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Common Ground Between Islam & Buddhism
Reza Shah Kazemi
With an essay by Hamza Yusuf
Destiny Disrupted
Tamim Ansary
A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
The Early Hours
A Novel by Marmaduke Picthall
Foreword by Abdal Hakim Murad
Set in the dramatic last days of the Ottoman Empire, this novel of love and bloodshed depicts a world trapped between Islam and the modern age. Camruddin is a simple Madedonian soldier caught up in the Young Turk conspiracy to overthrow the Sultan. A romance with a girl from a Pasha’s harem presents him with a desperate choice: to join the Jihad in the Balkan hills, or to enjoy his love and the patronage of a high Imperial official. The collapse of old Turkey, amid intimations of the birth of a new nation, is brilliantly depicted, as the humour and the good-natured nobility of the Ottoman establishment totters under the hammer-blows of invasion and internal revolt.
From My Sisters' Lips
Na’ima Robert
The Butterfly Mosque
Willow Wilson
A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam
The Beginning of Guidance
The Bidayatul Hidaya of Imam al-Ghazali
translated by Mashhad Al-Allaf
As characteristic of all the writings of Imam al-Ghazali, the Beginning of Guidance (Bidayatul Hidaya) has a sense of immediacy and urgency. It forces you to take stock of your spiritual situation and to take steps to remedy the diseases of the heart today.
Not tomorrow, not next week. Today.
Notebooks from Makkah & Madinah
Shafiq Morton
Beauty and Love
Seyh Galip
The girl Beauty and the boy Love are betrothed to each other as children. But Beauty violates the custom of the tribe by falling in love with him, and Love must undergo the trials of a journey to the Land of the Heart to prove himself worthy – a journey to the realisation of both his and Beauty’s true nature.
The Turkish verse romance ‘Beauty and Love’, written in 1783 by Seyh Galip, head of an Istanbul centre of Mevlana Rumi’s order of the whirling dervishes, is an innovative interpretation of the Islamic love tale as a story of the action of God’s qualities in the world. With its stunning imagery, fast-moving plot, and nonchalant, erudite humor, it is widely known as the greatest work of Ottoman literature.
Osman's Dream: History of the Ottoman Empire
Caroline Finkel
Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn
Amira El-Zein
Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture, and have a constant presence in legends, myths, poetry, and literature. In this work, Amira El-Zein examines the fields of law, theology, and folklore, and clearly places the status of the jinn in the metaphysical and cosmological economy of Islam.
