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Books
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	Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, A Mind at Peace, Archipelago Books, 2008.		Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Riverhead Trade, 2008.
	Sinan Antoon, I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, City Lights Publishers, 2007.		Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Vintage, 2006.
	Mohja Kahf, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel, PublicAffairs, 2006.		Yashar Kemal, Memed, My Hawk, NYRB Classics; Tra edition, 2005.
	Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, Riverhead Trade, 2004.		Jumpa Lahiri, The Namesake: A Novel, Mariner Books, 2004.
	Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, Vintage, 2002.		Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus, New Amsterdam Books, 1998.
	Pramoedya Anata Toer, This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet) Penguin Non-Classics, 1996.		Tayeb Salih, The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories, Three Continents Pr, 1994.
	Sattareh Farman Farmaian, Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey From Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution, Anchor, 1993.		Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley, Ballantine Books, 1987.

Please send your book suggestions to us at studyofislam@gmail.com.

	Bruce Lawrence, The Qur'an: Books That changed the World, Grove Press, 2008.
	Omid Safi, The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry, Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2006.
	Ebrahim Moosa, Ghazali and Poetics of Imagination, Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2005.