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Ihya 'Ulum al-Din
By Imam al-Ghazali · 40 volumes · ~124h
The Revival of the Religious Sciences — Imam al-Ghazali’s magnum opus, a comprehensive guide to the spiritual life covering worship, daily living, the destructive vices, and the saving virtues.
Book 1: The Book of Knowledge
The first book of the Ihya examines the nature and purpose of knowledge, distinguishing beneficial from harmful knowledge, and establishing the foundations of Islamic learning and scholarship.
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Stories of the Prophets
By Imam Ibn Kathīr · 13 volumes · ~20h
The stories of the Prophets from Adam to Isa, drawn from the Quran and prophetic traditions — one of the most beloved works in Islamic literature.
The Story of Adam
From Ibn Kathir's classic Qisas al-Anbiya — the story of Prophet Adam as narrated through Quran and authentic traditions.
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Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya
By Imam Ibn Kathīr · 3 volumes · ~52h
'The Beginning and the End' — Ibn Kathīr's monumental world history, written in 14th-century Damascus. From the creation of the Throne to the early years of the Sīrah, narrated with the rigor of a master hadith critic and the narrative skill of one of Islam's great historians.
Volume 1 — From Creation to Mūsā
Volume One of Ibn Kathīr's Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya opens at the absolute beginning: the creation of the Throne, the Pen, the Tablet, the heavens, the earth, and the angels. From cosmology Ibn Kathīr moves through the creation of the jinn, Iblīs, and Ādam, then the long chain of early prophets — Idrīs, Nūḥ and the flood, Hūd, Ṣāliḥ, Ibrāhīm and Nimrod, Lūṭ, Ayyūb, Shuʿayb, Yūsuf — culminating in the life of Mūsā and the children of Israel after Pharaoh.
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The Travels of Ibn Battuta
By Ibn Battuta · 2 volumes · ~24h
The remarkable journey of Ibn Battuta — 30 years, 120,000 kilometres, and dozens of lands across the medieval Islamic world. A masterpiece of travel literature.
Volume One: From Tangier to the Lands of the East
The first half of Ibn Battuta's extraordinary 30-year journey across the Islamic world — one of the greatest travel accounts ever written.
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Timeless Classics
By Various Classical Scholars · 7 volumes · ~35h
Essential works by three of the greatest scholars in Islamic history — Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, Imam al-Nawawi, and Imam al-Dhahabi. Works of enduring depth and precision on the spiritual life, the hadith tradition, and the moral architecture of Islam that have shaped Muslim devotional life for over seven centuries.
The Disease and The Cure
Al-Da' wal-Dawa' — Ibn al-Qayyim's diagnosis of the diseases of the heart and their cures through repentance, remembrance, and spiritual discipline.
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Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā
By Imam al-Dhahabī · 1 volumes · ~10h
Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā — “The Lives of the Noble Ones” — is Imam al-Dhahabī's vast biographical history: a chronological account of Islam's most eminent figures across its first seven centuries, from the Companions and Followers to the great imams of hadith and fiqh, each life weighed with the precision of a master hadith critic.
Volume 1
The opening volume of Imam al-Dhahabi's Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā — his monumental biographical history of the most eminent figures of Islam, recorded generation by generation.
Open volume 1 →The Beginning of Guidance
By Imam al-Ghazālī · 1 volumes · ~2h
Imam al-Ghazālī's practical handbook for the sincere seeker — a companion to the Ihyāʾ that maps the believer's whole day, from waking to sleep, across three movements: acts of obedience, turning away from sin, and the etiquette of companionship with God and people. A short, transformative primer on turning knowledge into a lived path.
The Beginning of Guidance
Imam al-Ghazālī's practical handbook for the sincere seeker — a companion to the Ihyāʾ that maps the believer's whole day, from waking to sleep, across three movements: acts of obedience, turning away from sin, and the etiquette of companionship with God and people. A short, transformative primer on turning knowledge into a lived path.
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By Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah · 1 volumes
'The Ranks of the Divine Seekers' — Ibn al-Qayyim's monumental commentary on al-Harawī's Manāzil al-Sāʾirīn: a station-by-station map of the soul's journey to Allah, unfolded through the letters of 'Iyyāka naʿbudu wa iyyāka nastaʿīn' — from awakening, repentance and self-reckoning up through love, longing and contentment. The masterwork of Islamic spiritual psychology.
Volume One
The opening volume of Ibn al-Qayyim's masterwork on the stations of the soul's journey to Allah.
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