Koran category: 469 books

The book starts by describing the beginning of creation - from the Throne and the Kursi, the Universe and all that is in it, such as the angels, the Jinn and humans. The book also recounts stories from the lives of the Prophets and their nations, up to the story of Prophet Yoonus (Jonah). In this...

For Westerners the Qur'an is a deeply foreign book. Christians who venture within this sacred scripture of Islam encounter a world where echoes of biblical figures and themes resound. But the Qur'an speaks in accents and forms that defy our expectations. For it captures an oral recitation of an open-ended...

Opening the Qur'an can be a bewildering experience to non-Muslim, English-speaking readers. Those who expect historical narratives, stories, or essays on morals are perplexed once they pass the beautiful first Surah, often shocked and then bogged down by Surah 2, and even offended by Surah 3’s strictures...

The largely Arabo-centric approach to the academic study of tafsir has resulted in a lack of literature exploring the diversity of Qur'anic interpretation in other areas of the Muslim-majority world. The essays in The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World resolve this, aiming to expand our knowledge...

Purification is one of the prominent features of Islam. It means thorough purity and cleanliness of body, clothes, place and all aspects of Muslim's life. ‘Book of Purification’ contains information on purity of water, types of impurities, ways of purification, Menstruation, Ghusl, Tayammum, Wudu...

The Present book tackles the issue of the interpretation of dreams in the light of the Quran and the Sunnah, based on the Prophet's hadeeth in which he said, "The dream of a Muslim is one of the forty-six parts of prophethood." In this book, the author provides a definition of the word 'dream',...

This eBook covers Encoding of Arabic Numerical values, Scientific Facts and Compression of Data in the Quran. I have also presented a bonus on brief introduction on the language of Algebra, Geometry and Computer System, which are only some of many aspects which makes Quran one of the Miracle of Miracles...

Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (Tales of the Prophets) in terms of the leadership of ancient prophets in a Muslim context of friendship and enmity in the narrative detail of the prophets Joseph, David, and Solomon. Although the Qiṣaṣ genre is not court-based, advice literature, these tales could function...

Suppose our knowledge of the Quran began only recently with the discovery of mysterious scrolls in a desert cave. Suppose there was no Islamic history and no Muslim community to help us understand this book. Is it conceivable, then, that we might mistake it for the central text of a long-vanished apocalyptic...

This eBook is a collection of promises from our creator of what we are supposed to do and the rewards which will follow if we apply them in our lives. They are not mere promises from human beings which are sometimes based on uncertainty but from the king of kings, who all the creatures, heavens and...

The modern historical theory of slavery is that white men brought Africans to the Western hemisphere, where they were sold for profit and put to work as slaves. The modern theory is true as far as it goes, but it does not go nearly far enough. Slavery goes far beyond the 300-year period when whites...

The first formulation of Islamic Law based on the behaviour of the people of Madinah during the time of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and the great Companions, Al-Muwatta is the blueprint for a just and radiant society: the earliest, clearest, cleanest record of salafi Islam....

This book explores some of the Qur'anic references to the medicine and science in the light of the latest scholarship. The Qur'an repeatedly asks man to reflect on the signs of Allah in his own being and around him. Taking the cue from this directive, the Qur'anic allusions to medicine and science are elucidated in this work.