The Prophet's Pulpit: Commentaries on the State of Islam
By: Khaled Abou El Fadl
4.63
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
In this collection of twenty-two Islamic sermons, Khaled Abou El Fadl, distinguished law professor …
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1. "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
By: Asma Barlas
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occ… read more
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2. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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3. Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart
By: Hamza Yusuf , None
4.33
Format: 700 pages,
Translation and Commentary of Imam al-Mawlud's Matharat al-Qulub by Hamza Yusuf This exploration of… read more
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4. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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5. Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
By: None
4.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
A pro-faith attempt by a Muslim woman to present a comprehensive, female-inclusive reading of the Q… read more
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6. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
7. القرآن الكريم
By: Anonymous
4.38
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more
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"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم
8. Inside The Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam
By: None
1.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this engaging study, Dr Amina Wadud, an Afro-American Muslim herself, introduces the feminist mo… read more
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9. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
By: Martin Lings
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Martin Lings' biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritati… read more
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10. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
11. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
By: Zoulfa Katouh
4.50
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had h… read more
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"Bury me before I bury you" I did."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"There are enough people hurting you,"-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"He bites his lip. “Please take of yourself."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"I’ll make it as soon as I’m done with this."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
12. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
13. Love From A to Z
By: S.K. Ali
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes—because they make French… read more
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"We're allowed to cry."-S.K. Ali, Love From A to Z
"Life goes on, even if love doesn't."-S.K. Ali, Love From A to Z
"But it's not smooth sailing" "Life isn't?"-S.K. Ali, Love From A to Z
"But it's not smooth sailing." "Life isn't"-S.K. Ali, Love From A to Z
14. Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
By: A. Helwa
4.51
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Are you longing to experience a more intimate and loving relationship with the Divine? Secrets … read more
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"The word “Allah"-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
"In Arabic, the word fitna, meaning “hardship,"-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
"To every cry of, 'Oh God'. He answers a hundred times, 'I am here'."-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
"We are all born with spiritual wings, Islam simply reminds us how to fly."-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
15. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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16. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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18. Ayesha at Last
By: Uzma Jalaluddin
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love. Ayesha Shamsi has a lot g… read more
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"No, she is not with child,"-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"[Khalid] took a deep, calming breath, and smiled at her, channeling his inner shark. Or at least, dolphin."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"Your defect is a tendency to judge everyone,' Ayesha said. 'And yours,' he said with a smile, 'is to willfully misunderstand them."-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
"Your presence in a relationship is not indicative of commitment but rather inertia. Standing before your friends and family and pledging your love and loyalty is an essential ingredient of a long-las…"-Uzma Jalaluddin, Ayesha at Last
19. Death Is Hard Work
By: Khaled Khalifa
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war Khaled Khalifa's Death Is H… read more
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"إن أفضل الوسائل لهزم الحرب هي التوقف عن الحديث عنها"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"أسوء ما في الحرب تناسل الأحداث الغرائبية ,وتحول القصص المأساوية إلى حدث عادي"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"في الحرب مرور جنازة حدث عادي لا يثير اي شئ سوى حسد الأحياء الذين تحولت حياتهم الى إنتظار مؤلم للموت"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"اللحظة الأخيرة دوماً عاطفية، غالباً غير مناسبة للتفكير، لا مجال فيها لمحاكمات عقلانية، ويتكثّف فيها الزمن."-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
20. Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
By: Mustafa Akyol
4.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an "Islamic Enl… read more
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"So instead of seeing anything outside of Islam as darkness, we Muslims should accept that there are objective values of “good"-Mustafa Akyol, Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
"The problem became more acute over time, especially with modernity: modern life produced many new areas of human activity and knowledge, whereas Islamic jurisprudence kept offering the same old rules…"-Mustafa Akyol, Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
21. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
By: Louise Perry
4.28
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more
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"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
22. The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
By: S.A. Chakraborty
4.50
Format: 766 pages, Hardcover
The final chapter in the Daevabad Trilogy, in which a con-woman and an idealistic djinn prince join… read more
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"Grandfather?"-S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
"It is not blasphemous to say this world is vast, that much of its history remains shrouded. There are things God set beyond our understanding."-S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
"You bet on whether or not I kissed your wife?" Ali was aghast. "What is wrong with the two of you?" When his brother and sister only cackled harder, he drew up. "I hate you. "I hate you both."-S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
"Come now. Where is the woman who once braggingly picked a lock in Daevabad's library? I'd think you'd be delighted by the challenge." "Have you an actual plan or just wild fantasies that will end wit…"-S.A. Chakraborty, The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy, #3)
23. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
24. Timeless Seeds of Advice: The Sayings of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ , Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn al-Jawzi and Other Prominent Scholars in Bringing Comfort and Hope to the Soul
By: B.B. Abdulla
4.60
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
A selection of beautiful and practical pieces of advice from the Quran, the Prophet PBUH and Islam’… read more
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25. A Place for Us
By: Fatima Farheen Mirza
4.17
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Ca… read more
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"It is not that we thought our way was better. It was that we did not know another way."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
"Where did they come from, her children? And how did they arrive already themselves, and unlike anyone else?"-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
"It was a strange time in their lives: the children like paper boats they were releasing into the water and watching float away."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
"Are you happy," he asked. "I am." she said. And then she twisted again the row of bangles on her wrist. "I'm content. My parents are happy."-Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
26. Night of Power
By: Anar Ali
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A portrait of a Muslim family--from the heady days in Uganda to hard times in a new country, and th… read more
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27. The Map of Salt and Stars
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
3.92
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more
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"Stories are powerful,"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"I don’t understand why we were shelled."-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
"The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet"-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars
28. Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
By: Juan R.I. Cole
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seek… read more
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29. The Prophet's Pulpit: Commentaries on the State of Islam
By: Khaled Abou El Fadl
4.63
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
In this collection of twenty-two Islamic sermons, Khaled Abou El Fadl, distinguished law professor … read more
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30. Blood Over Bright Haven
By: M.L. Wang
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have… read more
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31. Seeing For Ourselves and Even Stranger Possibilities
By: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
4.46
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Why do we yearn to be seen when we are already far too visible? How do we want to be perceived, and… read more
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