Women in Islam

1
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
11,482 members
379 reviews
4.2
4 Members
wandering_star, inge87, avatiakh, cej1027
2
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by Geraldine Brooks
2,472 members
49 reviews
4
2 Members
KimarieBee, avatiakh
3
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
by Fatima Mernissi
1,002 members
22 reviews
3.8
3 Members
wandering_star, avatiakh, Dilara86
4
Not Without My Daughter
by Betty Mahmoody
1,991 members
33 reviews
3.8
2 Members
avatiakh, ahef1963
5
The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam
by Fatima Mernissi
286 members
3 reviews
3.9
2 Members
avatiakh, Dilara86
6
Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women
by Jean Said Makdisi
63 members
1 review
5
2 Members
wandering_star, avatiakh
7
Girls of Riyadh
by Rajaa Alsanea
1,316 members
78 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
inge87, Dilara86
8
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by Malala Yousafzai
7,961 members
291 reviews
4.1
2 Members
avatiakh, cej1027
9
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
by Deborah Baker
140 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
inge87, avatiakh
10
The Forgotten Queens of Islam
by Fatima Mernissi
172 members
2 reviews
3.8
2 Members
avatiakh, Dilara86
11
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
by Queen Noor
1,498 members
31 reviews
3.8
2 Members
avatiakh, cej1027
12
The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
by G. Willow Wilson
325 members
20 reviews
4
2 Members
inge87, avatiakh
13
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
5,669 members
133 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
streamsong
14
Woman at Point Zero
by Nawal El Saadawi
1,271 members
43 reviews
3.9
2 Members
avatiakh, Dilara86
15
In the Land of Invisible Women
by Qanta Ahmed
784 members
91 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
inge87, avatiakh
16
Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society
by Fatima Mernissi
314 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
avatiakh, Dilara86
17
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
14,051 members
290 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
inge87, avatiakh
18
Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
by Amina Wadud
268 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
19
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
by Shereen El Feki
139 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
inge87
20
At the Drop of a Veil
by Marianne Alireza
121 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
avatiakh
21
Daughters of Another Path: Experiences of American Women Choosing Islam
by Carol L. Anway
84 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
streamsong
22
Persepolis II: The Story of a Return
by Marjane Satrapi
4,511 members
117 reviews
4.1
Member
cej1027
23
Fool's War
by Sarah Zettel
492 members
16 reviews
4
Member
Dilara86
24
Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus
by Rifqa Bary
278 members
8 reviews
4
Member
cej1027
25
An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir
by Phyllis Chesler
168 members
20 reviews
3.2
Member
avatiakh
27
Alif the Unseen
by G. Willow Wilson
1,924 members
117 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
28
My Khyber Marriage
by Morag Murray Abdullah
26 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
avatiakh
29
The Caged Virgin
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
714 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
avatiakh
30
A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
by Leila Ahmed
127 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
inge87
31
Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4,927 members
203 reviews
4.2
Member
avatiakh
33
"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
by Asma Barlas
184 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
34
Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan
by Sally Armstrong
64 members
½ 3.7
Member
avatiakh
36
Woman in the Muslim Unconscious.
by Fatna Aït Sabbah
16 members
1 review
3
Member
Dilara86
38
My Soul is a Woman: The Feminine in Islam
by Annemarie Schimmel
74 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
Dilara86
39
Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
by Miriam Cooke
33 members
Member
avatiakh
40
Politics of Piety
by Saba Mahmood
265 members
3.9
Member
Dilara86
41
I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister
by Amélie Sarn
85 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
inge87
42
Figures du féminin en Islam
by Houria Abdelouahed
4 members
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
43
Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
by Najwa Bin Laden
180 members
5 reviews
4.1
Member
avatiakh
44
The Wilder Shores of Love
by Lesley Blanch
365 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
avatiakh
45
Doorkeeper of the Heart: Versions of Rabi'a
by Rabi'a al-Adawiyya
40 members
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
46
Veiled Atrocities: True Stories of Oppression in Saudi Arabia
by Sami Alrabaa
7 members
1 review
3
Member
avatiakh
47
The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
by Sarah Chayes
293 members
8 reviews
4
Member
avatiakh
48
Woman's Inhumanity to Woman
by Phyllis Chesler
168 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
avatiakh
49
Afghan Quest
by Joyce Dunsheath
4 members
Member
avatiakh
50
In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
110 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
avatiakh
51
Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
73 members
4.8
Member
avatiakh
52
Women Called Wild
by Rosita Forbes
5 members
Member
avatiakh
53
Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
by Barbara Hodgson
93 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
avatiakh
54
Letters To My Daughters
by Fawzia Koofi
32 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
avatiakh
55
The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
by Fawzia Koofi
139 members
5 reviews
4
Member
avatiakh
56
The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
by Christina Lamb
436 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
avatiakh
57
Waiting for Allah: Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan
by Christina Lamb
22 members
Member
avatiakh
58
Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
by Marnia Lazreg
43 members
4
Member
avatiakh
59
Romance of the harem
by Anna Harriette Leonowens
44 members
½ 3.3
Member
avatiakh
61
The smarter bomb : women and children as suicide bombers
by Anat Berko
10 members
Member
avatiakh
62
Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices Against Oppression
by Ida Lichter
34 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
avatiakh
63
The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt
by Cecily Mackworth
32 members
Member
avatiakh
64
The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith
by Irshad Manji
839 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
avatiakh
65
Eastern Life, Present and Past
by Harriet Martineau
5 members
½ 3.5
Member
avatiakh
66
Scheherazade Goes West
by Fatema Mernissi
288 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
avatiakh
67
The Girl with Three Legs: A Memoir
by Soraya Mire
24 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
avatiakh
69
Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
by Asra Nomani
187 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
avatiakh
70
Married to a Stranger
by Nahid Rachlin
32 members
2
Member
avatiakh
71
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez
1,896 members
93 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
avatiakh
72
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
by Emily Ruete
155 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
avatiakh
74
The Stoning of Soraya M.: A Story of Injustice in Iran
by Freidoune Sahebjam
143 members
10 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
avatiakh
75
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
by Jean P. Sasson
2,135 members
55 reviews
3.8
Member
avatiakh
77
The Bookseller of Kabul
by Åsne Seierstad
6,078 members
173 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
avatiakh
78
The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland
by Saira Shah
374 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
avatiakh
79
Female Suicide Bombers
by Rosemarie Skaine
6 members
Member
avatiakh
80
The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban
by Rosemarie Skaine
23 members
Member
avatiakh
81
Burned Alive
by Souad
609 members
22 reviews
3.8
Member
avatiakh
82
The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan
by Freya Stark
48 members
3
Member
avatiakh
83
East is West
by Freya Stark
69 members
3.8
Member
avatiakh
85
El grito silenciado
by Ana Tortajada
90 members
3 reviews
3.1
Member
avatiakh
86
Playing the game the story of Western women in Arabia
by Penelope Tuson
8 members
Member
avatiakh
88
In Morocco
by Edith Wharton
270 members
6 reviews
3
Member
avatiakh
90
From My Sisters' Lips
by Na'ima bint Robert
53 members
1 review
3
Member
avatiakh
91
Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out
by Fawzia Afzal-Khan
41 members
½ 4.5
Member
avatiakh
92
Assia Djebar: Out of Algeria
by Jane Hiddleston
5 members
Member
avatiakh
93
Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
by Assia Djebar
253 members
11 reviews
3.8
Member
avatiakh
94
The past present: A year in Afghanistan
by Edward Hunter
4 members
Member
avatiakh
95
Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World
by Jan Goodwin
384 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
avatiakh
96
My Own Special Way
by Maitha Al Khayat
6 members
4
Member
avatiakh
97
For the Love of a Child
by Betty Mahmoody
370 members
6 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
avatiakh
98
Der Islam braucht eine sexuelle Revolution: Eine Streitschrift
by Seyran Ateş‎
2 members
Member
avatiakh
99
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
by Jenny Nordberg
781 members
64 reviews
4.2
Member
avatiakh
100
Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran
by Nina Ansary
41 members
3
Member
avatiakh