I have been feeling increasingly uncomfortable with some of the ideas and attitudes manifested in...
Review: Servants of Allah by Sylviane A. Diouf
The ladies at The Qarawiyyin Project kindly invited me to suggest a book for one of their book...
Book News: New 43-volume biographical dictionary about female hadith scholars
I've just created a new category of post on here; that's how excited I am about this piece of news...
Extracts: I Refuse to Condemn, ed. by Asim Qureshi
I Refuse to Condemn is not the type of book I find easy to review; it's a complex interweaving of...
Review: I Refuse to Condemn ed. by Asim Qureshi
I've been thinking about this book for a while after finishing it and I've come to the conclusion...
Extract: Le Problème des idées dans le monde musulman de Malek Bennabi
Alhamdu Lillah, I started this book about five months ago and today I finished it! It's not a long...
Thoughts: I Refuse to Condemn ed. by Asim Qureshi
I don't often accept advance reading copies of books because I already have so many books I...
Review: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (USA)
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell was released in early September 2019 and I didn't know a...
Review: The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla (UK)
This book has been extremely popular since it came out. Hari Kunzru declares on the front cover...
Review: Textes sur la lutte idéologique (Texts on the ideological fight) by Malek Bennabi
At 89 pages, this book certainly doesn't dominate the bookshelf, but looks can be deceiving. The...
Translated Extracts: Textes Sur la Lutte Ideologique [Texts on the ideological fight] by Malek Bennabi
Below are a few extracts with English translations from Malek Bennabi's Textes sur la Lutte...
Review: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
I'm going to start with my conclusion: I'm so glad that I read this book and I recommend it to...
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