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The Islamic Foundation |
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| Reading and Literature | Eleventh Grade |
Adult reading level has been achieved. Reading selections are chosen accordingly.
| Title | Author | Source | Subject |
| Kara Kush | Idries Shah | IBTS | Fiction tale about the Afghan Mujahideen |
| If I Should Speak | Umm Zakiyyah | al-walaa | The story of three college students and how they come to realize Islam is the best way of life. Actually a very engaging book and excellent novel to prepare the youth for their own experience of college. |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley | IBTS | Malcolm X's life story. Very engaging. |
| Jewels of Remembrance | C & K Helminski translating Rumi | barnesandnoble | Islamically-oriented poetry (Excellent) |
| Memed: My Hawk | Yashar Kemal | Drama set in Turkey | |
| One Thousand Roads to Mecca | Ed. Michael Wolfe | IBTS | Travel/Hajj |
| Angels in the Making | Laleh Bakhtiar | Kazi | Essays about Muslim women |
| The Memory of Hands | Reshma Baig | IFNA | Short stories about the Muslim-American experience |
| Sufi Women | Javed Nur Baksh | Kazi | Women with Taqwa |
| Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa | Trans. by H.A.R. Gibb | Halalco | Travel anecdotes |
| The Book of Misers | Al-Jahiz | Kazi | Various essays that are worth reading over and over. |
| The Ghulistan of Sadi | Sadi Shirazi | Astrolabe | Poetry, stories. Selections must be chosen carefully as some are out of line with contemporary values. |
| Daughter of Damascus | Siham Tergimen | AWAIR | Memoir of growing up in Syria |
| Fabled Cities, Princes and Jinns | Al-Saleh | AWAIR | Various stories from the Muslim world |
| A Man to Match His Mountains | Eknath Easwaran | AWAIR | Muslim pacifist-hero from India named Badshah Khan. |
| The Day it Rained Bricks and Bats | Maruf Khawaja | www.garnet-ithaca.co.uk | Hilarious essays on life in the Arabian Peninsula |
