Surveys of Muslim History

Maulana Nadwi, the historian, the scholar, and the thinker, is at his best in this great work, which was originally published in 1375/1958. This latest edition includes footnotes and references added by Dr. Mustafa Saeed al-Khun, in addition to the foreword of Dr. Mustafa al-Sibaii. Beautiful two color printing and wonderful production quality add to the value of this treasure, which remains a wonderful gift for any home and library.

Translation of Akbar Shah Najeebabadi's famous Tareekh Islam.

Volume 1: From pre-Islam Arabia to Hasan bin Ali's Caliphate.

Volume 2: From Caliphate of Banu Umayyah to Umawi and Abbasi Caliphate. Volume 3: From Islamic rule in Spain to the Ottoman Empire.

Maulana Nadwi, the hisorian, the scholar, and the thinker, is at his best in this great work, which was originally published in 1375/1958. This latest edition includes footnotes and references added by Dr. Mustafa Saeed al-Khun, in addition to the foreword of Dr. Mustafa al-Sibaii. Beautiful two color printing and wonderful production quality add to the value of this treaure, which remains a wonderful gift for any home and library.

Describes the achievements of Islamic civilisation, how they were inspired and examines the alleged and real causes of decline of Islamic civilisation.

A wonderful fresh look at the history of the Muslim world. The three volumes cover up to 656 AH. Handles delicate accounts objectively, fairly, and rigorously. The author teaches Islamic history at Jamiatur Rasheed, Karachi. 

"This book fills a huge gap in the library of the Muslim world. It deserves to be translated into Arabic and English as well." Mufti Taqi Usmani. 

Islamic History, like other subjects related to Islam, has been written by, and taught from, non Muslim sources. This has led to a considerable number of misconceptions and distortions.
This book seeks to reclaim Islamic history from such distortions.

This is a unique book. You may be aware of a few of the contributions of Islamic Civilization to the history of humanity and the world we live in today. For example, many people know about the Islamic origins of Algebra and Arabic Numbers. However, much of this history remains obscured, and hidden from view. This book places many aspects of the profound impact of Islamic Civilization into plain view and shows how it has been suppressed and distorted. Western historians, in general, have removed the Islamic source with regard to every single change that affected science and civilization at the origin of Western civilization, and modern civilization, and then, each and everyone has substituted a number of explanations for such changes within their field of study. This systematic suppression of the Islamic source of modern science and civilization has been, however, noted by individual historians who have re-considered the history of their subject. Thus, in his `History of Dams,’ Norman Smith, began his chapter devoted to Islamic dams, by noting how historians of civil engineering have ignored the Muslim period, and have claimed that nothing was done by the Muslims, even worse, they have blamed the Muslims for the decline of irrigation and other engineering activities, and their eventual extinction, which is `both unjust and untrue.’ (from the Introduction) The book's more than 500 pages are packed full with thousands of referenced facts and includes a substantial select bibliography. It is set to become the standard reference work for the subject and the starting point for anyone wanting to explore the field further.

Here is an entirely different outlook on history, where center stage is held not by rulers and generals but by the spiritual rulers and mujaddids.

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.

English translation of the seminal work "Tarikhi Dawat-o-Azimat." Here is an entirely different outlook on history, where center stage is held not by rulers and generals but by the spiritual rulers and mujaddids.