I have been reading Sh. Hamza Yusuf’s “Purification of the Heart,” which is a discussion on Imam Mawlud’s Matharat al-Qulub. The book defines certain illnesses of the heart, which can manifest in a person’s actions and lead to disliked or even sinful behavior. It also prescribes treatments to these illnesses from the Islamic perspective of [...]

When I first began reading Reza Aslan’s book No god but God, I was expecting to read a broad and generalized overview of Islamic history as it is generally taught to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. However, the book surprised me by going in depth in not only in the rise of Islam in the Arabian [...]