Authentication of Hadith: Redefining the Criteria
Author : Israr Ahmad Khan
Hardback : ISBN 978–1–56564–449–6 $24.95
Paperback : ISBN: 978–1–56564–448–9 $14.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 240 p. / 2010
In today’s complex and volatile world the consequences of relying on fraudulent and counterfeit Hadith to legitimise extremist behaviour, issue violent fatwas, and justify blatant abuse, particularly of women, is not only far too easy but in fact dangerous. Israr Khan addresses the sensitive topic of Hadith authentication, focusing on the criteria adopted by classical scholars to maintain that concentration on the continuity and accuracy of the chain of narrators, rather than the textual content of Hadith, has led to particular Hadith being included which either contradict other Hadith directly, project the Prophet (SAAS) in an uncharacteristic light, or do not reflect and/or conflict with the teachings of the Qur’an. The study traces in careful detail the historical development of the oral and written traditions, as well as the many targeted attempts at fabrication that took place, critiquing in methodical detail certain Hadith which have come to be widely accepted as “authentic.” The prominent collections we have today, were made possible by the development of the science of Hadith criticism, and Muslim scholars deserve deep appreciation for their painstaking work, as well as their invaluable contribution towards preserving the Hadith literature to the best of their ability. However, insists the author, the process is ongoing, and the closed door policy which currently surrounds Hadith authentication needs to be carefully reexamined.
Where East Meets West: Appropriating the Islamic Encounter for A Spiritual-Cultural Revival
Author : Mona Abul-Fadl
Hardback : ISBN: 978-1-56564-353-6 $19.95
Paperback : ISBN: 978-1-56564-354-3 $9.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 112 p. / 2010 (Revised Edition)
The fate of civilization lies in the balance of culture, not power. This penetrating work argues that the terms of the culture of our times will determine the future of politics and societies. Islam continues to be, as much as it was in the past, at the hub and crossroads of contemporary civilization. The difference from a historical perspective, lies in the West’s control of the political setting, the primary factor in qualifying the terms of today’s civilization, and in setting its pace and direction accordingly.
The modern West takes pride in its rational liberalism, yet for all its reverent skepticism it is not at all sure how it can handle its growing human problems. As such it makes sense to recall a timeless exhortation of natural wisdom, confirmed in divine revelation, handed down over the generations and understandable to all, in both East and West. It needs to be taken seriously on the agenda of any future encounter between East and West which presumes to address the future ecology of a moral global economy. When the individual has become a measure unto himself, the community dissolves: or at least, its matrix is severely undermined. In the meantime, there is nothing that can secure the individual against his own excesses. In forgetting their Creator, their origin, and their destiny, God has made them oblivious of themselves.
The People on the Edge: Religious Reform and the Burden of the Western Muslim Intellectual
Author : Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Paperback : ISBN: 978-1-56564-357-4 $6.50
Size/pages : (6x9) / 46 p. / 2010
Are western Muslims an endangered species, or are they the future of Islam? The accelerated adaptation and change western Muslims are pushed to make in order just to survive has galvanized them into a serious effort of rethinking and reflection. This has, in turn, moved the worldwide debate on Islamic reform into a new higher gear. While Muslim intellectual activism in the West had deep historical roots, the claims of the new emerging movements and intellectual figures to moral, intellectual and religious leadership of the Ummah are unprecedented in their boldness and pride in their specifically western/modernist credentials. Moreover, it is paradoxical that what is in essence a response to the precariousness of the increasingly vulnerable Muslim presence in the West is at the same time trying to present itself as the most authoritative interpretation of Islam. This paper traces the historical roots of western Muslim intellectual activism, and assesses its success in attracting support both within the West and the wider Muslim world.
The Astronomical Calculations and Ramadan
Author : Zulfiqar Ali Shah
Paperback : ISBN: 978–1–56564–334–5 $16.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 190 p.
This book shatters the myth that naked-eye sighting of the new moon and completing thirty days in the case of weather-related or other obscurities are the only two valid methods of determining the month of Ramadan. The author explains that certainty, not actual sighting, is the real objective of the Shariah and that the Qur’an does not mandate physical sighting. A careful analysis shows that those hadiths that seemingly require sighting actually require certainty. The assertion that all Muslim scholars prohibit the use of astronomical calculations, both in affirming or negating the month of Ramadan, is not correct. As calculation is now more accurate than naked-eye sighting, due to certain astronomical and scientific advancements, the use of calculation is the closest to the real objective of the Shari‘ah and to the spirit of the hadiths.
Maqasid Al-Shariah: A beginner’s Guide
Author : Jasser Auda
Paperback : ISBN: 978–1–56564–440–3 $5.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 74 p.
Current applications (or rather, misapplications) of Islamic law are reductionist rather than holistic, literal rather than moral, one-dimensional rather than multidimensional, binary rather than multi-valued, deconstructionist rather than reconstructionist, and causal rather than teleological. There is lack of consideration and functionality of the overall purposes and underlying principles of the Islamic law as a whole. Further, exaggerated claims of ‘rational certainty’ (or else, ‘irrationality’) and ‘consensus of the infallible’ (or else, ‘historicity of the scripts’) add to lack of spirituality, intolerance, violent ideologies, suppressed freedoms, and authoritarianism. Thus, a maqasidi approach takes juridical issues to a higher philosophical ground, and hence, overcomes (historical) differences over politics between Islamic schools of law, and encourages a much-needed culture of conciliation and peaceful coexistence. Moreover, the realization of purposes should be the core objective of all fundamental linguistic and rational methodologies of ijtihad, regardless of their various names and approaches. Thus, the validity of any ijtihad should be determined based on its level of achieving ‘purposefulness,’ or realizing maqasid al-shai’ah.
Maqasid Al-Shariah Made Simple
Author : Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Paperback : ISBN: 978–1–56564–442–7 $5.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 32 p.
Maqasid al-Shari’ah, or the higher goals and objectives of Islamic law, is an important and yet somewhat neglected theme of the Shari’ah. Generally the Shari’ah is predicated on the benefits of the individual and that of the community, and its laws are designed so as to protect these benefits and facilitate improvement and perfection of the conditions of human life on earth. This easy to read guide gives a birds eye view of the subject, simplifying its main principles to help readers understand the subject of maqasid alshari’ah and how it explains the ‘wisdoms behind rulings.’ The paper focuses on a general characterisation of maqasid al-shari’ah and its origins in the Quran; the classification of maqasid; historical developments and the contributions of some of the leading ulama to the theory of maqasid; the differential approaches the ulama have taken toward the identification of maqasid; and finally the relevance of maqasid to ijtihad and the ways in which maqasid can enhance the scope and caliber of ijtihad.
The Islamic Vision of Development in the Light of Maqasid al-Shariah
Author : Muhammad Umer Chapra
Paperback : ISBN: 978–1–56564–441–0 $5.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 56 p.
The maqasid al-shari’ah (higher intents and purposes of Islamic Law) have been either directly stated in the Qur’an and the Sunnah or inferred from these by a number of scholars. All of these address the raison d’être of the Shari’ah which, as recognized by almost all the jurists, is to serve the interests of all human beings and to save them from harm. In this paper Dr. Chapra explores the Islamic vision of development in relation to the maqasid al-shari’ah arguing that Islam has emphasized all the ingredients of human well-being, including the human self, faith, intellect, posterity as well as wealth, for society to flourish. For the Muslim world to focus on economic development only may in the short term result in relatively higher rates of growth but in the long-run will lead to a rise in inequities, family disintegration, juvenile delinquency, crime, and social unrest.
Maqasid Al-Shariah as Philosophy of Islamic Law: A Systems Approach
Author : Jasser Auda
Hardback : ISBN: 978–1–56564–425–0 $28.95
Paperback : ISBN: 978–1–56564–424–3 $18.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 376 p.
In this pathbreaking study, Jasser Auda presents a systems approach to the philosophy and juridical theory of Islamic law based on its purposes, intents, and higher objectives (common good, and tolerance in today’s context, Auda presents the very philosophy of Islamic law. He also introduces a novel method for analysis and critique, one that utilizes relevant features from systems theory, such as, wholeness, multidimensionality, openness, and especially, purposefulness of systems.
This book will benefit all those interested in the relationship between Islam and a wide variety of subjects, such as philosophy of law, morality, human rights, interfaith commonality, civil society, integration, development, feminism, modernism, postmodernism, systems theory, and culture.
Towards Realization of the Higher Intents of Islamic Law: Maqasid Al-Shariah: A Functional Approach
Author : Gamal Eldin Attia
Hardback : ISBN: 978-1-56564-438-0 $28.95
Paperback : ISBN: 978-1-56564-437-3 $18.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 314p.
This book takes an important step “towards the realization of the higher intents of the Islamic law”. First, it opens the door towards the integration of contemporary values and worldview into the of reason and experience in identifying the complex theoretical questions on the role of (least, the book highlights the role and the necessity of a ‘the intellectual and communal levels, and takes a pioneering futuristic look into this very important branch of Islamic knowledge.
Islamic Thought: An Approach to Reform
Author : Taha Jabir Al-Alwani
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-427-1 $ 22.00
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-426-3 $12.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 192 p.
For the first time, Muslims are faced with a worldwide positivism which is working to use knowledge, the sciences and their discoveries and achievements in a manner which severs the relationship between the Creator, the created universe and man, thereby disregarding the world of the unseen and driving a wedge between science and values. Lacking even the most modest store of vital Islamic doctrine on the intellectual level, university students and researchers in the Islamic world are confronted with doctrines and philosophies which are presented to them together with a flimsy, miserable defense of Islam. There is not a single academic institution in the Islamic world in which Islamic thought is taught and in which the Islamic vision is given a deep-rooted foundation with the same force and persuasiveness with which Western ideas and the Western vision are taught to students in the West, in a coherent, comprehensive manner accompanied by seriousness and commitment on the part of all.
The book argues that this approach is diametrically opposed to the Islamic perspective and that we must disengage human scientific achievement from positivistic philosophical premises and reemploy these sciences within a systematic epistemological framework based on divine revelation, conferring honor upon all forms of knowledge, as having been bestowed upon man by their Creator.
Approaching the Sunnah: Comprehension and Controversy
Author : Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-419-0 $ 26.95
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-418-2 $16.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 234 p.
The Sunnah still provides the stable moral framework – the grammar – that enables Muslims, by formal rules and inward sense, to know right from wrong. However, separation from the mainstream of life puts the Sunnah in danger of becoming rigid – an archaism. Addressing that danger, this book explains how the Sunnah can function as the grammar of a living, adaptive language, capable of guiding (and not shying from) the mainstream. The first chapter sets out the qualities that characterize authentic application of the Sunnah: universality, coherence (so that different spheres of human responsibility are not split), compassionate realism, moderation, and humility.
The second explains standards and procedures for determining the Sunnah in the fields of jurisprudence and moral instruction. The third chapter illustrates through detailed examples common errors in understanding the Sunnah – reading hadiths singly without sufficient context, confusing legal and moral injunctions, means and ends, figurative and literal meanings…–and it proposes remedies for these errors.
Epistemological Bias in the Physical & Social Sciences
Author : Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-417-4 $ 25.00
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-416-6 $17.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 328 p.
The question of bias in methodology and terminology is a problem that faces researchers east, west, north and south; however, it faces Third World intellectuals with special keenness. For although they write in a cultural environment that has its own specific conceptual and cultural paradigms, they nevertheless encounter a foreign paradigm which attempts to impose itself upon their society and upon their very imagination and thoughts. When the term “developmental psychology” for instance is used in the West Arab scholars also say “developmental psychology”, when “applied psychology” is mentioned they hurry to use the same term etc. Why not establish a new science with its own mechanisms, methodologies and points of reference to deal with epistemological biases and open up the gate of ijtihad with respect to them? This collection of papers aims to discover some of the biases latent in our terminology, methodologies, research tools, and conceptual principles, and to propose alternative ones marked by a greater degree of independence and neutrality. This is not to belittle the human value of the West’s creative contributions but to emphasize the danger of making it the ultimate point of reference and then trying to continuously play “catch up” with it.
Ibn Ashur: Treatise on Maqasid Al-Shariah
Author : Muhammad Al-Tahir Ibn Ashour
Hardback : ISBN: 978-1-56564-423-6 $ 35.00
Paperback : ISBN: 978-1-56564-422-9 $ 25.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 518 p.
Shaikh Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur is the most renowned Zaytuna Imam and one of the great Islamic scholars of the 20th century. The publication of this translation of Shaikh Ibn Ashur’s Treatise on Maqasid al-Shari’ah is a breakthrough in studies on Islamic law in the English language.In this book, Ibn Ashur proposed the renewal of the theory of Islamic law, which has not undergone any serious development since the era of the great imams. Ibn Ashur – quite courageously – also addressed the sensitive topic of the intents/ behind his actions and decisions. He introduced criteria to differentiate between the Prophetic traditions that were meant to be part of Islamic law and the Prophetic actions/ sayings that were meant to be for the sake of specific purposes such as political leadership, court judgment, friendly advice, and conflict resolution. But Ibn Ashur’s most significant contribution in this book has been the development of new were never formulated in traditional theory of the ‘preservation of lineage’ into ‘the preservation of the family system’, the ‘protection of true belief’ into ‘freedom of beliefs’, etc. He also introduced the concepts of ‘orderliness’, ‘natural disposition’, ‘freedom’, ‘rights’, ‘civility’, and ‘equality’ as Maqasid development opens great opportunities for Islamic law to address current and real challenges for Muslim societies and Muslim minorities.
Interfaith Dialogue: A Guide For Muslims
Author : (Ed.) Muhammad Shafiq & Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-304-6 $ 12.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 142 p.
Islam recognizes a plurality of faiths and asks Muslims to respect others, and Muslims are responding to this call enthusiastically. Like their predecessors, many contemporary Muslims are eager to promote interfaith dialogue. But in order to do so effectively, they need to understand the challenges that face them in relating to other faith groups. This guide is an educational initiative to clarify misconceptions by introducing interfaith dialogue as it is defined in its contemporary usage.
Islamic Awakening Between Rejection and Extremism
Author : Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-429-8 $ 22.00
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-428-X $ 10.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 194 p.
In this thoughtful and important book, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi examines the worldwide revival of interest in Islam and attempts to explain why this interest has led so many among the younger generation of Muslims to tread the path of intolerance and rigid interpretation. An older and more experienced voice, he articulates the wisdom brought on by maturity, sound scholarship, and a deep understanding of both the letter and the spirit of the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Looking for answers in a world marked by enormous volatility, pressure and political and economic corruption, Muslim youth are an easy target for extremist movements. Shaykh Qaradawi traces the complex roots of these views, and examines in-depth the many uses of the path to intolerance, offering a variety of remedies and cures. Perhaps more relevant today, given our troubled climate, than at any time in the past, the work introduces readers to a subject of great significance and wide ramifications.
Variant Readings Of The Quran: A Critical Study Of Their Historical And Linguistic Origins
Author : Ahmad Ali Al-Imam
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-421-2 $ 25.00
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-420-4 $ 15.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 182 p.
This fascinating and important book attempts to investigate the nature of the seven Ahruf in which the Qur’an has been revealed and the reason for the variations in readings among the Qurraa of the Quran. It studies, examines, and discusses: the revelation of the Qur’an in the seven ahruf concluding that they represent seven linguistical ways of recitation; the compilation of the Quran during the lifetime of the Prophet and the preservation of the Quran in the memories of the Companions as well as in written form, the compilation during the time of Abu Bakr, and the further compilation during the time of Uthman; the problem of naskh to demonstrate the completeness and trustworthiness of the Quran and that no verses are missing or were read and abrogated by naskh al-tilawah either with or without hukm; the Uthmanic masahif and their relation to the seven ahruf; the language of the Quran and whether it includes one, several, or all the dialects of the Arabs; the origin of the qiraat and conditions governing accepted readings; and ikhtiyar (i.e., the selection of one reading rather than another) and the rules governing the Qurraa’ who selected a reading.
Strategic Planning and Implementation for Islamic Organization
Author : Rafik Issa Beekun
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-064-0 $18.95
Size/pages : (6 ½ x 9 ½ ) / 220 p.
Dr. Beekun shares over two decades of teaching, research, and strategic thinking with Islamic organizations globally. He describes the step-by-step processes of strategic planning and implementation, and asserts that these must be complemented synergistically by leadership, structure, culture, ethics, and produce tangible, sustainable results. Examples from actual Islamic organizations and businesses are included, as well as ready-to-use worksheets for those engaged in the process of developing and executing strategic and operational plans.
Muslim Contributions to World Civilization
Editors : M. Basheer Ahmed, Syed A. Ahsani, Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-410-7 $ 14.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 172 p.
Islam’s brilliant contributions to science, art, and culture, are a timeless and precious heritage, which should be historically preserved for future generations. The great achievements of Muslim scholars are rarely if at all acknowledged in formal education, and today their identity, origins and impact remain largely obscure. This collection of papers aims to give readers a brief introduction to the intellectual history of Muslims and the contributions that eminent Muslim scholars have made in certain specific fields of knowledge including basic and applied physical and biological sciences, medicine, legal and political theories and practices, economic and financial concepts, models, and institutions, etc. The preservation of civilization necessitates a better understanding, sharing, and recognition of our common human heritage. Given today’s widespread negative stereotyping and falsely generated misunderstanding of Islam and Muslims, the publication of these papers on “Muslim Contributions to World Civilization” is vital to help repair the wrong that is being perpetrated and restore the historical truth, which is being distorted.
Imam Al-Shatibi's Theory of the Higher Objectives and Intents of Islamic Law
Author : Ahmad Al-Raysuni
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-412-3 $ 25.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 478 p.
With the end of the early Islamic period, Muslim scholars came to sense that a rift had begun to emerge between the teachings and principles of Islam and Muslims’ daily reality and practices. The most important means by which scholars sought to restore the intimate contact between Muslims and the Qur’an was to study the objectives of Islam, the causes behind Islamic legal rulings and the intentions and goals underlying the Shari'ah, or Islamic Law. They made it clear that every legal ruling in Islam has a function which it performs, an aim which it realizes, a cause, be it explicit or implicit, and an intention which it seeks to fulfill, and all of this in order to realize benefit to human beings or to ward off harm or corruption. They showed how these intentions, and higher objectives might at times be contained explicitly in the texts of the Qur’an and the Sunnah, while at other times, scholars might bring them to light by means of independent reasoning based on their understanding of the Qur’an and the Sunnah within a framework of time and space.
Issues in Contemporary Islamic Thought
Author : Taha Jabir Al-Alwani
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-414-X $ 18.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 316 p.
This collection of papers presents a reformist project calling upon Muslim intellectuals and scholars everywhere to comprehend the vast breadth and depth of the crisis engulfing Muslim thought today and the necessity of solving this crisis to enable the Ummah to experience a revival and fulfill its role among the nations of the world. The reader will find a variety of articles dealing with this intellectual crises, these include a chapter on ijtihad’s role and history, important since our intellectual problems cannot be solved without the scholars’ use of independent reasoning and creativity. Another discusses imitation (to stop favoring the past over the present when trying to solve modern problems. Another looks at human rights.
Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes
Author : Katherine Bullock
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-286-4 $ 31.95 320 p.
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-287-2 $ 18.95 320 p.
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A powerful critique of the popular western notion that the veil is a symbol of Muslim women's oppression. In postulating a positive theory of the hijab the author challenges with great sophistication both the commonly held view of Muslim women being subjugated by men, as well as the liberal feminists’ who criticize the choice of women to cover themselves as ultimately unliberating. The author argues that in a culture of consumerism, the hijāb can be experienced as aliberation from the tyranny of the beauty myth and the thin "ideal" woman. In dispelling some widely held myths about Muslim women and the hijāb can be experienced as aintroduces respectability to the voice of believing Muslim women, claiming that liberation and the equality of women are fundamental to Islam itself.
Revitalizing Higher Education in the Muslim World
Author : AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-430-1 $ 6.50 46 p.
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Reform and revitalization in higher education are essential elements for the Ummah’s awakening and for the realization of its civilizational aspirations and the success of its global mission. This paper calls for reforming our approach to education particularly through the Islamization of Knowledge so that both divine and human sources are integrated into a powerful whole with Revealed knowledge providing a comprehensive, spiritual and moral guidance in the sphere of human action, universal laws, and scientific and technological knowledge as tools for that action. The International Islamic University in Malaysia (founded in 1984) is used as a case study to illustrate the success and viability of putting the concepts of the Islamization of Knowledge into a university educational plan.
A Thematic Commentary on the Qur'an
Author : Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali
Translator : Ashur A. Shamis
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-261-9 (Vol. 1-3) $ 64.95 804 p.
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While early scholars endeavored to elucidate many linguistic, historical, and miraculous aspects of the sacred and challenging text, al-Ghazali’s contribution is somewhat unique (and modern) in the sense that it focuses on the organic unity of each surah (chapter) highlighting the logic or inherent reasoning that courses through the surah and unifies its various components and images.
Social Justice in Islam
Author : Deina Abdlkader
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-268-6 $14.95
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-274-0 $24.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 216 p.
Western theoretical approaches of modernization, development, social progress and interaction, have failed to understand the dynamics of the Islamic revival. Using the two tools of dialectical link between fiqh and reality, the author shows their indispensability as important methodological tools for the study of the social sciences and, indeed, of social phenomena.
Wholeness and Holiness in Education
Author : Zahra Al Zeera
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-279-1 $29.95
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-280-5 $14.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 186 p.
Critically examining the Western, secular approach to formal education, the author contests the value of an education system focusing solely on the intellectual and physical aspects of human development. This study is a holistic view of knowledge and a sociological discussion adopting an unconventional approach of using the author’s own personal experiences as the basis for debate and analysis.
Working Principles For An Islamic Model In Mass Media Communication
Author : Suhaib Jamal al Barzinji
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-264-3 $9.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 99 p.
This book deals with mass media communication in the Muslim world, and compares the international Islamic view to the contemporary media views. It also presents a set of practical principles upon which a model of Islamic communication through media can be based with recommendations and research project proposals for the future in the area of Islamic media.
Crisis in the Muslim Mind
Author : AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman
Translator : Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-138-8 $12.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 160 p.
If anything is self-evident across the Muslim world today it is that the Ummah is badly in need of reform. “Crisis in the Muslim Mind” examines the intellectual and historical roots of the malaise that has encompassed the Ummah and threatens to efface its identity. This important work is designed to familiarize educated and concerned Muslims with the nature of the crisis confronting them, and to suggest the steps necessary to overcome it.
Training Guide For Islamic Workers
Author : Hisham Altalib
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-89-9 $25.00
Size/pages : (8 1/2x11) / 397 p.
This Guide focuses on the training needs of Muslim young men and women by providing the experience acquired by Muslim leaders over the last several decades. Using a simple Do’s and Don’t’s format, this Guide enables the user to optimize his/her understanding of the art and science of world.
Islam and Other Faiths (Ismail Raji al-Faruqi)
Editor : Ataullah Siddiqui
Hardback : ISBN: 0-86037-275-8
Paperback : ISBN: 0-86037-276-6 $15.00
Co-publisher : The Islamic Foundation, UK
Size/pages : (6x9) / 370 p.
This volume is a collection of Ismail al-Faruqi’s articles written over a span of two decades. They deal directly with Islam and other faiths, (Christianity and Judaism in particular). The book provides a good cross-section of al-Faruqi’s contribution to the study of comparative religion and covers a wide spectrum of inter-religious issues including commonality and differences between Islam, Christianity and Judaism, Muslim-non-Muslim relations, and the issue of Mission and Da’wah.
The Vicegerency of Man: Between Revelation and Reason A Critique of the Dialectic of the Text, Reason, and Reality
Author : Abd alMajid alNajjar
Translator : Dr. Aref T. Atari
Hardback : $ 19.95
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-272-4 $ 9.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 90 p.
This is a timely contribution to the debate on Revelation and reason that has always been a central issue in Islamic thought. The book aims to clarify the relationship between reason and Revelation, and to show that far from being mutually exclusive, they both contribute to a correct portrayal of reality.
An Introduction To Islamic Economics
Author : Muhammad Akram Khan
Co-publisher : Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-079-9 $15.00
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-080-2 $7.50
Size/pages : (6.25x9.75) / 153 p.
This book contends that the Islamic economic order has the potential of ushering in an age of human bliss; and the resources to build a free, just and responsible world for everyone on the earth.
Contemplation: An Islamic Psychospiritual Study
Author : Malik Badri / with an Introduction by Shaykh Yusuf al Qaradawi
Translator : Abdul-Wahid Lu’lu’a
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-273-2 $29.95
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-267-8 $13.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 136 p.
Combining the rich traditional Islamic wisdom with contemporary knowledge, the author advances a unique approach to the understanding of the human psyche and the self that gives a central position to meditation and contemplation as forms of worship in Islam.
Ccontribution Of Islamic Thought To Modern Economics
Proceeding : Economic seminar held jointly by al Azhar University and IIIT (Cairo, 1988) V. II (English)
Editor : Misbah Oreibi
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-262-7 $12.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 273 p.
This book is one step on the long march to Islamizing the science of economics. It contains a selection of papers from the proceedings of the economic conference held in Cairo in 1988. These papers are a valuable contribution to the cause of modernizing Islamic economics.
Islam And Economic Development
Author : M. Umer Chapra
Co-publisher : Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad
Paperback : ISBN: 969-462-006-6 $ 7.50
Size/pages : (6.25x9.75) / 167 p.
All Muslim countries are struggling to accelerate the development of their economies. What is needed is a strategy that would not only accelerate development but also help minimize the inequities and the imbalances. The nature and constituents of such a strategy are the main themes of this book.
Al Tawhid: Its Implications On Thought And Life
Author : Ismail Raji al Faruqi
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-80-5 $8.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 237 p.
This book touches upon a broad spectrum of subjects, drawing elements from history, comparative religion, anthropology, philosophy, ethics, epistemology, archaeology, and other disciplines. As such, the concept of
abundant in its perception, and direct in its implications for life and thought.
Islamization of Knowledge: General Principles and Work Plan
Author : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Hardback : ISBN: 0-912463-25-2 $ 15.00
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-26-0 $ 7.50
Size/pages : (6x9) / 126 p.
This book is a “vision” which embodies the basic principles of Islamic methodology, coupled with an action plan to realize the reconstruction of Muslim thought and the Islamization of the humanities and the social sciences.
The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam
Author : Taha Jabir Al-Alwani
Translator : AbdulWahid Hamid
Paperback : ISBN1-56564-118-3 $9.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 158 p.
This book is an explanation of the etiquette envisioned by Islam for all those engaged in discourse and intellectual dialogue. Is an exposition of the higher principles and purposes of the Sharia’ah which provide Muslims with perspectives far vaster than those afforded by pedantic debate over points of law and procedure, or fine distinctions between conflicting theological arguments.
Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh)
Author : Taha Jabir Al-Alwani
Translator : Yusuf Tala DeLorenzo / Anas Al Shaikh-Ali
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-404-2 $9.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 96 p.
This book is an attempt to simplify and introduce Usul al Fiqh to students of the social sciences and humanities who do not have the opportunity to study the details of the science considered to be the most important method of research produced by Islamic thought during its most creative period.
Proceedings of The IIIT Lunar Calendar Conference
Editor : Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-22-8 $10.00
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This book brings together both the elementary scientific facts that any lunar calendar formulation can not ignore and a summary of the pressing scientific questions of particular interest to the Islamic calendar.
Islamic Business Ethics
Author : Rafik Issa Beekun
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-242-2 $9.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 84 p.
This book addresses Muslim business community members who have to deal with ethical situations on a day-to-day basis. Its goal is to help Muslims engaged in business to act in accordance with Islamic ethics.
The Qur'an and The Sunnah: The Time-Space Factor
Author : Taha Jabir Al-Alwani / Imad Din Khalil
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-060-8 $5.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 57 p.
Suggestions for a new reading of the Qur’an and the Sunnah have been put forward from Islamic and other angles in the recent years. In this book Dr. al Alwani and Dr. Khalil, two well-known Muslim thinkers, contribute their views for a proper approach to these sources from within the Islamic framework.
Outlines of a Cultural Strategy
Author : Taha Jabir Al-Alwani
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-059-4 $3.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 15 p.
This book addresses the intellectual crisis in the Muslim world as manifested in the present state of Muslim thought, knowledge, education, and civilization. Also presents compelling and thought-provoking ideas for an alternative cultural strategy likely to alleviate the Ummah’s malaise and benefit humanity at large.
Lazity, Moderation And Extremism in Islam (Occasional Paper)
Author : Aisha B. Lemu
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-95-3 $4.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 40 p.
The author shows motives which produce the lax and the extremist types of people. Speaking the language of committed Muslim youth with an open mind and suggests wise and efficient solutions to remedy laxity and extremism in society. This book is the first of its category to deal with the burning issues of laxity, moderation and extremism.
Islamization: Reforming Contemporary Knowledge
Author : ‘AbdulHam
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-054-3 $4.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 36 p.
This book is an attempt to recapture the original vitality, which was ever concomitant with the high moral code of Islam – in order to address the amazingly complex, intertwined and fluxional aspects of modern life. Emphasized throughout the book is the need for reform and redefinition in areas like ijma’, ifta’ and qiyas.
Toward Global Cultural Renewal: Modernity and the Episteme of Transcendence
Author : Mona M. Abul-Fadl(Occasional Paper)
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-055-1 $4.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 22 p.
This book offers a blueprint for a new kind of scholarship, one that invokes the “vocational ideal” and has the power and the vision to absorb intelligently cultural diversity and transmute it into an overarching and transcendent, but realistic and humane, critique.
Islamization Of Knowledge: A Methodology (Occasional Paper)
Author : Imad Din Khalil
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-75-9 $3.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 24 p.
This booklet presents view that Islamization should not start from nowhere. Due attention should be paid to Islam’s rich intellectual legacy, for we need to devise a set of criteria for dealing with the mass of knowledge in the Islamic legacy.
Economic Doctrines Of Islam: A Study In The Doctrines of Islam and Their Implications of Poverty, Employment and Economic Growth
Author : Irfan Ul Haq
Hardback : ISBN: 1-65654-217-1 $ 20.00
Paperback : ISBN: 1-65654-218-X $ 12.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 293 p.
This book examines the primary sources of Islam to extract and formalize from them the Islamic economic doctrines as well as the sociopolitical framework which guides the development of society. In particular, emphasis is placed on the problems of poverty, unemployment and lack of human resource development.
Although written for students of social science and economics and students of Islam, Economic Doctrines of Islam interested in seeking divine guidance in the realm of ethical social and economic development of human societies at large.
Qu'ranic Concepts Of Human Psyche
Editor : Zafar Afaq Ansari
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought, Islamabad
Hardback : ISBN: 969-462004-X $ 15.00
Paperback : ISBN: 969-462-003-1 $ 7.50
Size/pages : (6x9) / 118 p.
This book consists of six articles based on papers read in a seminar on Qur’anic Concepts of Human Psyche, which was organized by the IIIT-Pakistan. The authors advocate that it is important that the Qur’anic concepts should be understood in terms of the Qur’anic itself, and not as equivalents of concepts of foreign intellectual provenance.
Natinalism And Internationalism In Liberalism, Marxism And Islam
Author : Tahir Amin
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought, Islamabad
Paperback : ISBN: 969-462-003-1 $ 7.50
Size/pages : (6x9) / 106 p.
This study seeks to come into grips with the dilemma of nationalism versus internationalism in three major traditions of the world – liberalism, Marxism and Islam. The work underscores the necessity of a genuine international understanding and dialogue as a necessary step towards building a more peaceful world order.
Role Of Private And Public Sectors In Economic Development In An Islamic Perspective: Proceedings of the Fifth International Islamic Economics Seminar 1993
Editor : Ehsan Ahmed
Paperback : ISBN: 1-65654-215-5 $ 12.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 184 p.
This book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the Fifth International Islamic Economics Seminar (1414/1993). This work includes “Why Cannot Neoclassicism Explain Resource Allocation and Development in the Islamic Political Economy”, “Altruism in the Conduct of the Private and Public Sectors”, “The Role of Public and Private Sectors in Economic Development in an Islamic Perspective”, “Operation of an Islamic Bank Under Conventional Banking Framework”, “Islamic Corporate Finance”, “Theory of Participating term Certificates”, “Muslim Attitudes Towards Islamic Finance”, “The Role of Public and Private Sector in Islamization of the Economy of Iran”, “Money and Growth in Islamic Economics”, “New Mangers in the Egyptian Public Sectors During the Nasser Era”.
Peace and the Limits of War: Transcending Classical Conception of Jihad
Author : Louay M. Safi
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-402-6 $ 6.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 64 p.
This book provides a systematic analysis of the Quranic reference and the prophetic traditions on peace and war. Examines the views of classical and modern Islamic scholars in light of the original intent of the Shari’ah.
Forensic Psychiatry in Islamic Jurisprudence
Author : Kutaiba S. Chaleby
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-277-5 $ 25.00
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-276-7 $ 15.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 220 p.
This is the first book in Forensic Psychiatry that focuses on the application of psychiatry to legal issues connected with Islamic jurisprudence. Holding a unique position amongst the world’s religions in its containment of every aspect of human existence, it is openly natural for Islam to govern both the spiritual and legislative aspects of life. This work will appeal to both the general as well as the academic reader drawing
important and wide-ranging conclusions relevant for many individuals and societies in the Islamic world.
Towards A Fiqh for Minorities: Some Basic Reflections
Author : Taha Jabir Al-Alwani
Paperback : ISBN: 978-1-56564-352-9 $ 6.50
Size/pages : (6x9) / 64 p. / 2
Towards a Fiqh for Minorities is an important subject and a much needed contribution to an area of fiqh that has become essential for the well being and development of Muslim communities living in the West. The author stresses that the problems of Muslim minorities can only be tackled with a fresh juristic vision based on the principles, objectives and higher values of the Qur’an in conjunction with the ultimate aims and
intents (maqasid) of the Shariah. In essence Dr. Alalwani’s paper is a call for Muslim minorities to have a sense of themselves as citizens and develop a positive, confident view of their place and value in society, moving away from notions of immigrant status and governed by a humanistic vision focusing on the betterment of society.
Marital Discord: Recapturing the Full Islamic Spirit of Human Dignity
Author : AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-401-8 $ 3.50
Size/pages : (6x9) / 30 p.
The Quran speaks of living with each other on a footing of love, kindness, mercy and mutual consultation between husband and wife. It also addresses those times when the atmosphere is strained. This paper examines the issue of marital discord with a deep sensitivity to the perspective of women. Criticizing an approach to the Quran that is misogynistic rather than emancipatory the paper moves the debate forward by
introducing an alternative interpretation of the Quranic text dealing with the issue of marital discord. The explanation is fresh, firmly on the side of women’s human rights and recaptures the full Islamic spirit of human dignity.
The Quran And Politics: A Study of the Origins of Political Thought in the Makkan Quran
Author : Eltigani Abdelgadir Hamid
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-406-9 $ 29.95
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-405-0 $ 18.95
Size/pages : (6x9) / 244 p.
The Quran approaches the issue of “political thought” as part of a comprehensive discourse which establishes the general goals and frames of reference. It is then left to the human mind to complete these with what it has learned from experiences in history and what the scholars understood from the Text about how to deal with reality. This work is about the origins of political thought and a study of the philosophy of
politics. It examines the actions of the state as the main power concerned with public affairs in society, and enquires into which public action is considered good or bad in relation to other value system endorsed by Islam. The work uses a unique methodology to argue that the major elements of the Quranic political thought are securely anchored in the Makkan verses of the Quran. Studying these verses it searches for the rules and principles that help identify the directions and major objectives towards which both human society and political action are guided prior to the rise of institutions and the regulation of relations.
The Challenge Of Pluralism And The Middle Way Of Islam
Author : Jeremy Henzell-Thomas
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-060-8 $ 4.50
Size/pages : (6x9) / 24 p.
This paper is an impassioned plea, appealing to the higher virtues of man to realize within himself, and the society around him, a spiritually deeper and more multiculturally aware social order. In our largely interdependent, but increasingly volatile, world it is imperative that we not only understand ourselves but the myriad of cultures existing around us. The paper points to the “middle way” as an important area of convergence between the West and Islam presenting with great vision the case that a revival of the ideals, principles and ethics of the “middle way” will restore mankind’s sense of balance, beauty, harmony and justice.
Transititon To A Riba Free Economy
Author : Waqar Masood Khan
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-100-0 $ 15.00
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-099-3 $ 25.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 162 p.
Elimination of Riba has been a major issue in Pakistan occupying the attention of policy makers, bankers, legal experts and Islamic scholars. The book traces the main challenges in various spheres of financial transactions and argues that a smooth transition to the new system is feasible. However, it cautions that in view of the pervasiveness of Riba in modern economies and in numerous laws, merely striking down certain impugned provisions of law may not be the most desirable course. Rather, the government will have to expend a comprehensive effort through a legislative initiative to provide for an alternative system. The book also reviews the constitutional provisions relating to government’s finances and identifies areas of concern that have implications for efficient fiscal management as well as for effective elimination of Riba.
A Guide For Authors, Translators, And Copyeditors: IIIT Style-Sheet
Author : IIIT London
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-282-1 $ 6.50
Size/pages : (5 1/2x8 1/2) / 64 p.
This is a concise guide for authors, translators, revisers, copy-editors, and proof-readers
involved in the production of manuscripts for publications. A brief overview of
successive stages in the production process is given along with guidelines on how to
prepare and submit work. The Guide also contains pointers on grammar, and American-
English punctuation and spelling; instructions on citing references and bibliographical
information; guidelines on transliterating Arabic terms and phrases; and tips on
capitalization, especially in relation to Arabic terminology.
Madinan Society At The Time of The Prophet
Author : Akram Diya al-Umari
Translator : Huda Khattab
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-36-8 (Vol. 1-2) $25.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 443 p.
This book is a work that brings out the most important aspects of life in the early Muslim community. It is a breakthrough in historiographical methodology, succeeded in combining the strict methodological guidelines used by traditional Muslim scholars of the Sunnah and usul al hadith with modern methods of historical criticism.
Through Muslim Eyes: M. Rashid and the West
Author : Emad Eldin Shahin
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-141-8 $ 15.50
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-142-6 $ 7.50
Size/pages : (6x9) / 102 p.
When Western influences began to pervade the Muslim world over a century ago, intense and rapid changes occurred in almost every sphere of Muslim life. This book offers the reader a fascinating study of how one of the century’s most important Muslim thinkers dealt with the ideas and institutions of the West.
Towards and Islamic Theory of International Relations: New Directions for Methodology and Thought
Author : AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman
Hardback : ISBN: 0-912463-52-X $20.00
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-71-6 $12.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 240 p.
This book attempts to lay the intellectual foundations for a reconsideration of what constitutes a truly Islamic world order. Much of the value of this work lies in its discussion of methodology, and in the ways it proposes that further study may be undertaken in the social sciences in general, by means of methodology developed from a purely Islamic perspective.
Where East Meets West: The West on the Agenda of the Islamic Revival
Author : Mona Abul-Fadl
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-73-2 $6.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 117 p.
This book represents the Western Thought Project’s coming of age vis-à-vis the greater Islamization of Knowledge agenda. It is also a challenge and a stimulus to contemporary Muslim intellectuals; a call for them to engage their creativity and originality in the service of developing a constructive Islamic intellectual stance, at both the conceptual and methodological levels, on the state of modern knowledge.
Trialogue Of The Abrahamic Faiths
Author : Ismail Raji al Faruqi
Paperback : ISBN: 0-912463-40-6 $7.50
Size/pages : (6x9) / 103 p.
This book is certain to be hailed as a historic milestone in Muslim-Christian-Jewish dialogue. It goes beyond the modern-day ostensible studies in comparative religion. Each of the contributing scholars evinces appreciation and more-than-cursory knowledge of all three faiths.
Economic Guidelines In The Qu'ran
Author : S. M. Hasanuz Zaman
Publisher : IIIT - Islamabad
Hardback : ISBN: 1-56564-094-2
Paperback : ISBN: 1-56564-093-4 $20.00
Size/pages : (6.25x9.75) / 398 p.
The book is addressed to the needs of the economist is interested in having access to the guidelines that the Qur’an offers in this field. The book also attempts to derive and identify the norms of economic behavior and the principles that could guide and regulate the functioning of economic institutions in an Islamic state.
Civilization And Society
Author : Syed Sajjad Husain
Publisher : Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought
Paperback : $20.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 314 p.
The range covered by the contents of this book is fairly wide; history, sociology, literature and politics. All have come in for comment and will go a long way to demonstrate that Muslims in Bangladesh are fully conscious of their place in the wider community of Muslims.
Man And Universe
Author : Major Md. Zakaria Kamal G.
Publisher : Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought
Paperback : ISBN: 984-8203-21-9 $ 10.00
Size/pages : (6x9) / 225 p.
The long story of man and universe is described in this book. According to the Holy Quran human beings are the vicegerents of Allah (God). If a human being were really a vicegerent he should have had a galaxy of his own where he would have the power of God Who he would be acting on behalf of.