Beacon Books

Read more, be more. Founder of Beacon Books Jamil Chishti has always had a passion for books. It has been an exciting journey for Beacon Books so far.
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In fact, before completing a Masters degree in Publishing Studies at The University of Central Lancashire, he spent 20 years as a bookseller. It was after graduating that he established Beacon Books in November of 2013 with a clear vision… Read more, be more. At its core, Beacon Books has an ethos of self-development and self-improvement – a place where people can find books that leave them feelin

g a little better after reading. That could be better informed or better entertained through an adventurous and impressive roster of titles from some of the best authors and academics around. The first title published by Beacon was the Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries by world renowned Islamic scholar Dr Gibril Fouad Haddad. The flagship release remains one of Beacon’s bestsellers and paved the way for the publication of a wide range of genres from both the Islamic and non-Islamic world – including religious texts, novels and biographies, to wellness, history and culture. In 2019 Beacon Books launched Beacon Academic, it’s first imprint concentrating, as the name suggests, in an array of specialist books inspired by academic works. Two more imprints were launched by the steadily growing publishing house in 2021; Bright Books focusing on childrens’ titles and Ballad Books focusing on poetry. To those who have joined us along the way, we thank you and hope you will continue supporting us and the work we do, either through reading our wonderful books or getting involved by either becoming one of our amazing authors or joining our growing team. To those for whom this is the first introduction to Beacon Books, we encourage you to take a look at what we have to offer and we hope we can become a regular friend, filling your homes, offices or places of study with books that will educate, entertain and edify your soul.

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Manchester
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+447939839809

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http://www.beaconbooks.net/

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Our Story

After 20 years as a bookseller our Director, Jamil Chishti enrolled onto a Masters degree in Publishing Studies and upon graduating he setup Beacon Books in November of 2013. Our first book was written by the world-renowned scholar Dr Gibril Fouad Haddad on the Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries and since then we have steadily grown to publish books in a wide range of genres from Quranic Studies, biographies and children’s books. We have a small but expanding team of full time and part time staff and sometimes as many as three trainees at a time. We have been blessed to have published some key landmark books already such as the Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries which was the first comprehensive catalogue and study of hadith forgeries in English. We have also entered into our first international joint publishing agreement with the University of Brunei Darussalam with the Light for the Seeker being an academic study and partial translation of al-Baydawi’s famous tafsir book. Joint publishing is something we would like to do more of in the future, not only with universities but other publishers as well. In May 2017 Beacon Books took part in the International Sufi Conference in the historic Moroccan city of Fes, by holding its first overseas book launch of Pure Gold from the Words of Abd al-Aziz al-Dabbagh. This was a book that we published under exclusive license from EJ Brill, one of the oldest university publishers in the world. We have exciting plans to start a number of series including classic and original new poetry and an academic series on Islamic Education in the West. This last project will see us jointly organize our first academic conference on the history and development of Islamic Education in Britain. We plan to organise other conferences including an exciting project on Islam and Science. Beacon Books is still at the start of an exciting journey which we hope you will join us on either through reading our wonderful books, writing for us or getting involved in the company to produce books that will educate, entertain and edify your soul.

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