I am nominated for the 10 books meme by Muhammad Arqum. Here is the specific requirement: You have to list 10 books that have made a lasting impact on your life and/or have challenged your perceptions in some way and/or are simply great pieces of literature. Here is my list, and I exclude the big famous novels, poets and dramas, the great pieces of literature, which all of us have read, re-read, loved and remembered in one way or the other. I am more interested here in the lasting impact and challenging perception part. Since its a beneficial meme for all of us, I slightly break the rules and add 5 more book, that is 15. 1. Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych 2. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground 3. Edward Said, Orientalism 4. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory 5. Sherman. A. Jackson, On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam (translation and notes on Abu Hamid Al Ghazalis Faysal Al Tafriqa) 6. David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding 7. Michel de Montaigne, Complete Essays 8. Herzen Alexander, My Past and Thoughts 9. Edwin. A. Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science 10. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Who is Man? 11. Richard P. Feynman, The Character of a Physical Law 12. John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy 13. Saleem Ahmed, Collected Essays 14. Muhammad Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam 15. Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami, On Schachts Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence I nominate Yede Beza, Asim Raza, Syed Mateen Ahmed, Qaiser Shahzad, Nusrat Bokhari, Raja Jamil Asghar Jami and Muhammad Imran Khan.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:47:16 +0000
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