What to Read After Formations of the secular
Readers who loved Formations of the secular by Talal Asad keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Formations of the secular is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Formations of the secular
A Secular Age
Desiring Arabs
Islam Observed
The long divergence
There ain't no black in the Union Jack
Sick Societies
Servants of Allah
The Sacred Canopy
India Wins Freedom
Meditations
Good Muslim, bad Muslim
The myth of religious violence
A History of Islamic Societies
Somanatha
Lives of Muhammad
Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)
After virtue
We have never been modern
The sublime object of ideology
Women and gender in Islam
The Reconstruction of Religious Thoughts in Islam
Qur'An and Woman
The question of Palestine
The condition of postmodernity