Muslim World Book Award 2025

Muslim World Book Award 2025 Winner: Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Muslims Don’t Matter (Bridge Street Press, 2024)

The Muslim World Book Award is sponsored by the Markfield Institute of Higher Education (MIHE), the Islamic Foundation, and Kube Publishing, and promoted through the long-running journal The Muslim World Book Review. In 2025, the award was presented to Baroness Sayeeda Warsi for her powerful and timely work entitled: Muslims Don’t Matter. The book was selected by the Award Panel for its courage, clarity, and originality in addressing one of the most urgent issues facing contemporary society—the normalization of Islamophobia in Britain and beyond.

On the 1^st of September, Baroness Warsi delivered a public lecture expanding on the arguments in the book. She traced the multiple ways in which Islamophobia has been embedded within politics, the media, and public discourse, arguing that Muslims are increasingly treated as exceptions to the moral norms that govern liberal democracies. Drawing on her own political journey, she illuminated how both institutional neglect and active hostility have sidelined Muslim voices in national debates. Yet, Baroness Warsi also emphasized that her work is not only a critique, but a call to action. She urged communities, policymakers, and the media to acknowledge and challenge Islamophobia with the same seriousness as other forms of racism and prejudice, insisting that justice for Muslims is indivisible from justice for all.

In awarding Baroness Warsi the Muslim World Book Award 2025, the panel recognized that Muslims Don’t Matter represents a landmark intervention in public life, one that brings urgency and moral clarity to an issue too often overlooked.

Congratulations to Baroness Sayeeda Warsi on winning the 2025 Muslim World Book Award. The panel looks forward to the submissions for next year.

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