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From the back cover: ?This book achieves two major triumphs that speak to the modem Muslim intellectual condition. First, it deeply inspires in the serious reader-like very few books of human...

While Hajj books are usually about the rituals of pilgrimage, few, if any, address the loss of voluntary spiritual practices that had been carried out for centuries in Makka and Madina up until the...

Tarikh al-Khulafa' is justly famous in Arabic, and rarely out of print. In the Original it comprises the histories of all those who have been named as Khulafa' right upto the age in which as-Suyuti...

Used since the 10th century as a guide to enlightened behavior, this book reveals the true meaning of love, friendship, and generosity as a means to spiritual development.

'Almost a prerequisite for any serious study of Sufism in European languages': this was the verdict of Seyyed Hossein Nasr in his review of the first edition of the book. According to the Journal of...

Fez, City of Islam is undoubtedly one of Titus Burckhardt?s masterpieces. It conveys a profound understanding of the sacred roots that nourish Islamic culture and civilisation. As a young man in the...

An interpretative translation by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak of Sirr al-Asrar by Hadrat Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (1077-1166AD), considered by many to be one of the greatest saints of Islam and the eponymous...

Title: Muhammad ﷺ : His Life Based on the Earliest SourcesAuthor: Martin LingsISBN: 978-1594771538Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear Company   Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the...

An extremely popular and useful compilation of authentic hadith. Covering every aspect of Islamic belief and moral conduct, it selects approximately 2000 hadith from the six major collections:...

?Using beads in prayer is archetypal?it is common to all the great faiths from the oldest, Hinduism, to modern Christianity. Here, for the first time, an accessible anthology introduces a mainstream...

Responding to questions asked by spiritual seekers in Europe and the United States, Sufi teacher Hazrat Azad Rasool provides concise, timely, and thought-provoking insights into the path of Islamic...

This book answers many of the questions often asked by seekers of inward illumination. What are the real implications of the doctrine of divine unity? How can proper concentration be achieved...

The three Sufi texts published in this volume all deal with some aspect of the Sufi path to God. The Sufi path is marked by a number of different stages or stations (maqam/maqamat) which the Sufi...

This is a concise introduction to the life and thought of Ibn ?Arabi, who is considered as the ?Greatest of Sufi Masters?. Written by the author of a best-selling biography of Ibn Arabi, Ibn Arabi:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...