What is Sufism?

9 best books like What is Sufism? (Martin Lings): Islam: A Short History, Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship, The Man Who Was Magic, Understanding Islam, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad, After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam, Lost Christiantiy, Chocky

Islam: A Short History

Author

Karen Armstrong

El Islam es, probablemente, la religión más incomprendida y malinterpretada de la modernidad. Una curiosa ignorancia prevalece en Occidentes desde las cruzadas, cuando empezó a cultivarse una visión distorsionada del Islam como una religión violenta e intolerante. Sin embargo, los imperios...

Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship

Author	Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
ISBN	0008603712

In this book readers are lead on a powerful and inspiring journey through the inner dimensions of a range of Islamic acts, including prayer, almsgiving, fasting and pilgrimage.

Consisting of a selection of writings by a towering figure in Islamic history, Imam al-Ghazali, this book helps...

The Man Who Was Magic

Author

Paul Gallico

What would happen if one day a genuine magician with real magic came to a city of illusionists who live entirely in a world of artifice and sleight of hand?

This is one of the very few books that I have read more than once. It left a very deep impression on me the first time round, aged 13 or so, and not...

Understanding Islam

Author	Frithjof Schuon
ISBN	0941532240

"Islam is the meeting between God as such and man as such.... Islam confronts what is immutable in God with what is permanent in man."

These are the opening words of what has become a classic work on Islam, perhaps the most misunderstood of the great Revelations. And yet the purpose of this book...

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

Author

Reza Aslan

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...

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...

Lost Christiantiy

Author	Jacob Needleman
ISBN	1585422533

‘Suddenly I remembered I had forgotten to remember myself...’

This thought, written by a reviewer of Needleman’s book on a Christian blogspot says it all!

In our speed, and in the constant bombardment of our media we have forgotten to care for our souls.

Our soul is...

Chocky

Author	John Wyndham
ISBN	0140031219

Cover Artist: Harry Willock

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of...