Resources
Welcome to the Hikma publications room
We pray these resources will be a blessing to you and your church.
Books from Hikma authors
'Christian Marriage in the House of Islam'
Edited by P Z Ghalam, P Brittenden, S Antonio, I Azad-Andish (2025)
Across the Muslim world and its diaspora, thousands are coming to Christ—often at great personal cost.
But amidst the joy of new faith lies a hidden struggle:
How do Believers of Muslim Backgrounds—or BMBs—build strong marriages in the midst of cultural tension, persecution, and displacement?
This book was born from years of listening. Across 14 chapters and 12 regions—from Togo to Turkey, Iran to India—it brings together the voices of scholars, missionaries, and BMB leaders. Their stories are real. Their insights are hard-earned. And their message is clear: marriage matters deeply for the future of the BMB movement.
Whether it’s the fear of family rejection, the pain of spiritual disconnect within marriage, the trauma of custody loss, the inability to legally register a marriage,
or the silence around women’s suffering— these pages offer a space to name the struggle, rediscover hope, and begin healing. It’s a guide for mentors and pastors— and a mirror for BMBs themselves, who will find their journeys reflected with honesty and compassion.
'Algerian and Christian'
By Patrick Brittenden (2025)
This book invites readers into the complex, often painful, yet deeply hopeful journey of following Jesus in a land where faith in Christ is seen as foreign. In a country founded on a vision of being irreducibly Muslim and Arab, what does it mean to be both fully Algerian and fully Christian?
Drawing on years of ministry engagement, Pat Brittenden explores how Believers of Muslim Background (BMBs) are growing in faith amidst pressure, suspicion, and cultural dislocation. Through the lenses of Berber identity, Algerian Islam, and the influence of state education, he offers a compassionate and contextual approach to theological formation.
At the heart of this book is the idea of liminality—the experience of living between worlds. While often marked by pain and marginalization, this in-between space can also become a place of freedom, transformation, and fruitful mission.
For missionaries and church leaders walking alongside emerging movements, this book offers not just insight, but encouragement: that God is at work in the margins, and that the Algerian Church, though small and suffering, carries within it a vibrant, locally rooted witness to the Gospel.
‘From Conflict to Hope: Voices from Emerging Indigenous Leaders of North African, Middle Eastern and Iranian Christians’
Edited by Roy Oksnevad and Sama Adam (2024)
This book's content comes out of a consultation for BMB church leaders from North Africa, the Middle East, and Iran. The consultation provided a safe place to address conflict from their lived experiences associated with cultural patterns of miscommunication, shame, leadership, and mediation.
There were honest discussions about what it looks like to follow Christ and the challenges involved in cutting a new path that will not be understood by the majority of the people. The attendees of the consultation invite the body of Christ to join them in the discussion as they navigate the complexities of breaking free from religious and cultural strongholds that besets the church from an Islamic heritage.
This book presents daring and honest material to a wider audience in the hope and expectation that it will contribute to the development of healthy, vibrant fellowships in many contexts.
‘Conversion and Identity: the Pastoral Care and Discpleship of Converts in the Context of the UK’
by Saira Malik (2022)
After researching conversion to and from Islam, this book suggests that misunderstanding surrounds groups of converts from Islam. However, converts should be heard as they understand the perspectives of both traditions, and are potential agents for cross-cultural dialogue and mediation.
The book’s overarching theoretical framework focuses on the themes of conversion and identity. It records and analyses the experiences of converts from Islam to Christianity, and those who care for converts, in respect of their own discipleship paths and the handling of pastoral care in the UK.
The hypothesis is that Muslim converts from Islam are taken on a different “straight path” which, because it focuses on a personal relationship with Christ, embraces all the emotional, intellectual and cognitive highs and lows of any intense intimate relationship.
Other resources
Books or journals where our team have contributed recently:
People Vision is a benchmark study of the people group paradigm that underscores its vital role in the twenty-first century, with insights from over sixty authors reexamining our understanding of people group missiology. Engage with this transformative guide and be part of a movement that redefines mission work, ensuring no people group is left behind.
Our team contributed chapter 25.