These are the books I hope to read over winter 2012.

[1] Geoffrey Canada’s, Fist Stick Knife Gun. Adapted by Jamar Nicholas; [2] They Live! by Jonathan Lethem; [3] Garret Keizer’s, The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want; [4] Duties of an Imam by ‘Abdur Rahman Shad. Revised by ‘Abdul Hamid Siddiqui;  [5] Sacred Space by Douglas E. Cowan; [6] ‘Abd al-Hadi al-Jarjani’s, Kitab al-Miftah fi al-Sarf; [7] An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, by James L. Cox; [8] Mukhtasar al-Sarf by ‘Abd al-Hadi al-Fadayli; [9] Science Fiction Cinema, by Christine Cornea; [10] Raji al-Asmar’s, al-Mujma’ al-Mufassil fi ‘Ilm al-Sarf; [11] A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion by James L. Cox; [12] John Coltrane and BlackAmerica’s Quest For Freedom by Leonard Brown;  [13] Ibn Taymiyya and His Times by Yossef Rapoport and Shahab Ahmed ; [14] Abu Fatih ‘Uthman Ibn Jinni’s al-Khasa’is; [15] Ahsan Zaqur’s Fiqh al-’Ibadat wa  Adillah ‘ala Madh’hab al-Saddah al-Malikiyyah; [16] The Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault; [17] al-Tamhid fi ‘Ilm al-Tajwid by Shams al-Din Abi al-Khayr Muhammad Ibn al-Jazari; [18] Abu ‘Umar Hafs Ibn ‘Umar al-Duri’s al-Qira’at al-Waridah fi al-Sunnah. Edited by Ahmad ‘Isa al-Ma’srawi; [19] ‘Ilm al-Qira’at. Ed. Nur al-Din Muhammadi; [20] al-Mustaw’ib al-Jami’ l’Riwayah Qalun ‘an al-Imam Nafi’ by Nur al-Din Muhammadi; [21] On the Bounds of Theological Tolerance in Islam by Sherman Jackson; [22] Black Mecca, by Zain Abdullah; [23] Sherman Jackson’s, Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering.