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his book – Ahlan Wa Sahlan – is focused on welcoming our new Muslim brothers and sisters, in their first days as Muslims, to the recognition of Allah and practical Islam. It features a well-crafted syllabus sequenced in order of importance and necessity for the new Muslim; an in-depth study of which would sufficiently empower…
AL-GHAZALI’s adapted summary of Ihya Ulum al-Din – The Forty Principles of the Religion THE FORTY PRINCIPLES OF THE RELIGION is a comprehensive distillation of Imam al-Ghazali’s magnum opus, Ihya Ulum ad-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences), in which he explores the spiritual depth of virtually every aspect of Islam. This condensed work presents…
Offering insight into the Islamic perspective, this volume covers two subjects that have never before been discussed as separate topics in Islamic jurisprudence—citizenship and the accountability of government. Tracing the origins of the two concepts in the Qur’an, the Sunnah of the Prophet, and the practice of the first four caliphs, it follows their integration…
A powerful but little known work, this volume contains three mystical texts. ‘Al-tadbirat,’ the largest, is a fascinating treatise on the divine design and management of the world, and the central role the human model plays in the creative and governing process. The other two are ‘kitab kunh ma la budda minhu lil-murid’ (or, “What…
This book describes the Madinan model for correct governance established by the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Islamic governance is nomocratic (law-based), that is, based on Qur’anic law as understood and practised by the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and his Companions. Islamic governance, therefore,…
This is the first work in the English language to deal specifically with the subjects of equity and fairness in Islamic law. Prof M H Kamali relates these concepts to the Islamic legal notion of istihsan, thus taking these concepts back to their origin in the Qur’an, the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and the…
Four Gems of Tasawwuf comprises: 1. A substantial part of Iqadh al-Himam, Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Ajiba’s commentary on the Hikam of Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Ata’allah al-Iskandari, including an introduction to Tasawwuf based on the famous ten introductory principles, as well as as the first thirteen aphorisms and their commentaries; 2. His commentary on the Salat of Shaykh ‘Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish…
In recent years the subject of freedom of expression has become a topic of heated debate. Freedom of Expression in Islam offers the first and only detailed presentation in English of freedom of expression from both the legal and moral perspectives of Islam. This work is a pioneering attempt in examining both the evidence on…
In Freedom, Equality and Justice in Islam, M H Kamali presents the reader with an analysis of the three concepts of freedom, equality and justice from an Islamic point of view and their manifestations in the religious, social, legal and political fields. The author discusses the evidence to be found for these concepts in the…
Islamic Commercial Law: An Analysis of Futures and Options focuses on options and futures as trading tools and explores their validity from an Islamic point of view. Futures and options are a completely new phenomenon which has no parallel in Islamic commercial law. After reviewing the existing rules of Islamic law of contract and verifying their…
The importance of language and its use in legal reasoning in Islamic law is explored in this legal text. Covering such topics as linguistic principles and legal rulings, the clarity and ambiguity of linguistic terms, the general and specific qualities of words, and the ambiguity and clarity of selected terms, this linguistic study places the…
This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra’y), dissent, and legal ḥadīths and challenges the paradigm that Muslim jurists ultimately…
The Mukhtasar al-Qudûrî is one of the most celebrated and influential treatises in any Muslim school of methodology and thought and is the foundation for the Hanafî school. It is both the first source for scholars and a manual for the general reader. This is its first ever complete translation in English. (aka Qudduri, Quduri)
This in-depth study, carried out by one of Islam’s leading scholars, presents a detailed analysis and critique of the classic orientalist work, Schacht’s Origin of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. Azami’s work examines the sources used by Schacht to develop his thesis on the relation of Islamic Law to the Qur’an, and exposes fundamental flaws in Schacht’s methodology…
Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred LawTranslated and annotated by Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller Reliance of the Traveller (ʿUmdat al-Sālik wa ʿUddat al-Nāsik) is the first complete and authoritative English translation of a classical manual of Islamic sacred law (fiqh) from the Shāfiʿī school, meticulously rendered and annotated by Shaykh Nuh Ha…
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