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Monday, January 9, 2012

Cheap Islamic books

I am getting sick and tired of cheap Islamic books being published weekly if not daily. These books are flooding the market. Usually, you can find them just about everywhere; whenever you visit Muslim bookstores, stalls at community events..and nowadays online :(

If you have been reading these books, you'll noticed that some of the most common themes are as follow
  • Islamic Miracles stories
  • Promotions of Sufi lifestyles
  • Unreasonable fear of west/westerners
  • Manuals to make Muslim women even more submissive
  • Extensive studies on Jinn and spirit world
  • Let's implement Sharia and all the problems in the world would disappear
  • Devil deceptions....confession of spies....conspiracy theories
  • ..and so on...
Many of these books contain plagiarised content and are of very low quality (written in an essay format without any references, footnotes or bibliographies). Sunnis are mostly responsible for flooding the market with these cheap books….because they are the majority..... Yeah take that!

I wouldn't say Shias are not following in their footsteps..


Anyway, since Muslims who read such books have the tendency to believe that these books are completely authentic, I wonder if these books do more harm than good?

2 comments:

  1. As-salamu alaykum,
    It's a shame we Shi`a aren't doing much to translate our sources of hadith, tafsir, history, fiqh, etc. and are instead publishing more books which don't help us in our religion at all.

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    1. I think this has more to do with the demand and the supply. Book stores usually carries books that resonate well with their customers. They may have stopped carrying books that are unpopular books.

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