/lit/ - Literature

>board claims to hate women
>is neurotically enslaved to *pictures* of them

Anyway, what books, besides poetry itself, can I read to become a better poet?

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New converts go to newmuslimacademy.org for free books and lectures

Books

>On Jihad
By Hassan al-Banna

A very good little treatise on Islamic rules of war

>First Principles of Islamic Economics
By Abul A'la Maududi

A book on establishing an Islamic economy that would differ significantly from both socialism and capitalism

>The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity
By Darryl Li

A very new book, here is a summary, it's about jihad as a new humanism that transcends race and nationality
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24702

>The Ring of the Dove
By Ibn Hazm
Normally a jurist who would be very influential in strict literalist and textualist schools, Ibn Hazm wrote a treatise on love as well that would go on to start the trope of courtly love in the Middle Ages
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/dove/ringdove.html


>We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria
By Wendy Pearlman

A collection of many brief accounts by Syrians about the war

>Belief in Allah In the Light of the Qur'an and the Sunnah
By Dr 'Umar Sm al-Ashqar

First book of a series on aqidah, really good, you will love it
Three articles that will get you informed on Hamas

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism_in_the_Gaza_Strip

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191002-senior-hamas-delegation-visits-orthodox-church-in-gaza/

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Syria-No-to-restoring-ties-with-terrorist-supporting-Hamas-592149

Three articles that will get you informed on the Taliban

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Omar

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2018/01/24/the-revised-afghanistan-criminal-code-an-end-for-bacha-bazi/

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/world/taliban-s-ban-on-poppy-a-success-us-aides-say.html