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Ahmed ibn Hanbal

Review by Abdul Hai Writing a historical biography of any significant figure is always challenging, particularly when it concerns a figure like Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal. Several challenges arise when an author from outside the tradition attempts to craft a biography of someone whose religious beliefs they do not share. These challenges, no matter how…
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Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe
    “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” ‘Things fall Apart Chinua Achebe Reviewed by Abdul Hai “Your new-caught, sullen peoples,    Half devil and half child..” The…
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Beyond Timbuktu

Dr Ousmane Oumar Kane
“In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” Beyond Timbuktu; An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa Dr Ousmane Oumar Kane Reviewed by Abdul Hai “O Amir!!…
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The Four Imams: Their Lives, Works, and Schools of Thought. Shaykh Muhammad Abu Zahra

“I love the righteous, although I’m not of them
Perhaps I shall receive intercession through them”

What is history if not the lives and deeds of those who came before us? Islamic civilization was not mere, as some might suggest, solely on the grandeur of its architecture or its literary legacy. Rather, it was the people who shaped the true Islamic civilization—their character, their pragmatic approach to life, and, perhaps most importantly, their unwavering commitment to Islam—that embodied the true essence of civilization.

Ahmed ibn Hanbal

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Review by Abdul Hai Writing a historical biography of any significant figure is always challenging, particularly when it concerns a figure like Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal. Several challenges arise when…

Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment:

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A Global and Historical Comparison AHMET T. KURU, San Diego State University Reviewed by Noor Mohammed Edward Said sagaciously mentions in his seminal work on Orientalism that economics, politics and…

The Misconception of Worship

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Maulana Sayed Abul A’la Maududi Translated by Adnan Mahmud What would you say about a servant who, instead of performing his duties as ordered by his master, just stands in…

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‘Returning to Haifa’: Ghassan Kanafani and the Hope Within Hopeless SpacesHailed as the commanding voice of Palestinian resistance literature, Ghassan Kanafani dedicated his fiction to articulating the psychological as well as the material dispossession of his people. His seminal novella “Returning to Haifa” (عائد إلى حيفا) encapsulates this twofold mission..

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Ahmed ibn Hanbal

Review by Abdul Hai Writing a historical biography of any significant figure is always challenging, particularly when it concerns a figure like Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal. Several challenges arise when an author from outside the tradition attempts to craft a biography of someone whose religious beliefs they do not share. These challenges, no matter how…

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock Reviewed by Amirah Chati James Lovelock- inventor, environmentalist and futurist- was no stranger to controversy in his century-long life. His final book, ‘Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence’, published three years before his death, outlines a significant new hypothesis for a world he would not live to…

The Misconception of Worship

Maulana Sayed Abul A’la Maududi Translated by Adnan Mahmud What would you say about a servant who, instead of performing his duties as ordered by his master, just stands in front of him all the time with folded hands, constantly chanting his master’s name? The master tells him to go and fulfill various tasks for…

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We are now pleased to announce our first publication authored by Hisham Hauari. It is an engaging poem that tells the tale of mankind from the beginning to the present. Though a true history, it is fused with an Islamic account of some things that may not be historically demonstrable.

The book evokes various emotions: a pleasure to read, interesting and also grim. The seeds of the idea to write an historical account of humanity had been sown in the author’s mind over a decade ago. The result is the culmination of a succinct book called The Chain.“

“ I would invite the reader to enjoy and appreciate the poem The Chain and benefit from the wisdom that it contains.”

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