The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad is not a travelogue one picks up to read about the conditions of the people and the landscape of a country in a distant past; it is an absorbing personal saga of a man's 'home-coming' to Islam, the religion of his fitrah (nature). "A very rare and powerful book, raised completely above…
Towards Understanding Islam by Abul A'la Mawdudi is a religious text with a difference. It offers a simple exposition of the essential teachings of Islam: its scheme of worship and prayers and the social order which it envisages. Its methodology is steeped in the Qur'an. Towards Understanding Islam is one of those books which have changed the lives of many…