Book Review: An Acquaintance
Overall Rating: 2/5
The Islamic fiction genre is a very, very thin one. There were a handful of books in the genre that were available when I was growing up in the 90’s and early 00’s. Fast forward almost tw...
Top Five English Seerah Books
The two most important subjects to learn in Islam are Qur'an and seerah. Seerah is the bedrock of a believer. Everything we do is modeled after the Prophet ﷺ. If we don't know him ﷺ , we don't know how we shoul...
Book Review: A Commentary on the Depiction of Prophet Muhammad
Overall Rating 5/5: Strongly Recommend
Considering the importance and wide acceptance of Imam at-Tirmidhi’s famous book Shamā'il Muhammadiyyah, it is not surprising that several English translations have been ...
Book Review: The Leadership of Muhammad
Overall Rating: 4/5-Good read
Once a senior lecturer and adviser at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, John Adair is now one of the world’s foremost experts on leadership and leadership development. In this...
Book Review: Revelation
Title: Revelation
Author: Meraj Mohiuddin
Overall Rating: 1/5-Do not recommend
Having heard the author speak about this book during ISNA’s annual convention, I was really looking forward to reading it. There h...
Book Review: If the Oceans Were Ink
Overall Rating: 5/5-Must read
This is an interesting book to be sure. Written from the viewpoint of Carla Power, this is a semi-biography of Sh. Akram Nadwi. The biography genre is very popular in the Muslim c...