Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa’s Book Recommendations

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

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

Feel free to comment with any book recommendations from Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa that we have missed out.