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Last updated 03/12/08 

My wishlist keeps growing as I find more and more books and cds and whatnot that I want.  To keep track of everything, inshaAllah, I’m going to list the stuff I want here, as well as the stuff I buy.  Updates are found at the bottom.

To Get

CDs

• Islam, Iman, Ihsan
• Al-Ghazali: Alchemist of Happiness dvd
  Alchemy of Happiness Hamza Yusuf cd set
• Lectures by Sheikh Nuh 
• Al-Ghazali : Remembrance of Death & Afterlife

Books

 Sufism

• Justice and Remembrance: Introduction to the Spirituality of Imam Ali
• The Prophet’s Night Journey & Heavenly Ascent 
• The Prayer : Its Effect in Increasing Eemaan & Purifying Soul
• The Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom 
• Book of Wisdoms 
• 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
• The Purification of the Soul (Hanbali, ibn al Qayyim, Ghazali, others) 
• Islamic Art and Spirituality (Seyyed Hossein Nasr)

Qur’an

• Al-Qur’an : Guidance for Mankind (HB) Arabic+English (M Farooq-e-Azam Malik)
• The Transliterated Tajwidi Qur’an : With Meanings Rendered in Early 21st Century American English (A. Nooruddeen Durkee)
• The Glorious Qur’an (Daryabadi) Text, Translation & Commentary
• The Qur’an (Oxford World’s Classics Hardcovers) M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
• An Interpretation of the Qur’an : English Translation of the Meanings : A Bilingual Edition (Majid Fakhry)
• The Holy Qur’an (Abul A’la Maududi) The Holy Qur’an: Explained by Allamah Nooruddin : Large Print English (Arabic + English translation)
• The Glorious Qur’an : A Simplified Translation for the Young People (Dr. Syed Vickar Ahmed)
• The Qur’an : With Annotated Interpretation in Modern English (Ali Unal) 
• The Majestic Qur’an 
• Mufti Taqi Usami’s translation and tafsir on the Qur’an
• Qur’an Manuscripts : Calligraphy, Illumination, Design
• Splendors of Qur’an Calligraphy & Illumination  
• Calls from the Most Merciful
• The Story of the Qur’an : Its History and Place in Muslim Life
• The Qur’an and Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
•  Illuminated Discourses on the Holy Qur;’an
• Qur’an Made Easy
• Women Shaping Islam:  Reading the Qur’an in Indonesia

The Prophet

• Muhammad : His Life Based on the Earliest Sources : Revised Edition : Martin Lings

Hadith

• The Complete Forty Hadith : Revised Edition with the Arabic Texts (Imam an-Nawawi)
• Sahih al-Bukhari : The Early Years of Islam (Muhammed Asad) 
• An Introduction to the Conservation of Hadith : In the Light of the Sahifah of Hammam ibn Munabbih
• Provisions for the Seekers : A Manual of Prophetic Hadiths with Commentary : The Zad al-Talibin of Shaykh ‘Ashiq Ilahi al-Bulandshehri
• Sunna Notes : Studies in
• Hadith and Doctrine : Volume 1 : Hadith History and Principles
• Sunna Notes Volume 2 : The Excellent Innovation in the Quran and Hadith
• The Garden of Hadith Scholars : Bustan al-Muhaddithin
• The Fiqh of Da’wah : A Commentary on 40 Hadiths
• Imam Bukhari’s Book of Muslim Morals & Manners : English Translation of Al Adab Al Mufrad
• A Textbook of Hadith Studies : Authenticity, Compilation, Classification and Criticism of Hadith
• The Complete Forty Hadith : Revised Edition with the Arabic Texts 

Aqidah

• The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi 

Fiqh

• The Differences of the Imams
• Al Shafi’is Risala: Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence 
• Handbook on Islam The Book of Nature : A Sourcebook of Spiritual Perspectives on Nature and the Environment : The Education Project Series (Camille Helminski) 

Dhikr and Dua

• The Accepted Whispers 
• The Most Beautiful Names of Allah
• Al-Ghazali on the Ninety-Nine (99) Beautiful Names of God
• Al-Ghazali on Invocations and Supplications 

History

• Achievements of Muslim Women in Religious Fields
• Muslim Understanding of Other Religions 
• The Sacred Trusts : Pavilion of the Sacred Relics (Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul)
• Animals in Islamic Tradition and Muslim Cultures (Richard C. Foltz)
• 1001 Inventions : Muslim Heritage in Our World (Salim T. S. al-Hassani)
• Mecca Medina : The Yildiz Albums of Sultan Abdulhamid II (Mehmet Bahadir Dorduncu)
• Ibn Hazm
• The Four Imams : Their Lives, Works and their Schools of Thought
• Spain Under the Crescent Moon (Angus MacNab)
• Islam inTibet : Tibetan Caravans (Abdul Wahid Radhu, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama)
• The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)
• The Moriscos of Spain : Their Conversion and Expulsion (Henry Charles Lea)
• Mecca : From Before Genesis Until Now (Martin Lings aka Abu Bakr Siraj al-Din)
• Lost History : The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists (Michael H Morgan)
• The Great Arab Conquests : How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in (Hugh Kennedy) 

Behavior

• The Book of Character : An Anthology of Writings on Virtue from Islamic and Other Sources : The Education Project Series (Camille Helminski)
• The Content of Character : Ethical Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
• Agenda to Change Our Condition (Hamza Yusuf, Zaid Shakir) 

Student of Knowledge

• Instruction of the Student: The Method of Learning 

Magazines

• Islamica Magazine
• Q News
• Azizah Magazine
• Emel Magazine
• Illume Magazine 

•  My Amazon Wishlist

Got

Books

The Accepted Whispers - Loooove loooove loooove this book.  In addition to learning more supplications, it provides an insight into the Prophet (saws) that one may not get from seerahs.  It’s really a recording of his intimate conversations with Allah (swt)

Muslim Understanding of Other Religions - Provides a good introduction to ibn Hazm and the muslim understanding of christianity.  Other religions, not so much, but then again, ibn Hazm didn’t have a lot of contact with buddhists or hindus.  I was suprised at the sophisticated approach he had to the bible, and how similar it was to more modern biblical scholarship

Lectures of Sh. Nuh - got quite a few via the Shadhili Teaching website subscription.

The Most Beautiful Names of Allah - a nice little book just to read if you want to think about Allah (swt).

Muhammad : His Life Based on the Earliest Sources : Revised Edition : Martin Lings - I’m normally a very fast reader, but this book took me weeks.  I dedicated half an hour each night before bed and dove in, reading each word deliberately and soaking myself in the Prophet’s (saws) life.  I definately learned a lot.