Diwan Press – Classical and Contemporary Books on Islam and Sufism

The Political Teachings of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi
The eagerly awaited sequel to Dr. Riyad Asvat's Sufism – The Living Tradition: Sufi Epistemology Encounters Modernity in the Tariqa of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Sufi takes a much needed look at the Shaykh's political teachings and also the Mu'amalat of trade.

The Ramadan Discourses of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib
Recorded in 1971, these discourses on the tafsir of Qur'an spanning from Surat al-A‘raf (7:156-180) to Surat al-An‘am (6:1-31), are extraordinarily vivid, profound and yet accessible.

In June, 2019 a five-day conference of Muslim women from all five continents took place in Granada. The aim: to address the challenges facing us in the 21st century.

Osmanlı History and Institutions
Written by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Maksudoğlu drawing upon Osmanlı sources and correcting orientalist distortions, restores the core of their history and society: their utter dedication to taking Islam forward.

Volume 2 focuses on the history of the Sokoto Caliphate after the passing of the Shehu, and how his successors carried on his work amid the challenges they faced right up until the invasion of the British and afterwards.

The Tafsir of al-Qurtubi, in spite of its encyclopaedic nature, is one of the most accessible, covering linguistic and grammatical issues, ahkam-judgments and a host of other matters. Translated by Aisha Bewley, it is being published volume by volume by Diwan Press.

How Usury Came to Rule the World
Originally a PhD, this work illustrates the extraordinary unity between the original commercial practice of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; and second, the remarkable similarities in the ways that their respective peoples diverge from it and engage in usury.

“[Al-Qawanin ] is the most comprehensive useful abridgement to be found in Mālikī fiqh.” (Farid al-Ansari) It is a summation of the Deen: 'aqidah, the acts of worship, ordinary transactions, aspects of tasawwuf, and even history, noting also the spectrum of judgments within the school of Malik and without.

This is a deeply researched work on the vital subject of the rise of the modern state and its transformation via ‘democracy’ into an increasingly totalitarian structure working at the behest of an oligarchy. The author then contrasts this with, not the 'Islamic State', but a careful exposition of the Islamic paradigm.

NEW EDITION containing only the Wird and Qasidas. The Diwan of the Shaykh and gnostic of Allah Sayyidi Muhammad ibn al-Habib is a masterful transmission of the essential teachings of tasawwuf, in a clear and accessible classical Arabic, and in this edition accompanied by an uncluttered English translation.

Established in 1975, Diwan Press publish classical and contemporary books on Islam and Sufism.

Our most recent publications include the world famous tafsir of al-Qurtubi, of which to date the Introduction and eight volumes have been published, republications of The Hundred Steps and The Book of Tawhid of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi, and The Four Gems of Tasawwuf by Shaykh Ibn ‘Ajibah.

The flagships of our catalogue are The Noble Qur’an – a new rendering of its meanings in English (published by Ta-Ha Publishing of London), the Muwatta of Imam Malik and Muhammad Messenger of Allah (ash-Shifa) by Qadi ‘Iyad all translated by by Aisha Bewley and edited by Abdalhaqq Bewley.

Diwan Press specialise in works on the fiqh of the School of Madina as transmitted by Imam Malik such as The Risalah of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani of which we have also published a bi-lingual edition, and on the Tasawwuf of the Sunna such as the Diwan of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib, and the famed Darqawi Way, which contains the letter of Shaykh Moulay al-‘Arabi ad-Darqawi to his murids, as well as contemporary works dealing with the world situation today and its history and economics, both in the lands of the Muslims and the West such as the Democratic Tyranny and the Islamic Paradigm by Aisha Bewley. Among the latter are key works of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi such as Sultaniyya on the nature of political authority in Islam, and his Technique of the Coup de Banque on the foundation of the modern state in the French Revolution and the hand that finance plays in that today.

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