Release Your Inner Queen of Sheba!

Release Your Inner Queen of ShebaIf you’re someone who prefers to read a self-help book than to have a personal coach or perhaps the time isn’t right for you to have a coach at the moment, but you want to work on some areas of your life, this is a book I would highly recommend. Not just because it’s written by Heba Alshareef, a friend of mine, but because...

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Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence

Principles of Islamic JurisprudenceIf you’re looking for a comprehensive book on Usul Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), this is the book that would I recommend to you. I’m not doing so just because Hashim Kamali was a professor at my university, but because this was the book that I studied while I was there and it has given me the solid grounding I needed to start to understand the subject. And, after seeing other books on the subject in English...

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Saheeh International Interpretation of the Qur'an

Saheeh International Qur'an Interpretation of the Qur'an

This is my favourite translation/interpretation of the Qur’an. It’s written in clear contemporary native English, with the Arabic text being shown next to the English, so you can refer back to it for clarification. There are a few footnotes at the bottom of the pages pages, which give some background to the verses or related references, and in this interpretation, every effort is made to indicate if any words have been added to the text in order to make the text more understandable in English. Although the translator has used other translations as the basis for this one...

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Hans Wehr's Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic

Hans Wehr's DictionaryIf you’re looking for a good dictionary of modern standard Arabic-English, this is the standard that I would thoroughly recommend; it's a must-have for your bookshelf. It's the dictionary I bought when I first started learning Arabic and I used so much that it fell apart and I had to have it re-bound. Not sure whether that says more about my Arabic skills or the dictionary! Whatever the case this truly is an invaluable book to have when you're studying Arabic seriously...

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