Trans-Queer
Muslim
Starter Guide
Welcome! It is an honor to have you wherever you are at in your Islamic journey, from newly-reverted to a Muslim for decades, and anyone in between! May your Islam be filled with growth, connection, and love, inshAllah!
ABOUT
It is certainly overwhelming to be navigating these identities simultaneously, especially ones that are criminalized and stigmatized. That is why MASGD has taken delicate care in curating a starter guide of assorted resources we ourselves would have wanted at the beginning of our experiences, enough that will establish a basic understanding without being overwhelming.
HOW TO NAVIGATE
Hover over each resource for a description and an order link!
This is a living, breathing page, so we highly encourage the community to check this periodically. As a start, we highly encourage you to visit MASGD’s Substack and podcasts under the ‘About’ tab!
Please note that the views of the authors, curators, and organizations presented here are not representative of MASGD.
This translation of the Quran is a universal translation, for all times, related to the Quran’s eternality and not to it as a text frozen in the time period of its revelation. To this end, there are no parenthetical phrases further interpreting and elaborating a verse, thus allowing the translation to be free of any transient political, denominational or doctrinal bias.
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Living to 99 is a love letter to those of us at the margins of spirituality. Spirituality has existed beyond time and space. We are meant to be connected, yet our connection is often demonized, dehumanized, and punished along the way. Through reflections on the 99 Names of Allah, we examine what it means to be human, to organize, and to strive for collective liberation.
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Shadaab Rahemtulla analyzes how four Muslim intellectuals have been able to expound scripture as seventh-century Arabian text in a socially liberating way, addressing their own lived realities of oppression from racism to patriarchy. Rahemtulla underlines the importance of both the ethico-social content of the Qur'an and their usage of new and innovative reading practices.
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A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed to combat Orientalism. It is an unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism.
Islam and Anarchism disrupts two commonly held beliefs – that Islam is necessarily authoritarian and capitalist; and that anarchism is necessarily anti-religious and anti-spiritual. Rooted in key Islamic textual sources, and drawing on radical Indigenous, Islamic anarchistic and social movement discourses, Abdou proposes ‘Anarcha-Islam’.
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Read “Just Me and Allah: A Queer Muslim Photo Project” here now!
Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect.” As an American raised for a time in Egypt, and finding herself captivated by the story of a celebrated Egyptian belly dancer's journey across the United States in the 1940s, she sets off from her home in California to her parents' in Connecticut. Reclaiming her autonomy after a life of survival, Jarrar offers a bold look at domestic violence, single motherhood, and sexuality through the lens of the punished-yet-triumphant body.
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The Black Trans Prayer Book is an interfaith, multi-dimensional, artistic and theological work that collects the stories, poems, prayers, meditation, spells, and incantations of Black Trans & Non-Binary people. Often pushed out of Faith spaces and yet still deeply connected to a historical legacy of spiritual essentiality, Black Trans People face unprecedented amounts of spiritual, physical, and psychological violence. The Black Trans Prayer Book is a tool of healing, and affirmation centered on uplifting Black Trans & Non-Binary people.
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A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and radically hopeful memoir.
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Disclaimer: We sincerely apologize in advance for the lack of language-sensitive resources. Unfortunately, publications by trans-queer Muslims about trans-queer Muslims are limited enough as it is, and resources not in English even more so.
Queer and Muslim is a powerful collection by and for LGBTQ+ Muslims navigating layered identities. With contributions spanning essays, poems, letters to past and future selves, and more, the book explores the emotional and spiritual dimensions of queer Muslim life and challenges the perception that faith and queerness are inherently incompatible. These raw accounts tell of building chosen families and reconnecting with birth families, radical healing, cultivating spaces of belonging, and reclaiming faith on your own terms.
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عكس الحرام / The Opposite of Haram; A Queer Muslim Manifesto is a letter full of things author Sheyam Gheith wishes someone had told them. A 16-page love letter to queer and trans Muslims, and to those we stand alongside in the fight.
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The Trans Muslim Liberation Podcast, facilitated by MASGD ED Mx. Yaffa AS, details using Islam as a methodology for building a liberated world.
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Read MASGD’s Islamic Mutual Aid Budgeting: A Sustainable Guide here now!
Listen to a podcast episode entitled “Queer or Muslim” here!
Watch “(Homo)Sexuality and the Quran” here now!
Read this article here!
Disclaimer: While MASGD is unable to provide content of the resources below that are not already publicly available due to copyright law, we highly encourage you to contact your local library and request a copy for free!