In terms of accuracy and depth, this is one of the best audio-visual programs available on Islam. It is appropriate for use in secondary school and university level courses, and is beneficial to anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the Muslim world.

Islam: A Pictorial Essay in Four Parts

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein

Lings, Martin

Danner, Victor

Fons Vitae

Mirror of the Intellect

Religion & Spirituality

Burckhardt, Titus

Islam

For Muslims in North America, there has been much confusion regarding when Ramadan begins, when to fast, and when to break the fast. Hamza Yusuf provides clarity through this detailed and scholarly work that decisively makes the case for sighting the crescent moon with the naked eye, as has been the Islamic tradition for 1,400 years. This is essential reading for anyone seeking guidance on this important and sacred matter.

Caesarean Moon Births: Calculations, Moon Sighting, and the Prophetic Way

Yusuf, Hamza

In an age of bewildering spiritual and intellectual confusion, creed has never been more important. Every Muslim is obliged to learn it and is promised protection from deviant beliefs by following the unassailable texts of the scholastic community of Islam. Of them all, The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi is the simplest, the most effective, and the least controversial. It serves as a sound basis for Islamic faith and is the most reliable of the early articulations of Muslim belief. Because Imam al-Tahawi avoided involuted theological issues and systematically presented the most fundamental aspects of dogmatic theology, his creed has achieved an unusual degree of acceptance in the Muslim milieu. In the thousand years since it was written, many great Muslim scholars have penned commentaries on it. It is still studied throughout the Muslim world and increasingly in the West. Born in Taha in Upper Egypt in 239 AH/853 CE, Imam Abu Ja far al-Tahawi lived until 321/933. He came from a family where intellectualism and aristocracy, as well as piety and passion were the hallmarks. He mastered both the primary sources of Islam and the ancillary sciences necessary for independent reasoning. A first-rate jurist, a brilliant grammarian and philologist, and an erudite man of letters, Imam al-Tahawi is best known for his eponymous creed. Imam al-Tahawi is called al-Azdi, in reference to the Yemeni clan known as Azd al-Hajar ; thus he was a descendent of a people about whom the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, Faith is Yemeni. It is altogether fitting that the man who penned such a unifying creed, free of controversy, descended from the land of which faith itself is a descendant. His creed is a beacon of certainty in the darkness of doubt and ambiguity, and it provides seekers of knowledge with a luminous set of simple yet sound creedal statements.

The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi

With reference to the great religions of the world, particularly to Christianity and Islam, symbolism is defined in a renewed consciousness that everything—numbers, elements, senses, and colors—has a vertical dimension that gives it a divine significance.

Symbol and Archetype: A Study in the Meaning of Existence (1) (Quinta Essentia series)

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

Centered on Taoism, this text is also characteristically rich in illuminating cross-references to other traditions. The ternary in question - Heaven, Earth, and Human - is an inescapable feature of all spirituality; it possesses the possibility of functioning as an initiatory means of support for inner realization.

Great Triad (Quinta Essentia series)

Politics & Social Sciences

GUÉNON, RENÉ

Philosophy

In this work, probably the most significant in a modern Western language concerning symbolism, Guénon deals with the metaphysical and cosmological meaning of symbols drawn from traditions as far apart as the Greek and the Buddhist, the Druid, and the Islamic.

Fundamental Symbols: The Universal Language of Sacred Science (Quinta Essentia series)

A penetrating and comprehensive analysis, based on traditional metaphysics.

The Widening Breach: Evolutionism in the Mirror of Cosmology

Perry. Whitall N.

Religious Studies

Book of Assistance

al-Haddad, Imam 'Abdallah

Reference

This exceptional and thorough scholarly study deals with a primal and universal relationship between motherhood and the Islamic religion, relying on the basic sources of Islam: the Qur'an, Hadith, and Fiqh, as well as numerous original Arabic sources.

Motherhood in Islam

Parenting & Relationships

Schleifer, Aliah

Family Relationships

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