Gandhi, Islam, and the Principles of Non-violence and Attachment to Truth
by Dr. Karim Lahham
‘History,’ Lord Acton eleven said, ‘should be, not a burden on the memory, but an illumination of the soul.’ This implies the need for a synthesis of the historical flux into an intelligible form that can serve as a basis for illumination. It is common enough a point to agree that the function of the historian is to record socio-political facts, but we would add that it is no less his duty to provide also formulas, relational aspects that are necessary to make such intel understand facts.
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A speech addressing the social philosophies and institutions, many of them common to Muslims and Christians, comprising a vocational and godly society.
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The Way of Mesa by Muhammad Asad / Translation: A. Razzaq Pérez Fernández
This work is the spiritual biography of Muhammad Asad, Austrian journalist, writer and traveler, born in 1900 in the city of Lvov, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and today in Ukraine. The son of a Jewish lawyer and grandson of an Orthodox rabbi. He died in Mijas, Malaga, in 1992, and is buried in the Rauda de Granada. Read more
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Pearls of the Faith by British Victorian journalist and traveller Sir Edwin Arnold.
First published in 1884 Pearls of the Faith was an attempt to present Islam in an appealing and intelligent manner to a world steeped in prejudice and colonial disdain for Islam. When I first saw the text ten years ago it seemed archaic and written in a kind of verse that reminded me of the stories of Rupert Bear, an illustrated childrens' story book awned in verse form which I had up with grown. I didn't really understand Hamza Yusuf's motives in wanting to republish it but after ten years and a now very different world that we live in, it actually makes a lot of sense to re-present it to the public. After careful editing involving many spelling changes and the addition of the essay by Gai Eaton, a foreword by Robert P George, a prominent professor of Law from Princeton who gives a Christian perspective, the book has been given a new lease of life. Hamza's preface unlocks his own motives behind its publication and how he came to find the book in the first place. Part of his preface I have reproduced here.
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One of many books on traditional Islam typeset and designed by CWDM in Orgiva, The Four Imams and their Schools provides an in-depth study of the founders and leading students of the primary schools of jurisprudence in Islam.
“THE GREAT EDIFICE of Islamic Law is held up by four towering figures of the early middle ages: Abu Hanifa, Malik, al-Shafi i, and Ibn Hanbal. Because of their immense dedication and intellectual acuity, these men enjoy recognition to this day as Islam s most influential scholars. By assessing and ranking hadith, by cultivating a deep knowledge of the Arabic language, and by virtue of their great native intelligence, they are credited with having shaped the development of the fundamental systems of Muslim jurisprudence, avoiding the twin pitfalls of subjective rationalism and blind literalism. By doing so they not only protected their religion from chaos and disorder, but showed the Muslims, both ordinary and expert, the safest and most reliable ways of avoiding error in the understanding and practice of the divine law. This detailed study offers biographies of these four men and their leading pupils. It surveys the distinctive features of their jurisprudence, and assesses their achievement. An especially helpful feature is a long and detailed glossary of Islamic technical terms. Meticulously rooted in the core texts of Islamic scholarship, this book will be an important resource for Shari’a students everywhere.”
Respecting The Madhabs – Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad
Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad on respecting the madhabs, and respecting the differences that exist among them.
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Dr Umar Faruq Abd-Allah presented this important series of five discourses on the essentials of Islamic aqida during the 2013 Al-Ghaz Retreatali in Los Rosales, Spain.
(Please note that there are some brief sound quality issues throughout the course that are usually quickly corrected so please be patient!)
Living Islam with Purpose Dr. Umar Abdullah discusses five operational principles to facilitate the acquisition of deeper knowledge and understanding of Islam.
"While this paper is written with the American Muslim community in mind, its five operational principles are relevant for Muslims everywhere, especially those in Canada, Britain, and Western Europe."
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Classic Persian Poem sung in English, Arabic and Farsi to Celtic tunes
Abdal Hakim Murad returns to Andalusia with his Alborán ensemble to join Ali Keeler and Abdallateef Whiteman in Argiva for their latest recording session.
by Bob Shingleton
“If the featured album was pitched as the world premiere recording of a newly discovered 16th century Celtic a cappella setting of the liturgy uncovered in a remote Calvinist church on the Isle of Lewis it would, doubtless, attract attention. But as Rawdat al-Shuhuda‘ is a contemporary setting of excerpts from the 14th Islamic century Dhikr – litany – by Husayn Vayiz Kashifi of Herat in Afghanistan in English, Arabic and Farsi to Celtic tunes in Irish, Manx and Scottish modes, it has been consigned to the lost baggage area where it is waiting to be reclaimed. Read more
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