Ramadan Mubarak!
Wishing all our Islamic friends, fans, and readers Ramadan mubarak wa kareem.
Here are some books that can take your attention away from long days of fasting:
Poems and stories from before the war in Syria and during the war by a Damascene experiencing the war first-hand. The pre-war poetry reflects the rich and joyful life that existed then, and the poems and stories written later reflect the starkness and fearfulness of life that now surrounds Damascus and its inhabitants.
This series of lectures is an overview of five ancient philosophical traditions, focusing on the following questions: More than a series of lectures, this collection of dialogues addresses the following questions:
- What is the relationship between religion and philosophy?
- What social and psychological functions do religions serve?
- What does it mean to be educated?
Professor Sabzevary's intellectual nuance is matched only by his clarity, not only into perennial philosophical questions but also the modern condition. Far from leaving abstract concepts in the lofty confines of tradition, Professor Sabzevary speaks a religious language with a modern tongue, placing ancient philosophies within the practical and emotional difficulties of modern life. This applicability does not sacrifice profundity, as these dialogues move in a depth that taps into the wellspring from which all religious philosophies draw their substance.
Recommended by US Review of Books, Road to Damascus describes the Middle Eastern journey of an American who meets and falls in love with a Syrian when they are both attending school in New York. Giving up her country and her religion to follow her husband back to Syria, Elaine Imady has made a life that has successfully bridged two cultures and two continents. Raising three bi-cultural, bilingual children, Elaine has important insights to offer to readers from either the West or the Middle East about how we can all not only get along with each other but learn to love each other. Her life is symbolic of the best of what can be when two cultures come together.
Eric Hoffer Legacy Award first runnerup
This delightful book relates folktales from various regions of Syria. Each folktale is located on a regional map and is accompanied by a local, related recipe.
The most important contribution of this book is perhaps in the light it sheds on the institutional roots of organizations that sanction the use of indiscriminate violence to advance political objectives.
This book contains 29 stories originally articulated in Arabic by Bashir Al-Bani, Orator of the Grand Mosque of Damascus and one of the masters of the Sufi Naqishbandi Order. They have been compiled, rendered in English, and introduced by Dr. Omar Imady, professor of humanities and political science. The stories are often comic but often deep in implication. While one story may address the motives underlying human interaction, another story may address how hidden principles guide the way in which our lives unfold. A delicate concern for the value, indeed the sacredness, of human value permeates all the stories. This concern is explicated through metaphors, the purest vocabulary of Islamic humanism.
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