Islamic Heritage Month - Adults

1) Allah, liberty and love: the courage to reconcile faith and freedom

Author

Manji, Irshad

2) The beauty of your face: a novel

Author

Mustafah, Sahar

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"A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut. A uniquely American story told in powerful, evocative prose, The Beauty of Your Face navigates a country growing ever more divided. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs. One morning, a shooter -- radicalized...

3) Bird summons

Author

Aboulela, Leila

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When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when she's contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni...

4) The Cambridge illustrated history of the Islamic world

Series

Cambridge illustrated history

5) The complete illustrated guide to Islam: a comprehensive guide to the history, philosophy and practice of Islam around the world, with more than 500 beautiful illustrations

Author

Bokhari, Raana

6) Don't label me: an incredible conversation for divided times

Author

Manji, Irshad

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"Charming and disarming, a story like this heals the divides that threaten to destroy America. Don't Label Me speaks for all of us who are more than the boxes that others put us into." — Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author.

A unique conversation about diversity, bigotry, and our common humanity, by the New York Timesbestselling author, Oprah "Chutzpah" award-winner, and founder

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7) Eat, habibi, eat!: fresh recipes for modern Egyptian cooking

Author

Massoud, Shahir

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Discover innovative, flavour-packed recipes for Middle Eastern dishes, inspired by author Shahir Massoud's Egyptian upbringing. From home-friendly adaptations of street foods and casual everyday staples, to new interpretations of traditional recipes, 'Eat, Habibi, Eat!' encourages you to explore delicious new dishes at home.

8) Elsewhere, home

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Aboulela, Leila

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"Since her award-winning debut novel, Minaret, Leila Aboulela has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith, Aminatta Forna, and Anthony Marra among others for her rich and nuanced depictions of Islamic spiritual and political life. Her latest collection, Elsewhere, Home, draws us ineluctably into the lives of immigrants at home and abroad as they forge new identities and reshape old ones. A young woman's encounter with a former classmate elicits painful...

9) An emotion of great delight: a novel

Author

Mafi, Tahereh

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It's 2003, several months since the US officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Tensions are high, hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. She's too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the time to deal with bigots. Shadi is named for joy, but she's haunted by sorrow....

10) Excellent daughters: the secret lives of young women who are transforming the Arab world

Author

Zoepf, Katherine

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"The never-before-reported story of this generation of Arab women, who are questioning authority, changing societies, and leading revolutions. For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West scarcely existed in the Middle East. There were only children...

11) fifty million rising the new generation of working

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12) The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi

Author

Shafak, Elif

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In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives-one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz-that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love. Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a...

13) Historical atlas of the Islamic world

Author

Nicolle, David

14) The Islamic enlightenment: the struggle between faith and reason : 1798 to modern times

Author

De Bellaigue, Christopher

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A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Flying in the face of everything we thought we knew, The Islamic Enlightenment becomes an astonishing and revelatory...

15) Keepers of the faith

Author

Ajmeri, Shaukat

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"Akbar and Rukhsana are secret teenage lovers in the historic city of Udaipur. But they belong to a strictly orthodox Shia Muslim community in which female circumcision and widow isolation are the norms, and the head priest is like God, dictating every facet of people's lives. While Akbar belongs to a liberal, "Radical" reformist faction, Rukhsana's father is a fanatical follower of the clergy, obedient to its every whim and dictate. Rukhsana is married...

16) The kindness of enemies

Author

Aboulela, Leila

17) The kite runner

Author

Hosseini, Khaled

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The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers all over the world.
Amir and Hassan are childhood friends in the alleys and orchards of Kabul in the sunny days before the invasion of the Soviet army and Afghanistan’s decent into fanaticism. Both motherless, they grow up as close as brothers, but their fates are to be different. Amir’s father is a wealthy merchant; Hassan’s...

18) The love and lies of Rukhsana Ali

Author

Khan, Sabina

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Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.

19) Love from A to Z

Author

Ali, S. K

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Love from (Ali) volume 1

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Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.

20) The lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo & Juliet : the true story of how they defied their families and escaped an honor killing

Author

Nordland, Rod

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A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner—an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women’s rights in the Muslim world.

Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful

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