Books I Have Read
Latest Readings:
2025:
- The World of the Jinn and Devils
- The Body – A Guide for Occupants
- A Brief History of the Female Body
- The Coming Wave
- Is Maths Real?
- Daily Life in Ancient India
- The Illustrated Atlas of Exploration
2026:
- The Ageless Brain
- Muhammed – A Biography of the Prophet
- Islam – A Short History
- 1434
I read widely and broadly. The following booklist is organised by topic. I mostly read non-fiction. I seldom read fiction. 137 non-fiction books are listed below:
- Phenomenon (8)
- Science and Mathematics (26)
- Archaeology and History
- World and General History (6)
- Ancient Egyptian History (5)
- Indian History (6)
- Islamic History (9)
- Biblical (1)
- Mesopotamian History (1)
- Persian (3)
- American History (1)
- European History (1)
- Chinese History (1)
- Ancient Peru (1)
- Mongolian History (1)
- Intellectual History (7)
- Evolution and Natural History (2)
- Anthropology and Ethnography (1)
- Economic (1)
- Paganism (1)
- Programming (2)
- Politics and Current Affairs (4)
- Business, Economics and Finance
- Finance (3)
- Sustainable Business and Economics (2)
- Buddhism (1)
- Parenting (1)
- Poetry (1)
- Philosophy (2)
- Biographies and Letters (8)
- Hinduism (1)
- Conspiracy and Terrorism (3)
- Sexuality (1)
- UFOs, Paranormal and Supernatural (4)
- The Quran (4)
- Islam and Muslims (7)
- Ahmed Deedat Books (9)
- Anti-Semitism (1)
- Life, Wellness, Mindfulness (1)
Phenomenon
Title: Synchronicity
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
Year read: 2008
Title: The Secret of the Secret
Author: Karen Kelly
Year read: 2010?
Title: There are no Accidents
Author: Robert H. Hopke
Year read: (2008)
Title: The Right Way to Interpret Your Dreams
Author: Elizabeth Scott
Year read: 2010?
Title: Making Time
Author: Steve Taylor
Year read: 2014
Title: Time Warped
Author: Claudia Hammond
Year read: 2014
Title: Intelligent Design Symmetries & The Future of Islam
Author: Myself (Ziad Cassim)
Year read: 2015
Title: The Edge of Science
Author: Jonathan Blake
Year read: 2015
Science and Mathematics
Title: A brief history of Time (1990s)
Author: Stephen Hawking
Year read: 1990s
Title: The Universe in a Nutshell
Author: Stephen Hawking
Year read: 2000
Title: The Canon
Author: Natalie Angier
Year read: 2012
Title: The Changing Universe
Author: Trinh Xuan Thuan
Year read: 2012
Title: Why Beauty is Truth- The History of Symmetry
Author: Ian Stewart
Year read: 2012
Title: The Grand Design
Author: Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Year read: 2013
Title: War of the Worldviews: Science verses Spirituality
Author: Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow
Year read: 2013
Title: Easy as Pi
Author: Jamie Buchan
Year read: 2013
Title: Archaeology: Step-By-Step
Author: Christopher Catling
Year read: 2013/4
Title: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Year read: 2014
Title: Physics of the Future
Author: Michio Kaku
Year read: 2014
Title: Farewell to Reality
Author: Jim Baggot
Year read: 2014
Title: Wired for Culture
Author: Mark Pagel
Year read: 2016
Title: The Mathematics of Life
Author: Ian Stewart
Year read: 2016
Title: The World’s 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems
Author: John Vacca
Year read: 2016
Title: Bob Miller’s Algebra for the Clueless
Author: Bob Miller
Year read: 2000s
Title: Ibn Khaldun’s science of Human Culture
Author: Fuad Baali
Year read: 2017
Title: The Brain
Publisher: New Scientist
Year read: 2022
Title: Why We Sleep
Author: Mathew Walker
Year read: 2023
Title: The Music of the Primes
Author: Marcus Du Sautoy
Year read: 2024
Title: The Secret Lives of Numbers
Author: Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell
Year read: 2024
Title: The Body – A Guide for Occupants
Author: Bill Bryson
Year read: 2025
Title: A Brief History of the Female Body
Author: Deena Emera
Year read: 2025
Title: The Coming Wave
Author: Mutafa Suleiman
Year read: 2025
Title: is Maths Real?
Author: Eugenia Cheng
Year read:
Title: The Ageless Brain
Author: Dr dale Bredesen
Year read: 2026
World and General History
Title: The Atlas of World Archaeology
Edited by: Paul G. Bahn
Year read: 2003/4?
Title: 365-Your Date with History
Author: W. B. Marsh and Bruce Carrick
Year read: 2008
Title: Civilizations
Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Year read: 2013
Title: The Ummahs of the Past
Author: Ibn Kathir
Translated by: Rafique Abdur Rehman
Year read: 2014
Title: 1492
Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Year read: 2017
Title: The Illustrated Atlas of Exploration
Owner: Weldon Owen (Pty) Ltd
Year read: 2025
Ancient Egyptian History
Title: The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (2005)
Edited by: Ian Shaw
Year read: 2005
Title: History of Ancient Egypt
Author: Nathaniel Harris
Year read: 2006
Title: Egyptian Religion
Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
Year read: 2014
Title: Egyptian Magic
Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
Year read: 2014
Title: The Book of the Dead
Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
Year read: 2016
Indian History
Title: Gem in the Lotus
Author: Abraham Eraly
Year read: 2014
Title: Taj Mahal and the Saga of the Mughals
Author: John Lall
Year read: 2005?
Title: The Mughal Throne – The Saga of India’s Great Emperors
Author: Abraham Eraly
Year read: 2013
Title: Humayun Nama: The History of Humayun
Author: Gul-Baden Begam
English Translating Author: Annette S. Beveridge
Year read: 2013
Reading Notes: Biographical sketches in Appendix A were not read in full.
Title: History: Muslims of Gujarat
Author: Zuleika Mayat
Year read: 2013
Title: Daily Life in Ancient India
Author: Jeannine Auboyer
Year read: 2025
Islamic History
Title: Warriors of God
Author: James Reston, Jr.
Year read: 2007
Title: Dogs Of God
Author: James Reston Jr.
Year read: 2009
Title: Sea of Faith
Author: Stephen O’
Year read: 2010
Title: Defenders of the Faith
Author: James Reston Jr.
Year read: 2011
Title: A Short History of Saracens
Author: Syed Amir Ali
Year read: 2014
Title: A History of Arabian Music
Author: Henry George Farmer
Year read: 2016
Title: The Travels of Ibn Jubayr
Author: R J C Broadhurst
Year read: 2017
Title: Muhammed – A Biography of the Prophet
Author: Karen Armstrong
Year read: 2026
Title: A Short History
Author: Karen Armstrong
Year read: 2026
Biblical History
Title: The Gold of Exodus
Author: Howard Blum
Year read: 2016
Mesopotamian/Persian History
Title: Babylon
Author: Paul Kriwaczek
Year read: 2012
Title: A Literary history of Persia Vol. I
Author: Edward G. Browne
Year read: 2016
Title: A Literary history of Persia Vol. II
Author: Edward G. Browne
Year read: 2017
Title: A Literary history of Persia Vol. III
Author: Edward G. Browne
Year read: 2018
European History
Title: Straits – Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Year read: 2024
American History
Title: The Secret Founding of America
Author: Nicholas Hagger
Year read: 2014-2015
Ancient Peru
Title: A Sacred Landscape
Author: Hugh Thompson
Year read: 2013
Chinese History
Title: 1434
Author: Gavin Menzies
Year read: 2026
Mongolian History
Title: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
Author: Jack Weatherford
Year read: 2013
Intellectual History
Title: Orientalism and Islam
Author: Michael Curtis
Year read: 2013
Title: How Greek Science Passed To The Arabs
Author: De Lacy O’Leary
Year read: 2014
Title: Islam and the Divine Comedy
Author: Miguel Asin
English Translating Author: Harold Sunderland
Year read: 2014
Reading Notes: This book is an abridged translation
Title: The House of Wisdom
Author: Jonathan Lyons
Year read: 2015
Title: A Short History of Western Thought
Author: Stephen Trombley
Year read: 2015
Title: The Case For God
Author: Karen Armstrong
Year read: 2016
Evolution and Natural History
Title: From Lucy to Language
Author: Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar
Year read: 2005/6
Reading Notes: I have read Part 1 of this publication. Part 2 was not read. It is non-narrative and contains brief sketches of over 50 specimens related to hominid evolution.
Title: Here on Earth
Author: Tim Flannery
Year read: 2014
Anthropology and Ethnography
Title: The world Until Yesterday
Author: Jared Diamond
Year read: 2015
Economic History
Title: War and Gold
Author: Kwarsi Kwarteng
Year read: 2016
Paganism
Title: Pagan Resurrection
Author: Richard Rudgley
Year read: 2011
Programming
Title: Sams teach yourself Web publishing with HTML 4 in 21 days
Author: Laura Lemay
Year read: 2000
Title: Sams teach yourself Java 2 in 21 days
Author: Laura Lemay and Rogers Cadenhead
Year read: 2000/1
Politics and Current Affairs
Title: The Bubble of American Supremacy
Author: George Soros
Year read: 2005/6/7
Title: The Age of Fallibility
Author: George Soros
Year read: 2007/8
Title: The Political Mind
Author: George Lakoff
Year read: 2012
Title: Crude World
Author: Peter Maass
Year read: 2016
Title: The Age of deception
Author: Mohamed ElBaradei
Year read: 2017
Finance
Title: FreeFall
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Year read: 2013
Title: Fool’s Gold
Author: Gillian Tett
Year read: 2016
Title: After The Music Stopped
Author: Alan S. Blinder
Year read: 2017
Sustainable Business and Economics
Title: Sustainable Excellence
Author: Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell
Year read: 2014
Title: Common Wealth
Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs
Year read: 2014
Buddhism
Title: Buddhism
Author: Anita Ganeri
Year read: 2006
Parenting
Title: Queen Bee Mums and Kingpin Dads
Author: Rosalind Wiseman with Elizabeth Rapoport
Year read: 2009/10
Poetry
Title: The Illustrated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
Year read: 2014
Philosophy
Title: Some Fundamental Aspects of Imam Ghazzali’s Thought
Author: Professor M. Umaruddin
Year read: 2013
Title: The Philosophy of Ibn Rushd
Author: Ehsan Ashraf
Year read: 2013
Biographies and Letters
Title: The Big Five Sufis of India And Pakistan
Author: W. D. Begg
Year read: 2012/13
Title: The Sultan of the Saints
Author: Muhammad Riaz Qadiri
Year read: 2013
Title: Letters of Al-Ghazzali
Author: Abdul Qayyum
Year read: 2013
Title: The Shining Stars of Kwazulu Natal
Author: Mariam Gaffoor (Allie)
Year read: 2014
Title: Imam Bukhari – A Biography
Compiler: Anonymous (Hadrat Madani Academy )
Revised Compiler: Moulana Ebrahim Muhammad (Madrasah Arabia Islamia, Azaadville, South Africa)
Year read: 2013
Title: Ibn Khaldun: His Life and Works
Translator: M. A. Enan
Year read: 2013
Title: Imam Abu Hanifa – His Life and Works
Translator: ‘Allama Shibli Nu’ Mani’s Sirat-I-Nu’Man
Year read: 2015
Title: Stephen Hawking – An Unfettered Mind
Author: Kitty Ferguson
Year read: 2016
Hinduism
Title: Hinduism
Author: Pramesh Ratnakar
Year read: 2006 and 2013
Conspiracy and Terrorism
Title: The Assassination of Princess Diana
Author: Noel Botham
Year read: 2015
Title: No Place to Hide
Author: Glenn Greenwald
Year read: 2016
Title: Path of Blood
Author: Thomas Small and Jonathan Hacker
Year read: 2017
Sexuality
Title: How to Become a Sex God: Secrets of Supreme Pleasure
Author: E. M. Lovejoy
Year read: August 2013
UFOs, Paranormal and Supernatural
Title: Jinn and Human sickness
Author: Dr. Abu’l-Mundhir Khaleel ibn Ibraaheem Ameen
Year read: 2011/12
Title: UFOs
Author: Leslie Kean
Year read: 2011
Title: Many Lives, Many Masters (2010)
Author: Dr. Brian L. Weiss, M.D.
Year read: 2010
Title: The World of the Jinn and Devils
Author:
Year read: 2025
The Quran
Title: The Meanings of the Quran Translation
Author: Yusuf Ali
Year read: 1990s
Title: English Meanings of the Noble Quran
Author: Saheeh International
Year read: 2006
Title: The Quran Unimpeachable
Author: Majlisul-Ulama of South Africa
Year read: 2006/7
Title: Biography of the Quran
Author: Bruce Lawrence
Year read: 2012
Islam and Muslims
Title: Islam
Author: Paul Lunde
Year read: 2000
Title: Was Ibn Taymiah from the Ahlus sunnah wal Jama’ah?
Author: Muhammad Abu Bakr Ghazipuri al-Ansari
English Translation Editor: Mufti A. H. Elias
Year read: 2013
Title: The Miracle of Mi’raaj
Author: Muhammad Aashiq Ilaahi Bulandshahri
Year read: 2013
Title: Tabligh Movement
Author: Wahiduddin Khan
Year read: 2013
Title: Virtues of the Night of the 15th of Sha’ban
Author: Abdul-Hafiz Malik ‘Abdul Haqq Makki
Year read: 2013
Title: Ubhaqa
Author: Dawood Ngwane
Year read: 2005
Title: Islamic Hijab
Prepared for: The Majlisul Ulama of South Africa
Year read: 2015
Ahmed Deedat Books
Title: Is the Bible God’s Word
Author: Ahmed Deedat
Year read: 2003
Title: Crucifixion of Cruci-Fiction
Author: Ahmed Deedat
Year read: 2005/6
Title: What is his Name?
Author: Ahmed Deedat
Year read: 2005/6
Title: Arabs and Israel – conflict or conciliation
Author: Ahmed Deedat
Year read: 2005/6
Title: Christ in Islam
Author: Ahmed Deedat
Year read: 2005/6
Title: Muhammad: The Greatest
Author: Ahmed Deedat
Year read: 2005/6
Title: Muhammad: the Natural Successor to Christ
Author: Ahmed Deedat
Year read: 2005/6
Title: Al Quran – The Miracle of Miracles
Author:
Year read: 2005/6
Title: What the Bible says about Muhammad
Author: Ahmed Deedat
Year read: 2005/6
Anti-Semitism
Title: Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists
Author: Milton Shain
Year read: 2024
Life, Wellness, Mindfulness
Title: Twelves Steps to a Compassionate Life
Author: Karen Armstrong
Year read: 2024
In addition to this list I have read thousands of encyclopaedia articles. I have also read thousands of articles from other sources both in print and from the Internet. The range of topics that I have read includes, but not limited to:
Archaeology | Biology | Conspiracies |
History | Medicine | Historical personalities |
Business | Evolution | Paranormal |
Economy | Psychology | Supernatural |
Finance | People | UFOs |
Celebrity | Lifestyles | Sufism |
Entertainment | Arts | Social engineering |
Computers | Culture | Race Relations |
Information Technology | Anthropology | Hinduism |
Electronics | Politics | Christianity |
Crime | Governments and Countries | Paganism |
Conflict | Activism | Islam |
Terrorism | Current Affairs | Judaism |
Wars and Battles | Religion | Hypnotism |
Ecology | Theology | Cognitive Science |
Environment | Philosophy | Programming |
Disasters | Science | Encryption |
Weather | Space and Astronomy |
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Life Sciences | Sport |
All of these topics and so much more interests me.