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Port in a Storm: A Fiqh Solution to the Qibla of North America

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This book is an asset to any masjid in north america still confused about the direction of Qiblah. The well able sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller has put together a book that compiles fatwas from Morroco to Damascus pointing out that the shortest distance from point a to point b is a direct line. Although topographic maps may show otherwise, if you put a peice of string on a globe and look, between Chicago and Mecca you may not point any other direction than North East. (...)

Whether you're writing a paper on the subject or reading just out of curiosity on the subject, Keller will do an amazing job of convincing you why more than 99.5% of the mosques in N.America point northeast. Besides offering easy-to-understand, well-documented proofs, the book goes into many details about the importance of finding the correct samt and answers most objections raised to the northeast direction proponents.
A must-read!!

This book is not only a text of information, but loaded with
the most intence refrences, proofs and examples. I am still speachless on a topic that I fell into and this book fell into my lap out of curiosity. For anyone interested in why Muslims pray a certain direction, or why Islamic law has "different" opinions, or even if there are different opinions, this is IT!