Islamic Book Recommendations

Books by Ibn Abi Dunya: Good Thoughts of Allah, Ease After Hardship, Humility and Paradise

A guide to the four books by Ibn Abi Dunya on our shelves: Having Good Thoughts of Allah, Unshakeable Faith in Allah, Allah Loves the Humble and Descriptions of Paradise.

Therapy from the Qur'an and Sunnah: A Guide to the Three-Book Series by Dr. Feryad Hussain

A guide to the Therapy from the Qur'an and Sunnah series: character development, managing your emotions, and recognising and changing destructive behaviours, and the order to read them in.

Books on the Companions and Those Who Followed Them: Stories of the Sahabah, al-Hasan ibn Ali and the Tabi'in

Three books on the best generations: Stories of Sahabah, al-Sallabi's biography of al-Hasan ibn Ali, and Shuayb Sammar's Those Who Followed, on the scholars after the Companions.

Islamic Books for the Muslim Household: Marriage, Raising Children and Guiding Muslim Youth

Four books for the Muslim household: the rights of husband and wife, the duties between parents and children, the meaning of the short surahs for young Muslims, and guiding teenagers through the tr...

Self-Help or Tazkiyah? Where Real Change Begins

Self-help and tazkiyah both promise change, but they start in different places. Here is where they part ways, and the tazkiyah book that covers each common self-help theme: happiness, confidence, a...

Books by Abdul-Ghani al-Maqdisi: Where to Start

Al-Hafiz Abdul-Ghani ibn Abdul-Wahid al-Maqdisi (541–600 AH) was born in Jamma'il in Palestine and raised in Damascus among the Maqdisi family of Hanbali scholars. Around 561 AH he travelled to Bag...

Books by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani: Where to Start

Al-Hafiz Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (773–852 AH) was born in Cairo and lost both parents while still a child. He memorised the Qur'an young, studied hadith under al-Hafiz Zayn al-Din al-Ir...

Books by Shaykh al-Albani: Where to Start

Shaykh Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani (1332–1420 AH) was born in Shkodër, Albania, and moved with his family to Damascus as a child. He learned Arabic there, worked for years in his father's trade...

Books by Shaykh ar-Rajihi: Where to Start

Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah ar-Rajihi (born 1360 AH) is a contemporary Saudi scholar who took knowledge from the senior scholars of his age, among them Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Baz. He earned his d...

Books by Imam an-Nawawi: Where to Start

Imam Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi (631–676 AH) was born in Nawa, a village south of Damascus. He came to Damascus at around eighteen, lived simply, and gave his days to study, attending ...

Books by Ibn al-Jawzi: Where to Start

Imam Abu al-Faraj Abdur-Rahman ibn al-Jawzi (508–597 AH) was a Hanbali scholar of Baghdad: a hadith scholar, historian and preacher whose written works are said to number in the hundreds. He lost h...

Books by Shaykh al-Fawzan: Where to Start

Shaykh Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan was born in 1354 AH in al-Qassim. He studied at the colleges of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, where he went on to earn his doctorate in fiqh, and he t...

Books by Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab: Where to Start

Imam Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab (1115–1206 AH) was born in the town of al-Uyaynah in Najd. He memorised the Qur'an as a boy, took fiqh first from his father, the judge Abdul-Wahhab ibn Sulayman, and...

The History of the Adhan: A Chronology of the Muslim Call to Prayer

Most books on the adhan treat it as a chapter inside a book on salah. The Adhan: A Brief Chronology by Flamur Vehapi takes the call to prayer itself as the subject and follows it forward from Madin...