Author: Anna Lembke

Book length: 304 pages

Excerpt: Boredom is good because it forces us to come face-to-face with bigger questions of meaning and purpose, and creates the space necessary for new thoughts.

Author: Mohammad Akram Nadwi

Book length: 160 pages

Excerpt: In rites of worship, he gave preference to solitary hadīth over qiyās since these rulings are not dependent on reason; in matters not related to worship, he gave preference to qiyās over solitary hadīth since these rulings are often based on an underlying reason (‘illah).

Author: Barry Schwartz

Book length: 282 pages

Excerpt: Counterintuitive as it may appear, what seems to contribute most to happiness restricts us rather than liberates us.

Author: Mustansir Mir

Excerpt: Reading Surah Fīl in conjunction with Surah Quraysh suggests that the addressee in Surah Fīl are the Quraysh, not the Prophet ﷺ as is stated by many commentators.

Author: Norman Solomon

Book length: 168 pages

Excerpt: ‘Tohar hanesheq’ demands that any fighting force take special risks to avoid harm to non-combatants and to minimize enemy casualties.

Author: Mateen Khan

Excerpt: All 4 madhāhib mandate the niqāb of a woman in front of a non-mahram man when there is the fear of fitnah (temptation).

Author: Omaima Abou-Bakr

Excerpt: Al-Rāzī: Since this world is a place of trial and affliction (ibtilāʾ) for humankind, any forceful imposition or oppression for the sake of faith annuls the meaning of this divine test.

Author: Khalid Saifullah Rahmani

Excerpt: Despite all his duties, Nabī ﷺ spent the time to observe one ummatī perform 12 raka‘āt in order to rectify his prayer.

Author: Denise Spellberg

Book length: 345 pages

Excerpt: Jefferson: “No historical fact is better established than that the doctrine of one God, pure and uncompounded, was that of the early ages of Christianity.”

Author: Ali Altaf Mian

Excerpt: In the Hanafī School, prayer becomes invalid if the imām follows the corrections of a non-muqtadī, while the muqtadī’s prayer becomes invalid if the audible instructions of someone other than the imām are followed, excluding mukabbirūn due to their mention in hadīth reports.