New Book Release: “Aspire – Students of Knowledge” by Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi

asSalaamu Alaikum, Nadwi Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of Aspire – Students of Knowledge by Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi. This book is inspirational reading for students of Islamic knowledge, Ulama and general readers alike. In this collection of speeches, covering a twenty-year period, Shaykh Nadwī deploys his passion and eloquence to setContinueContinue reading “New Book Release: “Aspire – Students of Knowledge” by Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi”

Book Review: “Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty”

Reviewed by Dr Mansur Ali Cardiff University Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty Mustafa Akyol New York, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2011 P.p. 352. ISBN 978-039070866 Muslim World Book Review, volume 33, issue 3, spring 2013, pp. 44-47 Book Review: Since the emergence of Islam on the modern political scene starting;ContinueContinue reading “Book Review: “Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty””

Book Review: The Mukhtasar al-Quduri: A Manual of Islamic Law According to the Hanafi School

Translated from the Arabic with Introduction and notes by Tahir Mahmood Kiani, (Taha Publishers LTD. 2010). Pages 761. ISBN 9781897940709 Reviewed by Dr Mansur Ali, Cardiff University This is the translation of small opuscule, al-Mukhtasar, written by the head of the Baghdadi Hanafi guild Abu ‘l-Husayn al-Quduri (d. 428/1037); and is one of the first worksContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Mukhtasar al-Quduri: A Manual of Islamic Law According to the Hanafi School”

Darul Uloom Publishes English Version of ‘Silk Letter Movement’ – 2/18/13

asSalaamu Alaikum, [This book can be obtained from Manak Publications, New Delhi and Maktaba Darul Uloom Deoband by emailing them at info@darululoom-deoband.com]   UPDATE: The PDF file of this book is available for download here.   Darul Uloom Deoband published the English version of Silk Letter Movement compiled by Hadhrat Maulana Muhammad Miyan Deobandi. The bookContinueContinue reading “Darul Uloom Publishes English Version of ‘Silk Letter Movement’ – 2/18/13”

NEW BOOK RELEASE: “Shaykh ’Abū al-Hasan ‘Alī Nadwī – His Life & Works” by Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi

asSalaamu Alaikum, Author: Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi Format: Paperback Pages: 314 ISBN: 978-0957402904 Sample Pages About The Book Shaykh ’Abū al-Hasan ‘Alī Nadwī (1914-1999/1332-1419 AH), one of the most widely read and influential scholars of our time, was likened by his intellectual peers to the exemplary scholars of the earliest generations of Islam. His writingsContinueContinue reading “NEW BOOK RELEASE: “Shaykh ’Abū al-Hasan ‘Alī Nadwī – His Life & Works” by Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi”

al-Hawi li ‘l-Fatawi li ‘l-Imam al-Suyuti

A book of fatawa by Imam Suyuti rahimahullah with many controversial and still relevant issues like mawlid, loud group dhikr, the hadra and the tasbih, to name a few, and much more; on almost each (still) controversial (in the sense of the debates between Salafis and Sufis to put it simply) topic one can thinkContinueContinue reading “al-Hawi li ‘l-Fatawi li ‘l-Imam al-Suyuti”