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Want to learn more about being a Muslim woman? Like to expand your knowledge of Islam?

Maryam has hand-picked, read and personally reviewed the 'top ten' (and previous top ten picks) because they are informative, educational, interesting or because they are 'must-reads' when it comes to faith and spirituality; the world of Islam and being a Muslim woman.

The books listed below are available to purchase through Amazon.com, alternatively if you live in Australia many of the books listed are available through Almiraj Sufi Books.

Current Top Ten

New recommendations as of April 2001!
Previous Picks

Veil : Modesty, Privacy and Resistance
by Fadwa El Guindi
An insightful analysis of both men's and women's veiling demonstrating the misguided tendency to place value according to colonialist notions of a public/private divide which has been imposed on the Muslim Arab world.
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Early Sufi Women: Dhikr An-Niswa Al-Muta 'Abbitdat As-Sufiyyat
by Muhammad Ibn Al-Husayn Sulami and translated by Rkia Cornell
Translated from a recently found manuscript, this bilingual edition of a lost treasure gives us glimpses into the lives of 82 gifted, devoted and powerful women. In a world where such women were often exorcised from official history-telling, Cornell's English translation puts to rest the misguided notion that early Muslim women were mute, model slaves to their male overlords.
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Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque
by Mohja Kahf
Refuting the notion that Muslim women have an eternally static existence, Mohja Kahf demonstrates that orientalist depictions of Muslim women exist more in the eye of the beholder than describe the diverse reality of Muslim women.
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Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives
Edited by Deniz Kandiyoti
A collection of academic articles and papers looking at feminist issues in the Muslim, Arab and Middle Eastern worlds, with a post-"second-wave" feminism flavour.
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Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism
by Meyda Yegenoglu
Extending Edward Said's concept of Orientalism, Yegenoglu argues that a sexualised understanding of the phenomenon is of fundamental importance, particularly because it is the exoticised female trope that continues to raise its head in Euro-centric accounts of the Muslim world.
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Daughters of Another Path: Experiences of American Women Choosing Islam
by Carol Anderson Anway and Carol L. Anway
This Christian mother of a Muslim convert tells the stories of American women who have chosen to embrace Islam (including her own daughter) and frankly discusses the challenges that conversion can bring to both the converts and their non-Muslim families.
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The Message of the Qur'an
Translated by Muhammad Asad
With comprehensive notes and commentaries, Asad has done an outstanding job of translating the message of the Holy Qur'an into the English language. This is an invaluable translation for a number of reasons, not the least of which is Asad's exacting methodological approach to translating Arabic into English, and his reliance and inclusion of the opinions and commentaries of the greatest Muslim scholars.
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Finding Fran
by Lois W. Banner
In this semi-autobiographical account, two girls spend their formative years together: one becomes a western feminist (Lois), the other a Muslim (Fran). Banner recounts her curiosity at how such seemingly different paths could be chosen by childhood friends, through memories of their past and a journey of discovery of Fran's Muslim identity.
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Understanding Religious Conversion
by Lewis R. Rambo
A seminal academic work on the area of religious conversion, Rambo discusses why people choose to convert (or not) and the issues surrounding their conversions: both from the individual's point of view, and that of society.
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Psychology of Religion: A Short Introduction
by Kate M. Loewenthal
This is a good introduction to the psychology of religion. Aimed at students and interested laypersons, this book looks at areas such as: prayer, prophecy and conversion; religious beliefs and their influence on emotional well-being; religious manifestations of disorders of the mind and the question of religion and prejudice.
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