Crescent Books

10/07/2025

From 'The Book of Great Quotes' by Flamur Vehapi.
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“His real name was Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafah, but as a child, like many children of his time, he developed a fondness for camels, so he was given the nickname of Abu Bakr, meaning the father of a camel’s foal.”

22/06/2025

Thank you Meri Soch by Imran for this wonderful video! Truly poetry is a human inheritance we cannot afford to lose.

And thank you for highlighting support for refugees. This is Refugee Week, as of course is every week - as Viet Thanh Nguyen writes, "As some refugees or former refugees have noted, determining when one ceases feeling like a refugee can be difficult, even if one is no longer a refugee in fact and by law, as in my case." ('To Save and To Destroy," pg. 7)

Poets Are The HEART of Our Culture, Can We Afford to Lose Them? | MERI SOCHIn a world where literature and art are constantly evolving, one question lingers ...

20/06/2025

Antonia Young's positive review of 'Kosovo' is now online!

"As Paul Fattig notes in his Introduction: 'despite this chronology’s brevity, it is weighty'."

Find the book at thecrescentbooks.com

by Flamur Vehapireviewed by Antonia YoungAlready an acclaimed author, Flamur Vehapi’s chronological work on Kosovo has earned him widespread appreciation. The author is at great pains to give a balanced view of Kosovo’s history of all too frequent mass attacks and expulsions. To this end he has ...

16/06/2025

Where (and when) will you explore with your next book?
Try these short, well-researched history books by Flamur Vehapi
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07/06/2025

✨ Companions Leading the Way ✨
1️⃣ [NEW] Al-Rashidun: The Way of the Rightly Guided Caliphs
This book collects the teachings of these great men; their words and their actions; how they lived and how they died. Each of them was shaped for greatness by the blessed hands of the Beloved in a singular and unique manner. Together, they built a community, an empire, and a legacy that shall inspire this Ummah until the end of time.

2️⃣ [NEW] The Book of Great Quotes (2nd Edition)
This book is a timeless collection of wisdom and guidance from the first caliphs of Islam—Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali (r.a). Researched and compiled with care, it features their profound sayings on topics ranging from faith, integrity, and patience to leadership, justice, and humility.

3️⃣ Stars in the Prophet’s Orbit
A portrayal of the lives of sixty Companions of the Prophet s.a.w. This book represents a simple, intriguing, and historically precise portrayal of sixty companions of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. They witnessed the birth of Islam; awoke from the darkness of paganism and were immersed in the guided teachings of the Messenger of God; then they set out to spread the light of Islam to the farthest ends of the earth.

06/06/2025

Eid al-Adha Mubarak from the Crescent Team!

06/06/2025

Travel book highlight: Pilgrimage, sciences and sufism: Islamic Art in the West Bank and Gaza. Author(s): M. Hawari, Y. Natsheh, N. Al-Ju`beh, M. Abu Khalaf, M. Sadeq

Have you ever seen our collection of Travel Books? Widely available and covering a vast array of topics, we invite you to delight in the wonderful adventure of these publications.

Islamic Art in the West Bank and Gaza explores a period during the reigns of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman dynasties, when numerous pilgrims and scholars from all quarters of the Muslim world came to Palestine. The great dynasties commissioned architectural and artistic masterpieces in the most important religious centres. Attracting the most learned scholars, many centres enjoyed considerable prestige and encouraged the spread of a rarefied art that still fascinates today. The Islamic monuments and architecture of this Exhibition Trail clearly reflect the connections between dynastic patronage, intellectual activity and the rich expression of people's devotion, rooted in this land for centuries.

Nine itineraries invite you to discover 70 museums, monuments and sites in Jerusalem, Jericho, Nablus, Bethlehem, Hebron and Gaza (among others.)

Discover our collection of travel books, including Pilgrimage, sciences and sufism: Islamic Art in the West Bank and Gaza through the link below.

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30/05/2025

Thank you to Antonia Young for the thorough review of ‘Kosovo: A Brief Chronology’ in Issue 28 (Spring 2025) of the ‘Anglo-Albanian Gazette / Gazeta Anglo-Shqiptare’ (edited by John Watkins).

Young, an Honorary Research Fellow in South East European Studies at the University of Bradford, has written extensively on Albania and Kosovo.

Young’s review closes with a very kind appraisal of this extensively researched book: “This is a work of extraordinary importance for anyone wishing to understand or research Kosovo’s complicated history and current situation.”

You can read more of the Gazette - and find out more about the Anglo-Albanian Association, London - here: https://www.anglo-albanian.org.uk/

They are currently in the process of posting all their editions online, so check out their archives while they are working on getting up to date.

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24/05/2025

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19/05/2025

What is philosophy without poetry?
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13/05/2025

“In this slender volume of moral and spiritual instruction, scholar of cultural proverbs, Flamur Vehapi, presents to a wider audience an accessible account of the aphoristic work of Sami Frashëri, a significant 19th century Albanian Ottoman thinker (not sufficiently known in the West). Througho.....