Book Club

Book Club: The turbulence, trauma and turmoil caused by the final days of colonial rule divide communities and pit loved ones against each other. In Leila Aboulela's latest novel, we are forced to come to terms with the complexities of motivation.

Book Club: Free from co-option and distortion, Jehan Helou's 'Making Palestine's History' gives a rare voice to the revolutionary Palestinian women whose steadfastness helped preserve and protect the Palestinian cause against colonial incursions.

Book Club: The representation of Hajj has been beautifully brought to life in Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage by Qaisra M. Khan, a lucid history told in narrative and art.

Book Club: Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage is the culmination of research between scholars of Islamic studies & women’s rights activists, providing a framework for achieving an egalitarian marriage model based on core Quranic principles.

Book Club: 9/11, the day the world came crashing down. For a generation of Muslims, the impact of 9/11 cannot be overstated. The New Arab spoke to Professor Jasmin Zine about the sustained state-led suspicion and surveillance since the fateful event.

Book Club: As Tunisia descends deeper into Kais Saied's dictatorship, David L Johnson's translation of Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi's 1993 manifesto for a modern, reformist Islam is a stark reminder of what Tunisia was versus what it now is.

Book Club: Michael Christopher Low's luminous study shows how public health and travel concerns became conduits in the battle of Anglo-Ottoman regional legitimacy, therefore quelling anti-colonial activism within the context of the Hajj pilgrimage.

Book Club: For many, Salafism has connotations of intolerance and hyper-orthodoxy. Through Aaron Rock-Singer's research, the reader learns about some of the overriding themes that dictate this theological strain through two country-wide case studies.

Book Club: Sadhek Khan's The Emirate of Britain teases the notion that frightens so many: the sudden upheaval of 'British' society as they know it in favour of an Islamic one. Playful if profound, Khan raises interesting questions about nationhood.

Book Club: If the Apartheid wall could speak, what would it say? Steve Sabella's photobook plays with this idea to whip the viewer up into a frenzy of daily Palestinian dynamism by conjuring up profound images of respite and enduring resistance.