IOU Faculty Manager Ismail Kamdar published a unique book that combines personal productivity with Islamic History, Productivity Principles Of ʿUmar II.

This book is an analysis of the life of the 8th Umayyad Caliph, ʿUmar bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, with extracted fifteen productivity principles. The reader will learn both early Islamic history as well as personal productivity from an Islamic perspective.