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Islamic Foundation The Muslim World Book Review Volume 36 Issue 4

The Muslim World Book Review is a quarterly publication of the Islamic Foundation, Markfield, Leicestershire, UK. Its four issues are published in Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. This journal aims to present the Muslim viewpoint on books and issues...

The People on the Edge: Religious Reform and the Burden of the Western Muslim Intellectual

Are western Muslims an endangered species, or are they the future of Islam? The accelerated adaptation and change western Muslims are pushed to make in order just to survive has galvanized them into a serious effort of rethinking and reflection. This...

Towards A Fiqh For Minorities: Some Basic Reflections

Towards a Fiqh for Minorities is an important subject and a much needed contribution to an area of fiqh that has become essential for the wellbeing and development of Muslim communities living in the West. The author stresses that the problems of Muslim...

The Islamic Vision of Development in the Light of Maqasid Al-Shariah

The maqasid al-shariah (higher intents and purposes of Islamic Law) have been either directly stated in the Quran and the Sunnah or inferred from these by a number of scholars. All of these address the raison d être of the Shari ah which, as...

Seeking the Treasures of the Quran

The book consists of 5 concise chapters. The first presents the history of the documentation of the Quran. The second, presents the validity of the Quran as a divine book. The third, gives an overview of the Quran. The fourth, gives the ways and means to...

Gatherings of Illumination: In Sending Blessings upon the Best of Creation

Gatherings of Illumination in Sending Blessings upon the Best of Creation (Majalis al-Nur fi Salati ala al-Rasul) is a rich compilation of some of the most beautiful supplications, litanies, and odes (qasidas) presented in Arabic script, transliteration,...

Love Women: Strike Them Not

Love Women: Strike Them Not is a highly effective resource for promoting non-violent behaviors towards women. Based on years of research and expertise, this product provides essential information and tools for creating a safer and more respectful...

The Clear Quran Series - Traceable Edition with English Translation Juz 30 Uthmani Script | Hardcover

The Traceable Edition features Arabic text printed in light gray ink, offering a unique method for kids, students, and adults to memorize verses by tracing the gray with a pen or pencil. This approach aids in memorization while also visually representing...

A Traveller's History of Turkey

Throughout the millennia Turkey formed the core of several Empires- Persia, Rome, Byzantium- before becoming the center of the Ottoman Empire. All these civilizations have left their marks on the landscape, architecture and art of Turkey- a place of...

A Traveller's History of Cyprus

A Traveller’s History of Cyprus offers a complete and authoritative history of the island’s past and also touches on the sensitive present-day issues for both sides of the island. Although Cyprus is a relatively small island, its...

A Traveller's Companion to Istanbul

The history of the city where East meets West spans 28 centuries. Istanbul, the ancient and timeless heart of modern Turkey, is a city with its mythological origins in the seventh century BC. Founded as Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern...

The House on Butterfly Street A Novel

In a country where the precarious rights of women and children can be reversed in an instant, legacies of enslavement and quiet resistance still reverberate across time. Present-day Casablanca, Morocco: Nadine Alam, a physician by training and housewife...

The Journey Memoirs of an Egyptian Woman Student in America

This translation is an homage to a great literary figure and to those movements which carry on her legacy in her work. Never neutral and deeply engaged in politics, literature, people’s struggles, and what she calls the “most urgent...

Old Woman and the River

After the ceasefire in 1988, the devastation to the landscape of Iraq wrought by the longest war of the twentieth century—the Iran-Iraq War—becomes visible. Eight years of fighting have turned nature upside down, with vast wastelands being...

The Scent of Jasmine Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus

Journey to a world little known to Western readers. Born to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father in 1944, Anan Ameri’s refreshing memoir, The Scent of Jasmine, offers a funny, spirited, unique self-portrait of her childhood, adolescence...

The Storyteller of Jerusalem The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948

The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in...

The Tree and other Stories

Abdallah al-Nasser’s attractive collection reveals the art of the short story in all its variety: vivid description is found alongside social satire, political reflection, traditional humorous anecdote and complex allegorical writing. A number...

Thinner than Skin

Thinner than Skin is a riveting novel about identity and belonging. It’s also a love story: between a young Pakistani man trying to make his way as photographer in America, and the daughter of a Pakistani father and German mother brought...

Touch

Touch centers on a girl, the youngest of nine sisters in a Palestinian family. In the singular world of this novella, this young woman’s everyday experiences resonate until they have become as weighty as any national tragedy. The smallest...

Under the Gaze of Angels--Stories

Under the Gaze of Angels offers treasured views of family and neighborhood life, native to the Galilee, in the years leading up to and following the upheavals of 1948.  A collection of four stories, told with simplicity and warmth, they...