1. Al-Imām Al-Shāfiʻī Wa Madrasatuhu Al-Fiqhīyah (Imam al-Shafi’i and his School of Jurisprudence). Cairo: Dār al-Risālah, 2004.
This book is divided into two sections. The first deals with the biography of Imam al- Shafi’i, and the second deals with the way in which his School of Islamic jurisprudence developed after him. The biographical section deals not only with the life of Imam al- Shafi’i, but also with the social, political, and intellectual milieu in which he lived. The bulk of the section, however, is devoted to his intellectual development. The second section of the book examines the two strains of the Shafi’i School: that of Iraq and that of Khurasan. It traces the development of these schools up to their unification in the figures of Imam al-Rafa’i and Imam al-Nawawi. The book ends with a list of important figures and books in the Shafi’i School.
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2. Al-Ijmaʻ ʻinda Al-Uṣūlīyīn (Consensus According to the Scholars of Juristic Methodology). Cairo: Dār al-Risālah, 2002.
This book is a scholarly treatment of the issue of consensus in the methodology of Islamic Jurisprudence. It is an explanation and analysis of the meaning, basis, and function of consensus as represented in the classical works of juristic methodology as well as an argument and defense of its continued relevance today.
3. Qawl Al-Ṣaḥābī ʻinda Al-Uṣūlīyīn (The Sayings of the Prophet’s Companions According to the Scholars of Juristic Methodology). Cairo: Dār al-Risālah, 2004.
This book deals with one of the sources of Islamic law the validity of which has been debated by Muslim scholars: the statements of the Companions of the Prophet. The study falls into three sections. The first deals with the definition of a Companion according to both scholars of Hadith and scholars of Juristic Methodology, the second deals with the evidentiary weight of the statements of the Companions according to different scholars including the position of the author, and the third addresses the legal results of following the opinions of the Companions.
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4. Al-Muṣṭalaḥ Al-Uṣūlī Wa-Mushkilat Al-Mafāhīm (Terminologies of Juristic Methodology and the Problem of Concepts). Cairo: Dār al-Risālah, 2004.
This book deals with the issue of terminologies and their meanings. It takes as a starting point the phenomenon of certain terminologies differing having different meanings in the modern context than they did historically. The first half of the book is theoretical in nature investigating the nature of terminology. The second half of the book is a practical application of the theory and an analysis of the term “juristic analogy” (al-qiyas).
5. Taʻāruḍ Al-Aqyisah ʻinda Al-Uṣūlīyīn (Conflicting Analogies According to the Scholars of Juristic Methodology). Cairo: Dār al-Risālah, 2004.
This is a study of conflicting evidence in the shari’ah, specifically conflicts in analogy (qiyas). The book first deals with conflict of evidence in general, then it moves on to discuss the conflict of analogies, and concludes with an extended discussion of how and why one piece of evidence is preferred over another.
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6. Al-Mar'Ah fi Al-Hadarah al-Islamiyah Bayn Nusus al-Shar' wa Turath al-Fiqh wa wl- Waqi al-Ma'Ish (Women in Islamic Civilization between Religious Texts, the Legal Tradition, and the World in which We Live). Cairo: Dār al-Salām, 2006.
This book addresses issues related to women and Islam. It is divided into three sections: Muslim women in Islamic religious texts, Muslim women in the Islamic legal tradition, and Muslim women in Islamic history. The issues dealt with include polygyny, spousal abuse, female leadership, the testimony of women in court, and other issues related to women that have been perceived as controversial. Throughout the author exhibits a great deal of wisdom in revealing how the Islamic tradition is relevant to contemporary life while critically engaging with many commonly held notions about Islam.
7. Taysir al-Nahhj fi Sharh Manasik al-Hajj (The Easing of the Way in Explaining the Rituals of the Hajj). Cairo: al-Wabil al-Sayyib, 2006.
This book offers a description of the Hajj to be followed by those who intend to carry it out. Following his discussion of the necessary and recommended practices, the author mentions some of the “secrets” or inner meanings of the Hajj as well as the etiquette for visiting the Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon him). The book includes a number of fatwas that highlight issues that people may run into while on Hajj. The final section of the book is a collection of supplications taken from Imam al- Nawawi’s Kitab al-Adhkar (The Book of Supplications) to be said at different points of the Hajj.
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8. Al-Makayil wa al-Mawazin al-Shar'iyah (Weights and Measurements). Cairo: Dār al- Risālah, 2002.
This book discusses the units of weight and measurement mentioned in the classical books of Islamic law and provides their equivalents in contemporary units taking into consideration the varying opinions of the four Sunni Schools of Islamic Jurisprudence. In the author provides examples of the uses of weights and measures from Islamic Jurisprudence. This book is an invaluable reference for students of Islamic law.
9. Sina'ah al-Fatwa (Making Fatwas). Cairo: Nahḍat Miṣr, 2008.
In this book the author provides a concise description of the processes involved in issuing fatwas. The author begins by defining a fatwa as, “The clarification of a legal ruling based on evidence and issued to somebody who has inquired about it.” Following his discussion of the nature of fatwas, the author analyses the criteria of those who issue fatwas and the steps that they go through in issuing them as well as the etiquette involved both in issuing a fatwa and requesting one from a scholar.
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10. Al-Jihād fī al-Islām (Jihad in Islam). Cairo: Nahḍat Miṣr lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr wa-al- Tawzīʻ, 2005.
This short book on Jihad is divided into two sections. The first section is theoretical and deals with the religious texts in Islam that refer to Jihad and the principles that guide it. The second section is an historical overview of war beginning with references to it from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The author provides details concerning all of the military ventures from the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The concluding chapter deals with the spread of Islam and argues that, contrary to some claims, Islam did not spread through violent coercion, but rather through peaceful encounters between Muslims and non-Muslims.
11. ʻIlm Uṣūl al-Fiqh wa ʻIlāqatihi bi al-Falsafah al-Islāmiyah (Juristic Methodology and its Connection to Islamic Philosophy). Cairo: Dār al-Risālah, 2002.
In this monograph the author discusses Juristic Methodology (usul al-fiqh) as a philosophical approach to knowledge unique to Islam. After describing the ways in which Juristic Methodology functions in this capacity, the author concludes by recommending that, in addition to legal source texts, it be used as an epistemological approach for understanding the world around us and a methodology to be applied in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences.
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12. Madá Hujjīyat Al-Ruʼyā ʻinda al-Uṣūlīyīn (The Evidentiary Weight of Visions According to Scholars of Juristic Methodology). Cairo: al-Nahār li all-Ṭabʻ wa al-Nashr wa al- Tawzīʻ, 2002.
This book discusses one of the sources of Islamic law mentioned by scholars but concerning whose voracity scholars have disagreed, namely visions in general and specifically visions of the Prophet. Following a discussion of the definition of visions and an examination of the religious texts that mention them, the author advances the opinion that visions are not sound legal evidence and cannot be relied on as such.
13. Ālīyāt al-Ijtihād (The Tools of Ijtihad). Cairo: Dār al-Risālah, 2004.
In his introduction to this book the author states, “In these pages we will address the issues associated with ijtihad, as it has been defined by scholars of Juristic Methodology and as it has been handed down to us by them, in the hopes that we may revive it in ourselves and, by applying it in the academic context arrive at the degree of ijtihad in Sacred Law, the Natural and the Human Sciences. And we hope to know the tools of ijtihad through which religion may be renewed in a world characterized by great change, progress, and regression at once.”
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14. Al-Madkhal ila Dirasah al-Madhahib al-Fiqhiyah (The Gateway to Studying the Schools of Jurisprudence). Cairo: Dār al-Salām, 2004.
This book is a useful tool for students of Islamic Jurisprudence, particularly those dealing with classical legal texts. It not only provides a historical background of the development of the four Sunni Schools of Islamic Jurisprudence, but it includes keys to understanding their texts such as explanations of abbreviations and symbols used by authors in different schools. With additional chapters on subjects such as the sources of Islamic law, legal maxims, and the history of Islamic legislation, the book represents a comprehensive treatment of Sunni jurisprudence and legal theory that will benefit both the beginning student as well as the accomplished researcher.
15. Al-Naskh ʻinda al-Uṣūlīyīn (Abrogation According to Scholars of Juristic Methodology). Cairo: Nahḍat Miṣr lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2005.
The author begins this book with an overview of the opinions of legal scholars concerning abrogation in all of its forms. He then puts forward his own opinion, building on that of his Sheikh ‘Abd Allah ibn Siddiq al-Ghumari, that there is no abrogation in the Quran. He continues to discuss verses from the Quran that scholars have claimed have been abrogated and shows how they can be interpreted differently.
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16. Al-Imām al-Bukhārī wa Jāmiʻuhu al-Saḥīḥ (Imam al-Bukhari and his Collection of Authentic Hadiths). Cairo: al-Hayʾah al-Miṣrīyah al-‘Āmmah lil-Kitāb, 2003.
This book is both a biography of the hadith scholar Imam al-Bukhari and a biography of what may be the most important and influential collections of traditions of the Prophet Muhammad: his collection of authentic hadiths known as Sahih al-Bukhari. The book concludes with lists of errata for some of the most widely read print version of Sahih al- Bukhari including the famous Sultaniyyah version.
17. Al-Ṭarīq ilá al-Turāth al-Islāmī: Muqadimāt Maʻrifīyah wa Madākhil Manhajīyah (The Path to the Islamic Tradition: Epistemological Prolegomena and Methodological Beginnings). Cairo: Nahḍat Miṣr, 2004.
This book grew out of a lecture series that the author gave to provide students and scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences the tools needed to work with the texts of Islamic tradition. The book is a crash course in how to read and interpret classical texts beginning with grammar and logic and continuing with analyses of the worldview adopted by the authors of those texts. The book includes many examples of how the principles discussed can be applied to the texts in question.
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18. Simāt Al-ʻAṣr: Ruʼyah Muhtamm (Signs of the Times: The Vision of Someone Concerned). Cairo: Dār al-Fārūq lil-Istithmārāt al-Thaqāfīyah, 2006.
This book is a collection of essays taken from Sheikh Ali Gomaa’s weekly column in the al-Ahram newspaper as well articles from various other publications including some previously unpublished material. Subjects addressed include the concept of community (ummah), sacred language, the relative and the absolute, the differences between the Sunnis and the Shiites, the Danish cartoon crisis, and accounts of the author’s travels and conferences that he has attended.
19. Al-Waḥi, Al-Qurʼān Al-Karīm (Revelation: The Quran). Cairo: al-Muqaṭṭam li al-Nashr wa al-Tawzīʻ, 2007.
This is a collection of Friday sermons delivered by Sheikh Ali Gomaa at the Sultan Hasan Mosque in Cairo. The 27 sermons in this collection all deal with an aspect of the Quranic revelation. They shed light on how Muslims relate to the Quran in their everyday lives and elucidate the meanings of a number of chapters and verses.
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20. Al-Nabī Salla Allah Alayhi Wa Sallam (The Prophet May the Peace and Blessings of God Be Upon Him). Cairo: al-Wabil al-Sayyib, 2007.
This is the second collection of Friday sermons delivered by Sheikh Ali Gomaa at the Sultan Hasan Mosque in Cairo. The twenty-two sermons gathered here revolve around the Prophet Muhammad and how Muslims relate to him in their theology and in their everyday lives.
21. Al-Tarbiyah wa-Al-Sulūk (Spiritual Training and Wayfaring). Cairo: al-Wābil al-Ṣayyib, 2007.
This is the third collations of Friday sermons delivered by Sheikh Ali Gomaa at the Sultan Hasan Mosque in Cairo. The forty-nine sermons gathered here are more general in their topics that the previous books of Sheikh Ali’s sermons. They all address some aspect of how Muslims should behave in the world, how they should relate to God and to their fellow human beings and they represent the spiritual guidance that Sheikh Ali gives to hundreds of worshippers who gather to pray behind him every week.
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22. Al-Fatawa Al-'Asriyyah li Mufti Al-Diyar Al-Misriyyah (Contemporary Fatwas from the Grand Mufti of Egypt). Cairo: Dār al-Fārūq, 2007.
For a number of years Sheikh Ali Gomaa made a weekly appearance on the Egyptian talk show Al-Bayt Baytak (The House is Your House). At the end of each episode Sheikh Ali would answer questions from viewers who called in. The fatwas gathered in this book are his answers to those questions that range from the very specific to the general.
23. Sayyidunā Muḥammad: Rasūl Allāh Ilá Al-ʻAlamīn (Our Master Muhammad God’s Messenger to All the Worlds). Cairo: 2006.
This book falls into two sections. The First provides a biography of the Prophet Muhammad as well as a description of his physical attributes and his virtues, including the ways in which God has honored him among humanity. The second section is dedicated to the Sunna or Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad, what constitutes it and how it has been preserved over the centuries.
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24. Al-Tariq ila Allah (The path to God). Cairo: al-Wabil al-Sayyib, 2007.
This book is based on a series of lessons on Sufism that Sheikh Ali gave at the al- ‘Ashirah al-Muhammadiyyah Mosque in Cairo in 2001. He begins with a discussion of the famous hadith of Jibril and situates Sufism as the discipline referred to by the Prophet when he described excellence as worshipping God as if you saw Him. The book addresses many aspects of Sufism including spiritual seclusion and the levels of the soul, as well as principles such as, “One who is distracted shall not arrive.” It serves both as an introduction to Sufism for those who have no previous knowledge, and a repository of wisdom and guidance for those already familiar with the tenets of the Path.
25. Al-Qiyās ʻinda al-Uṣūlīyīn (Analogy According to Scholars of Juristic Methodology). Cairo: Dār al-Risālah, 2006.
This book is an extensive study of the issue of analogy. The author discusses the meaning of analogy, its evidentiary weight, its components and its uses in a detailed and exhaustive manner quoting extensively from authors who adhere to the various schools of Jurisprudence and Juristic Methodology.
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26. Al-Kalim al-Tayyib: Fatāwa ʻAṣrīyah (The Good Word: Contemporary Fatwas). Cairo: Dār al-Salām, 2005.
This collection of fatwas has sections devoted to all aspects of Islam such as: purification, prayer, almsgiving, pilgrimage, fasting, financial transactions, military conflicts, theology, intellectual inquiry, family relations, endowments, inheritance, marriage and divorce, human rights, virtues and etiquette, and contemporary intellectual issues.
27. Al-Kalim Al-Tayyib: Fatawa 'Asriyyah. Vol. 2. Cairo: Dār al-Risālah, 2007.
A slightly shorter companion volume to Al-Kalim al-Tayyib this collection of fatwas addresses some of the same topics with additions such as science and medicine.