Sh `Abdur-Raḥmān al-Makkī, a shar`ī from Ḥurrās ad-Dīn, wrote that their disagreement with HTS was in two matters: severing the bay`ah with al-Qā`idah and involving the Turkish military in Idlib.

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Inventing the Individual does a great job of explaining liberalism as a secular evolution of Christian theology. The author argues that Western liberalism was built on the beliefs of medieval Christian scholars that were in turn influenced by the moral revolution of the early church.

An insightful work on the evils of fiat money from how it was used to maintain British military spending during the First World War to its impoverishment of the majority for the benefit of the minority and its role in destroying traditional architecture and the family unit:

A breakdown of how education worked in pre-modern Islāmic society. It’s important to have knowledge about this if we want to understand the difference between Islāmic and secular education and the harm secular education inflicts on the religion.

A book on how slavery and colonialism built the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Using historical data, it explains how slavery had a role in nearly every aspect of the British economy. This insightful work proves that the legacy of slavery is an intrinsic feature of Western capitalism.

Hidden Repression is the most up-to-date and detailed work I’ve read on debt-based neocolonialism. It explains how the IMF and World Bank force “Third World” countries to become debt colonies that export cheap natural resources and are dependent on the West for imported food and capital.

The best introductory economics book I’ve ever read; it explains the principles of economics from the perspective of the Austrian school.

My only advice is to be mindful of the libertarian views the author propagates throughout the book, as they contradict Islāmic principles.

This is my favourite book on Islāmic economics in English, primarily because it mainly sticks to classical aḥkām of fiqh and thus mostly avoids modernist distortions. It also contains a good refutation of Abū’l-A`lā al-Mawdūdī’s errors.

The Impossible State is a must-read explanation of why the modern state is fundamentally incompatible with Islāmic rule from a legal, moral, and economic perspective.

📌 The author is a Christian orientalist, so take what he says about the sharī`ah with a grain of salt.

Shaykh Yūsuf al-`Uyayrī تقبله الله wrote that it was better for the Ṭālibān to advise people to avoid grave worship instead of destroying tombs in order to avoid fitnah and bloodshed:

One of the clearest indications that Dawlah’s methodology changed is that its media used to refer to the Ottoman Empire as the “Islāmic caliphate”. This was contrary to its later position of declaring the Ottoman Empire a pagan empire.

‎Shaykh `Abdul-`Azīz aṭ-Ṭurayfī فك الله أسره said:

‎“There is an issue, which is the issue of names and rulings, and it has been previously mentioned.

A person may be considered a disbeliever by name but not by ruling, due to outwardly resembling the actions of disbelievers.

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‎A gift for those who parrot the “AQ 2.0” narrative:

‎Shaykh `Aṭiyatu’llāh al-Lībī تقبله الله from “AQ 1.0” said that it’s not permissible to accuse Ḥamās of apostasy or treason. He even said that he doesn’t view the Ḥamās government to be a ṭāghūt!

I came across this fatwā by Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir رحمه الله during the Suez Crisis. It’s very interesting how the shaykh is taken by pro-establishment “Salafīs” as an imām despite this fatwā but others who do or call for the same acts today are considered “Khawārij”.