A few years ago, Mufti Ehzaz Ajmeri, a fellow lover of books, gifted me a copy of Yādgār-i Zamāna Shakhṣiyyāt kā Aḥwāl-i Muṭālaʿah, a tremendously enjoyable Urdu book edited and compiled by the late Mawlānā Ibn al-ʿAbbās ʿAbbāsī. It is a single volume of articles by seventy contemporary scholars. Each was asked to write aboutContinueContinue reading “My Life of Reading, In Brief by Mawlānā Dr. ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm Chishtī al-Nuʿmānī”
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Book Review: The Book, “Destiny Disrupted” is a Narrative Disrupted
by Sumaiyya Rahman A Bestseller. “Islamic history through Islamic eyes”. 3 reasons not to recommend it. As a curriculum developer and history instructor for middle school and high school students, I was recommended Tamim Ansary’s Destiny Disrupted. Muslims around me were enamoured with it for its accessibility and its simple breakdown of complex issues inContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Book, “Destiny Disrupted” is a Narrative Disrupted “
A Brief Comparison of Two Editions of Iḥyā ʿUlūm al-Dīn and a Brief Look at the New Edition of Itḥāf al-Sādat al-Muttaqīn
A brief comparison of the two editions by Dār al-Minhāj (Jeddah) and a brief look at the new edition of Itḥāf al-Sādat al-Muttaqῑn bi Sharḥi Iḥyā̕ ῾Ulūm al-Dῑn by Dār al-Nūr al-Mubīn (Amman) by Mawlana Abu Asim Badrul Islamإحياء علوم الدينالمقارنة بين طبعتي دار االمنهاج (جدّة) في 4 مجلدات و 10 مجلدات تأليف: حجّة الإسلامContinueContinue reading “A Brief Comparison of Two Editions of Iḥyā ʿUlūm al-Dīn and a Brief Look at the New Edition of Itḥāf al-Sādat al-Muttaqīn”
Essential Reading for Seminary Students: al-Intibāhāt al-Mufīdah by Ḥakīm al-Ummah Ashraf ʿAlī al-Thānawī
On Mawlānā Ashraf ʿAlī Thānawī’s al-Intibāhāt al-Mufīdah ʿan al-Ishtibāhāt al-Jadīdah and the new Arabic translation by Muḥammad Qasīm Manṣūr By Guest Author If you are a student of the Dars Niẓāmī, you have spent years picking up some serious intellectual tools: manṭiq, kalām, uṣūl al-fiqh, ʿulūm al-ḥadīth. You have worked through dense texts and learned to thinkContinueContinue reading “Essential Reading for Seminary Students: al-Intibāhāt al-Mufīdah by Ḥakīm al-Ummah Ashraf ʿAlī al-Thānawī”
