What are you currently reading?

Asalamu-alaikum,

Reading>> 1) Al-Bidayah wan-nihayah by Ibn Kathir.


2) Sunan Darmee by Imam Abdullah bin Abdhur Rahman At-tameemi Ad-darmee (Rahmatullah 'alahe)
 
gladTidings said:
It is a best seller based on Mortensons life, it is amazing, highly reccomended!! Completely perfect with a cup of sweet cinnamon chai.
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salaams sis
just for the record.. .there is a lot of controversy over that book... and a lot of what mortenson has said. just ... read it with a grain of salt.
Serena
 
Finished reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I've now started "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde... I think I'll probably go through some more classics after that, since I haven't had a chance to before now like most people... Most likely Dracula, Crime and Punishment, and perhaps some Jane Austen...
 
Tyrion said:
Finished reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I've now started "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde... I think I'll probably go through some more classics after that, since I haven't had a chance to before now like most people... Most likely Dracula, Crime and Punishment, and perhaps some Jane Austen...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a fantastic book.
 
Aisha said:


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You can download ebooks and read them on there.
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ooooooo interesting :)
 
This thread has been dormant for a while. Needs some shaking up. I hope others contribute as well, and not let it go hibernating again.

Currently, I'm reading Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare, A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore, and The Biography of ʻUthman ibn ʻAffan by Ali Muhammad as-Sallabi.

I don't know if anyone can claim that they are actually reading a Shakespeare play, because you don't read them, you study them. They take comfortably longer than most books, and you're not done with them if you've just finished what's written in the book. You gotta consider the reference notes, the summaries, the dictionaries, etc.

A Dirty Job is quenching the fiction thirst, and the biography of the third caliph is doing double-duty of non-fiction and Islamic. ;D
 
necropost???

just finished Carthage Must Be Destroyed The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles. currently reading Egypt, Canaan And Israel In Ancient Times by Donald B. Redford. both are excellant.

for background i watched TTC's 12part series Great Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt by Prof. Bob Brier, which was great. then, rewatched TTC'S 12 part Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations by Prof Kenneth Harl, which really rocks. the maps in Harl's later courses are phenomenal. and all that made me toss in TTC's 36 part lecture series The Holy Land Revealed by Prof/Archaeologist Jodi Magness. she is a great lecturer and offers great insight into the history of Palestine, though her maps could use some work.
 
The Emotion Code book -- about the magnet healing to release emotional blocks.

Neurospirituality and Neuroscience book

And random articles in internet about Solfeggio harmonics

An article about Egyptology and history of Egypt's ancient deities (Isis, Osiris, etc)

Another article about sacred geometry (even Islam have it. but you don't wanna hear it ;D)
 
I'm currently memorizing Juz' Amma in Arabic, so I'm not reading as much of the Quran as before.

For fun, I am reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I don't like it as much as Pride and Prejudice or Mansfield Park.

Ali_008, I really enjoyed A Dirty Job. I think it is one of Moore's best works.
 
Tyrion said:
Finished reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I've now started "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde... I think I'll probably go through some more classics after that, since I haven't had a chance to before now like most people... Most likely Dracula, Crime and Punishment, and perhaps some Jane Austen...
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You should read the count of monte cristo.
 
Paul De Kruif: Hunters of micro-organisms/Mikrobien metsästäjiä

Book tells about the history of scientists whose created science of micro-organism in Europe (from Leeuwenhoek (1600th century) to Pasteur and Ehrlich). As book is printed at 1927, it is more as historical than pure scientific one.
 
^ I rather slash my wrists and see it get infected than read any books based on science. >_>
 
I recently read a book called Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Al-Sanea. The author is a Saudi who has lived/still lives abroad, and she was able to make the status of women in Saudi look nearly as bad as in Afghanistan. Of course, they have the financial independence, but the book was so focused on the characters being overly concerned about their reputation. I've read a few reviews by Saudi nationals who say that it does not represent all the Saudi tribes, but even then the damsel in distress angle in the Saudi context seemed quite unbelievable. I've been to Saudi - I mean not just Makkah and Madeena, but even Jeddah, Dammam, and Khobar - and it was hard for me to believe that I was reading about those same women.
 
Al Ghazali on disciplining the soul, breaking the two desires and the revival of the religious sciences (same book) translated by T.J Winter (aka Abdul Hakim Murad, English convert, professor at Oxford University).
Rethinking muslim women and the veil-challenging historical and modern stereotypes – Katherine Bullock Ph.D - (An Australian convert to Islam)

  • “This book straddles many academic disciplines: political theory, feminism, anthropology, sociology, history as well as Middle Eastern and Islamic studies...a powerful critique of the popular western notion that the veil is a symbol of Muslim women’s oppression...the author argues that in a culture of consumerism, the hijab can be experienced as a liberation from the tyranny of the beauty myth...”
 

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