October is Canadian Islamic History Month, an opportunity to honour and celebrate our country’s large and diverse Muslim communities. From science to business, academia to the arts, Muslim Canadians have helped shape modern-day Canada.
Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas by Omar Mouallem
Omar Mouallem explores the unknown history of Islam across the Americas, travelling to thirteen unique mosques in search of an answer to how this religion has survived and thrived so far from the place of its origin. From California to Quebec and Brazil to Canada’s icy north, he meets the members of fascinating communities. All of them provide different perspectives on what it means to be Muslim.
Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran by Laura Secor
With more than a decade of experience reporting on, researching, and writing about Iran, Laura Secor narrates this history as a story of individuals caught up in the slipstream of their time, seizing and wielding ideas powerful enough to shift its course as they wrestle with their country’s apparatus of violent repression as well as its rich and often tragic history.
No God but God: The Origins and Evolution of Islam by Reza Islam
This title explores the past decade’s events, analyzing how they have influenced Islam’s position in modern culture. Aslan explores what the popular demonstrations pushing for democracy in the Middle East mean for the future of Islam in the region, how the Internet and social media have affected Islam’s evolution, and how the war on terror has altered the geopolitical balance of power in the Middle East.
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities That Define a Civilization by Justin Marozzi
A history of a rich and diverse civilization told through its greatest cities over the fifteen centuries of Islam, from its earliest beginnings in Mecca in the seventh century to the astonishing rise of Doha in the twenty-first.
Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain by Brian A. Catlos
A sweeping history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between Islam’s founding in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth.
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim
Sword and Scimitar chronicles the significant battles between Western and Islamic peoples, beginning with the first major Islamic attack on Christian land in 636, through the occupation of the Middle East that prompted the Crusades and the far-flung conquests of the Ottoman Turks, to the European colonization of the Muslim world in the 1800s.
A Concise History of Sunnis & Shi'is by John McHugo
Insightful and accessible, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is guides understanding of the break between Sunnis and Shi’is that has come to define Islam and the Muslim world for many.
Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North by Graeme Truelove
A provocative warning to Canadians that their cherished values are eroding through a pattern of political, legal and social prejudice directed towards Muslims in Canada since September 11, 2001.
Of Hockey And Hijab: Reflections Of A Canadian Muslim Woman by Sheema Khan
In these thoughtful essays, Sheema Khan — Canadian hockey mom and Harvard PhD —gives us her pointed insights on being a modern and liberal, yet practising, Muslim, especially in Canada.
The Relevance Of Islamic Identity In Canada edited by Nurjehan Aziz
This volume examines, from diverse perspectives, what it means to be a Muslim in Canada. Is it a public or a private identity, and as an identity, is it compatible with a secular democracy such as Canada? These vital questions of faith, culture, and identity are addressed by prominent Canadian cultural and intellectual community members.
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