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The Nightingale

  • New Arrivals [30 August 2021]

    New titles this week   The Leadership of Muhammadﷺ by Joel Hayward Servant of the Loving One by Paul Abdul Wadud Sutherland The Flying Man: Aristotle, and the Philosophers of the Golden Age of Islam by Akbar Ahmed How to be...

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  • New Arrivals [24 August 2021]

    New titles this week   Islamic Psychology: Human Behaviour and Experience from an Islamic Perspective by G. Hussein Rassool Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazali and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm by Shoaib Ahmed Malik The Ranks of Saints in Islam by Imam...

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  • Fear of a Muslim Planet

    Fear of a Muslim Planet

    Salaam Dear Reader, 'Inherently different' is the phrase that made me sit up when I was reading Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road by Johan Elverskog. The phrase was used by officials in the Qing Dynasty to justify and call for...

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  • How to Take Smart Notes

    How to Take Smart Notes

    This book is about how we process information by making notes when we read and then synthesising these notes within a knowledge system in order to develop our own ideas and then produce original content based on our insights.
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  • The Merit of Knowledge

    The Merit of Knowledge

    The Prophetﷺ taught us that we must always engage with knowledge, either as scholars, learners, or listeners. And if we can't do these things, we must at least love knowledge. There is no fifth option.
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  • Muslim Activism in Singapore

    Muslim Activism in Singapore

    Activists in Singapore really have two choices: cooperate with the state or conduct activism in areas in which the state is ambivalent because it does not challenge their political legitimacy as keepers of the peace and stewards of success.
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  • More Barakah

    More Barakah

    Writing also helps us learn about ourselves. And this is why many people journal as a daily practice. The more we learn about ourselves, the more we understand our strengths, weaknesses, relationships, goals, attitudes, biases, preoccupations, the more we can reflect and grow.
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  • Women Empowerment

    Women Empowerment

    We just need to keep turning our own book, page by page – not with fear – but with anticipation, resolve, and hope for the adventures and lessons that await. We know that we will reach a denouement where all will be well. Keep trusting that we will overcome our challenges. 
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