Angus Macnab

This is the most entrancing book on Moorish Spain since Washington Irving's Tales from the Alhambra. It may be even more so, because, where Moorish Spain is concerned, truth is usually stranger than fiction: Agnus Macnab's Spain under the Crescent Moon is composed of a series of historical sketches so irresistibly readable that they might have been lifted straight from the Arabian Nights-except that, unlike Scheherazade, he quotes unimpugnable historical sources for every wonder he recounts. READ MORE
 

Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence

It is fair to say that the "Book of Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence " plays an axial role in Ghazali's celebrated compendium, the Ihya Ulum al-din.  What is at issue is not Divine Unity itself, but the implications for the community arising from the idea that everything comes from God and that "there is no agent but God."  How can we trust in Divine Providence? READ MORE