Children’s Books
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This book takes up the sensitive subjects of sickness, old age and death. At the same time it beautifully highlights the full ethos of a Muslim family, with noble values such as respect for elders, affection towards the young, warm social relations, effective communication and strong bonding. Narrated in a captive style, this story is both delightful and instructive. Pages: 29, Ages: 5
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Other Books
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Rich in remarkable and thought-provoking events, including compelling encounters with Islamic philosophy, led Mr. Hofmann to embrace Islam. His diary is a lively introduction to Islam, developed in the spiritual confrontation of a Muslim intellectual of European background with the idealogy and value system of post-industrial Western society.
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In this important book, Clarence-Smith provides the first general survey of the Islamic debate on slavery. He draws on examples from the abode of Islam – from the Philippines to Sengal and from the Caucasus to South Africa, paying particular attention to the period from the late 18th century to the present. Once slavery had disappeared, it was the Sufi mystics who did most to integrate former slaves socially and religiously, avoiding the deep social divisions that have plagued the Western societies in the aftermath of abolition.
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Abdul Zaeef describes growing up in a rural province, after the Russian invasion of 1979. Zaeef joined the jihad in 1983. Zaeef was one among the former mujahidin who were closely involved in the emergence of the Taliban, in 1994. He had a role as ambassador to Pakistan during 9/11. In early 2002 Zaeef was handed over to American forces in Islamabad and spent four and a half years in prison in Bagram and Guantanamo before being released without charge. My Life with the Taliban offers insights into the Pashtun village communities that are the Talibans bedrock and helps to explain what drives men like Zaeef to take up arms against the foreigners who are foolish enough to invade his homeland.
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The poetry of the Taliban, long overlooked by analysts as mere propaganda, is a prominent part of how they present themselves to Afghans and to the wider world. Published on the Taliban website during the last decade, with a few older specimens of Afghan poetry dating from the 1980s and & 90s, this collection of over 200 poems from uncensored voices within the Taliban draws upon Afghan legend and recent history as much as upon a long tradition of Persian, Urdu and Pashto verse. Their verse is fervent, and very modern in its criticism of human rights abuses by all parties in the war in Afghanistan; whether in describing an air strike on a wedding party or lamenting, We did all of this to ourselves, it is concerned not with politics, but with identity, and a full, textured, deeply conflicted humanity.
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In the aftermath of 7/7, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the rules of the game have changed. He referred to how his government planned to respond to the attacks, but few people at the time anticipated that counter-terrorism would become synonymous with circumventing time-honoured concepts such as the rule of law. It is associated now with words such as profiling, incommunicado detention, rendition and torture. Rules of the Game investigates global counter terrorism through the perspective of those affected by such measures.
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Shades of Islam is a dazzling and moving collection of poetry that addresses faith, love, politics and Islam in the twenty-first century. Reviews – “I find [the poems] deeply moving and beautifully felt and written with simplicity and a profundity that is wholly disarming.” – Harold Schweizer, Professor of English, Bucknell University.
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The author attempts to produce, from an historical point of view, a comprehensive chronology of events, which shaped the twentieth century Middle East. The book has two parts: the first explains the definitions of the Middle East, and an overview of historical events, the second contains each state listed alphabetically.
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The Prophet Muhammad: A Role Model for Muslim Minorities studies the Prophet Muhammad’s illustrious life from a refreshingly new angle. It identifies what guidance the Prophet’s example offers for Muslims living as a minority. So doing, the author examines insightfully how Islam was practised in Makkah, how Muslims led their lives as migrants in Abyssinia and how Muslim minorities were treated by the Islamic state of Madinah. The book, based on original Arabic sources, guides Muslims extensively how to co-exist peacefully with non-Muslims.
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Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader’s life and work, the popular media has conflated Qutb’s moral purpose with the aims of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. He is often portrayed as a terrorist, Islamo-Fascist, and advocate of murder. This book rescues Qutb from misrepresentation, tracing the evolution of his thought within the context of his time. An expert on social protest and political resistance in the modern Middle East, as well as Egyptian nationalism, John Calvert recounts Qutb’s life from the small village in which he was raised to his execution at the behest of Abd al-Nasser’s regime.
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Jamie Gilham
Loyal Enemies uncovers the history of the earliest British converts to Islam who lived their lives freely as Muslims on British soil, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Drawing on original archival research, it reveals that people from across the range of social classes defied convention by choosing Islam in this period.
Loyal Enemies is a book about the past, but its core themes – about faith and belief, identity, Empire, loyalties and discrimination – are still salient today.
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