Analysing Muslim Traditions: Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghazi Hadith
By Harald Motzki, with Nicolet Boekhoff – Van Der Voort and Sean W. Anthony, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010). Price: £149.15.
Reviewed by Dr M. Mansur Ali, Cardiff …

Reviewed by Bilal Ali
Book: The Ramadan of Shaikh al-Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya and our Elders
Author: Dr. Mohammad Ismail Memon Madani
Publisher: Madania Publications
ISBN: 978-1-936157-04-4
Pages: 171
Dr. Mohammad Ismail Memon Madani’s most recent publication, entitled The Ramadan of Shaikh …

Reviewed by Bilal Ali

Upon first receiving a copy of Shaykh Akram Nadwi’s “Madrasah Life”, I was first impressed by the relatively small size of the book. It is no more than a hundred …

Reviewed by Bilal Ali
Author: Ibrahim Madani
Publisher: Madania Publications
Pages: 89   Binding: Paperback
The Essentials of Jumuʿa, Madania Publications’ first work, is a pleasant and welcome addition to a growing corpus of Islamic literature written in …

Reviewed by Murad Wilfried Hofmann
From its very beginning, Islam has been under attack not only physically but academically. Christian demagogues like John of Damascus, Peter the Venerable, Raymundus Lull, and Martin Luther later were …

Reviewed by Bilal Ali Ansari
The great Imam Nu’man ibn Thabit Abu Hanifah, or al-Imam al-A’zam (or the Grand Imam), divided fiqh into three categories. According to his definition of fiqh, which meant simply “understanding …

An Edited Anthology of the Spiritual Teachings of Hakim Al-Umma Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi
(Originally translated in South Africa – Edited and published by Mufti Abd Al-Rahman ibn Yusuf/White Thread Press www.whitethreadpress.com)
Reviewed by Ismaeel Nakhuda
In spite …

Shaykh Shabbir Salojee’s Foreword:
FOREWORD
Muslims everywhere are going through a period of uncertainty, turmoil and suffering. Throughout the world, there appears to be a concerted effort to wipe out the very presence of Muslims. Bosnia, Somalia, …

Reviewed by Ayub Khan
It is a tragedy of the post-911 world that the field of Islamic concepts and terminologies have also fallen a victim to misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and plain hysteria. Fuelling these fears among the …

Reviewed by Dr. Mahmood Ghazi
The dawn of the colonization of Afro-Asian world in general and the Muslim world in particular brought in its wake efforts by the western academia to justify colonization in a variety …