Early Modern and Modern Era

Provides a general insight into the origins of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its impact on the region. (9780953653034)

A Journey through Islamic History tells you all you ever wanted to know about the history of the Muslim world from the Prophet Muhammad to Malcolm X in a short, accessible and lavishly-illustrated format.

The life and times of the great Muslim rulers Imaduddin Zangi and Nooruddin Zangi. Also includes a detailed account of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani.

How Muslims, Christians and Jews were living in the holy land before the arrival of the colonial powers? 

This book is a compilation of letters written by Allama Syed Sulaiman Nadwi in 1920 while he was in Europe to various elders, friends, and dear ones in India. He wrote about the state of Islam in Europe and the rest of the world during that era.

Discusses the importance of doing Dawah to Christians, a brief summary of Christian beliefs and refutations of them, doubts that Christians have raised against Islam and responses to them. Then, he surveys the work of Da'wah that occured during the Crusades at the hands of rulers such as Salahuddin al-Ayyubi, Yusuf ibn Tashfeen in the west, Abdul Mu'min ibn Ali, as well as at the hands of scholars such as Muhammad ibn Umar al-Razi, al-Qurtubi, and others. Surveys the different methodologies of dawah employed at the time, and the effects that this dawah had during the Crusades and afterwards.

The early life and selected writings of two great thinkers of the twentieth century.

This work by Ahmad Thomson deals principally with the history of Christianity in Europe, with particular reference to Spain, tracing the movement of the original Unitarian followers of Jesus (Isa, Alayhi salam), from North Africa and the Middle East up into Europe and Spain. It goes on to describe the formation and expansion of the Trinitarian Church in Italy and the rest of Europe and outlines the almost total annihilation of the Unitarian Christians at the hands of the Trinitarian Church by means of the Mediaeval Inquisition. This is useful in understanding how Islam was able to spread so readily and rapidly in Andalus.

History of the conquest of Syria, Palestine, and the adjoining area by Abu Abdullah Waqidy. See aslo 3849.

Describes the personal experience and observations of Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi regarding Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi during the last 16 years of the latter's life.

This book by the late professor Masudul Hasan covers the entire history of Islam from Prophet Adam, alayhi-salam, to the ninteenth century. Well researched and very readable, it fulfills the need of an overall history of Islam in proper prospective.

Contains detailed accounts of each prophet and caliph and land where Islam reached; history of the Qur'an, Hadith, fiqh, and tasawwuf; and history of the development of literature, geography, history, philosophy, political science, physical science, astronomy, medicine, mathematics, and art in the Islamic empire.

The author, Professor Masudul Hasan, lived through most of the twentieth century. He started writing in 1974 and died before he could finish the third volume.

Not many people are fully aware of the invasion of Christian missionaries in India under the protection of the East India Company. A heroic struggle was launched by the ulama to fight back. Maulana Rahamtullah Kairanvi was at the forefront of this noble struggle. This is his detailed story.

Written by Dr. Jerald F. Dirks.

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature.

A rare glimpse of India at the beginning of the first World War as seen by this traveller from Misr.

Covers the history and contributions of Ikhwanul Muslimeen to Egyptian society.

Rambabu wrote the history of Urdu literature in English. This is a translation (by Murza Muhammad Askari) but it reads like an original Urdu work. Footnotes by the translator to correct or explain the original text further add to the value of the book.

As the forces of global Christian Fundamentalism are on the march, the Muslim world is looking increasingly vulnerable. The Cross and the Crescent is a pioneering study, filling a strategic intellectual void by initiating a Muslim tradition of the scientific study of the West.

First written in Arabic in the late sixteenth century, Tuhfat al-Mujahidin is a pioneering historical work dealing with the struggles of the Malabar Muslims in southern India against the Portuguese colonisers’ encroachment in India, and the rise of Malabar as a medieval naval force under the Zamorin of Calicut.