Books

An Educational Reading of Sufi Heritage   Author: Dr. Hamed bin Ahmed Al-Iqbālī While these schools adopted Islam as their primary reference and desired goal, they differed in their understanding of it, their interpretation of its texts, and their extraction of educational perspectives from...

Sufism: Its Figures and History   Author: Various Authors There are many theories regarding the origin of the term "Sufism." Sufi authors often attribute the etymology of this word to the root of purity and cleanliness. Western European scholars, until the beginning of the...

Divine Love - Teachings from the Islamic Sufi Tradition   Author: Omid Safi The mystics, who seek God primarily as a beloved, more than Paradise and Hell, and more than salvation, address God in intimate whispers and prayers overflowing with love, called "munajat." This...

The Gleaming Lights of Hearts in the Comprehensive Secrets of the Lover and the Beloved   Author's Name: Abu Al-Ma'ali Azizi bin Abdul Malik The manuscript of the book "The Gleaming Lights of Hearts in the Comprehensive Secrets of the Lover and the Beloved"...

In Those Embraces Author: Cami Lawrence     I rose, leaving my full glass on the table, paid my bill, and followed him. He walked quickly, just like me. I liked his choice of clothing, the narrowness of his hips, and the beauty of...

The One You Thought I Was Author: Camille Laurence     An expertly written psychological thriller that contemplates the relationships we have in today's world through our insights, it is also a "dazzling indictment against the differential treatment between men and women when it...

Sufi Annihilation (Fana) and Buddhist Nirvana   Author: Ben Chaâbane Mokhtar El Idrissi If we pause for a moment to consider this issue, we find that the dialectic of influence and being influenced is an endless subject, especially in Orientalist studies. A group of...

Exile and the Kingdom Author: Albert Camus     Socrates said: "Do you know? One day, the river carried the kind statue of Christ from the sea. Some fishermen found it, oh how beautiful it was, how beautiful this statue was, and they brought...

The Nonexistent Knight Author: Italo Calvino     A novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino, known for his historical fantasy novels, and the wonderful blend of reality and myth, through beautiful language and tight narrative, which made Italo Calvino reign supreme in Italian...

Mawlana's Daughter Author's Name: Muriel Mfroui     A week after Kimya's death, Shams al-Din disappeared, this time for good. There are several theories regarding his disappearance. One of them tends to generalize, as it is more dramatic, suggesting that he was killed at...

Go Home At Once Author: Roz Nay     A thrilling suspense novel about two sisters who have been estranged for many years, keeping their secret buried deep. Suddenly, the long-lost sister, Ruth, mysteriously appears on Alex's doorstep, turning Alex's perfect life upside down....

Trembling Voices Author: Manuel Rivas  We were alone, Maria and I, hugging each other in the bathroom. We hid there to escape the fear. On stormy days, we would hear the roaring sea, but today, it was the sound of the rusty, worn-out water...

The Secret Guests Author: John Banville  The story begins in London after the outbreak of World War II, where the war is used as a pretext to place Britain's two young princesses, Margaret and Elizabeth, in the heart of Ireland. Indeed, the princesses are...

Agatha Christie, Queen of Mystery and Crime Author: Munir Shihab Ahmed  This book provides a glimpse into the life of the famous British writer and novelist Agatha Christie, who is considered one of the most renowned and widely distributed novelists globally. Her works have...

The Road to Wigan Pier Author: George Orwell  In this novel, Orwell reveals the extent of the suffering he endured when he went to the town of Wigan to live in a flat with four workers and the landlords. He descended into the depths...

In Praise of Escape Author: Khalil Al-Naeimi  "In his seventh novel, 'In Praise of Escape,' Khalil Al-Naeimi returns to the ethereal raw material he possesses: his autobiography, parts of which appeared in 'The Thing,' 'The Outcasts,' 'The Empty Being,' and 'The Rupture.' It is...

Jacob's Room Author: Virginia Woolf  "Well, if Jacob doesn't want to play" (the shadow of her eldest son, Archer, fell upon the paper, blue on the sand, and she shivered—it is the third of September—"if Jacob doesn't want to play" what a huge inkblot!...

The Life of Matvei Savelyevich Kozhemyakin Author: Maxim Gorky  Gorky takes your hand and walks you under the trees of Okurov; you hear the sound of the cathedral bell, mixed with the sounds of workers hammering iron, and the coquettish singing of women, and...

Widows Author: Ariel Dorfman  This novel was discovered after being lost for over thirty years, found at the bottom of an old box filled with old papers and periodicals. The novel was preceded by a letter to his wife and unborn child, asking them......

Girl Author: Camille Laurence  After her novels "The One You Think I Am" and "In Those Arms," Camille Laurence invites us, alongside Laurence Barraqué, as she realized from a young age that girls were inferior to boys through language and parental upbringing. This is...