Ceesay Muhammed

Reading:

Beyond research, I read on different topics; Technology, History, Philosophy, Politics, Fiction, Science, and Religion. Listed here are some of the books I have read, those I am currently reading, and those I have read in parts.

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Currently Reading:

  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan
  • The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotle
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff
  • Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence - Mohammad Hashim Kamali
  • Economic Fables - Ariel Rubinstein

Read Recently:

  • The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr
  • Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa - Paul Kenyon
  • Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now - Jaron Lanier
  • Ayyuhal Walad - Al-Ghazali
  • Christ in Concrete - Pietro di Donato
  • Only the Paranoid Survive - Andrew F. Grove
  • Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction - Samir Okasha
  • The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Eichmann and the Holocaust - (Based on Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Richard Feynman: A Life in Science - John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
  • The Laundromat - Jake Bernstein
  • Islam and the Destiny of Man - Charles Le Gai Eaton
  • How Democracies Die - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
  • The Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife - Al-Ghazali, translated by T.J. Winter
  • Ibn Taymiyyah - Jon Hoover
  • Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources - Martin Lings
  • 12 Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
  • Animal Farm - George Orwell

Selected Partial Reading:

  • The Economics of Collusion (bidder-collusion chapters) - Robert Marshall and Leslie Marx
  • The Republic - Plato
  • Confessions - Leo Tolstoy
  • Introduction to the Sciences of The Quran - Yasir Qadhi
  • Reconciling Reason and Revelation in the Writings of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328): An Analytical Study of Ibn Taymiyya's Dar' al-ta'arud - Yasir Qadhi
  • Islam and Slavery - Jonathan Brown
  • Orientalism - Edward Said
  • On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky
  • Zad al Ma'ad - Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyya