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Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa’s Book Recommendations
Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa’s Book Recommendations

Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa’s Book Recommendations

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A draft list of books recommended by Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa, collected by his students. The list is in no particular order.

    A draft list of books recommended by Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa, collected by his students. The list is in no particular order.

                    • In the Absence of the Sacred – Jerry Mander
                    • Deep Nutrition – Catherine Shanahan
                    • On Disciplining the Soul – Al-Ghazali
                    • Breaking the Two Desires – Al-Ghazali
                    • Words and Rules – Steven Pinker
                    • Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
                    • The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
                    • Milestones – Syed Qutb
                    • The Islamic Struggle in Syria – Dr Umar Faruq Abdullah
                    • Sea Without Shore – Shaykh Nuh Keller
                    • The Art Of Memory – Frances Yates
                    • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins
                    • Reflections – Shaykh Gai Charles Eaton
                    • The Value of Time – Shaykh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah
                    • Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
                    • Mastery – Roberte Greene
                    • Brainsex: The real difference between men and women – Anne Moir & David Jessel
                    • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
                    • Orality and literacy – Walter J Ong
                    • How to make Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
                    • In praise of slow by Carl Honore Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
                    • Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
                    • Don’t think of an Elephant – George Lakoff
                    • Dumbing us down: The hidden curriculum of complusory schooling – John Taylor Gatto
                    • Unschooled Mind – Howard Gardner
                    • Ghosts in our blood – Jan Carew
                    • God and the new Physics – Paul Davies
                    • Hidden Messages in water – Masaru Emoto
                    • The Book of five rings – Miyamoto Musashi
                    • The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember – Nicholas Carr,
                    • Mastery -George Leonard
                    • What the dog saw and other adventures – Malcolm Gladwell
                    • Who moved the stone? – Frank Morison
                    • Islam and the destiny of Man – Charles Le Gai Eaton
                    • Our Master Muhammad, The messenger of Allah – Imam ‘Abdallah Sirajuddin al-Husayni
                    • Evolution’s End: Claiming the potential of our intellgence
                    • The holographic universe – Michael Talbot
                    • How to create a mind – Ray Kurzweil
                    • The accident universe: The world you thought you knew – Alan Lightman
                    • Exploring the crack in the cosmic egg: split minds and meta-realities – Joseph Chilton Pearce
                    • Darwin’s Black box – Michael J. Behe