Ruqaya's Bookshelf: From our Hearts to yours

Mariam Hussein, author of Alana’s Bananas, is an elementary school teacher, mother of two boys, and eldest sister of Ruqaya’s Bookshelf founder Asm...

Reading stories written by kids is always a lot of fun! This past October, we received over 1000 entries for our Islamic Heritage Month story compe...

Amina Banawan, author of The Green Dinosaur Umbrella, is an Egyptian American with a passion for writing and education. She was born and raised in ...

It’s never been clearer than at the present how systems of domination seek to shut down people who are deemed unimportant or who speak inconvenient...

Sometimes it feels like the good you bring to the world is just a small flame surrounded by evil winds threatening to snuff it out.  But our religi...

Nani’s Magical Purse by Abdullah Umer (9 years old, Canada)  “Ali! Wake up, we are going shopping with Nani! Yelled Ali's mom from downstairs. Ali ...

Stories are powerful. Hollywood knows it; media moguls know it; book publishers know it. We know it too. It’s in our nature to be drawn to stories....

You know what? Your words matter. We all know this hadith: “Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able t...

Propaganda and disinformation are not new. In the Qur’anic story, the Pharaoh—one of the evilest men who ever walked the earth—claimed that Prophet...

We are a people whose way of life means submission to Allah, and worshipping Him alone is the core of our existence. And as our beloved messenger t...

As parents, we want the best for our children, and part of that is raising them to be citizens of the world. But sometimes we’re torn between makin...

October is Islamic Heritage Month, and what better way to mark the occasion than to celebrate Muslim kids telling their own stories? Ruqaya’s Books...