi poem that maps the way.

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🔮 Sufi Mysticism 📜 Persian Poetry 🌊 Ego Dissolution

The Masnavi

The soul is an exile; love is the homecoming. The 13th-century Sufi poem that maps the way.

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1270 304 pages

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🔮 Sufi Mysticism 📜 Persian Poetry 🌊 Ego Dissolution

The Baburnama

by Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur • 1531

A Central Asian king conquered the land he hated and wrote it all down.

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👑 Mughal Empire 🏔️ Central Asian History 📜 Medieval Memoir

The Baburnama

A Central Asian king conquered the land he hated and wrote it all down.

by Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur 1531 608 pages

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👑 Mughal Empire 🏔️ Central Asian History 📜 Medieval Memoir

Destiny Disrupted

by Tamim Ansary • 2009

For centuries, Muslim empires were the center of the world. Then the story got rewritten.

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🕌 Islamic History 📖 Narrative History 🔄 Counter-Narrative

Destiny Disrupted

For centuries, Muslim empires were the center of the world. Then the story got rewritten.

by Tamim Ansary 2009 390 pages

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🕌 Islamic History 📖 Narrative History 🔄 Counter-Narrative

A History of God

by Karen Armstrong • 1993

Humans invented God, then redesigned him again and again. The full 4000-year story.

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🕌 Comparative Religion ✡️ Abrahamic Faiths 🧬 Anthropology Of Religion

A History of God

Humans invented God, then redesigned him again and again. The full 4000-year story.

by Karen Armstrong 1993 496 pages

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🕌 Comparative Religion ✡️ Abrahamic Faiths 🧬 Anthropology Of Religion

Medieval India

by Satish Chandra • 1997

The Mughal Empire: built by cannons, held by tolerance, broken by orthodoxy. Two centuries, one arc.

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🕌 Mughal Empire 🏰 Medieval India 👑 Imperial History

Medieval India

The Mughal Empire: built by cannons, held by tolerance, broken by orthodoxy. Two centuries, one arc.

by Satish Chandra 1997 550 pages

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🕌 Mughal Empire 🏰 Medieval India 👑 Imperial History

Defenders of the West

by Raymond Ibrahim • 2022

For a thousand years, Islam pushed into Europe. Eight forgotten warriors pushed back and won.

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✝️ Crusader History ⚔️ Medieval Warfare 🏰 Reconquista History

Defenders of the West

For a thousand years, Islam pushed into Europe. Eight forgotten warriors pushed back and won.

by Raymond Ibrahim 2022 352 pages

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✝️ Crusader History ⚔️ Medieval Warfare 🏰 Reconquista History

Avicenna's Medicine

by Avicenna • 1025

Four humors, nine temperaments: the medieval system returning to integrative clinics today.

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🧪 Humoral Medicine 🕌 Islamic Medicine 🌡️ Temperament Types

Avicenna's Medicine

Four humors, nine temperaments: the medieval system returning to integrative clinics today.

by Avicenna 1025 480 pages

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🧪 Humoral Medicine 🕌 Islamic Medicine 🌡️ Temperament Types

After the Prophet

by Lesley Hazleton • 2009

Islam's great schism began with a succession crisis, a scandal, and a grandson's massacre.

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🕌 Sunni-Shia Divide 📜 Early Islamic History 👑 Succession Crisis

After the Prophet

Islam's great schism began with a succession crisis, a scandal, and a grandson's massacre.

by Lesley Hazleton 2009 256 pages

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🕌 Sunni-Shia Divide 📜 Early Islamic History 👑 Succession Crisis

The Crusades

by Thomas Asbridge • 2010

The Crusades told from both sides: Christian and Muslim chronicles woven into one narrative.

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🏰 Medieval History 🛡️ Crusades ⚔️ Religious Warfare

The Crusades

The Crusades told from both sides: Christian and Muslim chronicles woven into one narrative.

by Thomas Asbridge 2010 784 pages

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🏰 Medieval History 🛡️ Crusades ⚔️ Religious Warfare

Black Wave

by Kim Ghattas • 2020

The 1979 contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran that dismantled a region’s cultural soul.

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🏛️ Middle Eastern History ⚔️ Saudi-Iran Rivalry 🕌 Sectarian Conflict

Black Wave

The 1979 contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran that dismantled a region’s cultural soul.

by Kim Ghattas 2020 400 pages

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🏛️ Middle Eastern History ⚔️ Saudi-Iran Rivalry 🕌 Sectarian Conflict

Not Without My Daughter

by Betty Mahmoody • 1987

Two weeks in Iran became forever. Her husband held the law. She held their daughter.

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🔗 Coercive Control 🏔️ Escape Memoirs 🕌 Islamic Patriarchy

Not Without My Daughter

Two weeks in Iran became forever. Her husband held the law. She held their daughter.

by Betty Mahmoody 1987 528 pages

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🔗 Coercive Control 🏔️ Escape Memoirs 🕌 Islamic Patriarchy

Message to the Blackman in America

by Elijah Muhammad • 1965

A Black God, a manufactured white race, and a detailed plan for economic and political separation.

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🕌 Nation Of Islam ✝️ Black Liberation Theology ✊🏿 Black Nationalism

Message to the Blackman in America

A Black God, a manufactured white race, and a detailed plan for economic and political separation.

by Elijah Muhammad 1965 386 pages

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🕌 Nation Of Islam ✝️ Black Liberation Theology ✊🏿 Black Nationalism

Ten Myths About Israel

by Ilan Pappé • 2017

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

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🇵🇸 Israel-Palestine 🏴 Settler Colonialism 📜 Historical Revisionism

Ten Myths About Israel

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

by Ilan Pappé 2017 192 pages

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🇵🇸 Israel-Palestine 🏴 Settler Colonialism 📜 Historical Revisionism

The Strange Death of Europe

by Douglas Murray • 2017

Europe is being remade through mass immigration, paralyzed by a guilt that forbids honest debate.

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🇪🇺 European Identity 🚢 Mass Migration

The Strange Death of Europe

Europe is being remade through mass immigration, paralyzed by a guilt that forbids honest debate.

by Douglas Murray 2017 352 pages

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🇪🇺 European Identity 🚢 Mass Migration

The Struggle for Pakistan

by Ayesha Jalal • 2014

Pakistan's founders left their demand vague. The military has exploited that ambiguity ever since.

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🕌 South Asian History 🌍 Postcolonial History 🇮🇳 Partition Of India

The Struggle for Pakistan

Pakistan's founders left their demand vague. The military has exploited that ambiguity ever since.

by Ayesha Jalal 2014 447 pages

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🕌 South Asian History 🌍 Postcolonial History 🇮🇳 Partition Of India

What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East

by Bernard Lewis • 2001

For centuries Islam led the world. Then, suddenly, it fell behind. A historian asks why.

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🧭 Islamic Civilization 📜 Middle Eastern History 🏗️ Modernization Failure

What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East

For centuries Islam led the world. Then, suddenly, it fell behind. A historian asks why.

by Bernard Lewis 2001 186 pages

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🧭 Islamic Civilization 📜 Middle Eastern History 🏗️ Modernization Failure

India Wins Freedom

by Abul Kalam Azad • 1978

How the Congress leadership lost the fight for a united India: an insider's account.

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🇮🇳 Indian Independence 💔 Partition Of India 🏛️ Secular Nationalism

India Wins Freedom

How the Congress leadership lost the fight for a united India: an insider's account.

by Abul Kalam Azad 1978 297 pages

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🇮🇳 Indian Independence 💔 Partition Of India 🏛️ Secular Nationalism

Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires

by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali • 1990

Why hunger is a spiritual technology and desire a discipline, from Islam's great psychologist.

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📜 Classical Islam 🧠 Moral Psychology

Al-Ghazali on Disciplining the Soul and on Breaking the Two Desires

Why hunger is a spiritual technology and desire a discipline, from Islam's great psychologist.

by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali 1990 370 pages

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📜 Classical Islam 🧠 Moral Psychology

Revive Your Heart

by Nouman Ali Khan • 2017

Faith that's just rules is dead. Here's how to put a living heart back inside your Islam.

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🧘 Islamic Spirituality 💖 Heart Purification ⚖️ Ethical Conduct

Revive Your Heart

Faith that's just rules is dead. Here's how to put a living heart back inside your Islam.

by Nouman Ali Khan 2017 192 pages

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🧘 Islamic Spirituality 💖 Heart Purification ⚖️ Ethical Conduct

The Ideal Muslimah

by Muhammad Ali al-Hashimi • 2010

How the Muslim woman builds Islamic character across worship, marriage, parenting, and community.

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🧕 Muslim Women 🤲 Islamic Character 👨👩👧👦 Family In Islam

The Ideal Muslimah

How the Muslim woman builds Islamic character across worship, marriage, parenting, and community.

by Muhammad Ali al-Hashimi 2010 538 pages

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🧕 Muslim Women 🤲 Islamic Character 👨👩👧👦 Family In Islam

The Clear Quran

by Mustafa Khattab • 2022

One God, one test, one judgment: a thematic translation that surfaces the Quran's unified message.

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📖 Quran Studies ☪️ Islamic Theology 📝 Scripture Translation

The Clear Quran

One God, one test, one judgment: a thematic translation that surfaces the Quran's unified message.

by Mustafa Khattab 2022 955 pages

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418 ratings

📖 Quran Studies ☪️ Islamic Theology 📝 Scripture Translation

The Koran

by Anonymous

One God, one final messenger: the revelation that calls every soul to judgment.

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📖 Sacred Texts 🕊️ Abrahamic Faiths ☝️ Monotheism

The Koran

One God, one final messenger: the revelation that calls every soul to judgment.

by Anonymous 463 pages

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📖 Sacred Texts 🕊️ Abrahamic Faiths ☝️ Monotheism

Iran Awakening

by Shirin Ebadi • 2006

Iran stripped her of her judgeship. She became the regime's most dangerous opponent: a lawyer.

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🧕 Iranian Women 🏛️ Post-Revolutionary Iran 📜 Islamic Feminism

Iran Awakening

Iran stripped her of her judgeship. She became the regime's most dangerous opponent: a lawyer.

by Shirin Ebadi 2006 256 pages

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🧕 Iranian Women 🏛️ Post-Revolutionary Iran 📜 Islamic Feminism

"Believing Women" in Islam

by Asma Barlas • 2002

The Qur'an's patriarchy was written by men, not God.

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☪️ Islamic Theology 📖 Quranic Studies 🧕 Islamic Feminism

"Believing Women" in Islam

The Qur'an's patriarchy was written by men, not God.

by Asma Barlas 2002 274 pages

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☪️ Islamic Theology 📖 Quranic Studies 🧕 Islamic Feminism

Khomeinism

by Ervand Abrahamian • 1993

The Islamic Republic was never fundamentalist. It was populist, and that explains everything.

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🏴 Iranian Revolution 🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🗳️ Populism

Khomeinism

The Islamic Republic was never fundamentalist. It was populist, and that explains everything.

by Ervand Abrahamian 1993 200 pages

3.89

171 ratings

🏴 Iranian Revolution 🇮🇷 Modern Iran 🗳️ Populism

The Koran

by Michael A. Cook • 2000

Why the Koran is recited, not read, and worn copies are buried, not discarded.

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📖 Quranic Studies 🕌 Islamic Scripture 📜 Religious Texts

The Koran

Why the Koran is recited, not read, and worn copies are buried, not discarded.

by Michael A. Cook 2000 176 pages

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📖 Quranic Studies 🕌 Islamic Scripture 📜 Religious Texts

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

by Shannon Chakraborty • 2023

Retired pirate captain takes a rescue job pitting her against a sorcerer and her demon ex-husband.

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🏴‍☠️ Retired Pirate Captain 🖤 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother On A Mission

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

Retired pirate captain takes a rescue job pitting her against a sorcerer and her demon ex-husband.

by Shannon Chakraborty 2023 483 pages

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🏴‍☠️ Retired Pirate Captain 🖤 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother On A Mission

The Shia Revival

by Vali Nasr • 2006

America's Iraq invasion accidentally broke a 1,400-year Sunni order. Iran seized the opening.

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🕌 Sectarian Conflict 📜 Islamic History 🖐️ Shia Identity

The Shia Revival

America's Iraq invasion accidentally broke a 1,400-year Sunni order. Iran seized the opening.

by Vali Nasr 2006 314 pages

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2k+ ratings

🕌 Sectarian Conflict 📜 Islamic History 🖐️ Shia Identity

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ

by Hooman Majd • 2008

Iran's paradoxes are a platform, not a bug, built from Shia ritual and Persian pride.

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🇮🇷 Iranian Politics 🕌 Shia Islam 🏡 Persian Culture

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ

Iran's paradoxes are a platform, not a bug, built from Shia ritual and Persian pride.

by Hooman Majd 2008 272 pages

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🇮🇷 Iranian Politics 🕌 Shia Islam 🏡 Persian Culture

In The Early Hours

by Khurram Murad • 2000

A guide to inner purification, constant remembrance of God, and living by the Prophet's example.

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 🧹 Spiritual Purification 🤲 Prophetic Example

In The Early Hours

A guide to inner purification, constant remembrance of God, and living by the Prophet's example.

by Khurram Murad 2000 148 pages

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500+ ratings

🕌 Islamic Spirituality 🧹 Spiritual Purification 🤲 Prophetic Example

The Road to Mecca

by Muhammad Asad • 1954

Beneath the Arabian sky, an Austrian journalist felt four thousand years of ancestral memory return.

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📖 Spiritual Memoir 🏜️ Desert Spirituality

The Road to Mecca

Beneath the Arabian sky, an Austrian journalist felt four thousand years of ancestral memory return.

by Muhammad Asad 1954 375 pages

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📖 Spiritual Memoir 🏜️ Desert Spirituality

Masnavi I Ma'navi

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi • 1273

How a 13th-century Sufi's love stories dissolve what the intellect cannot touch.

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🕌 Sufism 📜 Persian Poetry 💖 Divine Love

Masnavi I Ma'navi

How a 13th-century Sufi's love stories dissolve what the intellect cannot touch.

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1273 483 pages

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4k+ ratings

🕌 Sufism 📜 Persian Poetry 💖 Divine Love

El Filibusterismo Comics

by José Rizal • 2017

An illustrated treasury of Sa'di's timeless parables on justice, contentment, and the art of living.

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🕌 Sufi Wisdom 📜 Persian Poetry 🎨 Illustrated Classic

El Filibusterismo Comics

An illustrated treasury of Sa'di's timeless parables on justice, contentment, and the art of living.

by José Rizal 2017 53 pages

3.81

135 ratings

🕌 Sufi Wisdom 📜 Persian Poetry 🎨 Illustrated Classic

Rumi's Little Book of Wisdom

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi • 2021

Love, lose, listen: Rumi's pocket guide to dissolving the self and finding the divine.

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📜 Sufi Poetry 🔮 Mystical Poetry 💖 Divine Love

Rumi's Little Book of Wisdom

Love, lose, listen: Rumi's pocket guide to dissolving the self and finding the divine.

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 2021 203 pages

3.51

225 ratings

📜 Sufi Poetry 🔮 Mystical Poetry 💖 Divine Love

Sex and Lies

by Leïla Slimani • 2017

Morocco demands female purity while excusing male excess. The women bearing the cost finally speak.

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🕌 Women In Islam 🔒 Virginity Culture 🔇 Sexual Repression

Sex and Lies

Morocco demands female purity while excusing male excess. The women bearing the cost finally speak.

by Leïla Slimani 2017

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5k+ ratings

🕌 Women In Islam 🔒 Virginity Culture 🔇 Sexual Repression

Ibn Khaldun

by Robert Irwin • 2018

The 14th-century thinker who discovered why civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles.

3.68

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🕌 Medieval Islam 👑 Dynastic Cycles 🔍 Historical Methodology

Ibn Khaldun

The 14th-century thinker who discovered why civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles.

by Robert Irwin 2018 256 pages

3.68

356 ratings

🕌 Medieval Islam 👑 Dynastic Cycles 🔍 Historical Methodology

بیست و سه سال

by علی دشتی • 1974

He denied performing miracles. A critical life of Mohammad and the politics that built Islam.

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🏛️ Islamic History 🕌 Prophetic Biography 🔍 Historical Criticism

بیست و سه سال

He denied performing miracles. A critical life of Mohammad and the politics that built Islam.

by علی دشتی 1974 339 pages

4.01

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Islamic History 🕌 Prophetic Biography 🔍 Historical Criticism

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