Madinah Media was established to publish books, audio recordings and videos relating to the work of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi and the Murabitun World Movement.

It gathers together several former publishers and imprints, including Diwan Press, and the current publishers Madinah Press and Budgate Press.

The story of Madinah Media began with the early publications of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi, which included the first complete English translation of Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik and of Qadi Iyad’s Ash‑Shifa – Muhammad Messenger of Allah. These and many other of our titles were translated by Aisha and Abdalhaqq Bewley, who with their work have established a completely new standard and mode for English translations of the texts of Islam, abandoning the Orientalist/christian ethos and terminology which had dominated the field previously, yet steering firmly away from the self‑interpreting selectivism of the sects of esotericism.

There followed regular publications from Madinah Press and Diwan Press all through the late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, establishing a corpus of teaching essential to those active Muslims who want to understand our current position and act effectively for the benefit of the World Muslim Community.

Most notable among the earlier publications were The Meaning of Man by Sidi Ali al-Jamal of Fez and Root Islamic Education by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi, which rediscovered and explained the importance of the School of the ‘Amal of the Ahl al-Madinah for the re-claiming of a genuine Islamic social and political reality.

Shaykh Dr Abdalqadir’s early works, The Book of Strangers (Ian Dallas) and The Way of Muhammad, both best-sellers and instruments of ongoing Da’wa, can also be counted among the heritage of Madinah Media.

1999 saw the publication, by associate publisher Bookwork, of The Noble Qur’an – an New Rendering of its Meaning in English by Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley. Written in clear, modern English and based in 25 years of living with and reciting the Qur’an and studying its major Tafsirs, this Emirates-approved translation has become a world-recognised benchmark and has opened up the Qur’an anew to countless readers in English.

Between 1999 and 2002, Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi wrote three books, Technique of the Coup de Banque, Letter to an Arab Muslim and Sultaniyya which were to set down his political thinking in relation to the Muslim polity and his counsel to those Muslims committed to action.

In 2002 Madinah Press also published the monumental reference study by Umar Ibrahim Vadillo, The Esoteric Deviation in Islam, examining the esoteric and modernist deviations that have arisen within the Muslim world over the past one hundred and fifty years.

Sufis and Sufism: a Defence is our English translation of the famous Maghribi defence of the great Sufi and ‘Alim of the Hijaz, Shaykh Alawi al-Maliki, may Allah be pleased with him, which is at the same time a defence of all of Sufism – Islam’s pride and joy – against the venomous attacks of the wahhabi sect.

Budgate Press was set up in 2005, and its first publication was Ian Dallas – Collected Works, gathering together the plays and prose written by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi under his family name, Ian Dallas.

The website of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi, www.shaykhabdalqadir.com, has been developed and maintained in conjunction with Madinah Media, and has become the world’s leading Muslim website for socio-political analysis and counsel.