Islam - A critical reading list

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A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories 4.01 avg rating โ€” 156 ratings
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Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait 4.48 avg rating โ€” 566 ratings
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And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses
And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses 4.19 avg rating โ€” 70 ratings
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Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence
Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence
by: Kecia Ali
4.10 avg rating โ€” 512 ratings
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Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari'ah in the Modern Age
Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari'ah in the Modern Age 4.64 avg rating โ€” 78 ratings
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Feminist Edges of the Qur'an
Feminist Edges of the Qur'an 3.97 avg rating โ€” 111 ratings
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Women in the Qurสผan : An Emancipatory Reading
Women in the Qurสผan : An Emancipatory Reading 3.85 avg rating โ€” 259 ratings
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Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 3.99 avg rating โ€” 148 ratings
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Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition
Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition 4.07 avg rating โ€” 72 ratings
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"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an 4.26 avg rating โ€” 1,386 ratings
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Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity 4.15 avg rating โ€” 682 ratings
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Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys Of A Sceptical Muslim
Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys Of A Sceptical Muslim 3.91 avg rating โ€” 545 ratings
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Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook 3.68 avg rating โ€” 38 ratings
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Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought
Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought 4.36 avg rating โ€” 14 ratings
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Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims 3.94 avg rating โ€” 222 ratings
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The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism
The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism 4.03 avg rating โ€” 399 ratings
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Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective 4.23 avg rating โ€” 2,312 ratings
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Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims 3.95 avg rating โ€” 79 ratings
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Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation
Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation 4.09 avg rating โ€” 295 ratings
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Inside The Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam
Inside The Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam 3.80 avg rating โ€” 163 ratings
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Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations
Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations 4.14 avg rating โ€” 28 ratings
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The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament
The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ€” 904 ratings
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Islam and Homosexuality(2 Volumes Set)
Islam and Homosexuality(2 Volumes Set) 3.68 avg rating โ€” 19 ratings
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On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today
On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today 3.92 avg rating โ€” 114 ratings
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The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books
The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books 4.49 avg rating โ€” 684 ratings
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Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective Of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression
Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective Of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression 4.23 avg rating โ€” 57 ratings
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The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists 4.15 avg rating โ€” 716 ratings
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The Battle for God
The Battle for God 3.95 avg rating โ€” 6,668 ratings
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Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women
Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women 4.47 avg rating โ€” 172 ratings
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A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam 3.89 avg rating โ€” 51,736 ratings
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The Place of Tolerance in Islam
The Place of Tolerance in Islam 3.93 avg rating โ€” 133 ratings
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Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition (Volume 15) (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies)
Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition (Volume 15) (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies) 4.04 avg rating โ€” 160 ratings
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Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Explaining the Conservative Turn
Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Explaining the Conservative Turn 3.92 avg rating โ€” 13 ratings
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The New Voices of Islam: Reforming Politics and Modernity - A Reader
The New Voices of Islam: Reforming Politics and Modernity - A Reader 3.90 avg rating โ€” 20 ratings
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The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam (Issues in Islamic Thought #5)
The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam (Issues in Islamic Thought #5) 3.97 avg rating โ€” 64 ratings
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Apostasy in Islam: A Historical & Scriptural Analysis
Apostasy in Islam: A Historical & Scriptural Analysis 4.39 avg rating โ€” 18 ratings
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The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic and Jewish Exegetical Narratives
The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic and Jewish Exegetical Narratives 4.50 avg rating โ€” 2 ratings
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Issues in Contemporary Islamic Thought
Issues in Contemporary Islamic Thought 3.43 avg rating โ€” 7 ratings
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The Moral World of the Qur'an
The Moral World of the Qur'an 4.12 avg rating โ€” 16 ratings
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Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty
Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty 4.19 avg rating โ€” 724 ratings
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This Law of Ours and Other Essays
This Law of Ours and Other Essays 4.02 avg rating โ€” 83 ratings
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The Lives of Muhammad
The Lives of Muhammad
by: Kecia Ali
3.81 avg rating โ€” 104 ratings
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Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam
Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam
by: Kecia Ali
4.10 avg rating โ€” 63 ratings
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Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha
Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha 4.28 avg rating โ€” 47 ratings
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Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives
Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives 4.18 avg rating โ€” 17 ratings
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Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge
Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge 4.14 avg rating โ€” 103 ratings
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Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences
Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences 3.74 avg rating โ€” 57 ratings
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ุงู„ุฏูˆู„ุฉ ุงู„ู…ุณุชุญูŠู„ุฉ: ุงู„ุฅุณู„ุงู… ูˆุงู„ุณูŠุงุณุฉ ูˆู…ุฃุฒู‚ ุงู„ุญุฏุงุซุฉ ุงู„ุฃุฎู„ุงู‚ูŠ really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ€” 904 ratings
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Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature 3.67 avg rating โ€” 39 ratings
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Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report 4.17 avg rating โ€” 96 ratings