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Many thinking people now have an inward sense that 21st- century humanity faces stark and urgent challenges that demand wise and decisive responses. Profound illnesses call for profound remedies, and when nothing less than radical change will do, courage...

The Book of Illumination is a translation of al-Tanwir fi Isqat al-Tadbir, a Sufi text composed by the Muslim saint and jurist, Ibn Ata'illah al-Iskandari. The text is about avoiding the anxieties associated with rational calculation, hoarding wealth,...

The Value of Time is a collection of amazing sayings, anecdotes and wonderful stories of the scholars of the Muslim Ummah, which indicate the importance they attached to time. It is a book that will inspire the youth and the old alike to spend their time...

In ?the war against terrorism,? everyone believes that they have God on their side. Osama bin Laden regularly invokes God as does President George Bush. Whereas Bush views the world in terms of ?good? and ?evil? and regularly expresses foreign policy in...

This translation is distinctive among the dozens of existent English translations of the Quran because of the fluidity and clarity of its language, the elegance of its style, and the inclusion of more than 800 explanatory notes. The modern standard...

What is implied by ?traditional? Islam and how does it differ from other readings of Islam? How did the salaf and the khalaf understand and categorise ?knowledge? and how does it differ from ?information?? What is the importance of an "isnad" and what...

Title: A Handbook Of Spiritual Medicine - Hard CoverAuthor: Ibn Daud (Jamal Parekh) ISBN: 9781838049201Publisher: Ibn Daud Books (UK)   This spiritual guide to the self is a handbook of tazkiyah or ‘self-purification’. Not only does it...

This is a translation of Imam al-Qazwini's abridgement of Imam al-Bayhaqi's Shu`ab al-Iman (The Branches of Faith) by Sidi Abdal-Hakim Murad. It is a translation of one of the most popular manuals of Islam, divided into seventy-seven chapters, each...

This book maintains that terrorism is not from a divine religion, and that there is no room for terrorism in Islam. This is made clear in the Qur'an, the main source of Islam, and in the practices of all faithful Muslims. Religion commands love, mercy...

This unique biography of the saint Imam Abdallah al-Haddad takes readers into the fascinating world and spiritual life of 17th-and early 18th-century Yemen. The life of this great spiritual master?whose teachings and personal example continue to...

A revised edition of Kojiro Nakamura?s acclaimed translation into English of Book IX of The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya? ?Ulum al-Din). Although prayerfulness and the remembrance of God suffuse all the formal practices of Islam, there are...

The act of seeking forgiveness is what gives us the opening we need after feeling overwhelmed by the burden of sin. Forgiveness means a way out, a second chance, a feeling of hope with which to turn a new page in life. It is through the seeking of...

Fons Vitae is pleased to announce the publication of a new edition of Alchemy, dedicated to Madame Edith Burckhardt. Spiritual attainment has frequently been described in the terminology of the alchemical tradition whereby man?s leaden dull nature is...

The Hadith Qudsi, or sacred hadith, have a particularly important status because their meaning is entirely from Allah (swt) while the wording is that of the Prophet Muhammad (s) himself. For each of the forty hadith presented, the Arabic original has...

Imam Nawawi's Forty Hadith is widely regarded as the most popular anthology and the best introduction to the study of the Prophet's Sayings in the English language. The hadith summarize the essential teachings of Islam, concentrating on the following...

Allah has commanded us to worship and obey Him, with sincerity, out of reverence, love, and thankfulness. He says in the Qur?an, ?And they are ordered only to serve Allah, keeping religion pure for Him, to remain upright, and to establish worship and to...

From the back cover: ?The most recent of Providence?s solutions to the problem of government was realized some 1400 years ago with the founding of the first Islamic state in Medina. At its outset it was miraculously successful. The initial perfection was...

This book is a compilation of some of the wise sayings of the prophet (s), of the companions, and of the pious predecessors and ascetics. Reflecting on these wise sayings and heeding these counsels will assist in infusing us with the requisite awareness...

Imam Nawawi wrote: ?The science of hadith is the noblest means of attaining closeness to the Lord of the Worlds? The Messenger of Allah (upon him be peace) was given exceptional oratorical skills. His words were eloquent, comprehensive, and simple,...

Like Rumi, Hafiz and Attar, al-Hujwiri was one of the great saints of Sufism. Revelation of the Mystery, or Kashf al-mahjub, has been revered by students of Sufism for nine centuries. This classic text contains biographies of the saints, including...

The continuation of our acclaimed English translation of Les Iluminations de la Meque. Volume II contains more of the "Greatest Shaykh's" wisdom for the first time in English. Subjects include: the gnostic and the sacred law, the mystic properties of the...

This book by Hujjatul Islam Imam Al-Ghazzali offers advice to children who are about to enter adulthood. how to communicate with your neighbors and elders how to dress suitably, how to socialize correctly offers advice on manners and respect offers...

This breakthrough translation presents twenty-two key chapters from Ibn 'Arabi's "summa mystica", al-Futuhat al-Makiyya, on teachings such as the Divine Names of Allah, the nature of spiritual experience, the End of Time, the Resurrection, and the stages...

The masterpiece of Imam al-Ghazali, unquestionably one of the greatest thinkers and theologians of Islam. He reflects on the totality of his studies in Tasawwuf (Sufism) and its related components (purification of the heart, soul, mind and body),...

"The unqualified truth is that all of the Muwatta is sahih without any exception!" ?Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani This quote from one of the greatest authorities on hadith of all time is sufficient recommendation. The version of the Muwatta narrated by...

This book extensively covers the personal character, features, habits, etiquette of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Imam Tirmidhi has devised many subject heading and brought the appropriate ahadith to substantiate it. This is a collection of...

Sacred Law in Secular Lands, taught by Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah and simultaneously translated by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, contains vital information that effects Muslims living in the West and in other non-Muslim lands. Topics covered include the right to...

This is the first English translation of Miftah al-falah, a thirteenth century Sufi text, written by Ibn Ata Allah, one of the great masters of the Shadhili Sufi order. It is considered to be one of his most important works because it sets out the...

From among the leading economists of the Islamic World today, comes this timely work on how Muslim countries, in the midst of an Islamic revival, can formulate strategies to meet their economic goals while surrounded by economic systems based on a...