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The Boldest White: A Story of Hijab and Community
By Ibtihaj Muhammad
Also see The Kindest Red and The Proudest Blue
Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes*
By Hena Khan, Mehrdokht Amini (Illustrator)
Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors
By Hena Khan, Mehrdokht Amini (Illustrator)
The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship
By Ibtihaj Muhammad
Also see The Boldest White and The Proudest Blue
Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers
By Uma Mishra-Newbery, Lina Al-Hathloul, and Rebecca Green (Illustrator)
A Mermaid Girl
By Sana Rafi and Olivia Aserr (Illustrator)
The Moon from Dehradun: A Story of Partition
By Shirin Shamsi and Tarun Lak (Illustrator)
My Father's Shop
By Satomi Ichikawa
OUT OF PRINT
One Sun and Countless Stars: A Muslim Book of Numbers
By Hena Khan and Mehrdokht Amini (Illustrator)
One Wish: Fatima Al-Fihri and the World's Oldest University *
By M. O. Yuksel and Mariam Quraishi (Illustrator)
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family*
By Ibtihaj Muhammad
Also see The Boldest White and The Kindest Red
Sadiq and the Ramadan Gift
By Siman Nuurali and Anjan Sarkar (Illustrator)
More books in the Sadiq series are listed here: Sadiq series
The White Nights of Ramadan
By Maha Addasi, Ned Gannon (Illustrator)
Zahra's Blessing: A Ramadan Story
By Shirin Shamsi and Manal Mirza (Illustrator)
Spanish edition available: La bendición de Zahra: un relato de Ramadán
Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices
By S. K. Ali (Editor), Aisha Saeed (Editor), Iman Rasheed (Illustrator)
Saving Sunshine *
By Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan (Illustrator)
The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan
By Salma Hussain
When a Brown Girl
Flees *
By Aamna Qureshi
