A few weeks ago, I had a nice conversation with a recent madrassa graduate, about the importance of of knowing how to communicate what an alim spends 6 or more years learning. He explained to me that those who graduate from madrassas whose mode of teaching is not English have a difficult time understanding the terms and concepts of English Academia which prevents those people from getting access to the ulema, and the ulema from getting access to those people. He told me that he tried to read about these subjects by buying translations and English penned works on those subjects, but he wasn’t able to find “good” translations that properly rendered the understanding of the terms he wanted to communicate. I assured him that I would go through my own library to pick those works that I felt would help him achieve his goal, as well as recommend to him books written and translated by those same translators and publishers.

 

In this I found an opportunity to gather the growing English Islamic library in one place, to benefit those who wish to review and learn alike. I would like to make this a project of mine, to review, summarize and continue to search for more books. Please recommend your favorites as well.

Note: This is a work in progress and will be continuously updated. Links are monetized so please share them to support this work and the site.

Arabic Related Reading

 

Sarf

From the treasure of Arabic Morphology; Maulana Ebrahim Muhammad

http://amzn.to/2zAYQEy

501 Arabic Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All Forms; Raymond Scheindlin Ph.D.

http://amzn.to/2ywio9E

 

Nahw

Dictionary of Arabic Grammar

100 Governing Powers of Arabic

al-Hidaya fil-Nahw

 

Balaghah

Arabic Rhetoric: A Pragmatic Analysis; Hussein Abdul-Raof

http://amzn.to/2yWhc3S

 

Misc.

TBA

 

Fiqh Related Reading

 

Fiqh – Comparative

The Distinguished Jurist’s Primer; Imran Ahsen Khan

http://amzn.to/2zS9ozY

 

Fiqh Hanafi

Ascent to Felicity

http://amzn.to/2huRyvx

The Hedaya; Hamilton, Charles

http://amzn.to/2yWryk0

Al-Hidaya, Imran Ahsen Khan

Volume 1:http://amzn.to/2hsaVFu

Volume 2: http://amzn.to/2yVOQ9X

The Mukhtasar Al-Quduri; Tahir Khan

http://amzn.to/2zAmO2W

Heavenly Ornaments

http://amzn.to/2yJ5y8q

 

Fiqh Shafi’i

Reliance of the Traveller Nuh Ha Mim Keller

http://amzn.to/2zC7Nxm

 

Fiqh Maliki

Mukhtasar al-Akhdari; Sidi Baye

http://amzn.to/2i8HiGf

 

Fatawa

 

Philosophy and Aqidah Related Reading

 

Aqidah

Imam Abu Hanifa’s Al-Fiqh al-Akbar Explained; Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf

http://amzn.to/2zDirnJ

The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi; Hamza Yusuf

http://amzn.to/2hv0voI

Kalam

The Kalām Cosmological Argument; William L. Kraig

http://amzn.to/2yuFrBZ

Sharh Aqaid al-Nasafi;  Adam Z.U. Dean

http://amzn.to/2yvbVMc

Aqa’id An-nasafi: Introduction to Islamic Creed, Arabic-english; Dr. Musharraf Hussain

 

Logic – Modern

 

Logic – Ancient

 

Philosophy – Modern

 

Philosophy – Ancient

 

Hadith Related Reading

Family Life Related Reading

Leisure Reading