Books Recommended by the al-Zāwiyah

Introduction to ʾIslām

Ghāzī ʾIbn Muḥammad: What is ʾIslām and Why?.
Gai Eaton: ʾIslām and the Destiny of Man.
Asad Tarsin: Being Muslim: A Practical Guide.

Qurʾān Studies

M. A. S. Abdel Haleem: The Qurʾān: A New Translation.
Muḥammad al-Ghazālī: A Thematic Commentary on the Qurʾān.
Muḥammad Shafī Usmānī: Maʿārif al-Qurʾān.
Farhan Zubairi: An Introduction to the Sciences of the Qurʾān.
Muḥammad Taqī Usmānī: An Approach to the Qurʾānic Sciences.

Ḥadīth Studies

Farhan ZubairiIntroduction to Ḥadīth Studies.
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Muḥaddith al-Dehlawī: Muqaddimah fī ʾUṣūl al-Ḥadīth.
Muḥammad Muṣṭafā al-Aʿẓamī: Studies in Ḥadīth Methodology and Literature.
Muḥammad Muṣṭafā al-Aʿẓamī: Studies in Early Ḥadīth Literature.
Muṣṭafā al-Sibāʿī: The Sunnah and its Role in ʾIslāmic Legislation.

ʾAqīdah / Creed

ʾAbū Jaʿfar al-Ṭaḥāwī: ʾAqīdah al-Taḥāwīya.
MaḥmūʾAbū al-Hudā al-Ḥusaynī: The Creed Made Easy.
ʾAḥmad al-Dardīr: al-Kharīda al-Bāhīya.
Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Farfūr: The Beneficial Message and the Definitive Proof in the Study of Theology.

Fiqh / Law

Farhan Zubairi: Introduction to Uṣūl al-Fiqh.
ʾAbū Zahrā: The Four ʾImāms: Their Lives, Works, and their Schools of Thought.
Farāz Rabbānī: The Absolute Essentials of ʾIslām. [Ḥanafī]
Sālim ʾIbn Samīr al-Ḥaḍramī: Safīnat al-Najāh / The Ship of Salvation[Shāfiʿī]
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Akhdarī: Mukhtaṣar al-Akhdarī. [Mālikī]
ʿAbd al-Ramān al-Baʿlī: Bidāyat al-ʿĀbid wa Kifāyat al-Zāhid. [Ḥanbalī]

Sīrah / Prophetic ﷺ Biography

Martin Lings: Muḥammad ﷺ: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources.
Ṣafī al-Ramān al-Mubārakpūrī: The Sealed Nectar.
ʿAlī Muḥammad al-Ṣallābī: The Noble Life of the Prophet ﷺ. [3 Vols]
Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būī: The Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography.
Saʿeed ʾIbn ʿAlī Wahf al-Qaḥṭānī: A Mercy to the Universe .

History of ʾIslām

ʾIbn Kathīr: Stories of the Prophets.
Firas Alkhateeb: Lost ʾIslāmic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilization from the Past.
ʿAlī Muḥammad al-Ṣallābī: The Biography of ʾAbū Bakr al-Siddīq.
ʿAlī Muḥammad al-Ṣallābī: ʿUmar ʾIbn al-Khaṭāb: His Life and Times. [2 Vols]
ʿAlī Muḥammad al-Ṣallābī: The Biography of ʿUthmān ʾIbn ʿAffān Dhū al-Nūrayn.
ʿAlī Muḥammad al-Ṣallābī: ʿAlī ʾIbn ʾAbī ālib. [2 Vols]
Wael B. Hallaq: An Introduction to ʾIslāmic Law.

Spirituality / Taṣawwuf / Tazkīyya

Ḥabīb ʿAbd ʾAllāh al-Ḥaddād: The Book of Assistance.
ʾAbū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī: The Forty Principles of the Religion.
ʾAbū Ḥāmid al-GhazālīDisciplining the Soul.
ʾIbn Quddāmah al-Maqdisī: Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth.
ʾIbn Quddāmah al-MaqdisīThe Inner Secrets of Worship.

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Note: The discord server has numerous other recommendations for specific topics (e.g. in Qurʾān Studies, the structure and language of the Qurʾān, etc.), including the work of such scholars as M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh Drāz, Muhammad Muṣṭafā al-ʾAʿzamī, and others.

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