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Islamic folklore as a book category covers the popular stories, beliefs, customs and oral traditions that have developed in Muslim societies alongside — and often intertwined with — formal religious texts and scholarship. It includes collections and retellings of folktales, legends of prophets and saints, accounts of jinn and the supernatural, miracle stories, proverbs, riddles, ritual practices, and regional myths from across the Islamic world, as well as scholarly or comparative studies of these materials. Works in this category range from children’s storybooks and anthologies of regional tales to ethnographic studies, annotated translations, and literary adaptations, and they highlight the cultural diversity, historical depth, and local variations of Muslim popular culture without equating folklore with theological doctrine. Readers can expect material that illuminates everyday belief, moral instruction, wonder-tales, and the ways popular imagination shapes and is shaped by Islamic traditions.

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