Books

UMR HURTER LAUNCHED on December 6 at Tashreeqas Restaurant in collaboration with The Project Justice Trust and AWQAF SA, In Search of Who We Are is the debut novel written by Muhammed Yousuf Minty of Cape Town. A captivated audience...

DURING the heady 1980s a generation of activists in Cape Town played a pivotal role in creating alternative trade union, social and political structures. One activist, June Esau, recently published her autobiography reflecting on her personal history and her contribution...

In a recently published book STEVEN FRIEDMAN, who has written extensively on the political and social aspects of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, explores the racist underpinnings of the west’s responses to Israel’s war in Gaza. This is an extract...

UMR HURTER relates the inspiring journey of a talented children's book writer. He reveals her passion for writing, her personal growth as an author, and her unwavering commitment to captivating storytelling and inspiring readers TO attribute the phrases ‘never say...

Reviewer YAHYA BIRT Walaa Quisay, Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics (Edinburgh: University Press, 2023), 296pp. ISBN 978-1399502771. Hardback, £90.000; eBook, open access (free). This is no ordinary book review. It was due to a last...

Literary critic, author and activist, Professor HEIN WILLEMSE, paid tribute at a 94th birthday celebration for poet-activist James Matthews on May 24 at Bertha House in Mowbray, Cape Town. THE next time you are around in Kewtown, Athlone , look...

GADIJA AHJUM concludes that the The Women's Khutbah Book is 'an important scholarly book...written in a reader-friendly format and addresses realities and transformations occurring not only globally, but also within our local Muslim communities'. Shaikh, S & Seedat, F (2023)...

A Season of Abundance: RAMADAAN INSPIRATIONS. An anthology by Yacoob Manjoo. Published by the author. Cape Town (2023) 75pp. The writing voice will appeal to you because it is engaging and approachable, with a pleasant flow of appropriate language. It's...

SALIEM FAKIR reviews Crain Soudien’s book which he describes as ‘a valuable piece of historiography if you ever wanted to understand radical traditions outside of the dominance of the African National Congress legacy’. The Cape Radicals: Intellectual and political thought...

Commenting on the most recent book on the history of Islam at the Cape published locally, PROFESSOR ASLAM FATAAR calls for ‘respectful and constructive conversation on the various versions of stories and perspectives’. WE recently witnessed an increase in the...