Celebrate Eid With a good book

Sumbul Ali Karamali is an American author. She was raised in a Muslim family and studied at University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. She earned a degree in Islamic Law that informed the foundation of her book, The Muslim Next Door: the Quran, the Media, and that Veil Thing. This book is something of a beginners guide to Islam and Muslim culture. The book resists the Islamophobic presumptions made about Muslim communities in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on 9/11.

She has also written Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam, which she states was published for the benefit of secondary school teachers struggling to find accurate material and references to teach their students about Islam.