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Islamic & Middle Eastern: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Islamic & Middle Eastern, updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $14.99, median 3 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 23/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $7.99 – $25.96 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 1% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 2% of the parent category Regional (199), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 1% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 97% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- At $14.99 its median price beats 98% of Kindle eBooks categories, leaving more margin per copy.
Top 10 Islamic & Middle Eastern best sellers
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Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris
by Alice Kaplan
- List rank#1
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews7
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Islamic Art and Architecture (World of Art)
by Robert Hillenbrand
- List rank#2
- Price$20.98
- Rating4.6
- Reviews107
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Art of Islam, Language and Meaning: Language and Meaning: Commemorative Edition (Commemorative) (Library of Perennial Philosophy Sacred Art in Tradition)
by Titus Burckhardt
- List rank#3
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews35
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Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Legacy During the Ur III Period
by Marian H. Feldman
- List rank#4
- Price$19.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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Al-Hariri’s Maqamat: The Little-known Illustrated Manuscript from Sana’a’, Yemen, dated 1709
by Shirley Guthrie
- List rank#5
- Price$9.99
- Rating5.0
- Reviews1
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Islamic Biomorphic Patterns: Creating Motifs Inspired by the Natural World
by Esra Alhamal
- List rank#6
- Price$24.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews52
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Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins
by Peter F. Stone
- List rank#7
- Price$28.79
- Rating4.5
- Reviews83
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Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity
by Cynthia Becker
- List rank#8
- Price$23.75
- Rating4.3
- Reviews17
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Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History
by Edward S. Cooke Jr.
- List rank#9
- Price$21.63
- Rating4.6
- Reviews17
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Praying with Icons
by Jim Forest
- List rank#10
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews83
FAQ
Is Islamic & Middle Eastern a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 23/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 3 reviews and sells for $14.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Islamic & Middle Eastern?
The median best seller has 3 reviews, and 97% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Islamic & Middle Eastern best sellers cost?
The median price is $14.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $7.99 and $25.96.
Can new books break into Islamic & Middle Eastern?
1% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.