Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biogra…
Shelve Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil …
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally meaning "the recitation"), also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Al-Coran, Coran, Kur'an, and Al-Qur'an,…
Muhammad was born in 570 C.E. Over the course of the following sixty years, he built a thriving spiritual community and laid out the foundations of a religion that has changed the course of world hist…
As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition. In the case of…
Shelve The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity
In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more tha…
Shelve After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most important innovators of the century, Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim scholar, with a large following especially among young European and American Muslim…
Shelve In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheis…
Shelve A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
الرحيق المختوم بحث في السيرة النبوية. تأليف: الشيخ صفي الرحمن المباركفوري. قُدِّم في مسابقة رابطة العالم الإسلامي في السيرة النبوية الشريفة، وحاز البحث على المركز الأول.
Islam and the Destiny of Man by Charles Le Gai Eaton is a wide-ranging study of the Muslim religion from a unique point of view. The author, a former member of the British Diplomatic Service, was brou…
In this extraordinary and beautifully-written autobiography, Asad tells of his initial rejection of all institutional religions, his entree into Taoism, his fascinating travels as a diplomat, and fina…
An extremely popular and useful compilation of authentic hadith. Covering every aspect of Islamic belief and moral conduct, it selects approximately 2000 hadith from the six major collections: Bukhari…
خواطر وانطباعات من فترة عاشها سيد قطب في ظلال القرآن دوّنها في هذه المجلدات الستة منطلقاً في ذلك من حقيقة أبدية وهي أن القرآن حقيقة ذات كينونة مستمرة كهذا الكون ذاته، الكون كتاب الله المنظور، والقرآن …
Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Qur'an but rather from hadith, first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds, passed from generation to gener…
Shelve Hadith: An Introduction (Foundations of Islam)
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.
In Destiny Disrupt…
Shelve Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
"خطّ المؤلف في هذه الصفحات علاجاً لمن عاش ضائقة أو ألمّ به حزن أو هم، أو طاف به طائف من مصيبة، أو أقضي مضجعه أرق، وشرد نومه قلق. وأينا يخلو من ذلك. هنا في طيات هذا الكتاب آيات وأبيات، صور وعبر، وفوائد…
سيرة وحياة ستين شخصية إسلامية كان لها أثر مباشر في نشر الدين الإسلامي، والدعوة إلى الله تعالى؛ وهؤلاء الرجال هم: مصعب بن عمير، سلمان الفارسي، أبو ذر الغفاري، بلال بن رباح، عبدالله بن عمر، سعد بن أبي و…
Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read th…
Shelve "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
