Islamic life & practice

  • Magisteria

    £11.99

    Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?

  • Sex and lies

    £9.99

    In these essays looking at sexual politics in Morocco, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where the law punishes and outlaws all forms of sex outside marriage, as well as homosexuality and prostitution, women have only two options for their sexual identities: virgin or wife. ‘Sex and Lies’ is an essential confrontation with Morocco’s intimate demons and a vibrant appeal for the universal freedom to be, to love and to desire.

  • Desert Soul

    £12.99

    Isabelle Eberhardt’s writing chronicles, in passionate prose, her travels in French colonial North Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Often dressed in male clothing and assuming a man’s name, she worked as a war correspondent, married a Muslim non-commissioned officer, converted to Islam and survived an assassination attempt, all before dying in a flash flood at the age of 27.

  • It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

    £9.99

    It’s Not About the Burqa is an anthology of essays by Muslim women.

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