Biographies, Others

An analytical biography of the first Mujaddid of this Ummah: 'Umar bin 'Abd al-Aziz, the fifth righteously guided khalifah. This book describes, among other things, the principles based upon which `Umar ibn Abd Al-'Aziz governed the Muslims during his caliphate; among those principles were mutual consultation, justice, equality among people, and honoring, of freedoms.

Biography of the well-known Hadith authority, Imam ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani. It throws light on his qualities that made him such a Hadith master that no serious student of Hadith can do without his work.

Describes his life, the development of his thoughts, and the role he played and continues to play in reforming the Ummah.

Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani was the revivalist in the 6th century of Hijrah. This book reveals the secrets of his greatness.

There is consensus that Sayyidna Umar bin Abdul Aziz was the first mujaddid (revivalist) of this Ummah. This book presents an accurate picture of his example as a person and as a ruler.

Autobiography of Maulana Muhammad Zakariyyah Kandhalvi.

Translation of the Aap Beeti in Urdu, the autobiography of Maulana Muhammad Zakariyyah Kandhalvi. A captivating account of Muslim society in the subcontinent as well as of the lives of the great Muslim leaders of the past century.

A collection of 41 lectures, talks, and comments delivered from 1906 to 1943 in India and England. They shed much light on his times and thoughts.

Written by Abdul Majid Ghauri. Forewords by Shaykh Yusuf Qaradawi, Dr. Mustafa Saed al-Khun, Shaykh Ahmed Kaftaro, Muhammad al-Rabi al-Hasani, Dr. Wahba Zuhaili. In addition to thoroughly covering the life and achievements of Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, it also includes biogrpahies of sixteen prominent leaders of Nadwatul Ulama and twenty prominent students of Shaykh Nadwi.

The present volume contains a translation of Imam Ghazali's autobiography, The Deliverance from Error, one of the most remarkable personal documents to have come down to us from classical Islamic civilization. The volume also contains partial translations from other key works of Ghazali, including Definitive Criterion (Faysal al-Tafriqa), a tract against the Ismaili sect, explanation of God's names, and writings on conforming the character to the Divine.

Two greart works in one volume. Deliverance from Error is the spiritual autobiography of Imam Ghazali. The Beginning of Guidance, his other work included in this volume, complements his spiritual autobiography and sets out his ideal of how the religious man should order his life from hour to hour and day to day. Translated by W. Montgomery Watt.

Numerous studies have been done on Imam al-Ghzali (1058-1111) in almost all major languages. So much is the academic attention given to him, and deservedly so, that it is difficult to find any element of originality in a new study on him. Various aspects of his life and thought have yet to be adequately studied, one of them being his role in islah (Islamic reform). It is also true that the study of islah as a separate topic is somewhat new, and available literature on the subject is limited within the views and the achievements of a number of distinguished scholars in the modern times. This work attempts to discover part of the rich legacy of the reformers by introducing a pre-modern scholar as Imam al-Ghazali.

Biographies of Hasan bin Ziyad, Muhaamd bin Shuja, Qadi Abu Yusuf, Imam Muhammad bin Hasan al-Shaybani, Imam Zufar, and Imam Jafer al-Tahawi written by Shaykh Zahid al-Kauthari.

Biography of the last Ottoman Sultan to rule with absolute power

The story of Shaykhul Hind Maulana Mahmood Hasan, Maulana Husain Ahmed Madani, and their associates. Their freedom struggle and their imprisonment in Malta.

Compiled by Khawaja Aziz al-Hasan Majzub and Maulana Abdul Haq.

The first full-length biography in English of the great scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. It considers in detail the long and exemplary life of one of the most important figures in modern Islam, and his unique struggle against the atheism and materialism of our times.

From the publisher: "Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall and Abdullah Philby were Englishmen of courage and adventure who travelled widely in the Muslim world and came to love and admire what they found. By accompanying them on their life journeys, it is possible to view some of the great dramas of the time through their eyes. This short biographical essay, under our Occasional Paper Series, interleaves two lives spanning a period from the 1890s to the 1940s."

Life and times of such greats of the recent Islamic history as Haji Imdadullah, Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi, Rashid Ahmed Gangohi, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, etc, etc. A great source for education and inspiration.