Books

Reading List

- Anthropology/ Societies/ Culture -

Collapse by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Factfulness by Hans Rosling with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund (Bill Gates recommended)

Rescue in Albania : One Hundred Percent of Jews in Albania Rescued from Holocaust by Harvey Sarner

- Balkans/ Kosovo -

Kosovo: A Short History by Noel Malcolm

- Biographies -

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by A. Haley et al.

- Business/ Economics -

Business Adventures by John Brooks (Warren Buffett and Bill Gates recommended)

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant

- Child Development/ Parenting/ Psychology/ Education -

How Children Succeed by Paul Tough

Helping Children Succeed by Paul Tough

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Bronson and Merryman

The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups by Leonard Sax

The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids by Alexander and Sandahl

The Secrets of Happy Families by Bruce Feiler

- Education -

Getting What You Came For by R. L. Peters (Extremely useful for Master’s and Ph.D. students)

Why Don’t Students Like School? by Daniel T. Willingham

- Happiness/ Community/ Belonging/ Personal Growth -

Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari

The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons From the World’s Happiest People by Dan Buettner

The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World’s Happiest People by Meik Wiking

- Islam: Faith and History -

The Leadership of Muhammad by Joel Hayward

Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World by Jonathan A.C. Brown

Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong

Islam in Focus by Hammudah Abdulati

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time by Karen Armstrong

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings

The Divine Reality by Hamza Andreas Tzortzis

The Qur’an Translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

- Islamophobia -

The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims by Nathan Lean

The Fear of Islam, Second Edition: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West by Todd Green

- Muslim Civilization and Science/ World History -

How Islam Created the Modern World by Mark Graham

Science and Civilization in Islam by Seyyed H. Nasr

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History by Ibn Khaldun

- Poetry -

Splitting the Moon by Joel Hayward

The Soul of Rumi by Jalaludin Rumi. Edited by C. Barks

- Psychology/ Success -

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

Mindset by Carol Dweck

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

- Stories -

Hope is Alive by Burhan Al-Din Fili

The Savage and Other Islamic Stories by Joel Hayward

- World Religions -

The Bible, the Qur’an and Science by Maurice Bucaille

The World’s Religions by Huston Smith

- Writing/ English Language -

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

The Elements of Style by Strunk and White

More coming soon…

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