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
The Long Divergence
Servants of Allah
The Myth of Religious Violence
Islam Observed
Sick Societies
A History of Islamic Societies
Meditations
Good Muslim, bad Muslim
The Sacred Canopy
Lives of Muhammad
Somanatha
India Wins Freedom
There ain't no black in the Union Jack
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