Bilal
3) Temple folk
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"In Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire to while functioning within the country in which they are born. In "Due North,"...
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Summer, 2001. The mutilated bodies of young boys are turning up in the backstreets of Cairo, and the finger of suspicion is pointing at the city's Coptic community. As Makana, a private investigator who fled his native Sudan a decade ago, watches the embers of religious hatred begin to glow, he has a premonition that history may be about to repeat itself. But for now, Makana has another case to solve, involving a disgruntled travel agent, stolen money,...
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Superstar comic artist Enki Bilal reimagines the Louvre as a ghostly place in this series of 22 portraits. The Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, a reclining Christ, an Egyptian bustthese and other works of art are seen through the eyes of their own particular phantom. The motley collection of men, women, and children presented in these vignettes a Roman legionary, a muse, a painter, and a German officer, among othershave little in common...
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A vivid and intricate novel-in-stories, The Scatter Here Is Too Great explores the complicated lives of ordinary people whose fates unexpectedly converge after a deadly bomb blast at a train station in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city.
Comrade Sukhansaz, an old communist poet, is harassed on a bus full of college students minutes before the blast. His son, a wealthy, middle-aged businessman, yearns for his own estranged child. A young man,
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When two bodies are found brutally murdered on a building site in Battersea, Detective Sergeant Calil Drake is first on the scene. He sees an opportunity: to solve a high-profile case, and to repair his reputation after a botched undercover operation almost ended his promising career in the Violent Crimes Unit. Assigned to work with the enigmatic forensic psychologist Dr Rayhana Crane, and on the hunt for an elusive killer, Drake's investigations...
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Although the vast majority of human beings have always believed in the universe having a creator, concepts of God vary greatly among them today. For many people, important questions remain unresolved such as: Are religions divine in origin or man made? Can God really do "all things" like some scriptures claim? Could He create a rock too heavy for Him to lift? Who created the Creator and did God become man?
In this audiobook, Jamaican-born scholar...
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The struggle to attain inner peace has been with humankind since the earliest times but what does it mean and is it even attainable? Are people being deprived of inner peace because of obstacles in the path, both real or perceived? How does a materialistic outlook affect one's search for inner peace? Most importantly, what is the only guaranteed way to achieve true and lasting inner peace?
In this book, Jamaican-born scholar Dr. Bilal Philips examines...
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"A revolutionary playbook for achieving financial freedom within a broken system, from the founders of the explosively popular educational platform Earn Your Leisure Growing up as best friends in New York, Troy Millings and Rashad Bilal witnessed both the boundless creativity of young Black men and the systemic barriers that too often kept them from turning that ingenuity and hustle into lasting wealth. It became their mission to level the playing...
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Although Judaism and Christianity are considered monotheistic by their adherents, according to the core Islamic concept of monotheism called Tawheed, their beliefs have been compromised, if not transformed entirely into polytheism. Even among many Muslims, tawheed has often been neglected despite its centrality to Islam.
One of the first books written in English on the foundation of Islam according to classical understanding, The Fundamentals of...
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Three years after the release of Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, Kendrick Lamar releases his highly anticipated third album. Among the tracks is the new single The Blacker the Berry.
"Grade of A. ...Lamar operates in the same boldly visionary idiom as the Purple One, expanding the boundaries of the hip-hop empire and daring other aspirants to the throne - yes even Kanye, even Jay - to play catch-up."--Entertainment Weekly.
"4 1/2 out of 5...a masterpiece...
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"Cooking begins with the senses, and nobody knows this better than Bilal Bhatti. Before he became @GoldenGully, Bilal grew up learning to cook by paying close attention to his mother in the kitchen. He quickly realized that in order to cook like her, he'd need to rely on his senses instead of traditional measuring tools. She'd call for a "saucer" of flour when making roti and a "mug" of rice when making biryani, using typical household items as a...