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Allah Loves Me More,
Heba finds a sad cat in the park and takes it home, looking after it and loving it so much. Heba doesn’t believe that anyone could love anything more than she loves her cat.
But her father shows Heba how Allah’s love for his creations is even greater, and that Allah loves us more.
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Learn to let go of your worldly worries during your prayers (salah) and be more mindful before God.
Bassam Saeh
In a modern world of constant distraction, how are we to achieve the communion with the Divine that prayer is supposed to be? Rediscover prayer, with this book filled with short reminders containing practical examples to help readers attain a deeper sense of devotion to Allah
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Taha Jabir Alalwani
This work studies the position of the Sunnah in Islam and its fundamental relationship to the Qur’an. The author carefully examines the sensitive issue of the development of the oral and written traditions, the problems scholars faced despite painstaking work verifying the authenticity of reports, the character of narrators, etc. and the ever growing complexity of a body of narratives that were making the simplicity and clarity of the Prophet’s life, words, and actions, a burgeoning maze of information.
IIIT Books-In-Brief Series is a valuable collection of the Institute’s key publications written in condensed form to give readers a core understanding of the main contents of the original.
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Said Shabbar
In the early centuries of Islam the response of Muslims to problem-solving the various issues and challenges that faced their rapidly expanding community was to use intelligence and independent reasoning based on the Qur’an and Sunnah to address them. This practice is known as ijtihad.
IIIT Books-In-Brief Series is a valuable collection of the Institute’s key publications written in condensed form to give readers a core understanding of the main contents of the original.
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Ali Suleiman Ali
Since the passing of the Prophet many scholars have worked hard to bring a proper understanding of the meaning of the Qur’an to Muslims, and indeed to the world at large, as fully as possible, in an attempt to widen knowledge of the guidance contained therein, and how to live life in accordance with its principles.
This work traces the evolution of Qur’anic exegesis, from the time of the Prophet, the Companions, the Successors, the early mufassirun (exegetes) with independent tafsir works, to the present day.
IIIT Books-In-Brief Series is a valuable collection of the Institute’s key publications written in condensed form to give readers a core understanding of the main contents of the original.
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The Perfect Code of Manners and Morality By Imam Bukhari – A must have for understanding the importance of character and for those on the road who want to perfect it.
A complete, newly translated edition of al-Adab al-Mufrad, the most famous collection of Prophetic traditions on manners and morals, with a pioneering commentary by Adil Salahi.
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** This book will be available in November 2017 -Pre-order now to get the first edition of this title!**
The contributions of some extraordinary Muslims of the West in recent history is surprising, revealing and, most importantly, worth celebrating!
This amazing title covers 50 profiles from Ab to Muhammad Ali
This extraordinary book features 50 profiles from Abdullah Quilliam, the Victorian Shaykh of the British Isles to Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad’s son, who mentored Malcolm X and transformed the Nation of Islam.
The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims of the West by Muhammad Mojlum Khan
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Ibn Majid: The Master Navigator
Ibn Majid loved sailing the open seas and discovering new places. This famous Muslim invented the compass, and is known as one of the great explorers of his time. Through beautiful illustrations and easy-to-understand text, this book introduces young Muslims to Ibn Majid, “The Master Navigator”, as well as the dua before leaving one’s house
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Ibn Al-Baitar: Doctor of Natural Medicine:
Ibn Al-Baitar dedicated his life to finding the cures in plants and natural medicine. He discovered over 300 kinds of plants that could be made into medicine. Through beautiful illustrations and easy-to-understand text, this book introduces mini Muslims to Ibn Al-Baitar, “The Doctor of Natural Medicine”, as well as the dua before learning something new.
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Ibn Yunus – The Father of Astronomy:
Ibn Yunus is known as one of the greatest astronomers of all time. He was the first man to calculate when a solar eclipse would take place. A crater on the moon was named after him. Through beautiful illustrations and easy-to-understand text, this book introduces mini Muslims to Ibn Yunus, “The Father of Astronomy”, as well as the dua for increasing one’s knowledge.
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Generating precise comprehension of the Quran and the true meaning of its verses is arguably the essence of the most important of the Islamic sciences, Qur’anic exegesis or tafsir. Since the passing of the Prophet many scholars have worked hard to bring a proper understanding of the meaning of the Qur’an to Muslims, and indeed to the world at large, as fully as possible, in an attempt to widen knowledge of the guidance contained therein, and how to live life in accordance with its principles.
The result has been a wealth of historical Muslim literature on the subject which has come to be known as Ulum al-Tafsir or the sciences of tafsir, a systematic exegesis of the Qur’an following several methodologies.
This work traces the evolution of Qur’anic exegesis, from the time of the Prophet, the Companions, the Successors, the early mufassirun (exegetes) with independent tafsir works, to the present day.
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This work studies the position of the Sunnah in Islam and its fundamental relationship to the Qur’an. The author carefully examines the sensitive issue of the development of the oral and written traditions, the problems scholars faced despite painstaking work verifying the authenticity of reports, the character of narrators, etc. and the ever growing complexity of a body of narratives that were making the simplicity and clarity of the Prophet’s life, words, and actions, a burgeoning maze of information.
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There is no way to understand the Qur’an properly, or to elucidate as accurately as possible the meaning of its verses, without studying Qur’anic terminology and concepts. Taken together these sum up the universal truth of the Faith (the great moral code), not only animating the text and giving it incredible life, precision, and flexibility, but also enriching the communication of the Qur’anic message through their beautiful and comprehensive nature.
This study aims to provide a broad glossary of key Qur’anic terms and set forth these terms’ meanings, both semantically and linguistically, within their Qur’anic context. The format is organised in such a way as to facilitate ease of understanding, guidance the lay reader carefully and logically through the various nuances of usage and meaning. The meaning of a given Qur’anic term will vary depending on the manner and the context in which it is used, and on the issues and questions in relation to which reference is made to it, and just as a concept gives rise to a term, so also does the term and its usage act to shape the concept. These and other aspects of the Divine communication are mapped and explored, leaving us with a greater appreciation of the Qur’an’s depth and what makes it a linguistic and literary miracle.
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Divine oneness as the principle of beauty is perhaps quintessentially Islamic artistic expression and experience and what it celebrates. Why has Islamic art evolved as it has, what forms does it take, what is the logic underlying it? What message is the Muslim artist attempting to convey, what emotion is he seeking to evoke? This work views Islamic art as a subject of archaeological study and treats its evolution as part of the historical study of art in the broader sense. At the same time, it paves the way for an epistemological shift from viewing Islamic art as a material concept having to do with beautiful rarities and relics that have grown out of Islamic cultural and artistic creativity, to a theoretical concept associated with a vision, a principle, a theory and a method.
This theoretical concept provides the intellectual and cultural foundation for a critical philosophical science of Islamic artistic beauty to which we might refer as ‘the science of Islamic art,’ or ‘the Islamic aesthetic’ that evaluates visual artistic creations in terms of both beauty and practical usefulness. In the process the study also explores orientalist misconceptions, challenging some of the premises with which it has approached Islamic art, with judgement rooted in a cultural framework alien to the spiritual perspective of Islam.