Parenting in Islam

Comfort to the eyes.

The new Muslim parent is at the most consequential and least-supported moment of their faith life. Most Islamic parenting books assume a parent already raised in a Muslim family. This book is for the parent who was not.

Parenting in Islam walks the developmental arc – from before the child arrives, through the newborn rituals, the soft years, adolescence, and the young adult – with chapters for the interfaith and convert family.

Mercy is the through-line. The parent who is merciful with the child is teaching the child what the Most Merciful is like.

Second edition, revised and reset. Book Seven of The New Muslim Companion – a series of twenty books for the new Muslim, the returning Muslim, and the curious reader: plain English, no Arabic assumed, honest about where scholars differ.