Thomas Jefferson's Quran
Thomas Jefferson had a vast personal library reflecting his enormous curiosity about the world. Among his volumes: a Quran purchased in 1765 that informed his ideas about plurality and religious freedom in the founding of America. In her book, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders, author Denise Spellberg draws parallels between the beliefs of the founding father and religious toleran...

Untold - Tamam Khan's book on the Wives of the Prophet
Tamam Kahn was born outside Chicago, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a tenth generation American. Her travels to sacred sites in Morocco, Syria, Andalusia, and India, and her careful research of early Islamic history have informed her attunement to and knowledge of the wives of Prophet Muhammad. In 2009 she was invited by the Royal Ministry of Morocco to read about these first w...

Review of The Personality of Allah's Last Messenger
While Muslims may tire of feeling compelled to defend Islam or Muslims generally from criticisms that insult and slander the entire community, the desire to see the Prophet's good name not dragged through the rhetorical dirt is our strongest passion. Abdul Waheed Khan has offered his contribution to the apologia on behalf of the Prophet, and his book 'The Personality of Allah's Last Messenger' (...

Kelam Publishing: Prophet's Last Sermon in 9 Languages
Kelam Yayinlari (Kelam Publishing House) has just republished the Prophet's Farewell Sermon in nine languages. The cover page describes the book as "All Humanity's Prophet: Hz Mohammed's Farewell Khutbe - Human Rights Declared Fifteen Centuries Ago: Hz. Mohammad Adresses All Humanity"

The translations are handled by numerous professors and scholars, and the English translation by Professor Dr Bule...

Leadership of Muhammad: by John Adair, a book review
John Adair is a teacher and writer on leadership who works at the United Nations System Staff College, and whose experience includes a youthful stint in the Arab Legion. His interest in the leadership qualities of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, stem from embracing Islam and knowledge of bedouin culture due to his own experiences. The book is composed of several narratives about leadersh...

The Prophet of Islam and his Western Admirers
Book Review, Prophet of Islam and his Western Admirers - By Muhammad Mojlum Khan About Muhammad: The Other Western Perspective on the Prophet of Islam, edited with an Introduction by Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Surrey: Legacy Publishing, pp107, 2010, HB, £12.99 The rise of Islam in the seventh century Arabia changed the course of human history – politically, economically and culturally. Inspired by th...

The Soul of the Desert: A Poetic Experience
Jun 28,2011 Rendering things into rhymes in order to easily penetrate deep into people’s consciousness has been a method employed since antiquity. This is due to the innate proclivity of human mind to musicality, its rhyme and rhythm. The intrinsic power of music was used for multiple causes. In order to boost the morale of the warriors, the womenfolk of yore used to chant the songs ...

Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet - A Review
  Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophetis a fictionalized account of the life of Muhammad.  Unlike many biographies of Muhammad, this novel fills in the gaps between authenticated historical details with the author’s own creative license.  Each chapter of the novel is told from the perspective of individuals who encountered the Prophet as both a child and an adult.  Such...

Muhammad Asad
Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) was born in 1900, into a family of Jewish scholars in Poland. It was the tradition of his family that the son would become a rabbi, and therefore he received a strict religious education. He was so well instructed in the Jewish religion that he knew Aramaic and Hebrew very well. He studied the Torah in original. From his teenager years, Asad/Weiss made many unsuccess...

The historical depth in the back ground of Muslim women
Meaning this work is a mere sharing of information that he has come across while conducting research as opposed to an attempt at opening an arena for women in the social world   Muhammad Akram Nadwi is a scholar who is well-versed in the fields of hadith and fiqh. He began working on the biographies of Muslim women who are the narrators and memorizers of hadith a decade ago;...

Muhammad:His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is one of the most important books that have been written about the life of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The book won awards and translated to many languages such as French, Turkish, Dutch. The book s the times that Kaaba was built and ends with the "succession and the burial" of Prophet Muhammad. The book has chapters such as "The Vow t...

The Prophet in the Words of Celebrities
It is the Universe that Admires You ADEM CEVIK Sutun Publications The book by Adem Cevik is a compilation of the sentiments, thoughts and evaluations of celebrities in world history about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The first section of the book consists of names from the Turkish world of thought and culture, the second section delves into the views of Sultans and the third section entails the thoug...