জিজ্ঞাসা-বজলুর রহমান

ধর্ম বিষয়ে অনেক প্রশ্ন নিয়ে একটি বইয়ের নাম ‘জিজ্ঞাসা’। বইটির প্রশ্নগুলো আরজ আলী মাতুব্বরের ১৯৭৩ সালে প্রকাশিত বিখ্যাত গ্রন্থ ‘সত্যের সন্ধানে’ এর অনুরূপ। তবে এই বইটি মুদ্রিত হয়েছে ‘সত্যের সন্ধানে’ এর ছয় বছর আগে ১৯৬৭ সালে। বইটির লেখক বজলুর রহমান বর্তমান ঝালকাঠি জেলাধীন কাঠালিয়াস্থ শৌলজালিয়া গ্রামের পির ‘হাক্কোননুরী’ হিসেবে পরিচিত। লক্ষণীয় যে বজলুর রহমান ছিলেন তৎকালীন জেনারেল শিক্ষায় শিক্ষিত এবং স্নাতক ডিগ্রিধারী। একই সাথে তিনি ছিলেন ধর্মীয় ধারায় এক আধ্যাত্মিক সাধক। সেই সাধনার মধ্যে থেকেই তিনি ইসলাম সম্পর্কে এমন কিছু প্রশ্ন তুললেন এবং সেসবের এমন জবাব বইয়ে লিপিবদ্ধ করলেন যে তৎকালীন শরিয়তপন্থী মৌলভীরা মারাত্মক ক্ষেপে গেলেন। মাহমুদিয়া মাদ্রাসার প্রতিষ্ঠাতাদের একজন তথা জামে এবাদুল্লাহ মসজিদের খতিব জনাব ইয়াসিন বেগ প্রমুখের নেতৃত্বে তারা এই বইয়ের বিরুদ্ধে ১৯৬৮ সালে বরিশালে মিছিল করলেন এবং বইয়ের কপি পোড়ালেন।

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Harry Potter #8) by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne

The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later.

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.

The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger

From one of the world?s foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its history

An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world?s oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint.

Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky

The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights

ইসলাম:আরবদের জাতীয় আন্দোলন-আনোয়ার শেখ

ডাউনলোড: ইসলাম-আরবদের জাতীয় আন্দোলন

Mary: A Flesh-and-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother by Lesley Hazleton

Arguably the most influential of all women throughout history, Mary, the Virgin Mother is also, paradoxically, the least known. In this unprecedented brilliantly wrought biography, Mary comes believably to life. 

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes Paperback by Tamim Ansary

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years.InDestiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. He clarifies why our civilizations grew up oblivious to each other, what happened when they intersected, and how the Islamic world was affected by its slow recognition that Europe—a place it long perceived as primitive and disorganized—had somehow hijacked destiny.https://www.goodreads.com/

Jezebel: The Untold Story Of The Bible's Harlot Queen by Lesley Hazleton

There is no woman with a worse reputation than Jezebel, the ancient queen who corrupted a nation and met one of the most gruesome fates in the Bible. Her name alone speaks of sexual decadence and promiscuity. But what if this version of her story, handed down to us through the ages, is merely the one her enemies wanted us to believe? What if Jezebel, far from being a conniving harlot, was, in fact, framed?

সীরাততুল নবী (অখণ্ড)- ইবন হিশাম

 

ডাউনলোড লিংক- সীরাততুল নবী (অখণ্ড)- ইবন হিশাম

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.

Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment by Phil Zuckerman

“Silver” Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Religion Category

Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree

Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time is the definitive story of Neil's life of flight he shared for five decades with a trusted friend – Jay Barbree.

Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell

Russell delivered this lecture on March 6, 1927 to the National Secular Society, South London Branch, at Battersea Town Hall. Published in pamphlet form in that same year, the essay subsequently achieved new fame with Paul Edwards' edition of Russell's book, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays ... (1957).

Foucault and Queer Theory (Postmodern Encounters) by Tasmin Spargo

Foucault's theories on power, crime and sexuality have enormously influenced the postmodern debates within post-feminism, cultural studies, sociology, and history.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Paperback by Sam Harris

"The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."―Natalie Angier, ?New York Times

A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong

Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have shaped and altered the conception of God is a tour de force. 

Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion by Dana L. Robert

Exploring how Christianity became a world religion, this brief history examines Christian missions and their relationship to the current globalization of Christianity.

Giordano Bruno: Mystic and Martyr by Eva Martin

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The United States and India, Pakistan, Bangladesh: Third Edition (American Foreign Policy Library) by W. Norman Brown

Between 1963 and 1972 the two nations of India and Pakistan made a number of important governmental, political, economic, and cultural changes. They had to meet crises caused by forces of nature as well as crises originating in their own institutions. Democratic processes advanced in India; they were repudiated in Pakistan and the repudiation led to the civil war in East Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh. W. Norman Brown covers all of this and more in his fresh look at the subcontinent.

Isaac Newton: And the Scientific Revolution (Oxford Portraits in Science) by Gale E. Christianson

In 1665, when an epidemic of the plague forced Cambridge University to close, Isaac Newton, then a young, undistinguished scholar, returned to his childhood home in rural England. Away from his colleagues and professors, Newton embarked on one of the greatest intellectual odysseys in the history of science: he began to formulate the law of universal gravitation, developed the calculus, and made revolutionary discoveries about the nature of light.

Adultery by Paulo Coelho

I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself. 

Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily, finding the balance between life's routine and the desire for something new

Economics of Fundamentalism and the Growth of Political Islam in Bangladesh - Dr. Abul Barkat

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of "The Caged Virgin, " Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie "Submission."

I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale by Khushwant Singh

I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale is a colorful and moving pageant of an ancient people about to throw off the yoke of foreign rule. Essentially, it is the story of Buta Singh, a shrewd and wily official working with the British, and of Sher Singh, his vain and ambitious son driven to rebellion against the foreign master. It is also the story of the women of the family—Champak, Sher’s beautiful wife, her wild passions bursting the bonds of century-old prohibitions, and Sabhrai, Sher’s mother, whose matriarchal strength sustains the family in its time of crisis. What happens to this family when a brutal and senseless murder sets father against son, wife against husband, is told against the background of an India torn by religious tension and fraternal strife.-http://www.goodreads.com/

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Born at the stroke of midnight, at the precise moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is destined from birth to be special. For he is one of 1,001 children born in the midnight hour, children who all have special gifts, children with whom Saleem is telepathically linked.

The Blood Telegram by Gary J. Bass

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Book Award
Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Foreign Affairs Book
Winner of the Asia Society's Bernard Schwartz Book Award
Winner of the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature
Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations' Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize
Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award

The Taj Mahal is a Hindu palace Unknown Binding – 1969 by Purushottam Nagesh Oak

P N Oak has given such evidences in this book which prove that the building Taj Mahal existed years before the death of Mumtaj Mahal.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.

 

World Crisis and the Pathway to Peace by Mirza Masroor Ahmad

A compilation of Speeches and Letters to the International World by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam by Michael Philip Penn

The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present, Syriac Christians wrote the first and most extensive accounts of Islam, describing a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges not reducible to the solely antagonistic.

Truth, Love and a Little Malice by Khushwant Singh

Khuswant on Khuswant is irresistable... such is his skill as a writer, simple, lucid, unpretentious, This book has been well worth the wait. India today

The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia by David Commins

This is a definitive and authoritative account of the conservative interpretation of Islam that is the official creed of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed it as a heretical innovation that manipulated a backward people to gain political control.

The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate by Wilferd Madelung

In a convincing reinterpretation of early Islamic history, Wilferd Madelung examines the conflict that developed after the death of Muhammad for control of the Muslim community. He demonstrates how this conflict, which marked the demise of the first four caliphs, resulted in the lasting schism between Sunnite and Shi'ite Islam. In contrast to recent scholarly trends, the author takes up the Shi'i cause, arguing in defense of the succession of 'Ali. This book will make a major scholarly contribution to the debate over succession.

The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion by Robert Spencer

In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam-perhaps the first such portrait in half a century-unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammad's life that continue to affect our world today.

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan

Though it is the fastest-growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded in ignorance and fear for much of the West. In No god but God, Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed scholar of religions, explains this faith in all its beauty and complexity. 

The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World by Marcelo Gleiser

"An intellectual accomplishment that illuminates the magic and the wisdom of the heavens above."―Kirkus Reviews

Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Anne Emmerich

The Blessed Anne Catheine Emmerich is a respected and tormented figure in the Catholic church. She was bedridden for most of her life and was a stigmatic as well. Anne was a very supernaturally-affected person, and professed to have seen many visions in her life. These were recorded by a friend and published. Life of the Blessed Virgin Marywas uncompleted when the scribe died, and so was published as is.

The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967 (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society) by Joya Chatterji

The partition of India in 1947 was a seminal event of the twentieth century. Much has been written about the Punjab and the creation of West Pakistan; by contrast, little is known about the partition of Bengal. This remarkable book by an acknowledged expert on the subject assesses the social, economic and political consequences of partition.

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha

A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly written epic history peopled with larger-than-life characters, it is the work of a major scholar at the peak of his abilities..-http://www.goodreads.com/

Why I am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq

Appalled by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, Warraq offers a reasoned examination of the world's second largest religion. He criticises various aspects of Islam, including the Rushdie affair, the oppression of women and the enforcement of taboos.

After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam by Lesley Hazleton

Narrative history at its most compelling, After the Prophet allows readers to grasp the power and depth of the Shia-Sunni split as never before.

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani

In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen? 

Galileo Galilei: First Physicist (Oxford Portraits in Science) by James MacLachlan

The scientific innovations of Galileo Galilei are pivotal to our understanding of the laws of the natural world. Drawing on his diverse studies in philosophy, mathematics, mechanics, music, astronomy, and engineering, Galileo developed revolutionary theories that thoroughly changed the disciplines of physics, mathematics, astronomy, and technology.

The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff

Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and directed by Tom Hooper, THE DANISH GIRL is a shockingly original novel about one of the most unusual and passionate love stories of the 20th century.

The Fall by Albert Camus

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.

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The Calvinist Copernicans: THE RECEPTION OF THE NEW ASTRONOMY IN THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1575-1750 by Rienk Vermij

When it was published in 1543, Copernicus's new astronomy had an enormous impact on intellectual life in early modern Europe, but the reception of his new ideas differed fundamentally from one country to another. Rienk Vermij discusses how—unlike in Roman Catholic lands—discussion in the heavily Calvinist Dutch Republic was initially dominated by humanist scholars who judged Copernicus's work on its mathematical merits. Yet even in this environment, it could not escape eventual philosophical, religious, and political controversies. This book shows how Copernicus's astronomy changed from an alternative cosmology into an established worldview in the Dutch Republic.