Islamic Authors

October is Islamic History Month. Celebrate and learn with these reads.

Updated March 19, 2024
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Homeland elegies : a novel
Akhtar, Ayad
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I read it in a fever, swept up in the kind of rapture you fall into when your most audacious friend kicks off on a hilarious, outrageous, but deeply sincere rant' Torrey Peters,...
Also available in eBook, eAudiobook and Large Print formats.

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The adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi : a novel
Chakraborty, S. A.
Paper Book
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, launches a new trilogy of magic and mayhem with this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artefacts and ancient mysteries, and one woman's quest to seize a final chance at glory... A pirate of infamy and one of the...
Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.

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A place for us : a novel
Mirza, Fatima Farheen
Paper Book
** The New York Times bestseller ** 'To be taken hostage by Fatima Mirza's heartrending and timely story is a gutting pleasure... She captures your mind and heart with an urgency that defies you to stop reading. I guarantee you will be different when you close the book'...
Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.

4

Exit west : a novel
Hamid, Mohsin
Paper Book
Discover the unforgettable novel picked among 2017's most anticipated books by the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Buzzfeed, New York Timesand many more...An extraordinary story of love and hope, travelling from the Middle East to London and beyond, from the bestselling, Man Booker...
Also available in eBook, eAudiobook and Large Print formats.

5

Sea prayer
Hosseini, Khaled.
Paper Book
A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller A deeply moving, gorgeously illustrated short story for people of all ages from the international bestselling author of The Kite Runner, brought to life by Dan Williams's beautiful illustrations
Also available in eBook format.

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Much Ado about Nada: A Novel
Jalaluddin, Uzma
Paper Book
A modern Muslim retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion. Heart-warming and hilarious, a story about what happens when two estranged former sweethearts get a second chance at love . . .

Also available in eBook format.

Canadian author.

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Nights of Plague: A Novel
Pamuk, Orhan
Paper Book
1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald built of pink stone'. The 29th state of the ailing Ottoman Empire. The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed...
Also available in eBook format.

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Les nuits de la peste : roman
Pamuk, Orhan
Paper Book
1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. 'An emerald built of pink stone'. The 29th state of the ailing Ottoman Empire. The ship carries Princess Pakize, the daughter of a deposed...

En avril 1901, il se murmure que la peste s'est declaree a Mingher, une ile au large de Rhodes sur la route d'Alexandrie. Deux eminents specialistes des epidemies sont depeches sur place par le sultan Abdulhamid II. La maladie infectieuse est rapidement confirmee mais imposer des mesures sanitaires represente un veritable defi, en particulier lorsqu'elles se heurtent aux croyances religieuses. Dans cette ile multiculturelle ou musulmans et orthodoxes tentent de cohabiter, la maladie agit comme un accelerateur des tensions communautaires. Et si l'union etait rendue possible par la construction d'une identite nationale ?

9

Ms. Marvel. 1, No normal
Wilson, G. Willow
Paper Book
Marvel Comics presents the all-new Ms. Marvel, the ground breaking heroine that has become an international sensation! Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City until she is suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the all-new Ms. Marvel? Find out as she takes the Marvel...

Also available in eBook format.

10

Miss Marvel. Tome 1, Métamorphose
Wilson, G. Willow
Paper Book
Marvel Comics presents the all-new Ms. Marvel, the ground breaking heroine that has become an international sensation! Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City until she is suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the all-new Ms. Marvel? Find out as she takes the Marvel...

11

Brown boy : a memoir
Aziz, Omer
Paper Book
  Brown Boy is an uncompromising interrogation of identity, family, religion, race, and class, told through Omer Aziz's incisive and luminous prose. In the early 2000s, Toronto, Omer Aziz's working-class neighbourhood is miles away from the wealthy white...

12

No god but God : the origins, evolution, and future of Islam
Aslan, Reza.
Paper Book
Much of the Muslim faith remains largely unknown and misunderstood in the West. To many in the west, Islam means jihad, veiled women and suicide bombers. Yet these represent only fringe elements of the world's fastest growing religion. While there have been a number of successful books on the topic...
Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.

13

Between two kingdoms : a memoir of a life interrupted
Jaouad, Suleika
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A propulsive, soulful story of mourning and gratitude - and an intimate portrait of one woman's sojourn in the wilderness between life and death.' TARA WESTOVER, author of Educated __________
Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.

14

Persepolis
Satrapi, Marjane
Paper Book
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution has for twenty years been a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most popular and widely known graphic novels of all time. <...

Recit autobiographique d'une enfance iranienne, entre guerre et revolution, a travers le regard d'une petite fille.


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