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Reflections on 'With the Heart in Mind'

With the Heart in Mind is a ground-breaking work that should be read by everyone who wants to be...

Reflections on 'Reader, Come Home'

Won't active reading with its underlining, annotations, and cross-referencing slow down one's r...

Reflections on 'Handbook of a Healthy Muslim Marriage'

Marriage is not easy, and Shaykh Abdur-Rahman does not sugar coat things in this book. He addres...

In Conversation With Michael Sugich

Some of the stories are raw, with violence, crime and sexuality that may be hard to take at time...

Reflections on 'Apostate'

Van Klaveren's writing and method is academic as well as personal. For the reader, these provide...

Wardah Books of the Year 2019

To wrap up 2019, Wardah's booksellers present four books that we consider Wardah Books of the Ye...

Readers’ Choice Poll 2019

Your favourite book for 2019 is: Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints and the Road to Redempti...

Reflections on 'This is What Inequality Looks Like'

Decades from now, people will look back and mark this book as the beginning of a change in Singa...

Reflections on 'The Lies That Bind'

Perhaps the most important lesson here is that 'identity' is not just something we acquire and a...

The Islamic Civilisation Book Club

Upcoming Session Post-reading for Book 8: 26 Oct, Monday, 7:45pm This month's book: With t...

Reflections on 'A Treasury of Rumi'

Based on extensive research and study of Mevlana Rumi's Diwan, Mathnavi, and his various prose w...

Keep Reading

Keep reading, dear reader. InshaAllah, we will become, both individually and as a community, em...

Reflections on 'A Thinking Person's Guide to Our Times'

Vices corrupt the vicegerent, and the vicegerent corrupts the world. Therefore to purify the wor...

Reflections on 'A Thinking Person’s Guide to the Truly Happy Life'

Perhaps the most important question we ask ourselves in the stillness we sometimes find ourselve...

Reflections on 'Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now'

Have you thought for a moment why Facebook is being paid billions to provide a cutting-edge medi...

Reflections on 'The Monk of Mokha'

Reading this book you will learn a lot about the history of coffee, its cultivation, and its dis...

Reading Is Not History

You have the choice of not drowning in a deluge of data and dispersion. Choose a medium that do...

Reflections on 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'

Don't worry. I won't be asking you to throw away your tv. That would be naive. And naivety is wh...

Reflections on 'Joy Jots: Exercises for a Happy Heart'

Ostensibly addressed to Muslim women, all Muslims young and old will be able to gain an understa...

Reflections on 'A Thinking Person’s Guide to Islam'

Indeed, this book is no dead-end; it is a gateway. Certainly one of the best books of 2017.
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