Ibn Ahmad: 7 books

The Mukhtasar Al-Quduri is one of the most celebrated and influential treatises in any Muslim school of methodology and thought and is the foundation for the Ḥanafî school. It is both the first source for scholars and a manual for the general reader. This is its first ever complete translation in English.

This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern Egypt This guide to political behavior and expediency offers advice to Sufi shaykhs, or spiritual guides, on how to interact and negotiate with powerful secular officials, judges, and treasurers,...

Pie perfect Imperfection is a white pearl unlocking guide that focuses on enhancing relationships through the releasing of a positive charge. Our own positive charge. Through purification, coagulation and enjoyment. To remove blockages of negativity that cause difficulty in our...

Earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic. A pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this...

Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to...

This book offers practical advice for our everyday lives taken from the Qur'an and Sunnah. It shows us how to purify our hearts, since a heart that is not pure cannot find tranquillity.

The first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages. Scholars of Islamic law can find few English language translations of foundational Islamic legal texts, particularly from the understudied Mamluk era. In this...