A selection of MPV's favorite books are listed on this page.
Recommended
- The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook by Dilara Hafiz, Imran Hafiz, and Yasmine Hafiz. Acacia Publishing (2007).
- Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam by Mark Levine. Three Rivers Press (2008).
- Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam
- Noel J. Coulson, A History of Islamic Law
- Reza Aslan, No God but God
- Akbar S. Ahmed, Postmodernism and Islam
- Progressive Muslims by Omid Safi (Editor)
- Hassan Hathout, Reading the Muslim Mind
- Tariq Ramadan, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam
- Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust by Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny, and Azizan Baharuddin (Editors), Center for the Study of World Religions (2003)
General Islam
Islam and Politics
- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari’a | Book Review (external site -- not affiliated with MPV)
Prophet Muhammad
- Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
- Karen Armstrong, Muhammad - A Prophet for Our Time
Women in Islam
- Asma Barlas, “Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an
- Fatima Mernissi, Forgotten Queens of Islam
- Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad
- Jennifer Heath Collum, The Scimitar and the Veil
- Kecia Ali, Sexual Ethics and Islam
- Khaled Abou El Fadl, Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women
- Asra Nomani, Standing Alone in Mecca
- Fatima Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite
Fiction and Poetry
- Naguib Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy
- Mohja Kahf, Emails from Scheherazad
- Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
- Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
- Sarah Husain, ed., Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality
Most progressive Islamic thought remains inaccessible to the youth and through Literary Zikr, this project adapts scholarly writings into simple middle school English. By providing an alternative to the readily available fundamentalist interpretations that pervade the Internet, Literary Zikr will demonstrate, among other things, that Islamic values are consonant with American values.
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"Ijtihad" is a collection of interviews of progressive Muslim activists and scholars of Islam. Mona Eltahawy, Ani Zonneveld, Reza Aslan, Abdullahi An-Naim. Mostly in English with some Danish. Executive Produer: Nancy Graham Holme. Producer: Democratic Progressive Muslims of Denmark organization.Three volumes:
1. http://vimeo.com/35620541
2. http://vimeo.com/35948285
1. http://vimeo.com/35620541
2. http://vimeo.com/35948285