About Muslim Legacy Series®
Muslim Legacy Series® is an independent educational publisher dedicated to creating engaging, historically responsible books that help children, families, educators, and lifelong learners better understand Islamic history, civilization, and faith.
Our goal is to make complex subjects approachable while encouraging curiosity, thoughtful discussion, and a lifelong love of learning.
A Note from the Founder
I grew up in India, where a tutor came to our home to teach us Quran, Hadith, and the foundations of our faith. He was sincere, but he taught the way generations before him had been taught: memorize, don’t question, and fear the punishment that awaits if you fall short. When I came to America as a teenager in 1973, I found the same method waiting in the weekend schools — and decades later, my American-born children and grandchildren found it still there. They dreaded Islamic school not because they lacked faith, but because fear had been made the doorway to it.
Somewhere along the way — after raising a family in Minnesota, leading community organizations for more than forty years, and traveling to more than fifty countries — I stopped asking why children dislike Islamic school and started asking how we teach. Times had changed; our methodology had not. I became convinced that we can hold strictly to the Quran and authentic Hadith while completely changing how we teach them: leading with love of Allah rather than fear alone, welcoming questions instead of silencing them, and telling our history with the warmth of a grandfather’s voice and the honesty of a scholar’s citations. I came to believe that while the timeless teachings of Islam never change, the ways we help children understand and love those teachings can continue to improve.
That conviction became the Muslim Legacy Series. Every book we publish is written to be read aloud, questioned, and discussed — by students, parents, and grandparents together. If a child closes one of our books loving Allah, knowing their story matters, and trusting that their questions are welcome, we have done our work.
— Mustafa Siddiqui, Founder
