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One Thousand and One Nights
collection of Middle Eastern folk stories
Yusuf and Zulaikha
romantic story
Muwashshah
Muwashshah ( '''' 'girdled'; plural '; also ' 'girdling,' pl. ') is a strophic poetic form that developed in al-Andalus in the late 10th and early 11th centuries. The ', embodying the Iberian rhyme revolution, was the major Andalusi innovation in Arabic poetry, and it was sung and performed musically. The muwaššaḥ features a complex rhyme and metrical scheme usually containing five '''' ( 'branches'; sing. '), with uniform rhyme within each strophe, interspersed with ' ( 'threads for stringing pearls'; sing. '') with common rhyme throughout the song, as well as a terminal kharja'' ( 'exit'), t
Islamic literature
literature with influences based on Islamic religion
Qisas Al-Anbiya
Genre of Islamic literature, describing the history and stories of the prophets in Islam
Tafsir al-Qurtubi
Exegesis of the Quran by al-Qurtubi
Book of Idols
book by Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi
al-Fatawa al-Alamgiriyya
Islamic edict book
The Hundred-word Eulogy
Praise of Islam written by Chinese emperor
Ibn Nubata
Egyptian poet
Rawzat as-Safa
History of the origins of Islam, early Islamic civilisation, and Persian history by Mirkhvand
Al-Jami' as-Saghir
Sunni hadith collection
Wasā'il al-Shīʿa
book by Al-Hurr al-Aamili
Maqtal al-Husayn
Wikimedia list article
Bahishti Zewar
Book by Ashraf Ali Thanwi
Kanz al-Ummal
Sunni literature
Kashf al-ẓunūn ʻan asāmī al-Kutub wa-al-Funūn
book by Ḥājjī Khalīfah
Tabaqat
thumbnail|right|Book cover of ''Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra by Shaykh al-Islam [[Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771/1370)]] Tabaqat ( ṭabaqāt) is a genre of Islamic biographical literature that is organized according to the century in which the notable individuals (such as scholars, poets, etc.) lived. Each century or generation is known as a ṭabaqah, the plural of which is ṭabaqāt. The ṭabaqāt writings depict the past of a particular tradition of religious affiliation or scholarship and follows a chronological parameter that stretch from an authoritative starting-point to the generation (ṭabaqah'
Fazail-e-Amaal
Fazail-e-Amaal (), authored by Zakariyya Kandhlawi between 1929 and 1964, is a book that primarily consists of treatises from the Fada'il series, originally published in Urdu. Its purpose is to inspire and motivate Muslims in their religious practices by presenting a diverse range of Islamic teachings, stories, and anecdotes. The book's popularity has led to translations in multiple languages, including English and French, establishing it as a major resource for the Tablighi Jamaat, a transnational pietistic movement. Written at the request of Ilyas Kandhlawi, the founder of Tablighi Jamaat, t
Forty hadith
Hadith collections arranged in sets of forty
Fatawa-e-Razvia
book by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
Mawlid al-Barzanjī
Verse written in praise of Muhammad
Islamic feminist views on dress codes
Muslim feminists' different views on issues surrounding women's dress codes in Islam, especially on the hijab which covers body from hair to chest and niqāb which covers all face
Han Kitab
Collection of Chinese texts synthesizing Islam and Confucianism
Fath al-Mulhim bi-Sharh Sahih al-Imam Muslim
Book by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā
book about animal's life by Al-Damiri
Tafsir al-Mazhari
Religious text by Qadi Thanaullah Panipati
Aḥkām al-Qurʼān
book by Abū Bakr al-Jaṣṣāṣ
Futuh al-Haramayn
guidebook for Hajj pilgrims
Tanbih al-Ghabi bi-Tabri'at Ibn 'Arabi
book by al-Suyuti in defense of Ibn 'Arabi
Hayat al-Sahaba
summarized biography of the companions of Prophet Muhammad
Takmilah Fath al-Mulhim bi-Sharh Sahih al-Imam Muslim
Commentary on Sahih Muslim
Remembering The Beloved Prophet (S)
Book by Ashraf Ali Thanwi
Rabeya Müller
German Muslim religious educator, theologian and imam (1957-2024)
Husamul Haramain
Collection of Verdicts on Apostasy of Deobandi and Ahmadiyyya by Scholars of The Two Holy Mosques
Khtbat-e-madras
Khutbat-e-Madras () is a collection of eight sermons on the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad by Syed Suleiman Nadvi, first published in 1936. Nadvi prepared the material for a non-Arab, non-Muslim audience. Syed gave these sermons in October and November 1925 at the request of Islami Taleemi Anjuman at Madras University.
Al-Amali
Al-Amali () means "the dictations", and is the title of more than thirty books by Shia Muslim scholars. The most prominent of these are:
Al-Amali
Book by al-Shaykh al-Saduq
al-Nihāyah fī Gharīb al-ḥadīth wa-al-athar
book by Ibn al-Athīr Abū al-Saʻādāt
Al-Arf al-Shadhi sharh Sunan al-Tirmidhi
book by Anwar Shah Kashmiri
Paradise of Wisdom
early Islamic medical encyclopedia
list of Muslim writers and poets
Wikimedia list article
The Noble Quran: Meaning With Explanatory Notes
Book by Mohammad Taqi Usmani
Islamic advice literature
collections of stories or anecdotes on various aspects of Islam
Jāmiʻ al-uṣūl fī aḥādīth al-Rasūl
book by Ali ibn al-Athir