The text was published by Twenty7 Books in 2015 and is a romance fiction that explores the trials and tribulations of dating as a young Muslim woman living in London.

The book follows the eponymous heroine Sofia Khan through the difficulties of navigating the dating world as a Muslim girl living in London whilst working in publishing.

Out of the blue her father has a heart attack and Sofia decides given her lack of dating success to marry Imran after all, as she feels this will make her family happy.

Conall emails to let her know he will not be in Afghanistan for much longer as he has met a documentary filmmaker named Hamida and is going with her to Pakistan to make a film.

Conall comes back and asks her to come out to Pakistan, she accepts much to the chagrin of her male relatives who inform her that this is not the way women in their family behave.

[2] Academics have also suggested that the Chick Lit genre has taken a new form, as seen in Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged, which 'focuses on Muslim dating and marriage'.

Sarah Ilot has analysed how Malik's use of humour in Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged functions in the subversion of racial and gender-based power dynamics and stereotypes.