Financial Transactions in Islamic Jurisprudence

Al-Mu‘amalat al-Maliyah fi al-Fiqh al-Islami

By: Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli

Topic: Jurisprudence & its Roots, 250

Ed.: 2/2007 pp.: 1448 17 x 24 cm.

The significance of this book lies in the fact that its writer is an expert in Islamic economics in the great Islamic banks. It deals with the rules of transactions and possession under easy and feasible Islamic formulations leading to the depth of its conception and rendering clear concept of the Islamic view of economics and how to make financial transactions applied in accordance with the Islamic Law, which is characterized by ease and elasticity so as to respond to the requirements of the real state of affairs, cope up with the age updates and preserve the entire Islamic aspect in the purport of the contract.

Concise Interpretation on the Margin of the Great Qur’an

Al-Tafsir al-Wajiz ‘al? Hamish al-Qur’an al-‘Azim

By: Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli

Topic: Interpretation, 210

ed./4/2007 ed. 1: 1994 pp.: 640 17 x 25 cm.

An interpretation of the Holy Qur’an in a distinct style. It gives only a total expression of the purport of the Verse, the sound cause of its descent, if any, avoids Israeli insinuations and adheres to the most accurate interpretations in both old and updated interpretation books as well as all the tips based on authorized texts and reason they encompassed. It accords with the fundamentals of rhetoric in Arabic and the aims of the Islamic Legislation and follows the method of the righteous predecessors in belief.

Contemporary Religious Verdicts

Fataw? Mu‘asirah

By: Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli

Topic: Islamic Jurisprudence and its Roots, 210

ed. 2/2006 ed. 1: 2003 pp.: 432 14 x 20 cm.

It deals with the jurisprudential questions that have recently appeared in everyday life and gives replies to them in a simplified style that the ordinary reader is able to understand.

The book handles the problems that rise in worships and the relevant problems of purification, the types of transactions about which new inquiries have risen and the matters related to the family, the marital relations, foods, drinks, belief, ethics and good manners.

Concise of Islamic Jurisprudence

Al-Wajiz fi al-Fiqh al-Islami

(3 volumes)

By: Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli

Topic: Islamic Jurisprudence and its Roots, 210

ed. 1: 2005 pp.: 1736 17 x 25 cm.

An abbreviated book on Islamic jurisprudence that derives the religious rulings from their basic sources: The Qur’an and the Prophetic Tradition (Sunnah), refers them to the general roots and the most essential principles on which the Islamic religion is based and elucidates their aims and the wisdom lying in each for the Muslim in order to be assured as regards the scientific and practical unity of legislation and the harmony between the theoretical knowledge and the prerequisites of reality. In short, it represents “The Jurisprudence of Principles and Aims” at the same time.

Contemporary Financial Transactions

Researches – Religious Verdict – Solutions

Al-Mu‘amalat al-Maliyah al-Mu‘asirah

By: Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli

Topic: Islamic Jurisprudence and its Roots, 210

ed. 4/2007 ed. 1: 2002 pp.: 632 17 x 25 cm.

This book handles the contemporary financial transactions from an Islamic viewpoint, in which the writer mentions whatever related to sales, rent, monopolization, easement, investment, industrialization, the trade mark, shares, returning insurance, bankruptcy, commercial and financial papers, credit, evacuation compensation, invention patent, stock, bills, pricing, payment by installment, possessing, the right of inventing, the writer’s right, transfer, usury, mortgage, documents, the financial market, partnership, currency, etc.

Islamic Morals

A Muslim’s Relation with the Psyche and the Universe

Akhlaq al-Muslim: ‘Alaqatuh bi-al-Nafs wa-al-Kawn

By: Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli

Topic: Various Islamic Topics, 210

ed. 1: 2006 pp.: 752 17 x 25 cm.

The book focuses on reforming the psyche along with comprehending the concept of the universe, its traditions and its system as well as the human’s affairs in the mundane life and in the Hereafter and providing him/her with the power that might help him/her enjoy a straight behavior and a supreme character protected from the opponent influences and from dissolving in others’ conventions.

Islamic Morals

Akhlaq al-Muslim

By: Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli

Topic: Various Islamic Topics, 210

Three books: One handles The Muslim’s relation with the psyche and the Universe so as to reform the psyche, trace the straight behavior and comprehend the universe

ed. 1: 2006 pp.: 752 17 x 25 cm.

Another handles The Muslim’s Relation with the Creator on the basis of his belief in Him, dependence on Him and obedience to him to solidify that relation.

ed. 1/2006 pp.: 688 17 x 25 cm.

The third handles The Muslim’s relation with the society: 127 topics with the Qur’anic Verses and Prophetic Hadiths inviting to them highlighting the supreme virtues that Islam confirms.

ed. 1/2006 pp.: 464 17 x 25 cm.

Islamic Morals

A Muslim’s Relation with the Society

Akhlaq al-Muslim: ‘Alaqatuh bi-al-Mujtama‘

By: Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli

Topic: Various Islamic Topics, 210

ed. 1/2006 pp.: 464 17 x 25 cm.

This book handles a Muslim’s morals as regards his/her relation with the society. It includes 127 topics. In each topic it mentions the Qur’anic Verses and Prophetic Hadiths inviting to the moral under discussion. Then it lists the benefits of the derived results, and so highlights the virtue of veracity, trust, justice, reconciling people, helping the weak, doing good to the poor, taking care of the family and all other virtues that lead to a firm society and be a proof of the truthfulness of faith.

Ancestralism

A Blessed Era Rather than an Islamic School

Al-Salafiyah: Marhalah Zamaniyah Mubarakah la Madh.hab Islami

By: Dr. M. Sa‘id Ramadan al-Bouti

Topic: Islamic Sects, 210

reprint: 2005 pp.: 270 17 x 25 cm.

This book handles the idea of “Ancestralism”. It elucidates the linguistic meaning of the term and states that it indicates a stage of history which acquaints us with the methodology that the Companions followed for adopting the Islamic Law so as to be a unique example.

After that, it states the circumstances which led to the development of the Islamic life throughout the ages and the method which warrants preserving the fundamentals and principles and avoiding abnormalities and deviations, and so concludes that taking ancestralism as a religious school is a harmful heresy that ancestors do not admit.

Women between the Tyranny of the Western System and the Mercy of the Divine Law

Al-Mar’ah bayna Tughyan al Nizam al-Gharbi wa-Lata’if al-Tashrai‘ al-Rabbani

[Translated into English]

By: Dr. M. Sa‘id Ramadan al-Bouti

Topic: Islamic Studies, 210

ed. 1/1996 ed. 6/2006 pp.: 232 17 x 25 cm.

This book handles women’s issues and the points of criticism raised about them. It also elucidates women’s rank in Islam, the rights that it warrants for them in life, their being qualified, their work, taking up political positions up to presidency and membership in the consultation [shura] council and all their social rights. It also discusses the issue of equalizing her with the man and the practices thereof in guardianship [qiwama], inheritance, polygamy, divorce, testimony and the veil.

The Approach of the Human Civilization in the Qur’an

Manhaj al-Hadarah al-Insaniyah fi al-Qur’an

[Translated into French]

By: Dr. M. Sa‘id Ramadan al-Bouti

Topic: Qur’an and its sciences, 210

ed. 3/2006 pp.: 180 17 x 25 cm.

This book handles presenting an educational view of the Qur’anic style and its educational, mental, sentimental and behavioral effect of the Qur’an on the human’s life by setting examples from it, explaining their linguistic and Qur’anic meanings, analyzing them, classifying them according to the clear objective norms and how to apply them for reaching the best results in cultivating the behavior and realizing psychological health for the human.

Islam and the West

Al-Islam wa-al-Gharb

By: Dr. M. Sa‘id Ramadan al-Bouti

Topic: Islamic Studies, 210

ed. 1/2007 pp.: 216 17 x 25 cm.

This book is about the status of Islam in the West. It reviews the most important problems that raise argument in the Western society and presents the author’s view about the future of Islam in the West, the religious and philosophical currents that the human of the Western civilization faces nowadays, the questions which preoccupy the minds of both Muslims and secularists, the points of disagreement between the Islamic shura [principle of consultation] and the Western democracy and the difference between treating Muslims in the West and treating non-Muslims amongst Muslims.

An Introduction to Understanding the Roods:

Who am I? Why? and Where to?

Madkhal il? Fahm al-Judhur

[ser.: This is Islam]

By: Dr. M. Sa‘id Ramadan al-Bouti

Topic: Islamic Studies, 210

ed. 2/2000 pp.: 164 12 x 17 cm.

This book talks about the secrets of life, the human’s function in it and the story of his/her journey throughout it. It also discusses the key to happiness that some expect to have got lost.

It bets on Islam’s solution and tries to reveal vague issues in our life and present them to the human conscience irrespective of his/her doctrinal trend or national belonging.

Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography

And A Brief History of the Rightly Guided Caliphate

Fiqh al-Sirah al-Nabawiyah

Ma‘a Mujaz li-Tarikh al-Khilafah al-Rashidah

By: Dr. M. Sa‘id Ramadan al-Bouti

Topic: Prophetic Biography, 210

ed. 10/1991 ed. 16/2006 pp.: 592 17 x 25 cm.

This book reviews the most significant events in Prophet Muhammad’s biography and derives the rulings of jurisprudence related to legislation as well as the lessons and principles benefited from it after each event. This method has helped joining the rules of jurisprudence to the Prophet’s biography.

The book adopts this method in all the events of the Prophet’s biography from a to z and pauses at the events that help deriving rulings. It is also initiated by introductions about the importance of the Prophet’s biography, how to study it and how to understand it.

Jihad in Islam

How to Understand and Practice it?

Jihad fi al-Islam: Kayfa Nafhamuh wa-Kayfa Nularisuh

[Translated into English & French]

By: Dr. M. Sa‘id Ramadan al-Bouti

Topic: Islamic Studies, 210

ed. 1/1993 ed. 5/2006 pp.: 332 17 x 25 cm.

In this book, the writer offers his attitude towards Jihad [strife in the Cause of Allah] with its broad lines and the essence of its legislation. Accordingly, it discusses the House of Islam and the legitimacy of Jihad, being the most effective fort for protecting it. It also talks about combatant usurpation, the rulings related to the People of the Book, the contract of Imamship and disjoining it. He also attempts to purify Jihad from the accusations that imperialists charge it of and solves problems related to it. Besides, he connects the activities of the Islamic group to the restrictions of Jihad and the rulings thereof.

The Messenger at Home

Fi Bayt al-Rasul.

By: Dr. Nizar Abazah

Topic: Islamic Studies, 210

ed. 1/2007 pp.: 248 17 x 25 cm.

This book talks about Messenger Muhammad’s social and familial life; i.e., when he is with his family members, relatives, wives, step-children, servants, neighbors and young and old aged people.

It describes the Messenger’s life in each house he lived in from childhood till death and talks about the Prophet’s everyday life: his address to his family, how he ate, drank, slept, received his visitors and performed night prayers. It also describes the compartments of his wivies, Believers’ Mothers.

The Future of Islamic/Christian Dialogue

(Series of “Dialogues for a New Century)

Mustaqbal al-Hiwar al-Islami al-Masihi

By: Dr. Hmeeda al-Nayfar & Pope Morris Borman

Topic: Religions, 290

ed. 1/2005 pp.: 256 14 x 20 cm.

This book is a dialogue discussing the problems facing the Islamic/Christian dialogue, such as the premature judgments and mutual accusations - between both parties - emitting from wrong perceptions.

It also highlights the significance of dialogue, the method it should follow, the hopes for a better future, the introductions and the possibilities of exceeding the impediments on the way of realizing a world free from struggle and tumults.

The Roots and Styles of Islamic Education

At Home, at School and in Society

Usul al-Tarbiyah al-Islamiyah wa-Asalibuha

[Translated into German, English, French]

By: ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Nihlawi

Topic: Education and Pedagogy, 270

ed. 23/2005 pp.: 240 17 x 25 cm.

This book deals with the Islamic education and elucidates its concept, legislative and divinely enjoined bases and the influence of religion on the human’s intellectual and behavioral education.

It also brings to light its various means: the mosque, the school, the educator, the family and the society, and it considers its styles represented in dialogue, the story, the ideal, the vanguard, lessons, sports and work.

Birds of the South

Tuyur al-Janub

By: Amani Abu al-Fadl

Topic: The Story and the Novel, 813

ed.1/2005 ed.2/2007 pp.: 256 12 x 20 cm.

This novel talks about the events which took place in USA and the status of Muslims therein after 11-9-2001. It also reveals the reality of their status represented in the disagreement among the Muslim groups, the turmoil of the general US attitude against them through the incidents of a love story between a young man and a girl; one is a Shi‘ite and the other is a Sunnite. They were satisfied with each other, but the painful status has not been satisfied with them. Why?

An Echo from the City of Fog

Sad? min Madinat al-Dabab

By: Nariman Ghassan ‘Uthman

Topic: The Story and the Novel, 813

ed. 1/2004 ed. 2/2006 pp.: 300 12 x 20 cm.

This novel talks about a girl who grows up in London. She is the daughter of a Muslim father and a Christian mother. Accordingly, she is attracted to two contradicting cultures, which caused her to live in bewilderment between both.

The novel describes the Western society: the kind of life its youth live and their inquiries and hubbub. It is highly filled with intellectual dialogues which occurred to the heroine’s mind and the minds of those alike. This caused her to suffer from a psychological conflict that the reader might be a factor of its occurrence or responsible for a part of it.

Why Do Birds Die in My Homeland?

Li-Madha Tamut al-‘Asafir fi Biladi

By: Rawiyah Abazah

Topic: The Story and the Novel, 813

ed. 1/2004 ed. 2/2007 pp.: 228 12 x 20 cm.

This novel aims to renewing people’s relation with the earth and the society, calls to dialogue and projects the human’s right to freedom and life. Its events cover the late part of the tyrannical rule in Iraq and the early days of the entry of the Alliance Forces.

The hero is a youth who feels pain from the incidents taking place, so he rebels against the injustice befalling the Iraqi people, who neither support tyranny nor feel satisfied with the occupation, so he joins the resistance and gets a volunteer therein.

Father’s Name is Ibrahim

Abi Ismuhu Ibrahim

By: Ahmad Khayri al-‘Umari

Topic: The Story and the Novel, 813

ed. 1/2006 pp.: 216 14 x 20 cm.

This novel is not dedicated for a certain age nor adheres to a certain novel writing style. It derives from the childhood of Prophet Abraham (pbuh), draws some of the essential scenes from the actual sequence of his story and adds other scenes and characters to it for the requirements of the dramatic work. However, Abraham seems here to be rebelling against all traditional institutes which disparage the human’s mind and attempt to hinder his/her thinking, sight and insight in order not to reach truth.

Yet .. Love Never Dies!

Lakinna al-Hubb la-Yamut.

By: Muhammad Ma’mun al-Ma’mun

Topic: The Story and the Novel, 813

ed. 1/2005 pp.: 192 12 x 20 cm.

This novel is a call to meditating on what the future is going bring. It is also anticipation with a piercing look to events that will happen, for understanding the rapid changes and the invented ideas in the world and the calamities that they might cause.

The reader stands before a paradox represented in the power of challenges, the severe difficulties and the domination of the crises that the hero of the novel faces. The writer employs his characters as social examples reacting with the bad circumstances highly positively.

Nobody Knows What I want..!

La Ahad Ya‘rif ma Urid

By: Ahmad al-Qari

Topic: The Story and the Novel, 813

ed. 1/1998 ed. 2/2004 pp.: 280 14 x 20 cm.

This novel comes from Morocco to handle the problems of the family and the troubles of the youth whose motivation might stimulate them to rush in all directions. Some of them go astray and so cause their families to live in tremendous sufferings because such youth never estimate the consequences of their actions. Others, who are few, recognize the right path, but who might lend a helping hand to youth and save them from straying when they are confronted by impediments?

The International Terrorism and the Current World Order

Al-Irhab al-Duwali wa-al-Nizam al-‘Alami al-Rahin

By: Dr. Muhammad ‘Aziz Shukri & Dr. Amal Yazaji

Topic: Politics, 320

ed. 1/2002 pp.: 224 14 x 20 cm.

This book is a dialogue about “Terrorism”: the term which has several forms and assumes a course which accords with the international and national circumstances and conditions. The same action which a party may consider as terrorism is seen as a popular liberation movement by another party.

The book discusses the topic of terrorism from different points of view and from the side of its being connected to the concept of justice and the attitude of the international law towards it.

Believers’ Pleasures in the Gardens of the Righteous

Marati‘ al-Mu’minin fi Riyad al-Salihin

By: Muhammad ‘Adnan Salem

Ed.: 2/2007 ed. 1: 1995 pp.: 192 12 x 17 cm.

This book handles a number of topics related to the Muslim’s everyday life:

The splitting between religiosity and treatment in social life, the role of worship which should not turn into customs and rituals, how to return to prayer its moral and how to deal with the Holy Qur’an that we have deserted despite our claim of glorifying Allah.

It talks about how to benefit from the Prophetic Tradition (Sunna) in this age, the topic of change and its bases, the Muslim who calls to Islam as a vanguard, the cohesion of Islamic teachings, the necessity of science and worship in Muslims’ lives and the topic of compulsion in religion.

Islamic Atlases

Al-Atalis al-Islamiyah

By: Dr. Shawqi Abu Khalil

Topic: Illustrations & Atlases, 912

Atlas of the Qur’an: Places & Peples

ed. 1: 2000 pp.: 336 17 x 25 cm.

Atlas of the Prophetic Sayings, from the 6 Sound Books: Places and Peoples

ed. 1/2003 pp.: 440 17 x 25 cm.

Atlas of the Prophetic Biography: Places & Peples

ed. 1/2002 pp.: 336 17 x 25 cm.

These Atlases accurately identify the geographic positions of all the words related to peoples, personalities or places that the Qur’an, Hadiths or the Biography [Sirah] refer to on colored illustrations so that the reader aspires to knowing their exact places.

An Illuminating Interpretation on Belief, Law and Approach

Al-Tafsir al-Munir fi al-‘Aqidah wa-al-Shari‘ah wa-al-Manhaj

(1-30), 17 volumes

By: Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli

Topic: Interpretation, 212

Ed.: 1/1991 pp.: 1448 17 x 25 cm.

An extensive interpretation which follows a modern scientific style distinguished by giving an epitome of each Qur’anic Surah and dividing the Qur’anic Verses into thematic units on the basis of which the exegetist lays his interpretation. He also clarifies the linguistics therein and mentions the causes lying behind the descent of the Verses. Then he indicates the legislative rulings derived from them and is interested in rhetoric and parsing.

The Islamic Rage

Al-Ghadab al-Islamii

Deconstructing the Rage: Critical Study

By: Mu‘tazz Khatib

Topic: Sciences and Political Studies, 320

ed. 1/2007 pp.: 206 17 x 25 cm.

This book is a deep study of the phenomenon of violence and terrorism which dominated after the incident of September 11th, 2001. The writer lays an epistemological approach by which he deconstructs the concepts which surrounded that phenomenon and observes the stages of its appearance, its factors and how it was read in the Islamic World and in the West. He also handles the topic of Islam and terrorism and the Westerners’ interpretations.