Islamic History Books
Our Islamic history books category covers a wide spectrum of periods and regions, from the lives of the Prophets and Companions to classical Muslim civilisation and more recent historical studies. These titles help readers understand how Islamic teachings were lived out across different cultures and eras, and how past events continue to shape the present.
In this section youāll find biographies of great scholars and leaders, accounts of key battles and dynasties, works on the spread of Islam in various lands, and studies of Muslim communities in the modern world. Many of these books complement our Seerah and Biographies & Memoirs categories, allowing you to build a rich picture of the past.
Studying the Past to Understand the Present
Islamic history can be read for inspiration, context and critical reflection. Use these books to deepen your understanding of how Muslims responded to challenges, built institutions and preserved knowledge. You may also wish to pair them with titles from General IslamĀ to connect historical events with core principles.
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This biography of the saint and Iman Abdallah al-Haddad takes readers into the fascinating world and spiritual life of 17th- and early 18th-century Yemen. The life of this renown spiritual masterāwhose teachings and personal example continue to influence lives around the worldāis examined, from his early attraction to Sufi poetry and visit to the tomb…
There are various and number of significant and yet controversial personalities throughout Islamic history that have been greatly misunderstood and misrepresented by Western historians. Sultan Abdul Hamid IIĀ is one such personality, and unfortunately, there is very little unbiased and authentic information about him in English. Most of the information on his life has been written…
A Biographical Study Of One Of The Greatest Military Generals In History Khalid Bin Waleed Sword Of Allah
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of the military have used the teaching of Sun Tzu in warfare and civilization has adapted these teachings for use in politics, business, and everyday life. The Art of War…
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of the military have used the teaching of Sun Tzu in warfare and civilization has adapted these teachings for use in politics, business, and everyday life. The Art of War…
Ibn Ajiba, an 18th-century Moroccan saint in the Darqawi Sufi lineage, wrote his fahrasa or autobiography not for the pleasure of talking about himself but “to celebrate God’s kindness” by informing others of the graces bestowed on him. This account details Ibn Ajiba’s travels in search of both secular and spiritual knowledge; his entrance on…
The two ‘Authentic’ adth collections of al-Bukhr and Muslim are the most famous books in Islam after the Qur’n a reality left unstudied until now. This book charts the origins, development and functions of these two texts through the lens of canonicity. It examines how the books went from controversial to indispensable as they became…
The Chapters of Mary and Ta Ha center on the key figures of Islamās two sister monotheisms, Mary, mother of Christ, and Moses. Ibn āAjibaās commentaries on these two surahs give reader access not only to the traditional Islamic view of these prophetic figures, but also on metaphors and symbols to be found in their…
This book is unique in that Imam al-Haddad is the first scholar to have divided mankind into eight main categories according to the kind of summons to God or daāwa they need, and then detailed the rights and duties of each category, which scholars ought to enjoin upon them for the good pleasure of their…
This book, originally presented as a paper to the Second World Conference on Muslim Education in 1980, for the first time in contemporary Islamic thinking and in a clear and coherent manner, elaborates new and originally conceived ideas and definitions. Key concepts such as religion (din), man (insan), knowledge (ma’rifah and `ilm), wisdom (hikmah), justice…
The Conqueror of Hearts – In the Land of Sultan Muhammad Al-Fateh is a travelogue which details Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi (db) s travels in Turkey. Included within are Hazrat s observations on the causes of the current predicament of the Ummah, made while touring Istanbul, the land opened for Islam by the great Muslim…
In The Differences between the AshŹæaris & Maturidis. Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire, Imam Ibn Kamal Pasha identifies twelve areas where the Imams of Ahl al-SunnaāAbu al-Hasan al-AshŹæari and Abu Mansur al-Maturidiāhave subtly differed in theology. Topics discussed include amongst others, the attributes and actions of Allah, the question of good and evil, the…
The thirteenth-century saint Jalaluddin Rumi has been called the greatest mystical poet of any age, and his work compared to that of Dante and Shakespeare. Over a period of 25 years he composed over 70,000 verses of poetry on the subjects of divine love, mystic passion and ecstatic illumination. Rumi was also a master story-teller,…
Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called ‘ethnic cleansing’. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left…
A spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrest In ninth-century Abbasid Baghdad, the social prestige attached to claims of Arab identity had begun to decline. In The Excellence of the Arabs, the celebrated litterateur Ibn Qutaybah locks horns with those members of his society who belittled Arabness and vaunted the glories…
The Four Imams provides an engaging and informative account of the four most well-renowned Imams in Islamic history – Iman Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, Imam Shafi’i and Imam Ahmad. Adopting a story-telling style, it relays biographical information, summarising their fascinating life journeys, alongside lessons and conclusions that have real-world application for the reader in an…
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