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| anon |
| 12/03/05 at 05:11:26 |
| [slm] Nothing better than being in a warm bed with a book in winter! I haven't done any book shopping for almost a year... and plan to do some now. If you had to recommend ONE book (excluding tafsirs and books of hadith) what would you recommend? (looking at all genres, anything from religion to fiction) |
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| Aurora |
| 12/03/05 at 09:28:10 |
| [slm] I don't know if you'll find this in any regular bookstore, but maybe a used bookstore or a library for sure. The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye I think its a great novel :) |
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| Kathy |
| 12/03/05 at 10:24:32 |
| [slm] I couple of months ago I read "If I should Speak" and "One Voice" by the same author. Nice easy read. The story lines moved and inspired me. Last week I finished Loosing My Religion by Jeffery Lang. Intense book, more intellectual look on every day questions Muslims have and the answers. It is written in easily understood scholarly way. It is a book you can start and stop and continue later... which is essential for a busy person! I personally loved it as a revert. |
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| buL-buL |
| 12/04/05 at 17:48:07 |
| [slm] If you're into psychology then I would recommend "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. The way he recommends that we approach people can also be used for dawah purposes. |
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| Amaya |
| 12/04/05 at 17:53:07 |
| hmmm...wel i would reccomend THE ''WAHHABI'' MYTH. and The return of hijab [] |
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| anon |
| 12/05/05 at 12:07:45 |
| [slm] Thank you Sis Amaya for your suggestions. Unfortunately I already know too much about salafism (more than I would like perhaps). :) I will look into the other book you suggested. Is it fiction or a religious book about hijab? Currently my booklist has: - Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman - Atleast one book by John Taylor Gatto on Home schooling (maybe: Educating Your Child in Modern Times) and possibly: - Instruction of the student--the method of learning (translation of talim al mutalim with foreword by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf) Maybe I will add one of chomskys to the list. I have never read Jeffery Lang, though I have heard some of his talks. Not too interested in the kind of questions he usually brings up (or brought up in the 2 talks I heard). Has anyone read "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander" ? |
| 12/05/05 at 12:14:25 |
| anon |
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| anon |
| 12/05/05 at 12:20:01 |
| [quote author=malika link=board=kabob;num=1133601087;start=0#3 date=12/04/05 at 17:48:07] [slm] If you're into psychology then I would recommend "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. The way he recommends that we approach people can also be used for dawah purposes. [/quote] I don't like the sound of that! I am by nature averse to learning "methods" of motivating and influencing people. I don't like the idea of doing something or affecting a change even in a small action just to influence someone. I do like psychology though, although I read it with good caution as I feel psychologists believe their science to be far more exact and accurate than it actually is. As one Shaykh said after quoting research that said that for some particular mental disease the rate of recovering by just sitting at home was higher than by getting psychological treatment "Al-Ghazali knew more psychology than all these people"' |
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| jannah |
| 12/05/05 at 12:23:01 |
| salam, I've read Far Pavillions... I got about half way and then I just had to stop when his whole atheistic/worshipping mountains thing took over and then I just couldn't read it anymore... One of the more interesting books I've read lately is called [url=http://store.yahoo.com/islamicbookstore-com/b7651.html]La Huzn- Don't be sad...[/url] and it's an interesting read because of all the literary quotes and basically the philosophical message it is trying to bring across. I thought it was excellent and much needed these days when we have so much anxiety and problems. If you are interested in Education type books a great one I read in grad school is called [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060974990/qid=1133806154/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-2606168-6540827?v=glance&s=books]Savage Inequalities[/url] by Jonathan Kozol The other books you mentioned I've heard a lot of good things about as well. Also, Zaid Shakir's new book [url=http://store.yahoo.com/islamicbookstore-com/b8544.html] Scattered Pictures [/url] I've heard good things about. |
| 12/05/05 at 13:16:59 |
| jannah |
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| anon |
| 12/05/05 at 12:43:31 |
| [slm] You mean "scattered pictures" ? his collection of reflective essays? |
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| jannah |
| 12/05/05 at 13:12:57 |
| Yes that's it.. I've heard good things about it!! wlm, |
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| Carol |
| 12/05/05 at 13:30:10 |
| Salaam alaikum, I'm a librarian, so asking me for just one good book is like asking a mother who her favorite child is! But I would like to recommend one nonfiction book titled "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-time America" by Barbara Ehrenreich. She is a reporter who took several lower income jobs like waitressing, working in a nursing home, maid, and Wal-mart worker, to show how it is nearly impossible for people holding these types of jobs to survive economically. It was very eyeopening, and you will never look at your waitress or the clerk at Wal-Mart in the same way again. I think it inspires readers to have more compassion for these workers. Wassalaam, Carol |
| 12/05/05 at 13:30:38 |
| Carol |
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| bhaloo |
| 12/05/05 at 23:08:56 |
| [slm] [quote author=jannah link=board=kabob;num=1133601087;start=0#7 date=12/05/05 at 12:23:01] One of the more interesting books I've read lately is called [url=http://store.yahoo.com/islamicbookstore-com/b7651.html]La Huzn- Don't be sad...[/url] and it's an interesting read because of all the literary quotes and basically the philosophical message it is trying to bring across. I thought it was excellent and much needed these days when we have so much anxiety and problems. [/quote] This is one excellent book, alhumdullilah. La Huzn is the Arabic version of the book |
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