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@IslamicBookshelf
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15,588subscribers
-147 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001202749197 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @IslamicBookshelf |
| Created | 5 July 2019 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 23 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 45 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 23 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/IslamicBookshelf |
Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 95% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026, 22:28 | 15,588 | +1 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 21:27 | 15,587 | -6 |
| 20 Oct 2026, 19:10 | 15,593 | -1 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 20:30 | 15,594 | -6 |
| 18 Oct 2026, 22:56 | 15,600 | -2 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 20:10 | 15,602 | -2 |
| 16 Oct 2026, 23:00 | 15,604 | -5 |
| 16 Oct 2026, 01:07 | 15,609 | -1 |
| 15 Oct 2026, 04:19 | 15,610 | -2 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 01:57 | 15,612 | -15 |
| 7 Oct 2026, 00:19 | 15,627 | -3 |
| 2 Oct 2026, 01:01 | 15,630 | -42 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 14:21 | 15,672 | -2 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 06:40 | 15,674 | -11 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 16:01 | 15,685 | -6 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 03:21 | 15,691 | -10 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 06:39 | 15,701 | -9 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 08:21 | 15,710 | -2 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 05:20 | 15,712 | -5 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 09:27 | 15,717 | first reading |
35 posts held, back to 23 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 54 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 35 posts for this entry, the most recent from 2 September 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 12 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
“The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.” — J.R.R. Tolkien. [n.b. Tolkien passed away 53 years ago today.]
We’re pleased to welcome back Dr. Salah Abu Al-Hajj for an intensive study of Hanafi Fiqh! Dr. Salah is Dean of the Hanafi Fiqh College at WISE University in Amman, Jordan, and a renowned scholar, author, and instructor with over 8,000 students worldwide. 📅 Sept. 9–11 | 5–9 PM 📍 NBIC | 💵 $40 Register here now!
Qasidah al Burdah, Shaykh Muhammad Al Khamis https://youtu.be/68ubhltiR5c?si=ZaiyCRA8G_Rgxgd1 A pre-recorded course with Shaykh Muhammad al-Khamis exploring the celebrated Qașīdah al-Burdah of Imām al-Būṣīrī, one of the most renowned poems composed in praise and love of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Across this course, Shaykh Muhammad takes us through selected verses of the Burdah, explaining their meanings and drawin…
Turkey Still Aids Israel, PR Stunts, Israel’s Conditions For Syria The excellent Sibel Edmonds gave a lengthy talk in Turkish yesterday exposing the hypocrisy of the likes of Erdogan and Fidan. Turkey was already corresponding with Israel before the Israeli strikes on the Turkish base in Syria. And right after the strikes, Turkish ships continued en route to Israel. Turkey aids Israel with food and supplies, on top…
The United States has officially removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. Syria has been on this list since 1979. The irony of course is that Al Julani, a literal Al Qaeda and ISIS guy, is now in charge of Syria.
Shaibani Meets Mossad https://www.axios.com/2026/08/23/syria-israel-turkey-airbase-bombing The meeting between Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and the director of Israel's Mossad spy agency, Roman Gofman, took place days after an Israeli strike on a Syrian airbase. [n.b. Turkey had already given Israel the green-light to strike the base too.]
Syria Agrees To Remove Clandestine Nuclear Material The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will soon remove nuclear material stored at a clandestine site in Syria after the Trump administration reached understandings with Syria and Israel, according to Israeli and U.S. officials. The Assad regime had developed a secret nuclear program centered on the clandestine Al-Kibar reactor. After Israel bombed the reac…
Shaykh Ali Gomaa explaining that the Prophet ﷺ has a connection to the Ummah and that our deeds are presented to him. He also gives a funny and poignant rebuke to those who wish to reduce the Prophet ﷺ to a mere postman.
Join Shaykh Dr Sohail Hanif for An Odyssey Through the Burdah — a journey through the celebrated Qasidah al-Burdah during the blessed month of Rabi al-Awwal. Explore the poem’s deeper meanings, spiritual insights and timeless praise of the Prophet ﷺ in a day of reflection, learning and devotion. Shaykh Dr. Sohail Hanif is a distinguished scholar specialising in Islamic legal theory within the Ḥanafī school of though…
Which courses (choose all) are you interested in joining?
The shares total 160%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
Interest Poll: Upcoming Hadith, Usul & Fiqh Classes I wanted to make a poll to gauge the possible interest in a few classes that I plan to launch in mid-September: 1. Fiqh (Pre-Hidayah): Multaqa al-Abhur This will be a complete study of Multaqa al-Abhur, a later Hanafi work that is a very useful summary of the earlier mutun of the school and its main tarjihat and major internal differences. The class seeks to giv…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 35 posts we hold for @IslamicBookshelf. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
The poll we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered it when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
Which courses (choose all) are you interested in joining?
The shares total 160%, above 100: this poll accepts more than one answer per voter. No per-option vote count is published, so the number of voters who chose each option is not derivable and is not shown.
Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.
The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.
Read from the 35 most recent posts we hold, published 23 July 2026 to 2 September 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 22 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Islamic Bookshelf” (@IslamicBookshelf), 15,588 subscribers as measured 22 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/IslamicBookshelf.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.