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The Durham Tech Library was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant called Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: MuslimJourneys.
The grant provides our library with more than 25 books and videos about Muslim culture, history, literature, and faith. Visit the Durham Tech events calendar for details about programs, films, and book discussions related to Muslim culture and faith that will occur throughout the year.
Please see the muslimjourneysposter for more information about campus events.
Use the online catalog to locate these materials in the library.
Books
Minaret by Leila Aboulela
A Quiet Revolution by Leila Ahmed
The Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar, translated by Dick Davis and Afkham Darbandi
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili
Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford
Islamic Arts by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair
Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan A. C. Brown
The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States, edited by Edward E. Curtis IV
In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh
When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East” by Stewart Gordon
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf, translated by Peter Sluglett
The Arabian Nights (anonymous), edited by Muhsin Mahdi, translated by Husain Haddawy
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
The Story of the Qur’an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life by Ingrid Mattson
The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal
Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
Rumi: Poet and Mystic, edited and translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Snow by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely
Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel
The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam by F. E. Peters
The Art of Hajj by Venetia Porter
House of Stone by Anthony Shadid
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson
Films
Prince Among Slaves
Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World
Koran by Heart
The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association. Support was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.