New Arrivals End-Feb 2012
February 25, 2012
New Arrivals Mid-Feb 2012
February 17, 2012
On the occasion of Wardah’s 10th anniversary on 15 Feb 2012, we would like to share with all of you what we feel about books.
According to Andrew Haslam, a book is a portable container consisting of a series of printed and bound pages that preserves, announces, expounds, and transmits knowledge to a literate readership across time and space. Experience informs us that the simple act of reading necessitates the seeking of stillness, of quiet. Books enable readers to patiently listen to the voice of the author speaking from within their own minds. Books also allow readers to pause and consider, tinker or question an abstract idea or even a chain of ideas. Each book we’ve read and placed on the bookshelf is a time capsule of our emotions, ideas and states retrievable years and decades from now. Wardah believes that the humble book is a technology unto itself, more than that, it is a system, perhaps a pedagogy, that moulds minds that reflect and ruminate, rooted in a continuum spanning the breadth of human civilization.
E-reading devices and their ilk are all caricatures of the printed book. People who read on screens find themselves scanning more than reading, and hyperlinking rather than thinking. And with the ‘integration’ of social media in reading devices, the mind would be compelled to spiral down the gurgling sinkhole of trivial distraction.
We ask you, dear reader, to realise that you have the choice of not drowning in a deluge of data and dispersion. Choose a medium that does not consume you. Choose to read a book.
That said, we are pleased to announce the arrival of the following titles to our store on Bussorah Street.
New Titles
Muslims of Europe: The ‘Other’ Europeans
| Dr H. A. Hellyer
Know Yourself
| Awhad al-din Balyani
Understanding Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Theory
| Tännsjö
Caliph of Cairo, Al-Hakim: The Remarkable Story of the Ruler who Vanished
| Paul Walker
Madina to Jerusalem: Encounters with the Byzantine Empire
| Ismail Adam Patel
Coffeehouse
| Naguib Mahfouz, Modern Arab Literature Translations
Wandering Lonely in a Crowd: Reflections on the Muslim Condition in the West
| Atif Imtiaz
Edward Said and Critical Decolonization, Revised Edition
| Ferial Ghazoul
Daily Wisdom: Selections from the Holy Qur’an
| Kidwai
The Treasures of Islamic Art in the Museums of Cairo
| Bernard O’Kane
Abrahamic Archetype: Conceptual and Historical Relationships between Judaism, Christianity and Islam
| Zinner
Writing Muslim Identity
| Geoffrey Nash
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power 1898-1918
| Sean McMeekin
The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better for Everyone
| Wilkinson and Pickett
Restock
Mantle Adorned: Imam Busiri’s Burda | tr. Abdal Hakim Murad
Miracles of the Quran | Sha’rawi
Selections from the Fath al Bari of Ibn Hajar | tr. Abdal Hakim Murad
An-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith
Forty Hadith Qudsi
Daily Wisdom: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad | Kidwai
Proofs of Prophethood | Abdel Haleem Mahmoud
Four Imams: Their Lives, Works and Schools of Thought | Abu Zahra
Four Imams and their Schools | Dr. Gibril Haddad
Understanding the Four Madhdhabs | Abdal Hakim Murad
Mercy In the Difference of the Four Schools | Qadi Safadi
Portrait of Human Perfection | Al Hawfi
Signs Before the Day of Judgement | Ibn Kathir
Fate and Predestination | Sha’rawi
How Allah Provides | Sha’rawi
Good and Evil | Sha’rawi
Magic and Envy | Sha’rawi
The End of the World | Sha’rawi
Al Mahdi and the End of Time | ibn Muhammad Arif
Essentials of Islamic Marriage | Rifat Uthman
Kernel of the Kernel | Ibn ‘Arabi
Tarjuman al-Ashwaq | Ibn ‘Arabi
Seven Days of the Heart | Ibn ‘Arabi
Unlimited Mercifier | Hirtenstein
Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries | Ibn ‘Arabi
Ibn Arabi and Modern Thought | Peter Coates
Divine Sayings: The Mishkat of Ibn Arabi
Nightingale in the Garden of Love | Uftade
Universal Tree and the Four Birds | Ibn ‘Arabi
Twenty-Nine Pages | A. E. Affifi
Universal Man | ‘Abd al-Karim Jili
Wisdom of the Prophets: Fusus al Hikam | Ibn ‘Arabi
Mystical Astrology According to Ibn ‘Arabi | Burckhardt
Islam and Modernity: Key Issues
Makings of Indonesian Islam
Historical Fact and Fiction | Al-Attas
Intent: Exploring the Core of Being Human | Shaykh Ibrahim Schuitema
Millennium Discourses | Shaykh Ibrahim Schuitema
Concept of Bid’a In Islamic Sharia | Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller
Islam and the Race Question | Paul Hardy
Degrees of the Soul: Spiritual Stations on the Sufi Path | Al-Shabrawi
Perceptions of Islam in European Writing | Ahmad Gunny
Restock For the Little Ones
Aamina Talking Muslim Doll
Don’t Forget to Say Bismillah: A Story Sound Book
Hijab Boutique
We’re Off to Make Umra!
What Should We Say? A Selection of Dua
Ibrahim Khan and the Mystery of the Roaring Lion
Thank You Allah Counting Book
Made By Allah Counting Book
Prayer Times Book of Colours
Arabic Alphabet Colouring Workbook
Easy-Sew Doll Kit
Card-making Set
My Charity Shop Game
Remind Me Posters
Giant Journey Floor Puzzle
What to Say When…
What’s Next? Solat Sequence Game
The Box of Manners
Prayer Practice: Motivation Calendar and Stickers
Companion Cards
Tajweed Untangled
The Way to Jannah Lift-the-Flap book
Noble Seal 5-in-1 stamps
Qibla Arrow
Picnic of Poems | Dawud Wharnsby Ali
Arabic Letters Talking Puzzle
Salaam
Ibrahim
New arrivals in mid-January 2012
January 22, 2012
We are pleased to announce the arrival of the following books to our store.
New titles
Al-Ghazali on Love, Longing, Intimacy & Contentment
This work is of radical importance to the history of Sufism and the arguments that al-Ghazali sets out in it form the basis of the development of whole schools of Sufi theory and practice of mystical love, including the extensive Sufi poetry of Mevlana Rumi and Hafiz. The text starts by elucidating the love of God for humanity and the love of man for God, and proceeds to discuss the deepening of this love to include different degrees of longing, intimacy and contentment.
The Perfect Guide to the Sciences of the Qur’an (Al-Itqan fi ‘Ulum Al-Qur’an)
| Imam Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
An Essay by the Uniquely Wise ‘Abel Fath Omar Bin Al-Khayyam on Algebra and Equations
Omar Al-Khayyam’s famous book on algebra and equations is considered to be perhaps his most important contribution to mathematics. The book deals with the solution of quadratic and cubic equations. Al-Khayyam solved all possible cases of such equations by using geometrical approaches, sometimes involving conic sections, parabolas and hyperbolas.
Revealed Grace: The Juristic Sufism of Ahmad Sirhindi
| Buehler
A new translation of Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi’s letters, widely recognized as a storehouse of Sufi experience and reflection.
Emanations of Grace: Mystical Poems by A’ishah al-Bacuniyah
| Homerin
Method and Mysticism: Cosmos, Nature and Environment in Islamic Mysticism
| Seyyed Shahabeddin Mesbahi
In this pioneering work, Seyyed Shahabeddin Mesbahi offers a new methodology for approaching Islamic mystical concepts by examining the importance, place and manifestation of the concepts of cosmos, nature and environment in Islamic mysticism.
The Mawlid of Ibn Kathir
Extraordinary Women from the Muslim World | Maydell
Collapse of Yugoslavia 1991-99 | Finlan
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order | Chomsky
From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map | Edward Said
Pen and the Sword: Conversations with Edward Said | Barsamian
I Saw Ramallah | Barghouti
Apples are From Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared | Robbins
Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science | Belting
Hammaming In the Sham: A Journey through the Turkish Baths of Damascus, Aleppo and Beyond | Boggs
Jerusalem Caught In Time | Osman
Hajj: Photographs of Reem Al Faisal | Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children from Birth to Age Five | Guernsey
Restock
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
Tafsit Ibn Abbas
Asbab al-Nuzul
A Guide to the Conclusive Proofs for the Principles of Belief | Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni
Beginning of Guidance Bidaya al-Hidaya | Imam al-Ghazali
Muhammad: The Messenger of Islam | Hajjah Amina Adil
Counsels of Religion | Imam Haddad
Book of Illumination | Ibn Ata Illah
Book of Assistance | Imam Haddad
Sublime Treasures | Imam Haddad
Gifts for the Seeker | Imam Haddad
Sufi Sage of Arabia: Imam Abdallah Al-Haddad | al-Badawi
Lives of Man | Imam Haddad
A Sufi Study of Hadith | Thanawi
Al-Wasiyya of Imam al-Maqdisi
Divine Governance of the Human Kingdom | Ibn Arabi
Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light | Murata
Islamic Guide to Sexual Relations | Al-Kawthari
Al-Arba’in On the Mothers of the Believers | Ibn ‘Asakir
Al-Arba’in of Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi
Salat & Salam: In Praise of Allah’s Most Beloved
Sufi Science of Self-realization | Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes | Chittick
Imaginal Worlds: Ibn Arabi and the Problem of Religious Diversity | Chittick
Vision of Islam | Murata and Chittick
Early Sufi Women | Sulami
Reclaiming Beauty for the Good of the World: Muslim & Christian Creativity as Moral Power | Dardess
Sufi Path of Knowledge | Chittick
Sufi Path of Love | Chittick
Pocket Rumi | Helminski
Way of Sufi Chivalry | ibn al-Husayn
When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think of a Zebra | Friedlander
Love in a Headscarf | Janmohamed
Grand Mosque of Paris | Ruelle
Humanity: A Moral History | Glover
Safe Area Gorazde | Sacco
Six Days of War: June 1967 | Oren
Islamic Art and Architecture | Hillenbrand
Islam, Science and the Challenge of History | Dallal
Journey to the Lord of Power: A Sufi Manual on Retreat
The Path of Muhammad: A Book on Islamic Morals & Ethics | Imam Birgivi
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think | Healy
Irshad: Wisdom of a Sufi Master | al-Jerrahi
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World | Kennedy
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes | Ansary
Treatise For the Seekers of Guidance | al-Muhasibi
Islamic Design: A Genius For Geometry | Daud Sutton
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling | Gatto
Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life | Winn
Persian Cinderella | Climo
Notice:
Wardah Books will be open throughout the long Chinese New Year weekend. Here are our opening hours:
Sun 22 Jan: 10am to 6pm
Mon 23 Jan: 10am to 6pm
Tue 24 Jan: 10am to 6pm
Wed 25 Jan: 10am to 9pm
Salaam
Ibrahim
New Arrivals November 2011
December 5, 2011
Salaam
We would like to announce the arrival of the following titles to our store.
New titles
The Scholars of the Sufis: They are the Genuine Followers of the Salaf
| Shaykh Abd al-Hadi Kharsa, with a biography & introduction by Shaykh Gibril Haddad
Contents:
The Way Of The Latter Day Sufis: Positives And Negatives
A Concise Description Of The Sufi Path
An Exposition Upon The Science Of Sufism, The Way Of The Sufis, And Their Rank According To The Upright People Of Knowledge
Refuting The Claim That The Sufis Are An Ignorant Folk And That Their Science Is Unsubstantiated In The Book Or The Prophetic Reports
The Special Endowment And Exclusive Possession Of Religious Sciences
Concerning The Name Of The Sufis And Why They Were Given That Name
Refuting Those Who Argue That The Term Sufi Is An Innovated Name That Was Not Mentioned In The Time Of The Salaf
What Is Sufism And What Are The Qualities Of The Sufis?
A Selection Of The Words Of The Sufis On Spiritual Stations And Transient States
The Sciences Of The Sufis: The Sciences Of Transient Spiritual States
Their Manners And Character
Testimonies From Some Of The Imams And Scholars Regarding Sufism And Its Adherents, And A Clarification That The Imams And Well-Considered Notables Have Always Respected It From The Time Of The Salaf Till Today
A Sample Of Narrations And Stories From The Scholars Of The Sufis Mentioned By Imam Al-Sulami
Death and the Dervish
| Selimovic
This exquisite novel, now available to English readers, is a first-person narrative told from the point of view of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish at a Sarajevo lodge in the 18th century during the Turkish occupation.
The spiritual leader of a group of Sufis, Sheikh Nuruddin deliberately removed himself from society. This distance is shattered, though, by the arrest of his brother. As Sheikh Nuruddin attempts to find out what has happened to his brother and to intervene on his behalf, he is drawn into the Kafkaesque world of the Turkish authorities. As he does so, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his own life choices.
What Sallamah Didn’t Know
| Sharon Ismail, illustrations by Khairudin Saharom
A true story of a Singapore childhood, adoption and racial identity.
Sallamah grew up thinking that her life was ordinary. She lived in an ordinary kampong with an ordinary family and has an ordinary group of friends whom she played ordinary games with. Little did she realise that a piece of paper would change the reality of all that she knew and understood.
Join Sallamah as she goes on a journey to understand the true meaning of family. Is ‘family’ the one who gives birth to you? Or, are they the people who love and care for you?
Knowledge, Language, Thought and the Civilization of Islam: Essays in Honour of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
| Edited by Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud & Muhammad Zainiy Uthman
Malay Annals Set comprising C.C. Brown’s Malay Annals (Raffles M.18), John Leyden’s Malay Annals and Sejarah Melayu compiled by Cheah Boon Kheng
Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times
| Allen Fromherz
The Four Virtues and Their Relationship to Good Behavior and Bad Conduct
| Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Sufi Quotations
| Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Advice to Prisoners
| Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World
| Bryan Bernard
6 Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
| Michael Oren
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan
| Braithwaite
9-11: Was There An Alternative?
| Noam Chomsky
History of the Modern Middle East
| William Cleveland
Islam, Science and the Challenge of History
| Ahmad Dallal
We Make The Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
| Horton & Freire
Black Banners: The Inner Story of 9-11 and the War Against al-Qaeda
| Ali Soufan
Restock
The Qur’an | Haleem
Story of the Qur’an | Ingrid Mattson
Life of Muhammad (s) | Ibn Ishaq
Muhammad: Prophet of Our Time | Armstrong
Canon of Medicine | Ibn Sina
Encyclopedia of Muhammad’s (s) Women Companions | Shaykh Kabbani
History of the Prophets Vol. 1&2 | Suzanne Haneef
Tales of the Prophets Qisas al-Anbiya’
Ibn Arabi: Time and Cosmology | Yousef
Al-Ghazali’s Alchemy of Happiness Vol 1&2
Al-Ghazali’s Jewels of the Qur’an
Al-Ghazali’s Recitation of the Qur’an
Al-Ghazali’s Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship
Crucible of Light: Sufi Terms Illuminated | Nurbaksh
Peaks of Eloquence Nahjul Balagha
Travelling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta | Rumford
Islam the Natural Way | Abdul Wahid Hamid
Wholeness and Holiness in Education
Royal Book of Spiritual Spirituality
Forty Days: Diary of a Traditional Sufi Solitary Retreat
Remembering God | Gai Eaton
Bawa Asks Bawa | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Asma’ul Husna | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
God’s Psychology | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
To Die Before Death | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Four Steps to Pure Iman | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Sheikh & Disciple | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Hajj: Inner Pilgrimage | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Why Can’t I See Angels | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Islam & World Peace | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Resonance of Allah | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
The Song of Muhammad | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Triple Flame | Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Eaters of the Dead: Story of Ibn Fadlan
On the State of Egypt | Al Aswany
Butterfly Mosque | Willow Wilson
Does My Head Look Big In This? | Abdel Fattah
Flag of Childhood
Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet | Abdul Matin
Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity | Nasr
Islam in the Modern World | Nasr
Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists | Fadl
Istanbul Memories and the City | Pamuk
Fahrenheit 451 | Bradbury
Brave New World | Huxley
Life at the Bottom | Dalrymple
Hadj: An American’s Pilgrimage to Mecca | Wolfe
Voice: The Sequel to If I Should Speak | Umm Zakiyyah
New Arrivals September 2011
September 19, 2011
New Arrivals End-June 2011
July 29, 2011
In-store Event: Philosophical Foundations of Islamic Metaphysics
July 7, 2011
The Philosophical Foundations of Islamic Metaphysics is a discussion-circle series on the basic concepts and formative questions involved in the powerful intellectual encounter between Islamic peripatetic philosophy and Ashari kalam, represented for purposes of this series in the persons and ideas of ibn Sina on the one hand, and al-Ghazali on the other. The objective of the series is twofold. The first is to clarify as much as possible, in the English language, certain basic philosophical terms and concepts which are essential for a full understanding of the nature of the discussions in which they are pivotal. The second is to review some of these discussions, and to facilitate a greater sense of wonder at the analytic rigor and depth of inquiry demonstrated by some of the luminaries of the Islamic intellectual tradition. The material of this series is based largely on the Metaphysics of ibn Sina’s al-Shifa and al-Ghazali’s Tahafut al-Falsafah. The material covered, however, is selected to enrich further reading of other great thinkers in contemporary and later periods of Islamic history, insha’Allah.
Session One: Knowledge and Reality (13 July 2011, 8pm)
Session Two: Time and Creation (20 July 2011, 8pm)
Session Three: The Soul and Its Mystery (27 July 2011, 8pm)
Venue: Wardah Books (inside the store)
Facilitated by Dr Omar Edward Moad, Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities, Qatar University
No registration, free event at Wardah Books.
If you have queries, please email ibrahim@wardahbooks.com
New Arrivals May 2011
May 29, 2011
New Arrivals April 2011
April 29, 2011
New Arrivals Dec 2010
December 28, 2010
We would like to announce the arrival of these books at our store.
New
Counsels of Religion (An Nasaih id-Diniyya wal Wasaya al-Imaniyyah) of Imam Haddad
Book of Wisdom (Kitab al-Hikam of Ibn Ata’illah)
Ibn Ajiba: Two Treatises on the Oneness of Existence
Reclaiming Beauty for the Good of the World: Muslim & Christian Creativity as Moral Power
Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet
Waiting and Being
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Soul and a Loaf of Bread: The Teachings of Sheikh Abol-Hasan of Kharaqan
Shia Revival
Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism
In the Absence of the Sacred
Restock
Qur’an Translation of M.A.S. Abdal Haleem
The Name and the Named
Quest for the Red Sulphur
Doorkeeper of the Heart: Versions of Rabi’a
Secrets of Ascetism
Spiritual Writings of Amir Abdul Kader
Triumphal Sun
Mystical Teachings of Al Shadhili
Narcissism Epidemic: Living in an Age of Entitlement
Grand Mosque of Paris
Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance of al-Muhasibi
Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition
Sarajevo Essays
Islam in Tibet and the Tibetan Caravans
Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill
Safe Area Gorazde
