If only there were more books like this available in the English language. English-speaking Muslims are flooded with polished books presenting corrupt and unorthodox assertions about God's attributes adopted by the Wahhabi/"Salafi" movement which present the Believer with the false delimma in that if you don't accept their literal interpretation of God having hands, feet, and eyes, and that He is literally sitting on the throne then you are rejecting God's attributes and therefore a heretic.
Traditional Islamic creed asserts that the Believer accepts what the Qur'an and the Prophet (peace be upon him) have said about God while at the same time rejecting logical absurdities which entail God having a body and occupying time and space.
The author clearly explains the traditional view while at the same time launching a well-documented refutation of the wahhabi/"salafi" assertions.
A must read for anyone wanting to know more about God and traditional Islam as transmitted by the scholars of Islamic creed.
Encyclopedia of Islamic Doctrine; by Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani; As-Summan Foundation of America; 8 different paperbacks; 1998.
Vol. 1: Beliefs [Islamic](Aqida): Topics: the Ashari school, Salafis movement, how Salafis malign Asharis, Hanbali school, khawarij, Ibn Taymiyya, anthropomorphism, the aberrations of the Wahhabis and Salafis.
Vol. 2: Remembrance of Allah and praising the Prophet (Dhikr Allah, Madih, Naat, Qasidat al-Burda)
Vol. 3: The Prophet: Commemorations, Visitation and His knowledge of the Unseen (Mawlid, ziyara, Ilm al-Ghayb)
Vol. 4: Intercession (Shafaa, tawassul, istighatha)
Vol. 5: Self-purification: State of Excellence (Tazkiyat al-Nafs/Tasawwuf, ihsan)
Vol. 6: Forgotten aspects of Islamic worship: Part One.
Vol. 7: Forgotten aspects of Islamic worship: Part Two.
Vol. 8: Indices.
