Drawing material from an array of sources found in libraries in India, France, Germany, Britain, North Africa, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and Hijaz, Dr Hamidullah provides readers a rich Islamic content. As an authority both on Islam and the field of international law, this classic, first published in 1942, is a rich reservoir of information providing refreshing interpretations, complementing theories with historical facts.

Publication date: March 2012

MVarious aspects of the life and thought of Imam al-Ghazali have yet to be adequately studied particularly his role in Islamic reform. Available literature on the subject is limited within the views and the achievements of a number of distinguished scholars in the modern times. This work attempts to discover part of the rich legacy of the Islamic reformers and to shed some fresh light on the topic of islah, or Islamic reform, as a distinctive Islamic duty. It critically looks at al-Ghazali's reformist teachings namely those formulated in his mahnum opus, Ihya Ulum al-Din, and discusses some of the criticism directed at him.

Publication date: February 2012

This biographical work on Umar al-Khattab, the second caliph of Islam, covers the events embracing Umar's lifetime as well as the political conquests achieved by him. It also presents a detailed record of his system of government, political and ecclesiastical, his intellectual attainments and his personal virtues. It is the result of Allama Nu'mani's life-long research, bringing together facts which were lying buried in manuscripts kept in great libraries of Istanbul, Beirut, Alexandria, Paris, Berlin and London.When first published in its original Urdu version, it was considered a great literary event in the history of Islamic literature and soon ran into several editions in a very short period.

Publication date: unconfirmed