More books

Ah, my poor wishlist, it just keeps expanding

Justice and Remembrance: Introduction to the Spirituality of Imam Ali
The Prophet's Night Journey & Heavenly Ascent
Qur'an Manuscripts : Calligraphy, Illumination, Design
The Prayer : Its Effect in Increasing Eemaan & Purifying Soul

The Book of Remembrance

Today appears to be the day of online book windowshopping

Coming soon, a translation of Imam Nawawi's The Book of Remembrance.

Also added to the wishlist:

• The Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom
• Book of Wisdoms
• The Accepted Whispers
• The Sunnah Way of the Sufis
• The Achievement of love - The Spiritual Dimensions of Islam
• The Sublime Conduct Of Nabi SAW
• The Ramadan of the Saintly Elders
• Ethics in Islam
• Key to the Garden
• Two Treatises: Mutual Reminding & Good Manners
• Instruction of the Student: The Method of Learning
• The Fiqh of Da'wah
• Muslim Understanding of Other Religions - by ibn Hazm, oo the husband would be so happy
• Achievements of Muslim Women in Religious Fields
• Calls from the Most Merciful
• The Differences of the Imams
• The Most Beautiful Names of Allah
• The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi
• The Qur'an and Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
• Islamica Magazine
• Q News
• Azizah Magazine
• Emel Magazine
• Illume Magazine

Yeah, ok I went a little overboard. What can I say, I loooove books.

Ghazzali wishlist

One of my favorite books that occupies a permenant place on my nightstand is "Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship," taken from the Ihya ‘Ulum al-Din by Imam al Ghazzali.

Aside from wanting to read/own all his works, there are a few Imam al Ghazzali related things that are also on my wishlist:

Al-Ghazali: Alchemist of Happiness dvd
Alchemy of Happiness Hamza Yusuf cd set

I've seen a lot of excellent reviews for both around the net.

My Muslim t-shirt wishlist

From Hijabman

From MuslimGear

My future Islamic library

In addition to envisioning an Islamic Art gallery in my future house, I also have a dream to build an Islamic library that includes every english language translation of the Qur'an. I'm well on my way with Asad, Shakir, Yusuf Ali, Arberry, Khan, Saheeh International, Ahmed Ali and Cleary.

The Muhammad Asad translation is by far my favorite, partly for the translation, partly for the commentary and party for the beautiful presenation. This book is enormous, heavy and beautifully decorated. I've always looked longingly at the beautifully calligraphy of arabic only Qur'ans. The new Asad translation conveys a similar feel to that. Watch half.com, because they come up cheap on occasion, since CAIR has been handing them out and people reselling them to make a quick buck. Their loss is our gain.

I'm ashamed to admit that I've had this translation for almost 7 months and still haven't read through it all yet. But, I finish my paralegal certificate tonight (yaay!) and inshaAllah I'm going to set asside some time every night to read it.

Some of the many Qur'an related books on my wishlist to add to my library:

Transliterated Tajweed Qur'an by A. Nooruddeen Durkee
The Majestic Qur'an
Mufti Taqi Usami's translation and tafsir on the Qur'an
Illuminated Discourses on the Holy Qur'an
Qur'an Made Easy