 The work that Sharma started with the film started to become a staple in many books on Islam and at U.S. University libraries.He wrote the forward for the two-part anthology called, "Islam and Homosexuality"

On Amazon, the film has a customer review average of four and a half stars out of five.In addition, "A Jihad for Love" has a rank of 7,653 in the top 100 documentaries.