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The following list of recommended readings is divided into three categories. The first list highlights several readings introducing Muslim beliefs, practices, and community life while the second offers suggested readings on inclusive pedagogy. Finally, the third list includes books on Islamophobia.

Islam

  • World of Religions: A Canadian Perspective: A Supplementary Resource for Grades 12 on Islam by Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning Cataloguing in Publication Data (Manitoba Education, 2022).
  • Manitoba Muslims: A History of Resilience and Growth by Ismael Ibrahim Mukhtar (Friesen Press, 2021). https://www.mukhtarmanitoba.ca/index.html
  • NEWSELA: An Introduction to Muhammad and the Faith of Islam (NEWSELA, 2017).
  • Being Muslim: A Practical Guide by Asad Tarsin (Sandala, 2015).
  • NCCM: Educator’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices (2015) https://issuu.com/amirael/docs/nccm_singlepage_educator
  • Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Melissa Ruthven (Oxford University Press, 2012).
  • Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan A. C. Brown (Oxford University Press, 2011).
  • World Religions Canadian Perspectives – Western Traditions by Doris R. Jakobsh / See Chapter 4 on Islam (Top Hat, 2011).
  • Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction by Adam J. Silverstein (Oxford University Press, 2010).
  • Submission, Faith & Beauty: The Religion of Islam by Joseph E.B. Lumbard (Zaytuna Institute, 2009).
  • The Koran: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Cook (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Inclusive Pedagogy

  • Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community by Liz Kleinrock (Heinemann, 2021).
  • Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking A Different Question by Gloria Ladson-Billings (Teacher’s College Press, 2021).
  • This book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2020).
  • Teaching Islamic Studies in the Age of ISIS, Islamophobia, and the Internet by Courtney M. Dorroll (Indiana University Press, 2019).
  • Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom by Jamila Lyiscott (Routledge, 2019).
  • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World by Django Paris Et al. (Teacher’s College Press, 2017).
  • Teaching Against Islamophobia by J.L Kincheloe, S.R. Steinberg, C.D. Stonebanks / See Chapter 3 (Peter Lang, 2010).
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (Bloomsbury Academic, 2000).

Islamophobia

  • Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia by Suhaiymah Manzooor-Khan (Pluto Press, 2022).
  • The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North by Jasmine Zine (Wilfrid Laurier University, 2022).
  • Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North by Graeme Truelove (Nightwood Editions, 2019).
  • The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims by Nathan Lean Et al. (Pluto Press, 2017).
  • Securitized Citizens: Canadian Muslims’ Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post-9/11by Baljit Nagra (University of Toronto Press, 2017).
  • Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies and Threatens Our Freedom by Arsalan Iftikhar (Hot Books, 2016).
  • Islam in the Hinterlands: Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada by Jasmine Zine (University of British Columbia Press, 2013).

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