Islamic Book Reviews
Islamic Book Reviews
Written by Faraz Abdul Mood The much anticipated revised English translation of Saviours of Islamic Spirit (Tarikh-i Da’wat wa Azimat) by Shaykh Abu ‘l-Hasan Ali al-Nadwi (ra) has been released by White Thread Press. The work was originally rendered into English by the late Mohiuddin Ahmad (may Allah have mercy upon his soul), who has also translated other …
THE HISTORY OF THE QUR’ANIC TEXT FROM REVELATION TO COMPILATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS By Muhammad Mustafa Al-A’zami. Leicester: UK Islamic Academy, Review by Murad Hoffman From its very beginning, Islam has been under attack not only physically but academically. Christian demagogues like John of Damascus, Peter the Venerable, Raymundus …
The Prisoners of Malta (Asiran-i Malta)By Mawlana Syed Mohammed Mian (translated from Urdu by Mohammad Anwar Hussain and Hasan Imam) Reviewed by: Yoginder Sikand Although numerous ‘ulama played a leading role in India’s freedom struggle, little literature exists on them in English. Much has been written on them in Urdu, but this is largely inaccessible …
Written by Bilal Ali Ansari and originaly posted on bilalaliansari.com Upon first receiving a copy of Shaykh Akram Nadwi’s “Madrasah Life”, I was first impressed by the relatively small size of the book. It is no more than a hundred pages and being a narrative, an easy and fun reading.The book explores a day in the life of …
All praise be to Allah, who promised that “Those who have faith and whose hearts find peace in the remembrance of God- truly it is in the remembrance of God that hearts find peace.[1]” Peace and blessings be upon his messenger Muhammad ﷺ who said, “Verily Allah does not look to your bodies nor to your faces but …
Written by Muhammad Saifur Rahman Nawhami I wrote this review many years back whilst I was studying research methods in history and historiography as an undergraduate. It is being published here to give a snapshot of western historiography so that it may shed some light as to why they may disagree with elements of Islamic …
Al-Zubdah fī sharḥ al-Burdah. By al-Mullā ʿAlī al-Qārī. Edited by Māhir Adīb Ḥabbūsh. Istanbul, Turkey: Dār al-Lubāb, 1438/2017. Pp 203. ISBN 9786058323865. Reviewed by Mawlana Kamil Uddin, Darul Qasim The mantle Burdah wears in Islamic literature is unparalleled. A glimpse of this is shown by ʿAbdullah Muḥammad al-Ḥabashī who lists out 48 pages of commentaries …
‘Muwatta’ al-Imam Malik: Riwayat al-Shafi’i ‘an Malik’, al-Banjari, Muhammad Lutfi, Karachi: Majlis al-Da’wah wa al-Tahqiq al-Islami, 357 pages By Maulana Zeeshan Chaudri The Muwatta’ of Imam Malik (d.179) requires no introduction as 100s of books have been written over the centuries studying various aspects of the goldmine. This collection of Malik demonstrates the juristic acumen and expertise …
By Maulana Zeeshan Chaudri Mufti Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi (d.2002) was one of the senior Muftis in Pakistan during his life. He was born in Ludhiana in the year 1922 into a scholarly family. Ludhiana had been the location of many ‘ulama, famously being the first group to declare Mirza Ghulam of Qadian a disbeliever[1] and penning …
All praises be to Allah, who reminds us that “the one who observes the sanctity of the symbols of Allah, (then) such things emanate from the piety of the hearts”[1]. Peace and blessings be upon his messenger Muhammad ﷺwhosaid “Indeed Allah had sanctified Makkah the day He created the heavens and the earth; hence it is …