This collection, dependent heavily on Bukhari, sanitizes what Bukhari himself reduced: the then-known collection of over 400,000 haditha to over 7000. The original 9th Bukhari's compilation runs about 1300 pages with over 7000 haditha.(You can find Bukhari's full text collection online.) The really odd and frightening stuff is in the full Bukhari version. One never knows with these collections what hazrat Mohammad really said since they were collected 150-200 yrs after he lived and are subject to the collators preconceptions about what Mohammad would, in fact, have said. Remember, there is no canon for these sayings. I gave my copy away after taking pains to download the full electronic collection.

A Manual of Hadith by Maulana Muhammad Ali should not be regarded as a comprehensive or _per se_ theological work. It is clearly pastoral and missionary. It has a pronounced ideological bent that places it squarely in the camp of modernization and humanism as subordinated to Islamic traditions on the Sub-continent. The reader should bear in mind that the collection must have been assembled and translated in the first part of the 20th century.

The author claims to be a devoted Muslim, and Muslim tradition suggests that he should be accepted as such baring strong evidence to the contary. The modernizing humanist branch of the Salfia movement _al la_ Muhammad Abduh is certainly controversial and less vocal than that of Sayid Qutb and his ilk, but must surely be in the realm of Islam and its evolving theology.

If the doctrinaire Qutbis give a Westerner an excellent argument for atheism or Buddahism, A Manual of Hadith (viewed as a document from a certain time in India) redeems Islam and is moreover an effective missionary missive to English speaking peoples.

This is a superb resource for students of classical Arabic. Arabic and English texts are set side by side on the same page, only the essence of each hadith is presented (eliminating long isnads and variations of the hadith), and the Arabic texts are fully voweled. This is the ideal work for an intermediate level between textbook readers and slogging through real old Arabic texts. The editor's notes and introductions are interesting, providing insight into at least one Muslim's view of the meaning and relevance of hadith in modern times. Whatever weaknesses this book may possess it was good enough to lead me to a deeper study of the original sources.

i was a beginner when i bought this book for a quarter at a charity book sale.. i was glad it only cost a quarter, because that's all its worth for a beginner in assembly programming.. its just not explained in a good manner like the other books out there..

An excellent book on it's subject. I believe the book should be bought only if u have a basic understanding of assembly and microprocessors.

I have been searching libraries for a long time looking for an advanced and practical book on assembly programming, but with little luck. This book astonished me when I browsed and read it. It's so direct on the subject with lots of well thought of examples on the PC interfacing and practical knowledge. Its well written and shows a great experience in teaching the subject. I give it 5 stars and put my word on it. Every one can check it for themselves and see what I mean. Good job except for its high price.

Peace be unto all,

for those interested in learning about Islam, and for those interested in learning about Islam's view on the Prophets, please DISREGARD this book. This book is by a deviant cult that are not Muslims, but claim to be. They have twisted the meaning of the Qur'an and Sunnah (Tradition of the Prophet, pbuh) to suit their own purposes.

I highly recommend all to stay away from this book, and to find an accurate one.

Peace.

Maulana Muhammad Ali's wholesome knowledge of Islam is once again reflected in this thought provoking book.
People with shallow knowledge of Islam -but who think God appointed them to judge others' religion- find Maulana Ali's no nonsense writings hard to cope with.
Additional strongly recommended readings:
Holy Quran & Muhammad The Prophet by Maulana Ali, Islam to East and West by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, and Jesus in Heaven on Earth by Khwaja Nazir Ahmed.

Allah..

This is a classical sample of deceptive literature common in the last 50 years. In between the line, the author is introducing his non-muslim movement Qadiani instead of introducing a study of the Quran. This is because the author himself strictly speaking is not a muslim and belonged to a neo-colonial religious movement known as Qadiani which has since the gaining of independence by the Indian sub-continent has been exposed as a non-muslim movement. And check out the price instead of the intial 6 $, the book has been doscounted to 1 $...it seems that there are not so much buyer.

The translator Maulana Muhammad Ali was a highly educated person of his time. Although he belonged to a religious organization which has been highly reviled in the country where that organization is based and has been declared un-Islamic, because of ignorance and intolerance amongst Muslims towards each other, yet eminent scholars and religious personalities of the era in which he lived had a very high regard for his efforts for the propagation of Islam. The well known english translator of the Holy Quran, Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall had a lot of respect for Maulana Muhammad Ali's missionary activities. A prominent political activist of the Indian subcontinent,Muhammad Ali Jouhar was full of praise about this translation of the Holy Quran. The author has written numerous other books on Islam and is well qualified. His book "The Religion of Islam", has been well received even in some Muslim countries,e.g.,Egypt, where otherwise his oraganization is considered non-Muslim. This translation, presents Islam as a religion of tolerance and a very practical religion keeping in view the religious needs of modern times.

Contrary to the misinformed views of those who are duped by the politically-motivated and power-hungry self-apponted clergy of the Muslim world, the author was a true Muslim and a believer in the Finality of Prophethood (i.e., that the Holy Pophet Muhammad was the Last of the Prophets), exactly like his mentor, the Mujaddid Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. What has made such propaganda so insiduous and continuing is the fact that a major section of the original Ahmadiyya Movement chose to turn their backs on the true teachings of the Founder of the Movement and of the Holy Prophet and to declare the Founder, after his death, a Prophet (God Forbid). It is to the everlasting credit of this author, Maulana Muhammad Ali, that he gathered together those Ahmadis who were not prepared to tolerate this divisive and un-Islamic step, or the dictatorship of a so-called Khalifa, and formed the breakaway Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam of Lahore in order to perpetuate the original Islamic teachings of the Founder. This book does not, therefore, represent the distorted views of the "Qadiani" organisation, but the views of an eminent and saintly scholar of Islam, well-known and respected in his time, who wanted nothing to do with the false doctrines of those who had hijacked the Ahmadiyya Movement and were now declaring other Muslims to be non-believers! It is sad that so many ignorant Muslims should fall prey to the propaganda that lumps the Muslims of the Lahore organisation together with the misguided Qadiani organisation, condemns them both in the same terms, and throws in the silly suggestion that the Founder was a colonial agent. The more sensible and less narrow-minded readers, Muslim or non-Muslim, should have no difficulty in seeing where the real truth lies, and stand to benefit greatly in understanding from reading this book.

Overall, this strikes me as a somewhat lazy book. Rather than offer any original writing, the editors simply cobble together previously published writings by Alex Haley (actually a "Playboy" interview of the young Ali by Haley), Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, and Peter Richmond, along with a very short introduction by James Earl Jones. The book jacket also boasts of "contributions from" the likes of Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson, George Plimpton, Jim Brown, and numerous others, but this turns out to refer simply to brief quotations that pepper the book, mostly as photo captions.

The quality of the text by the four featured writers is fine. Certainly you can't go wrong with Norman Mailer. His book "The Fight," from which the chapter in this book is excerpted, was one of the first serious works about boxing and Muhammad Ali that I read back in the 70s, and the first thing I ever read by Mailer. I was a big fan of Ali going in, and a fan of Mailer as well coming out.

One can always quibble with editing decisions in a book like this, but being familiar with Mailer's "The Fight," I found some of the choices made here rather peculiar. For example, in Mailer's very lengthy account of the Ali-Foreman fight itself, he presents the fifth round as the most dramatic, action-filled, significant round of the entire fight. In this excerpt, the editors choose to include some of Mailer's set-up for that round (e.g., "[Foreman] came out in the fifth with the conviction that if force had not prevailed against Ali up to now, more force was the answer, considerably more force than Ali had ever seen."), but then simply replace that entire climactic round with ellipsis.

I don't believe I had previously read the other three selections, or at most I had read excerpts from them. But none of them are newly rediscovered gems that will come as revelations to serious Ali fans. They are not weak or uninteresting, but they are recycled material with which many readers will already be familiar.

Similarly, there are many fine photos in the book, but little that has not appeared in one or more similar Ali books in the past. (In terms of both text and photos, I strongly prefer Wilfrid Sheed's superficially similar picture book "Muhammad Ali" to this one.) One exception is that this book includes many fight programs, posters, and tickets that I had not previously come across.

The book is marred by many factual errors committed by the editors in their photo captions. There are many things that a proofreader even minimally familiar with Ali's career should have caught, so one must unfortunately infer considerable sloppiness or laziness on the part of those who put this book together.

For example, contrary to what this book tells you, Ali did not defeat Joe Frazier by fifteen round decision in their third fight. Ali was awarded a technical knockout when Frazier's handlers conceded between the fourteenth and fifteenth rounds. Ali's 1972 fight against George Chuvalo was not a fifteen round decision, but a twelve round decision. (He had defeated Chuvalo by fifteen round decision in an earlier fight in 1966; that might be what confused the editors.) The book states flatly that Ken Norton broke Ali's jaw in the second round of their March 1973 fight. Maybe, but different parties have claimed anything from the first to the twelfth round, so the matter is not without uncertainty. The photo identified as being from Ali's 1971 fight against Jurgen Blin is in fact a photo from the 1974 fight against Foreman.

Though flawed, this book still has worthwhile elements. With such a compelling central character, you would expect nothing less. It's not the best Ali book out there by a long shot, but insofar as it recruits a few more young newcomers into the legions of Ali fans, and gives the rest of us an excuse to reminisce about an extraordinary man and his extraordinary life, it cannot be all bad.

A great book for Ali fans and boxing fans alike. It is a fun trip through the boxing exploits of one of America's, and the Worlds, greatest athletes. A fun table book that you can pick up over and over again. If you want the complete book of Ali's life- this isn't it. What it covers is Ali the Champ fight by fight!

If you're a boxing fan or just an Ali fan, this book will help you relive memories like no other photo book or biography will. If you're NOT, you will still marvel at the art and the wonderful writing on page after page. The text is not sappy, faceless writing like so many other photo or art books. Instead, these are well-written essays from people who know boxing and know Ali -- and their appreciation will make you appreciate Ali's achievements, charisma, and larger-than-life persona that has led so many to name him the athlete of the century. (If you're looking for more of a narrative, Davis Miller's new "The Tao of Muhammad Ali" is the perfect complement to this book.)

If you need to use 8051 in a work project, this is not the book for you. It's a not college level text, and the more advanced topics are either not covered or left as an exercise for readers. It's definitely not worth the price they charge.

I bought this book because of the five star rating, and I need a good 8051 book for my project. I spend about two days to go over this book, and are quite disappointed with the depth of the book. If you just want to know the very basic application of 8051, it's probably ok although there are quite a few typos.

There are three major flaws with this book:

1. Most of the serious topics are touched very lightly; it's almost useless for a firware/hardware engineer. For example, the memory map and the handshaking application of 8255.

2. Lots of trivial questions after each section, and each section is very short(again, nothing is really covered in details).

3. Very weak index, try to find memory-map!

I don't think the book deserves the price they ask for. I actually learned more from the 8051.com tutorial than from this book. The search for a good 8051 book is continued!!!

It is a great book for beginners ,It has been very useful for my first project ,It explains how to start programming and designing the 8051 microcontroller ,and I advice every engineer student who wants to get a good start in using 8051 in one of his projects to take access of this book.

I found the book to give not much insight compared to others previously written about "The Greatest". A good book for starters but not for serious Ali fans.

Mr. Stravinsky writes a decent biography of Ali, although some details of his personal life could have been covered in a little more detail. More coverage of his first three marriages, early years and gradual conversion to the Nation of Islam come to mind. Don't let this dissuade you from reading this nice little tome. I think it gives just enough information to pique ones curiosity into buying a more detailed work. The bibliography in the back of the book will give you some good choices. As a boxing fan, I found the detailed coverage of the boxing matches especially interesting. Highly recommended for those who wish to discover more about a diverse and interesting life.

even though i respect the many good works of Maulana Muhammad Ali and i consider him to be very knoledgeble, but i can't agree with this book, and i certainly can't believe such intelligent thinker would write such as blasphemous book, may Allah have mercy on his soul.

Maulana Mohammad Ali is without a doubt one of the most prolific Islamic scholars of our age. His integrity is without a doubt unquestionable and his first person association with Mirza Ghulam Ahmed for a long period of time makes his accounts most authentic..
Also must reads are: his translation of the Holy Qur'aan and his title History of the Prophets.

The book indeed is quite an accurate account of the life Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. It not only deals with historical background issues, but also his claims, position on Islamic principles as well as his project regeneration of the religion (ie. Islam) which was being lost to the material world.

As for the reviewer who claims that he was "bored", this is only indicative of his level of insight towards spiritual matters. The book is clear, consise and well supported with references from the works of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Any unbiased reader interested in the subject will not be disappointed!

This coffee table book covers the once again subject of the great boxing legend, Muhammad Ali.

From the 1960s through to the present day is coved with some quite good pictures. However when a great person's life is covered over and over again it becomes quite boring, although no disrespect to the great man himself.

Here is a book that adequately covers what it sets out to do. The authors intent was to provide an overview of Ali's career without delving too deeply into any one part, or any one fight. With some terrific photos, Ali's life and career from his start in boxing, the 1960's Olympics, the fights with Liston, Frazier and Foreman etc., right through to the 1996 Olympics are covered in brief details. If you have a growing interest in the Greatest Boxer of all time, this book will give you a good base.

This is a huge hard cover book with lots of full page photos of Ali. The book brings to live some of the most striking moments in 20th century sports.

The icon of Ali jumps out of the pages. These photos go beyond the boxing ring. They show Ali at the pinacle of political moments where he represented the opinions of half of America.

A fantastic table top book!

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This book is very recommendable for young muslim girls who are greatly influenced by western society. This book will bring things into perspective for them.

Fatima is Fatima gives a good description of the Prophet's relationship with his wives, his holy daughter, and his grandchildren. Certain parts of it also read like a story which makes it very enjoyable. I strongly recommend this book to all muslims, not just women.

According to Professor Ali Rahnema,

"Shariati was a man of his times. He reflected the mood, conditions, problems, pains and conceivable solutions of his times . . . He does not fit into any classical stereotype. Those who try to portray him as such, simply deform the man. Whatever he wrote, whatever he said and whatever he did which excited and roused him was filled with riddles and puzzles. Such was his life. A true product of the fertile cultural soil of Khorasan, the land of epics and mystics, Ali Shariati was at case with words, the principal tool of his forefathers."

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