The Runaway Scarf — Corey Habbas

In The Runaway Scarf, Ibsitu, a young slave from Habbasha who has built a friendship with her slave master's daughter, Noora, is accused of stealing one of her expensive, jewel-embroidered scarves. After being attacked and violently searched, Ibsitu embarks on a journey of freedom. The light of faith has been lit in Ibsitu's heart and she uses it as a guide along the path to Prophet Mohammed's (pbuh) town in Madinah. "When I found the hadith about the African slave who fled her captors in Makkah to join the Prophet (pbuh) and his followers in Madinah, I was immediately inspired to create a fictional story that leveraged the same messages conveyed by the hadith in order to bring Islamic concepts to children in a way that they could easily digest," says Habbas who worked a year to create the illustrations and story for the book. The Runaway Scarf is a timeless story about the Islamic values of human rights and equality.