A Muslim's Guide to Modernity, from Turath Publishing, is a collection of sixty essays written as waymarkers for the believer trying to live faithfully amid the currents of Western modernity. Its subject is the tension so many of us feel but rarely name outright: the pull between tradition and reason, isolation and assimilation, repose and action, conservation and change. The essays themselves are described as models of brevity and lucidity, charting a course through these opposing pulls rather than settling on one side or the other.

As the publisher frames it, modernity has occupied the human mind since its arrival, bringing real material good through science and technology while also unsettling the spiritual fabric of societies. It is between these two poles, the good and the bad of the modern age, that people remain divided, and it is this divide the essays are written to help the reader navigate.

Dr. Shaykh Ahmad Sa'd of the Ihsan Institute has thanked the author for insights that recall the wisdom of the ancient sages and that grant readers assurance of Muslim relevance, wishing the reader a blessed companionship with the book. For anyone seeking a steady, thoughtful companion as they think through faith and modern life together, this collection offers exactly that kind of company.