Authors: Nazir Khan and Yasir Qadhi

Excerpt: The entirety of the Muslim ummah in every generation since the beginning of Islam has understood that humankind is descended from Adam and Eve, who were created directly by God.

Author: Mohammad Elshinawy

Excerpt: Ibn al-Qayyim: “It was from His Mercy جل جلاله that He blemished their worldly life for them and made it imperfect. This was so they would not feel comfortable in it nor feel secure regarding it, and so they would aspire for the endless enjoyment in His abode and in His company.”

Author: Justin Parrott

Excerpt: There are many things in the world we cannot see, but in which we believe, because we deduce their existence from their signs or effects.

Author: Ovamir Anjum

Excerpt: In 1996, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked about the death of half a million children as a direct result of the US war and sanctions against Iraq and responded: “We think the price is worth it.” The world’s oldest democracy and champion of human rights, in other words, believes that half a million innocent children could be legitimately killed to protect its strategic interests.

Author: Asadullah Ali al-Andalusi

Excerpt: Western nations have focused entirely on superficial age limits as determinants of maturity—all the while considering it socially acceptable for their own minors to engage in sexual relations as long as they are within the same age range.

Author: Saleem Gaibie

Book length: 54 pages

Excerpt: Ali RA: “Tartīl is excellence in the recitation of the letters and having knowledge of the rules of stopping.”

Author: Bart Ehrman

Book length: 242 pages

Excerpt: In the first published edition of the Greek New Testament there was no mention of the Johannine Comma, the only passage that explicitly delineates the doctrine of the Trinity.

Author: Firas Alkhateeb

Book length: 248 pages

Excerpt: Under Aurangzeb’s Islamically-oriented economic policies, Mughal-era India became the world’s largest economy.

Author: Jonathan Brown and Abdullah Hamid Ali

Excerpt: Since there is no one comprehensive definition of slavery under which all instances of slavery in history can fit, instead of focusing on the term ‘slavery’ itself we should focus on the conditions associated with it.

Author: Al-Nawawi

Translator: Musa Furber

Book length: 234 pages

Excerpt: Ibn Mas‘ud RA said, “If one of us memorized a chapter from the Qur’an, he did not leave it for the next until mastering the knowledge it contains and knowing what it permits and prohibits.”