Which Books are you reading?

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tafseer of surah noor darus salam. excellent book

clears up so many of the misconceptions about islam- shariya, capital punishment, hijab, niqab, free mixing, marriage, why zina is prohibited.
 
Barack Obama- The Audacity of Hope. It's his political philophosy all in one. The chapters are long, but it's brilliant.
 
Anybody read "The Tin Drum" (Die Blechtrommel), published in 1959 by Gunter Grass? Its I think some kind of allegory of the Nazi regime though I am not sure I detected that when I read it several years ago but I just came across it again when sorting my books out.

It is I thought easy read (in English) though the story about a kind of dwarf who beats and wears out tin drums sounds forbidding but it is I think worth the bother if only to get into another kind of writing. Incidentally, Grass is a Nobel Prize winner in literature.

It has been made into a film and if you think the book is weird then then the film will confirm it for you.
 
I was reading, Palestine, Yesterday, today and tomorrow by Dr Tareq Suwaidan.

Very interesting. It provides a brief overview of the long and turbulent history of Palestine, from it's dawn to the present day.

It's Gold :D
 
tw009 said:
I just started reading 'Dont Be Sad' by Aaidh ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni ...im loving it so far!
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This book sounds interesting and useful though I have only read press cuttings on it but I wonder if being sad is sometime or even perhaps often good for us - does he touch on that aspect?
 
Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,

I am currently reading the Quran from start to end for the first time. Then I'm also reading a book called "The obligation of veiling" to find more prooves on niqab.
 
crayon said:
A really great website I just discovered for all book lovers- like facebook, except no people, just books!

http://www.shelfari.com/
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There is an App very like this site as follows although of course you cannot share it

ItemShelf - found in the Apple App Store
Costs about £1 but it is excellent. The idea is that it lets you catalogue books and all sorts of other things. Essentially, one creates a 'shelf' and then if you have say a collection of books you can just add them in by typing in the ISBN or the book name if you don't know the ISBN and the App looks up all the other details for you. You can also classify the book with as many tags as you like. If you have an Iphone you can just take a picture of the bar code if you don't want to type it in.

Finally, you can use it to look for books because it can search Amazon for you. So on my Itouch I have a shelf for my own library, a shelf for books I want to buy or need a reference to or been recommended, a shelf for my CD/DVD collection and one for household items (for example, we have 8 different type of lighting so its a good idea to have the details and bar code for each one).

The only limit seems to be how much memory you have free and so far I have catalogued well over 500 books and 200 CDs with a long way to go yet.
 
I don't enjoy fiction or novels for that matter but I just had to buy this book:

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it is un-put-downable ...

lucky that I am a fast reader so I don't have to feel guilty about enjoying something so frivolous...

you can read the reviews here:

http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Gar...iewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

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Anyone read "My Uncle Napoleon" yet? It's a Persian novel written about 1973 but its available in English. It was banned by the Mullah's (a good reason to read it) in Iran after the revolution and after a very successful TV series. It is said to be the most beloved Iranian novel of our time.

Its quite a longish read but well worth it and for me it was all captured in almost the very first scene where the children are all sent for and lined up in front of "Dear Uncle" because someone had scrawled in chalk on the door leading to the yard "Napoleon is a Donkey". Dear Uncle then cried out "who did this?" and they all unwittingly and surreptitiously focus on Siamak but Dear Uncle spots it....

"My Uncle Napoleon", by Iraj Pezeshkzad and translated into English by Dick Davies ISBN 97808129-74430
 
I have a stack of books which I need to go through currently prioritised trying to finish the book The tree of faith by Shaykh Abdulrahaman Nasser as saidi.

Secondly i wish to go through the book The Road to Jannah by shaykh Omar Bakri Muhammad
 

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