This text has long been recognized as not only an Islamic classic but also as one of the great "spiritual autobiographies" of the world's greatest religious thinkers.
A lengthy process, rich in remarkable and thought-provoking events, including compelling encounters with Islamic philosophy, led the author to embrace Islam.
In this classic of travel writing, first published sixty years ago, a Danish journalist records his experience of life in North Africa under colonial rule.
Tarim is the setting of a forty day Dowra (intensive course in traditional Islamic sciences) that was attended by Ethar El-Katatney in summer 2008 for the purpose of religious learning and self development.
In this book Joram van Klaveren describes his journey from Christianity and the far-right to Islam and discusses the topics he struggled with for all those years.
Medina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place--not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures.
Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported