Published Books still available in print
The Noble Qur'an: A New Rendering of its Meaning in English
Available at Bookwork
(for those not in the UK, you can now pay via Paypal which also accepts credit cards)
The Madinan Way
Ibn Taymiyya's
"The Soundness of the Basic Premises of the School of the People of Madina"
£4.00
This small treatise of Ibn Taymiyya (661/1263-728/1328), the extremely influential medieval Hanbali jurist, has an importance belied by its size since it is, in fact, an investigation into the origin and nature of the Prophetic Sunna. In it he discusses the value of the consensus of the people of Madina and its standing as evidence. He also deals with the lawful and unlawful, food and drink, usury, acts of worship and other matters, and compares the school of the people of Madina regarding all these things with the other schools, making it clear that the Madinan school is the soundest of all of them and the closest to the Sunna and the practice of the Salaf.
Although usually associated with hadith-based legal reasoning, in this work Ibn Taymiyya demonstrates the unquestionable authority of the practice of the people of Madina, showing how it remained indisputably the authentic expression of the Sunna of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, during the first three generations of Islam when it was definitively recorded by Imam Malik ibn Anas. The conclusion he reaches is that: "In the time of the Companions, the Followers and their Followers, their school was the soundest of the schools of the people in all the lands of Islam, east and west, both in respect of its fundamental principles and its secondary rulings."
NOW AVAILABLE
Available at Bookwork
Glossary of Islamic Terms
(General, Historical, Qur'an, Hadith, Fiqh, Kalam, Sufism)
Women of Madina (available from Bookwork)
(Tabaqat Ibn Sa'd, vol. 8)
Men of Madina (vol 1)
(Tabaqat Ibn Sa'd, vol. 7)
Men of Madina (vol 2)
[Tabaqat Ibn Sa'd, vol 5. It deals with the Tabi'un in Madina itself.]
Islam: the Empowering of Women (available from Bookwork)
This is now available in Spanish as:
Islam: El Poder de las Mujeres
published by Kutubia
Mu'awiya: Renewer of the Islamic Faith
(available from Dar Al-Taqwa)
Muslim Women: A Biographical Dictionary
(available from Dar Al-Taqwa)
Tafsir al-Qurtubi, Volume 1
(available from Dar Al-Taqwa)
Most of the above available from:
Ta-Ha Publishers
Ibn al-Arabi: The Mysteries of Bearing Witness
to the Oneness of God
and Prophethood of Muhammad
(ISBN 1930637306)
(From the Futuhat al-Makkiyya)
(Available from Kazi Publications)
You can also get it from Amazon.com
Al-Muwatta', by Imam Malik
(available from Bookwork)
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah
(available from Bookwork)
(ash-Shifa' of Qadi 'Iyad)
Handbook on Islam (available from Bookwork)
(Uthman dan Fodio)
The Meaning of Man
The Darqawi Way (available from Bookwork)
Knowledge of God
Subatomic World in the Qur'an (available from Bookwork)
The Nasiri Du'a (available from Bookwork)
The Four Imams: Their Lives, Works and their Schools of Thought
by Abu Zahra (available via Bookwork)
Diwan of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib
(available via Bookwork)
by Abdalhaqq Bewley
The Key to the Future
The Natural Form of Man
Zakat: The Fallen Pillar of Islam
Now Available from Bookwork
I'd like to put in a plug for the new book by Yasin Dutton, entitled
The Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur'an, the Muwatta' and Madinan 'Amal
(Curzon Press, 1999, ISBN 0-7007-1062-0)
The blurb reads:
If the Qur'an is the first written expression of Islam in general, Malik's Muwatta' is arguably the first written formulation of the 'Islam-in-practice' that becomes Islamic law. This book considers the methods used by Malik in the Muwatta' to derive the judgements of the law from the Qur'an and is thus concerned on one level with the finer details of Qur'anic interpretation.However, since any discussion of the Qur'an in this context must also include consideration of the other main source of Islamic law, namely the sunna, or normative practice of the Prophet, this latter concept, especially its relationship to the terms hadith and 'amal ('traditions' and 'living tradition'), also receives considerable attention, and in many respects this book is more about the history and development of Islamic law than it is about the science of Qur'anic interpretation.
The book is the first to question the hitherto accepted frameworks of both the classical Muslim view and the current revisionist Western view on the development of Islamic law. It is also the first study in a European language to deal specifically with early development of the Madinan, later Maliki, school of jurisprudece, as it is also the first to demonstrate in detail the various methods used, both linguistic and otherwise, in interpreting the legal verses of the Qur'an.
I'd also like to mention a new magazine edited by Hajja Zulaikha Lund and Hajja Mansurah Mears entitled:
The European Muslim Woman
Issue 6 (2000) includes:
Profile of Khadija
Chechnya - an Overview
Shaykh Shamil - 'The Lion of Dagestan'
Family Life
The Heart
The Pondok System in Indonesia
Work and Creativity
Enquiries can be directed to
mansurah@emwoman.fsnet.co.uk
The magazine is undergoing a revamp at the moment.
(They are in the final stages of the new edition and new format)
