This book provides a very general introduction to Sufism. It explores traditions from Morocco to India and beyond. A scholarly work that addresses itself to the layman, it should be read with caution. Carl W. Ernst is a scholar of Islamic Studies based out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ernst explores...
This book is the work of noted Islamophobe and Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer. The aim of this book is to demonise Islam, however we must engage with his work in order to refute it. For the casual reader I’d encourage them to read Karen Armstrong and John Esposito, who both offer more even handed...
This 2007 book by Christopher Hitchens denigrates Islam from its very title. In it the author attempts to undermine the readers faith in God and blame most of the worlds ills on religion more generally. Hitchens was a committed atheist who has since passed away. No doubt he is suffering through the punishment of the...
This work invites readers to better understand Tasawwuf or Sufism. Its author, Nuh Ha Mim Keller, advocates a Sufi approach to the religion. He is an American of German stock. The book encourages readers to visit graves, something that is appalling and readers should be alert to this books heretical perspective from the outset. It...
Maajid Nawaz lays out his life for the reader in this autobiography. He explores his time with Hizb ut-Tahrir in the United Kingdom and then in Egypt. Nawaz went on to co-found the now defunct Quilliam think tank in London. Nawaz disavows his previous beliefs and work within Hizb ut-Tahrir attributing this to time spent...
In this notable work Wood explores the personal and ideological underpinnings of supporters of a Caliphate across five continents. Wood befriends the Australian preacher, and now former Muslim, Musa Cerantonio. He also corresponds with “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, who was then still in prison in the United States. This book grew out of an...
In The Islamic Jesus the author, Mustafa Akyol, attempts to bridge the gap between Christian and Muslim understandings of Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him). In this book Akyol reveals surprising new truths about “Islam in the context of the first Muslims and the early origins of Christianity”. Muslims, just like the first Jewish Christians, see Jesus not as...
Dr Shiraz Maher delves into the ideological and religious nature of the Salafi-Jihadi movement. Maher attempts to address the poorly understood intellectual ferment of global Jihadism. He is a Reader in Non-State Actors within the Department of War Studies at Kings College, London. Maher also serves as Director of the International Centre for the Study...
Yasir Qadhi serves as resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Centre in the United States, he is also dean of the Islamic Seminary of America. In this work Qadhi provides a systematic introduction to Salafism. The Salafi movement has been wrongfully condemned in much of the media and the mere mention of the movement invokes...