182 results for “islamic”
Clear filterBy Imam Abu Dawud. Focuses on hadith relevant to Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh).
...lining the Athari aqeedah. One of the most studied texts in Islamic theology.
... of the 14th century AH. One of the most important works of Islamic historiography.
... four madhabs. Widely used as an accessible introduction to Islamic jurisprudence.
... Imam ash-Shatibi. A foundational work on the objectives of Islamic law (maqasid ash-shariah). Revolutionized the field of usul...
By Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. A concise work on Islamic monotheism, using Quran and hadith to explain tawhid and it...
...graphical dictionary covering over 5,000 notable figures in Islamic history from the companions to adh-Dhahabi's era.
...her five collections, it remains an essential reference for Islamic jurisprudence.
...opic, it is an indispensable source for understanding early Islamic legal reasoning and the opinions of the Salaf.
...sential primary source for studying the formative period of Islamic law.
...and showing kindness to animals. Widely used as a manual of Islamic character development.
... their authenticity. One of the most widely taught texts in Islamic seminaries worldwide.
...k's most prominent student, covering the entire spectrum of Islamic legal rulings. The work preserves Imam Malik's positions as...
...e rational justifications for each position. Widely used in Islamic universities as a teaching text for Hanafi fiqh.
...lear, accessible language. The text became a cornerstone of Islamic education in the Malay Archipelago, with multiple translati...
...l-Qayyim. A masterwork on the philosophy and methodology of Islamic legal reasoning. Ibn al-Qayyim discusses the qualifications...
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. A foundational work on Islamic legal maxims (qawa'id fiqhiyyah) from the Shafi'i perspecti...
...yyim, and is one of the most widely taught aqeedah texts in Islamic universities today.
...e most sophisticated philosophical-theological treatises in Islamic history.
...l qualities. An indispensable source for the study of early Islamic history.
By Imam at-Tabari. The most comprehensive work of Islamic historiography, covering world history from creation throug...
...work is widely read in the Tablighi Jama'at movement and in Islamic schools worldwide.
...on, urbanization, and political power. The work transcended Islamic scholarship and influenced modern Western social sciences.
...us classical biographies of the Prophet. It covers from pre-Islamic Arabia through the Prophet's death.
...ing detailed entries on 865 notable figures from across the Islamic world. Ibn Khallikan, a Kurdish scholar and judge, combined...
...iritual purification, making this the most balanced work on Islamic spirituality from the Athari tradition.
... content. The result is a concise, hadith-verified guide to Islamic ethics and self-purification that provides the benefits of ...
...vides a practical approach to tazkiyah grounded in orthodox Islamic scholarship.
By Al-Harith al-Muhasibi. One of the earliest works on Islamic ethics and self-accounting (muhasabah). Al-Muhasibi, whose ...
By Ibn Muflih. A comprehensive manual of Islamic etiquette and character covering every aspect of a Muslim's...
...widely memorized introductory text on Arabic grammar in the Islamic world. Ibn Ajurrum condensed the fundamentals of Arabic syn...
...d remains the standard advanced grammar text in traditional Islamic education. Ibn Aqil's commentary is the most widely studied...
...idely used textbook on Arabic rhetoric (balaghah) in modern Islamic education. The authors systematically present the three bra...
By Imam ash-Shafi'i. The first systematic treatise on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) ever written. Imam ash-Shafi'i ...
...-Haramayn al-Juwayni. A concise primer on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence that covers the essential topics in just a fe...
... evidence-based jurisprudence. It remains widely studied in Islamic universities.
...orating Aristotelian logic into the methodology of deriving Islamic rulings. His treatment of maslahah (public interest) and th...
...astani systematically catalogs and describes the beliefs of Islamic sects, other Abrahamic religions, ancient Greek philosophie...
...The most detailed work of comparative religion in classical Islamic literature. Ibn Hazm, the great Zahiri scholar of Andalusia...
...iph Harun ar-Rashid, this is the earliest surviving work on Islamic public finance and taxation. Abu Yusuf, the chief student o...
...omprehensive biographical dictionary of hadith narrators in Islamic scholarship. Al-Mizzi compiled detailed entries for every n...
...dia from memory while imprisoned. It covers every branch of Islamic law in exhaustive detail, presenting the positions of Abu H...
...piritual world. The work is simultaneously a celebration of Islamic intellectualism and a devotional meditation on the signs of...
...al dictionary of the most pious and virtuous individuals in Islamic history, from the prophets through the early generations. I...
...d. One of the most beloved works on the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic literature. Qadi Iyad, the great Maliki scholar of Ceuta, c...
...s. A compilation of the fundamental legal maxims upon which Islamic jurisprudence is built. The five universal maxims are: acti...
...rk that attempts to explain the wisdom and rationale behind Islamic law and practice. Shah Waliullah, the great 18th-century In...
...ices and customs. Ibn Taymiyyah discusses the principles of Islamic distinctiveness (mukhalafah), the evidence from the Quran a...
...ng the strongest positions. The work covers all chapters of Islamic jurisprudence from purification to inheritance.
...list) jurisprudence. Ibn Hazm examines every major issue of Islamic law, presenting evidence from the Quran and Sunnah and crit...
..., zakat, hajj). Popular as a beginner's text in traditional Islamic education, it presents the essential Hanafi positions clear...
...m al-Baydawi. One of the most widely studied tafsirs in the Islamic world, especially in Ottoman-era and Turkish-speaking schol...
...tachment from worldly pleasures. An important early work on Islamic spirituality.
By Imam al-Ghazali. Al-Ghazali's mature work on Islamic theology, presenting the Ash'ari creed with rational proofs...
...d eschatology. A foundational text for advanced students of Islamic theology.
... become one of the most beloved and widely studied texts in Islamic spirituality. Each hikma (wisdom) is a concentrated insight...
...een the standard textbook for Arabic grammar in traditional Islamic education for centuries.
...-Razi. One of the most important and comprehensive works on Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh). Ar-Razi synthesized the approa...
By Sayf ad-Din al-Amidi. A masterwork of Islamic legal theory that became a standard advanced textbook. Al-A...
... vast textual evidence. Essential reading for understanding Islamic legal pluralism.
By Imam al-Qarafi. A unique work in Islamic jurisprudence that identifies and explains the subtle disti...
By Imam al-Baladhuri. A foundational work on the early Islamic conquests, covering the expansion from the Prophet's time t...
By Imam al-Mawardi. The first systematic treatise on Islamic constitutional law and political governance. Al-Mawardi dis...
By Ibn Farhun. The most important Maliki work on Islamic judicial procedure. Ibn Farhun covers the qualifications of...
...Imam ash-Shatibi. A revolutionary work on the objectives of Islamic law (maqasid ash-shariah) that shifted legal theory from fo...
...rudence. Ibn Nujaym identifies the five universal maxims of Islamic law and derives subsidiary principles, showing how individu...
...ts of Shafi'i jurisprudence. Widely used in Southeast Asian Islamic education.
...d in or visited Baghdad. Al-Khatib's work is invaluable for Islamic intellectual history, providing details about the lives, sc...
...t represents one of the most extensive scholarly outputs in Islamic history.
By Sa'd ad-Din at-Taftazani. An advanced work on Islamic theology that became a standard textbook in Ottoman-era mad...
By Imam ash-Shafi'i. The first systematic work on Islamic legal theory ever written. Ash-Shafi'i laid out the hierarc...
...cal format that makes it ideal for intermediate students of Islamic law.
By Badr ad-Din az-Zarkashi. A comprehensive collection of Islamic legal maxims (qawa'id fiqhiyyah) organized alphabetically. ...
...ning including early discussions of maqasid (objectives) of Islamic law that influenced later scholars like ash-Shatibi.
...mall size, it has become one of the most widely distributed Islamic books in history, translated into dozens of languages and c...
... modern Muslims. Widely read in Tablighi Jamaat circles and Islamic study groups worldwide.
...ic rhetoric and remains the basis for balaghah curricula in Islamic seminaries.
...ains the most widely studied text on Arabic balaghah in the Islamic world.
...es with full chains of narration. A treasure trove of early Islamic spiritual and scholarly culture.
By Muhammad al-Hajwi. A comprehensive history of Islamic jurisprudence from its origins to the modern period. Al-Haj...
By Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. A groundbreaking work on Islamic legal theory that emphasizes the objectives and spirit of t...
By Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. A specialized work on Islamic judicial policy (siyasah shar'iyyah) and the methods of det...
...led treatment of divine decree (qadr) and predestination in Islamic theology. Ibn al-Qayyim addresses the philosophical and the...
By Hajji Khalifah (Katib Celebi). The most important Islamic bibliography ever compiled, cataloguing approximately 15,00...
...parative fiqh encyclopedia. Az-Zuhayli covers every area of Islamic law, presenting the views of all four Sunni schools with th...
...t a unique work that bridges the two great schools of early Islamic law.
By Ibn Taymiyyah. The most extensive classical Islamic response to Christianity, written in reply to a letter from...
...an biblical criticism made this one of the most influential Islamic apologetic works.
... Ashur. The most important modern work on the objectives of Islamic law, building on ash-Shatibi's foundation. Ibn Ashur argues...
...ce text in the Shafi'i school. It covers all major areas of Islamic law from purification to inheritance.
... the most studied supplementary tafsir works in traditional Islamic education.
...xplanation makes the concise matn accessible to students of Islamic jurisprudence.
...a of Hanbali jurisprudence and one of the greatest works of Islamic comparative law. Ibn Qudamah systematically presents the Ha...
...al text that became one of the most commented-upon works in Islamic jurisprudence. Al-Nawawi's famous al-Majmu' is a commentary...
...works of Maliki jurisprudence, covering the entire range of Islamic law. Al-Qarafi is also famous for his work on legal maxims ...
... commentary on al-Shaybani's works and covers every area of Islamic law in exhaustive detail.
...of Zahiri (literalist) jurisprudence, covering all areas of Islamic law. Ibn Hazm argues every point with direct evidence from ...
...e most comprehensive work on hadith narrator biographies in Islamic scholarship. Al-Mizzi refined and expanded al-Maqdisi's ear...
...graphical encyclopedia of the most distinguished figures in Islamic history, from the Companions to al-Dhahabi's contemporaries...
... history from creation to al-Dhahabi's era, written from an Islamic perspective. It covers pre-Islamic prophets, the seerah, th...
...haq ash-Shatibi. A groundbreaking work on the objectives of Islamic law (maqasid ash-shari'ah). Ash-Shatibi argues that underst...
... hadiths, compiled by one of the greatest hadith critics in Islamic history. Ad-Daraqutni examines chains of narration with unp...
...al dictionary of the greatest hadith memorizers (huffaz) in Islamic history, from the Companions to adh-Dhahabi's own time. Eac...
...y on the Mukhtasar of at-Tahawi, covering the full range of Islamic law with detailed reasoning and evidence. It remains the pr...
..., and historical accounts to produce the most comprehensive Islamic history written in the medieval period. The early volumes o...
... ibn Jarir at-Tabari. The most important general history in Islamic literature, covering events from creation to 915 CE. At-Tab...
...that catalogues and describes the major world religions and Islamic theological sects. Ash-Shahrastani describes each group's b...
...of profound spiritual aphorisms that distill the essence of Islamic spirituality into concise, memorable statements. Ibn Ata'il...
... and personal details make it a primary source for medieval Islamic history.
...i was one of the most formidable dialectical theologians in Islamic history, and this work represents a key stage in the develo...
...e (al-Juwayni taught al-Ghazali) makes this work pivotal in Islamic intellectual history.
...Athari/Salafi theological approach and is widely studied in Islamic universities.
...rn, clear, and well-organized textbook on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence that has become standard at many Islamic univ...
...iki fiqh encyclopedia by one of the greatest legal minds of Islamic history. Al-Qarafi, known for his expertise in legal maxims...
...hinking and is essential for understanding the precision of Islamic jurisprudence.
...ri (literalist) jurisprudence, covering the entire range of Islamic law from a strict textualist perspective. Ibn Hazm rejects ...
...l opinions formulated in Egypt. It covers the full range of Islamic law with detailed evidence from Quran, Sunnah, and ijma. Th...
...graphical encyclopedia covering the most notable figures in Islamic history from the Prophet's time to adh-Dhahabi's era.
By Abu Yusuf. The earliest surviving treatise on Islamic public finance and taxation.
...u al-Hasan al-Mawardi. The most important classical work on Islamic political theory and constitutional law.
By Ibn Taymiyyah. A concise treatise on Islamic governance addressing rulers' responsibilities and justice.
...p and creed, widely used as an introduction in West African Islamic education.
... Ameenah Bilal Philips. A comprehensive introduction to the Islamic concept of monotheism, covering the three categories of taw...
...) in its various forms, analyzing its manifestations in pre-Islamic Arabia and contemporary societies, with detailed proofs of ...
By Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips. Presents the Islamic concept of tawbah (repentance), its conditions and requirem...
By Ibn Taymiyyah. A classical treatise on the Islamic obligation of commanding good and prohibiting evil, its con...
By Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar. A comprehensive study of the Islamic theology of angels: their nature, duties, and different cat...
...on, nature, abilities, interaction with humans, and related Islamic rulings.
By Umar Sulaiman al-Ashqar. A detailed study of Islamic eschatology of the Last Day including resurrection, the gre...
By Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan. A concise survey of Islamic jurisprudence covering purification, prayer, fasting, zakat...
...Ameenah Bilal Philips. Traces the historical development of Islamic law from the Prophet's era through the four major schools o...
...lih ibn Ghaanim al-Sadlaan. A user-friendly introduction to Islamic jurisprudence covering essential rulings of worship and dai...
...mali. A rigorous academic study of usul al-fiqh: sources of Islamic law, methods of legal reasoning, ijtihad, ijma, qiyas, and ...
... Muhammad Abu Zahrah. A landmark work on the foundations of Islamic legal theory examining the Quran, Sunnah, ijma, and qiyas a...
...i. Establishes the binding authority of prophetic hadith in Islamic law, responding to modernist challenges and demonstrating S...
...hy of the second Caliph examining his conversion, the great Islamic conquests during his reign, and his administrative genius.
...liph's life, his compilation of the Quran, expansion of the Islamic empire, and the causes of the fitnah.
By Akbar Shah Najeebabadi. A thorough narrative history of Islamic civilization from the Prophet through the Rightly-Guided Ca...
By Firas Alkhateeb. Recaptures forgotten chapters of Islamic civilization that shaped world history, from the Abbasid go...
...Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani. A scholarly examination of Islamic evidences on the permissibility and prohibition of musical ...
By Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips. Addresses the Islamic institution of polygamy in its historical, social, and reli...
By Muzaffar Iqbal. Explores the relationship between Islamic thought and natural science, examining the historical flour...
By Muhammad Taqi Usmani. A foundational work on Islamic banking and finance: the prohibition of riba, permissible c...
...hammad Umar Chapra. Presents the foundational principles of Islamic economics: prohibition of interest, zakat, equitable distri...
...fying, treating, and protecting against black magic from an Islamic perspective, with Quranic remedies and legitimate ruqyah.
...ional interest-based monetary system proposing an equitable Islamic alternative based on risk-sharing mechanisms.
...s education, prolific authorship, and enduring influence on Islamic scholarship.
...iyyah, the reformist Hanbali scholar who continues to shape Islamic thought.
By Muhammad al-Arifi. A popular guide drawing on Islamic guidance to achieve contentment, manage relationships, over...
By Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni. A widely-read Islamic self-help work addressing anxiety, depression, and hopeless...
By Yasmin Mogahed. A contemporary Islamic reflection on the heart's attachments to worldly things and...
...evidence regarding the crucifixion of Jesus, presenting the Islamic position alongside Christian scholarship.
...compilation, and doctrinal development of the Bible from an Islamic perspective, analyzing preservation and canonization.
... Muhammad Abd al-Rauf. A comprehensive guide to marriage in Islamic law: spouse selection, marriage contract, rights and duties...
...mad Salih al-Munajjid. A practical guide to establishing an Islamic atmosphere in the home covering family roles, children's up...
...practical guide for Muslim parents on raising children with Islamic principles, instilling faith, moral values, and Islamic ide...
By Muhammad Iqbal Siddiqi. A practical guide to Islamic inheritance law covering the Quranic verses on inheritance,...
...ature, capacities, interaction with humans, and the correct Islamic approach to protection.
By Monzer Kahf. Examines the foundations of Islamic finance in Quranic and Sunnah texts, the prohibition of rib...
By Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Wusabi. A study of the Islamic emphasis on neighborly relations drawing from Quranic injun...
By Yusuf al-Qaradawi. A guide to the refined manners and etiquette encouraged by Islam in daily life covering greetings, eating, dress, speech, and dealing with
By Badruddin Ahmad. A comprehensive study of Islamic belief in the hereafter covering the soul after death, the ...
...in. The classical work on dream interpretation establishing Islamic principles for understanding true dreams and distinguishing...
...on the proper use of speech, the dangers of the tongue, and Islamic etiquette of conversation.
By Various. A comprehensive guide to Islamic rulings and practices regarding death, dying, and burial.
By Abu Hanifa. One of the earliest texts in Islamic theology, attributed to Imam Abu Hanifa. Covers the fundame...
By Abu Hanifa. A dialogue on Islamic theology attributed to Imam Abu Hanifa, structured as quest...
...ing one of the earliest musnad-format hadith collections in Islamic scholarship.
...sul al-fiqh and the conditions of ijtihad. A masterpiece on Islamic legal theory, fatwa-giving, and the relationship between re...
...accountable to divine command — with major implications for Islamic political philosophy and the basis of human rights.
By Jafar Sheikh Idris. Examines the methodology by which Islamic principles can be integrated into intellectual, social, and...
...ikh Idris. An examination of the theoretical foundations of Islamic governance and Western democratic theory. Ja'far Sheikh Idr...
...tion but a particular metaphysical commitment — and why the Islamic tradition's insistence on the comprehensiveness of divine g...
...nce of hadith criticism (mustalah al-hadith) in traditional Islamic scholarship. It explains the terminology and methodology us...
... and scholarly disagreements. A required text in many Saudi Islamic universities.
... al-Rahman al-Sa'di. A concise but comprehensive summary of Islamic jurisprudence by Shaykh Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di. Written to ...
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