Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife
10 best books like Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife (Abu Hamid al-Ghazali): Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective, The Bezels of Wisdom, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, The Lives of Man: A Guide to the Human States: Before Life, In the World, and After Death, The Way of the Sufi, The Message of the Qur'an
The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally meaning "the recitation"), also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Al-Coran, Coran, Kur'an, and Al-Qur'an, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be...
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
| Author | Martin Lings |
| ISBN | 1594771537 |
Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet’s life, it contains original English...
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0517223120 |
Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have shaped and altered the conception...
| Author | Annemarie Schimmel |
| ISBN | 0807812714 |
Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism—Islamic mysticism—from its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Through her sensitivity and deep understanding of the subject, Annemarie Schimmel,...
Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
| Author | Amina Wadud |
| ISBN | 0195128362 |
Islam is misogynist--a common claim by those who criticize it. Most often such critics are non-Muslims who have never picked up a Qur'an and have no intention of ever doing so. Their concern for women's rights often disappears too, once the discussion has left Islam.
So what might someone who...
| Author | Ibn Arabi |
| ISBN | 0809123312 |
Called by Moslems "the greatest master," Ibn Al-'Arabi was a Sufi born in twelfth-century Spain. The Bezels of Wisdom was written during the author's later years and was intended to be a synthesis of his spiritual doctrine. Bezel means a setting in which a gem, engraved with one's name, is set to make...
This is the most accessible work in English on the greatest mystical poet of Islam, providing a survey of the basic Sufi and Islamic doctrines concerning God and the world, the role of man in the cosmos, the need for religion, man's ultimate becoming, the states and stations of the mystical ascent to God,...
| Author | الحبيب عبد الله بن علوي الحداد الحضرمي الشافعي |
| ISBN | 1887752145 |
A short work about the life stages of human beings according to Islamic eschatology. It comes highly recommended by Abdul Hakim Murad and others, though it was written many hundreds of years ago for a different time and audience. Not really a “book” per se but more of a compendium of Hadith and verses...
| Author | Idries Shah |
| ISBN | 0140192522 |
In this wide-ranging anthology of Sufi writings, Idries Shah, who was one of Sufism's leading exponents, offers a broad selection of poetry, contemplations, letters, lectures, and teaching stories that together form an illuminating introduction to this unique body of thought.
Sufism, the...
| Author | Muhammad Asad |
| ISBN | 1904510000 |
A fresh look at Muhammad Asad's classic English translation and explanation of the Qur'an is offered in this redesigned and updated edition of his work. A new typeset and index is complimented with a prologue by the distinguished British Muslim Gai Eaton and original artwork by internationally renowned...
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
| Author | Tamim Ansary |
| ISBN | 1433272261 |
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of...
The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity
| Author | Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
| ISBN | 0060730641 |
As the specter of religious extremism has become a fact of life today, the temptation is great to allow the evil actions and perspectives of a minority to represent an entire tradition. In the case of Islam, there has been much recent confusion in the Western world centered on distorted portrayals of...
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A finalist for the Guardian First Book Award
In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins...
Islam and the Destiny of Man
| Author | Charles Le Gai Eaton |
Islam and the Destiny of Man by Charles Le Gai Eaton is a wide-ranging study of the Muslim religion from a unique point of view. The author, a former member of the British Diplomatic Service, was brought up as an agnostic and embraced Islam at an early age after writing a book (commissioned by T.S. Eliot)...
In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
| Author | Tariq Ramadan |
| ISBN | 0195308808 |
Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most important innovators of the century, Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim scholar, with a large following especially among young European and American Muslims. Now, in his first book written for a wide audience, he offers a marvelous biography of the Prophet...
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
| Author | Lesley Hazleton |
| ISBN | 0385523939 |
In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever.
Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic...
Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
| Author | John L. Esposito |
| ISBN | 1595620176 |
Based on the largest study of its kind, this book is the first to present the fascinating findings of the Gallup Poll of the Muslim World.
The horrific events of 9/11 dramatically intensified what many saw as an ongoing conflict between the U.S. and parts of the Muslim world. Extremism has grown...
