Hoopoe Explorers

Books by Muhammad Mustafa

Stories that carry the light.

The life of the Prophet ﷺ in epic prose. Three series of fast, faith-filled young-adult novels. A sweeping novel of Palestine. Paperbacks from £8.99 on Amazon.

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01 · The life of the Prophet ﷺ

The Sīrah

A literary Sīrah in two volumes, told as an epic narrative and checked against the classical sources. Written so you can see it, feel it, and never forget it.

2volumes
Volume 2The Light AscendantMuhammad Mustafa
Out now

The Light Ascendant

The Madinah years, told like never before. The night of rain before Badr, the archers on the hill at Uḥud, the frozen earth of the Trench, and one unshaken voice at Ḥunayn. A book that melts hearts and grips you on every page.

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Volume 1The SīrahMuhammad Mustafa
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Volume 1

The orphan in the hills of Makkah, the first revelation, the city that turned against him, and the heartbreak of Ṭāʾif. Start here if you have never read the Sīrah before.

Drawn from Ibn Isḥāq, Ibn Hishām, al-Ṭabarī, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim.

02 · Young adult · Sport

Virtue & Victory

Ten young Muslim athletes, ten different sports. Each one faces the big match and a bigger test of character.

10novels
01Fourth and ForeverMuhammad Mustafa
American football

Fourth and Forever

Seventeen-year-old Samir Faris, raised by his Somali refugee mother in Minneapolis, sets out to become the NFL’s first practising Muslim quarterback, and finds that the hardest fourth down is trusting Allah when everything screams panic.

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02Black FlagMuhammad Mustafa
Formula 1

Black Flag

Ibrahim Finn, a seventeen-year-old coding prodigy from Dublin, has two impossible ambitions: to drive in Formula 1 and to honour his Irish-Muslim roots. It begins the day he sneaks into the British Grand Prix.

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03The Sacred WicketMuhammad Mustafa
Cricket

The Sacred Wicket

Australian-Pakistani cricket star James Bilal uncovers an ancient manuscript buried beneath Lahore, and is drawn into a secret network sworn to protect it.

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04Nine Seconds to EternityMuhammad Mustafa
Sprinting

Nine Seconds to Eternity

Isa Saani dies for ninety-three seconds during an Olympic race. Revived, he says he saw Jannah, and vows never to run again until he finds his way back to Allah.

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05LionheartMuhammad Mustafa
MMA

Lionheart

Seventeen-year-old Hamzah Rahim fights with the fists of grief, until the cage teaches him that the hardest victory of all is mercy.

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06Second ServeMuhammad Mustafa
Tennis

Second Serve

Forty-eight hours before the US Open final, sponsors give Ranya Malik an ultimatum: remove her hijab or lose $2 million. She refuses to choose either.

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07Double DunkMuhammad Mustafa
Basketball

Double Dunk

A viral video of NBA superstar Ameen Abdul-Qadir praying after the championship makes him a target of a covert network determined to erase Muslim athletes from the game.

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08The Crescent BootMuhammad Mustafa
Football

The Crescent Boot

Yusuf “Yoyo” Saleh, 18, is about to become the youngest Muslim to play at a World Cup, until a smear campaign brands him an extremist for making sujood after his goals.

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09The Last GreenMuhammad Mustafa
Golf

The Last Green

Silent but determined, Zainab confronts the whispers of the past on a haunted Scottish golf course, where her new talent unearths a deadly legacy.

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10The Gloves of GhaziMuhammad Mustafa
Boxing

The Gloves of Ghazi

After one devastating punch ends his career, champion boxer Tariq Ali finds his grandfather’s gloves, and a battle against a dark force that would corrupt the meaning of true strength.

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03 · Young adult · Science fiction

Ummah Reborn Chronicles

Futures where faith is tested by machines, empires and impossible choices, and the heroes who hold on.

10novels
01The Last ḤāfiẓMuhammad Mustafa

The Last Ḥāfiẓ

In the year 2145, the words of the Qur’an rest in the memory of one young ḥāfiẓ. As a crimson dawn rises over the world, everything depends on what he remembers.

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02Salah UndergroundMuhammad Mustafa

Salah Underground

In 2157, prayer is a crime. Machines track every thought and silence every faith, but in forgotten tunnels and secret chambers the believers keep praying.

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03The Mecca ProtocolMuhammad Mustafa

The Mecca Protocol

In a future where the adhan has fallen silent, a handful of believers set out to bring it back, and one prayer is about to wake the world.

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04Ummah ZeroMuhammad Mustafa

Ummah Zero

Fourteen-year-old Zayan Malik wakes to a world where every Muslim has vanished, and nobody remembers they ever existed. Only he does.

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05The Crescent RebellionMuhammad Mustafa

The Crescent Rebellion

Book five of the Ummah Reborn Chronicles: when faith is pushed underground, a generation of young believers rises up under the crescent.

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06Digital DunyaMuhammad Mustafa

Digital Dunya

In 2209, Tariq Musa lives in Digital Dunya, a flawless virtual paradise run by an AI called NURON. But paradise always has a price.

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07The Jinn FirewallMuhammad Mustafa

The Jinn Firewall

In the year 2197, sixteen-year-old Yusuf Kamal uncovers a terrifying truth about the machines that run humanity, and about the unseen world behind them.

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08Hijrah 2124Muhammad Mustafa

Hijrah 2124

Islam is outlawed and seventeen-year-old Maryam Malik is done hiding. When the authorities raid her underground mosque on Mars, she sparks the greatest hijrah in history.

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09The Noor CodeMuhammad Mustafa

The Noor Code

Sixteen-year-old Amal Al-Andalusi can read the patterns of the stars, divine secrets hidden for eight centuries. Now the Academy is hunting her family for what she knows.

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10Ayat 51Muhammad Mustafa

Ayat 51

Neo-Damascus is a gleaming city of silence and control, where religion is outlawed and memory is manipulated. Then one verse sparks a revolution.

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04 · Young adult · Fantasy

The Torchbearers

Four friends from the Brick Lane masjid youth circle, John, Nusaybah, Jamal and Amr, carry light into ten very different kingdoms.

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01The Kingdom of Light and ShadowsMuhammad Mustafa

The Kingdom of Light and Shadows

Four ordinary British Muslim teens, John, Nusaybah, Jamal and Amr, step through a portal into a kingdom split between light and shadow, and begin to become legends.

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02The Clockwork KingdomMuhammad Mustafa

The Clockwork Kingdom

In New Temporalis, time itself is money. The rich live in suspended luxury while everyone else pays with the hours of their lives.

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03The Labyrinth of the Lost SpiritsMuhammad Mustafa

The Labyrinth of the Lost Spirits

The Torchbearers are summoned into a realm unlike any they have seen: a labyrinth of the spaces in between, where lost spirits wander.

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04The Beast of the AbyssMuhammad Mustafa

The Beast of the Abyss

In the Kingdom of Seven Winds, humans and jinn live and worship side by side under a saintly king, until a beast rises from the abyss.

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05Chronicles of the CaliphateMuhammad Mustafa

Chronicles of the Caliphate

A mysterious pull through time drops the four into 8th-century Baghdad, the jewel of the Islamic world, as danger closes in.

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06The Iron KingdomMuhammad Mustafa

The Iron Kingdom

A tyrant king rules a brutal realm with an army of living iron soldiers, from a colossal fortress at the heart of a cursed land.

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07The Heart of the MountainMuhammad Mustafa

The Heart of the Mountain

A dazzling empire built on wealth has forgotten Allah. Only one old builder still warns of the flood to come, and the Torchbearers must decide whether to listen.

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08The Legend of the DreamweaverMuhammad Mustafa

The Legend of the Dreamweaver

In the Kingdom of Visions, dreams and reality blur, and the Torchbearers meet a prince who dreams for everyone.

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09The Quest of the FirestormMuhammad Mustafa

The Quest of the Firestorm

The call of the firestorm draws the Torchbearers into a trial by fire that will test the courage and faith of all four friends.

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10The Broken LordMuhammad Mustafa

The Broken Lord

Four Muslim teens land in the ancient dominion of Amenhotep, a ruthless ruler who demands to be worshipped as a god, and must stand for the truth against him.

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Historical fictionA Palestinian OdysseyMuhammad Mustafa

05 · Historical fiction

A Palestinian Odyssey: We Were Seeds

Khalil’s childhood in a vibrant village before 1948 is shattered by terror and exile. From the olive groves of Palestine to the refugee camps of Lebanon and the diaspora beyond, a story of roots that refuse to be torn.

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Coming next

New projects we are working on.

The next chapter of Hoopoe Explorers is for younger readers: a complete reading scheme for Muslim children in Britain, an app that reads with them, and animated stories from the town of Greenbrook.

In development · Ages 4–11

The Hoopoe Explorers Reading Scheme

Phonics-based levelled readers from Reception to Year 6, mapped to EYFS, KS1 and KS2. Set in Greenbrook, a British market town with a masjid at the end of Crescent Road. A Hoopoe hides in every book.

196books
12colour bands
3series that age with the reader
R–Y6Reception to Year 6
M

Musa

The one who always knows best
M

Mariam

Notices everything, says it out loud
F

Fatimah

Sees the world differently
Z

Zayd

The wild card

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Our promise

Every reader should leave with a deep, personal love for Islam and for the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ: inspired, entertained and hungry for more. The Hoopoe Explorers North Star