ISB Atlanta Resources
Recommended reading for adults, students, and educators — chosen by our team and partners. Browse by age group or topic to find your next great read.
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By Ranya Tabari Idliby
This is the story of one American Muslim family—the story of how, through their lives, their schools, their friends, and their neighbors, they end up living the challenges, myths, fears, hopes, and dreams of all Americans.
By Ahmad Rashid Salim
Islam Explained offers an informative overview of the faith, allowing you to foster cultural awareness and understand the religion on its own terms.
By Malcolm Clark
This book explores the roots of Islam, how it has developed over the centuries, and its long and complex relationship with Christianity. It helps put Islam in perspective as a major cultural and geopolitical force.
By Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong’s short history demonstrates that the world’s fastest-growing faith is a much more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest.
By Martin Lings
Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet.
By Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims.
By Reza Aslan
Internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins and evolution of the faith—in all its beauty and complexity
By Edward W. Said
A highly acclaimed overview of Western attitudes towards the East has become one of the canonical texts of cultural studies.
By Jack G. Shaheen
A groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema’s earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs.
By Arsalan Iftikhar
Popular commentator Arsalan Iftikhar, better known as “The Muslim Guy” offers a spirited defense of his faith.
By Imam Jamal Rahman
His book invites you to access the treasure chest of Islamic spirituality, particularly Sufism, and use its wealth to strengthen your own journey.
By Malcolm X and Alex Haley
This classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement.
