/lit/ - Literature

I remember when I was an ignorant disbeliever and repeatedly parroted this ignorance and slander against Islam. So embarrassing

Please post titles you like

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5CjhA0BedUI

Free books and lectures at newmuslimacademy.com

Basic practice
>Umdah al-Fiqh
https://kalamullah.com/umdah-al-fiqh.html?


Basic theology
>Kitab al-Iman
https://kalamullah.com/kitab-al-iman.html?

Seerah (biography of the Prophet) ﷺ
>The Sealed Nectar
https://archive.org/details/TheSealedNectar_201501/mode/2up


Politics and current events

>Milestones
by Sayyid Qutb

>Political Theory of Islam
by Abul A'la Maududi

>My Life With the Taliban
Abdul Salam Zaeef


Qur'an rendered in English, try Pickthall's translation. He was an English writer who was fluent in Arabic and convert. He prepared his translation with extensive supervision of scholars. It's available as a translation setting on quran.com

If you want to learn to pray, memorize surah (chapter) 1 and 112 in Arabic (that's enough to start but you will need more later). Quran.com allows you to click each word as you go. You can also use a rough transliteration they provide. If you want a tafsir (commentary), check Maududi on the translation

Arabic alphabet song
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Cl6W8EEBQ

>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

Please post titles you like

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5CjhA0BedUI

Free books and lectures at newmuslimacademy.com

Basic practice
>Umdah al-Fiqh
https://kalamullah.com/umdah-al-fiqh.html?


Basic theology
>Kitab al-Iman
https://kalamullah.com/kitab-al-iman.html?

Seerah (biography of the Prophet) ﷺ
>The Sealed Nectar
https://archive.org/details/TheSealedNectar_201501/mode/2up


Politics and current events

>Milestones
by Sayyid Qutb

>Political Theory of Islam
by Abul A'la Maududi

>My Life With the Taliban
Abdul Salam Zaeef


Qur'an rendered in English, try Pickthall's translation. He was an English writer who was fluent in Arabic and convert. He prepared his translation with extensive supervision of scholars. It's available as a translation setting on quran.com

If you want to learn to pray, memorize surah (chapter) 1 and 112 in Arabic (that's enough to start but you will need more later). Quran.com allows you to click each word as you go. You can also use a rough transliteration they provide. If you want a tafsir (commentary), check Maududi on the translation

Arabic alphabet song
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Cl6W8EEBQ

>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

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>NOOOOO