BOOKS
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FICTION AND PLAYS
Acha Bacha — by Bilal Baig
God in Pink & War/Torn— by Hasan Namir
Guapa — by Saleem Haddad
Him, Me, Muhammed Ali — by Randa Jarrar
In the Spider’s Room — by Muhammad Abdelnabi (translated by: Jonathan Wright)
Koolaids — by Rabih Alameddine
Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 — by Trish Salah
The Philistine — by Leila Marshy
Salvation Army — by Abdellah Taïa
The Others — by Seba Al-Herz
Tell Me How You Really Feel — by Aminah Mae Safi
MEMOIRS
Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir -— by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance -— by Mohsin Zaidi
Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes -— Kamal Al-Solaylee
A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim’s Hajj of Defiance — by Parvez Sharma
Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim — by Leah Vernon
Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen — by Amrou Al-Kadhi
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir — by Samra Habib
QUEER MUSLIM VOICES: REPRESENTATION AND ANTHOLOGIES
Being Queer and Somali: LGBT Somalis At Home and Abroad — by Afdhere Jama
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me — by Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo (Editors)
Hijab: Unveiling Queer Muslim Lives — by Muhsin Hendricks (Foreword) and Pepe Hendricks (Editor)
Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims — by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
The Making of a Gay Muslim: Religion, Sexuality and Identity in Malaysia and Britain — by Shanon Shah
Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History
— by Blair Imani and Monique Le
Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure
— by Seema Yasmin and Fahmida Azim
Queer Jihad: LGBT Muslims on Coming Out, Activism, and the Faith — Afdhere Jama
Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film — by Alberto Fernández Carbajal
SCHOLARSHIP ON GENDER, SEXUALITY, QUEERNESS IN ISLAM
Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City — Rudolf Pell Gaudio
Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1300-1800 — by Khalid El-Rouayher
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia — Tom Boellstorff
Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society — by Zahra Ayubi
Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflction on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
— by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures, and Modernity — by Momin Rahman
Islam and Homosexuality —- by Samar Habib
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature —- by Will Roscoe and Stephen O. Murray (Editors)
Islamic Law and Muslim Same-Sex Unions
— by Junaid Jahangir and Jussein Addullatif (with a foreword by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle)
Islamic Masculinities — by Lahoucine Ouzgane and Michael Kimmel
Queer Beirut — by Sofian Merabet
Qur’an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam — by Shadaab Rahemtulla
Qur’an, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression
— by Farid Esack
Religion and Sexual Minorities: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Muslims
— Shannon Shah
Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture — by Mehammed Amadeus Mack
Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge — by Vanya Hamzic
Sexuality in Islam — Abdelwahab Bouhdiba
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate — Leila Ahmed