Muslim Fiction

In the heart of war-torn Afghanistan, where cultural traditions and oppressive religious norms dictate every aspect of a woman’s life, Zynab emerges as an extraordinary force of defiance and hope. Born into a modest village and bound by her mother's dying wish to care for her blind brother, Jamal, Zynab’s world shifts when she witnesses the devastating consequences of women being denied access to proper medical care due to their refusal to see male doctors. Determined to change this grim reality, Zynab dreams of becoming a doctor and opening a clinic in her village where women can seek ...

This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City “is one of the best in Akashic Books’ noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology.”—Reviewing the Evidence From cri….

After spending her life fantasizing about her dream husband, Ana believes she has finally found the one when she meets Alec Coleman. He is charming, witty, and has looks to die for. The two feel an instant attraction, and it seems that Ana’s dreams have finally come true. But when Alec rekindles a relationship with his former ex-girlfriend, Ana’s perfect life soon spirals into chaos. As a convert to Islam, Ana discovers her new religion allows men to take multiple wives. She thinks nothing much of it until Alec uses force and influence to draw her into a polygamous marriage.

There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around?

Following the success of Paris Noir, the Akashic Noir Series has expanded to include the famously diverse and sometimes controversial suburbs of this legendary city.

Layla Deen is a quiet, introverted Muslim american teenager trying to negotiate the ups and downs of junior high life. Her world is thrown into turmoil, however, when the school runs a popularity contest - and someone wrote her name on the sign up list! Find out what happens. For grades 5-10.

A khimar is a flowing scarf that my mommy wears. Before she walks out the door each day, she wraps one around her head. A young girl plays dress-up with her mother's headscarves, feeling her mother's love with every one she tries on. Charming and vibrant, this portrait of a young Muslim American girl's life showcases the beauty of a diverse and welcoming community.

!!!..«علمني رســول الله ﷺ» الجزء الثالث يكمل الجزءين السابقيـــن في عرض أحاديث الرســول بطريقة جديـــدة من خلال قصــــة تدور حول الفكرة العامة للحديث الشريف في إطار سرد شيق.

The adventures of Ahmad Deen and Layla Deen is an omnibus edition collecting all four of the Deen Family Adventures in one volume. Travel with the siblings Ahmad and Layla Deen as they chart a course for adventure and learn a little something about themselves and their faith along the way. You get: Ahmad Deen and the Curse of the Aztec Warrior, Layla Deen and the Case of the Ramadan Rogue, Ahmad Deen and the Jinn at Shaolin and Layla Deen and the Popularity Contest. Fun, adventure and good, clean sibling rivalry abound at every turn!

What happens when two broken people make a deal to fix each other? Sunny Arain hasn't let anyone in since his ex-fiancée's betrayal went viral at his sister's wedding. Two years later, he's perfected the art of being alone—until he sees a desperate post from a stranger named Areta Khan. Areta's mother's dream gym is failing. She has two months before closure and her pride won't let her ask for help. When Sunny offers to save her business with his tech skills, she makes him a counter-offer: she'll teach him to be brave again. Professional arrangement. No feelings. No complications. They ...

“Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York Times WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and...

A 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fiction Narrator! "Kristin Hannah’s potent storytelling skills are brilliantly served by narrator Julia Whelan, whose limber, low-pitched voice moves nimbly from person to person, capturing personality and mood, her empathy palpable." —The Washington Post...

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America. “Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim...

 Allie Abraham has it all going for her - she’s a straight-A student with good friends and a close-knit family, and she’s dating popular, sweet Wells Henderson. There’s only one problem: Wells’ father is Jack Henderson, America’s most famous conservative shock jock, and Allie hasn’t told Wells that her family is Muslim. It’s not like Allie’s religion is a secret. It’s just that her parents don’t practice and raised her to keep it to herself.

A national best seller in both hardcover and paperback, the first book of the masterful Cairo Trilogy introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.

Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside...

Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain - "al-Andalus" - as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: It is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity", Fernández-Morera sets the record straight.

When Jodie Wolfe, a 16-year-old girl with facial deformities, accuses four boys in her class of an unthinkable crime, the community is torn apart. After all, these four teenage defendants are from hard-working immigrant families and they all have proven alibis. Even Jodie's best friend doesn't believe her. But lawyer Zara Kaleel does - and she is determined to fight for Jodie - to find the truth in the face of public outcry. And as issues of sex, race, and social justice collide, the most explosive criminal trial of the year builds to a shocking conclusion.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “5 UNDER 35” NOMINEE NEW YORK’S “ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK” PICK Named One of the Best Books of the Year: Washington Post NPR People Refinery29 Parade BuzzFeed “Mirza writes with a mercy that...

What does it take to radically alter the course of someone’s life? In the case of Emad Almasry, an archeologist with the Egyptian Ministry for Antiquities, it took a clay jar. Its discovery, under Egypt’s oldest mosque, set in motion a series of events that threatened the very existence of Egypt’s Coptic community. Emad very quickly learns that the only way he could keep the hammer blow from falling was to dig deep into the origins of Islam. Will he be able to force the past to yield its secrets? Would he have the courage to follow the evidence wherever it leads? What happens when ...