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The Islamic Foundation |
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| Reading and Literature | Twelfth Grade |
Adult reading level. It is a good time to introduce a little Muslim philosophy at this level to protect them from all the unIslamic philosophical assaults they will be subjected to in college by non-Muslims as well as Muslims with an ideological orientation that may be extremely conservative to the point of killing the spirit of Islam in the young mind.
| Title | Author | Source | Subject |
| The Road to Mecca | Muhammad Asad | Amazon | Amazing conversion story and adventure. A classic |
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by Yahiya Emerick | IFNA | Qur'an as Literature |
| Khalifah | John Elray | www.Aardwolfe.com | The story of Muawiya told in first person narrative and the struggles in the days of the first four Khalifas. Fascinating. |
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Irving Karchmar |
http://www.masterofthejinn.com http://darvish.wordpress.com |
Here is a tale set on the Path of the Heart, a mystical adventure wherein a modern-day Sufi master sends seven companions on a quest for the original Ring of Power, and the greatest treasure of the ancient world - King Solomon's ring. |
| My Khyber Marriage | Morag Murray Abdullah | AWAIR | Adventure in Afghanistan for a convert in the early 20th century. |
| Fifteen Letters | Abdul Qadir Jilani | Amazon | Taqwa |
| Disciplining the Soul and Breaking the Chain of the Two Desires | Muhammad Al Ghazzali translated by T.J. Winter | Amazon | Self-control |
| Leo Africanus | Amin Maalouf | Astrolabe | Fictional Biography of a real Muslim |
| In Search of Islamic Feminism | Elizabeth Fernea | Amazon | Travel among Muslim women |
| The Alchemy of Happiness | Muhammad Al Ghazzali Translated by Claud Field | Amazon | A philosophy for Islamic living |
| Islamic Values in the United States | Y. Haddad | Kazi | A non-Muslim's look at Muslims and their values in America. Quite a good survey and it will provoke a lot of classroom discussion |
| Cities of Salt | Abdul Rehman Al-Rahman Munif | www.Barnesandnoble.com | Social change in Arabia when oil was discovered. This book is hard to find but it is worth the search. The students will love it for its depth and complexity. |
| In Pursuit of Virtue | Ibn Hazm translated by Muhammad Abu Layla | Halalco, Ta-ha Publishers | Discard the commentary by the translator which occupies the first half of the book and have the students read the actual translated text of Ibn Hazm's masterpiece. |
| Desert Encounter | Knud Holmboe | ISBN 1-872038-10-7Astrolabe, Sound Vision, ICNA Book Service | Muslim convert in North Africa during the Italian occupation. It is a little depressing, however. |
| The Hadj | Michael Wolfe | Amazon | Hajj history and narratives through the centuries |
| Fountain and Tomb | Naguib Mahfooz | AWAIR | Memoir of Egypt |
| Iqbal: His Poetry and Message | Sheikh Akbar Ali | IPI | Poems |
| The Sun is Rising in the West | Muzaffar Haleem |
Amazon |
Convert stories, discussion of Islam in the West |
| They Burn the Thistles | Yashar Kemal trans. by Paul Theroux | Turkey during Ataturks's rise and Muslim responses to it. Set in a novel form. |
