First person narratives can be both helpful and somewhat complex in understanding women and gender in Islam. Without them, we would not be able to hear Muslim women’s voices with regard to their own religion and lifestyles. Because outside perspectives may simply be based on observance, we aren’t able to fully understand the thoughts of a woman who lives each day as an identified Muslim. Literature, both fiction and nonfiction, enable a reader to tap into a more emotionally descriptive point of view, and give detailed accounts of how an Islamic woman carries out day to day life. However, there is difficulty in deciding how much representation we allocate to one person’s story. There will always be exceptions in a community, and literature may be just telling the unique story of one person. Even with this in mind, we can still dangerously make generalizations about women and gender in Islam based off of one testimony. Despite the chance of one remarkable story manipulating a reader’s understanding of how all Muslim women live, literature can further our understanding of Islam in a way that other approaches cannot in that it removes third party bias when written by a primary source, it may attract more readers because of writing style, and gives greater insight in a setting where a guest may not have access to the level of intimacy that a society member might. However, third party literature can also create assumptions about Islamic women that are unwarranted.