TOPICS AUTHORS AND READINGS RESOURCE

Islam and  Political movements: Al Afghani, Rashid Rida, https://fivebooks.com/best-books/turi-munthe-on-islam-v-modernity/

Modernity Muhammad Abduh, Sayyid Qutb, Mawdudi https://leedsforlife.leeds.ac.uk/Broadening/Module/ARAB3072
 Ali Shariati https://iis.ac.uk/reading-lists
Muslim  Muhammad Iqbal http://meis.ualberta.ca/reading-list/
thinkers
 Malik Bennabi  Karim Lahham’s readings
 Fazlur Rahman
 Abdur Karim Soroush
 Tariq Ramadan – reading list Oxford
 Taha Abderrahman
 Mustafa Sabri
 Rene Guenon
 Seyyed Hossain Nasr
 Hallaq

Secularism  Naquib Al Attas https://muslimskeptic.com/reading-list/

 Talal Asad
 Saba Mahmood
 Charles Hershkind
 David Scott
 Wael Hallaq

- Charles Taylor
- Alasdair Macintyre
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Modernity - Zygmunt Bauman

Political  Schools of Political Economy  Frank Stilwell books – readings in political economy,
economy  The contest of economic ideas
 Theories of Political economy by Caporaso
 https://www.amazon.com/Books-Frank-
Stilwell/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AFrank%20Stilwell

 Karl Marx – lectures / close reading online on das Kapital -

http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

 History of Debt – David Graebar

 Raj Patel
 Development, Poverty and Systemic issues
Environment  Environment and sustainability (climate change and Bill Morrison – permaculture
building communities)
 Permaculture The Green Deen
 Food and organic eating

AI
/ Futurology

Sociology  Textbooks – undergrad 1, 2, 3, masters level.

 Functionalist
 Conflict theory
 Other theories

 Structuralism
 Post Structuralism
Zygmunt Bauman
Anthropology  Textbooks – undergrad 1, 2, 3, masters level. Cultural theory: http://www.choosenick.com/?action=tag&name=cultural-theory
Text: a history of anthropological theory by Erickson and Murphy (ipad)
Critical and  Horkheimar http://www.critical-theory.com/5-great-introductory-theory-philosophy-lecture-series-
social theory -  Adorno freely-online/
series on  Agamben
YouTube  Braudillard
 EGS: Zizek, Butler, Ranciere, etc.

Psychology  Freud
 Jung
 Lacan
 Fanon
 Klein
 Kristeva
 Castoriadis

Race, Racism  Franz Fanon

and Literature  Marcus Garvey
 Malcolm x

 BLM reading list

 Google Drive list
Literature and  Western Canon - (st johns) YALE – courses online
Literary theory

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COMPARATIVE  Perennialism –
RELIGION

Education  John Dewey Pedagogy of the Oppressed

 Paulo Freire

Mathematics  Kurt Godel Penrose’s book

 Set Theory
 Real Analysis
 Roger Penrose?

Physics  Newtonian Nouman’s link: whatsapp

 Einstein
 Quantum physics
 Theoretical
Biology  History and thought Speaker’s corner – hyde park
 Evolutionary biology Rupert Sheldrake – science delusion


Kalaam and 
Science
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Timothy Williamson – philosoph of philospphy analytic

Robert Brandon – Tasks of philosophy

Analytic philosophy without naturalism

Charles Taylor, Alasdair macyintrye and demaise of naturalism

Plantinga – religion and science, where the conflict lies.

Blackwell companion to natural theology

Edward Feser – blog – ristotle’s revenge, 5 proofs for the existence of God

Metaphysics – Cosmology, Ontology,

Epistomology (Social epistemology – goldman)

Ethics (Macintyre, Christine Coursgard - harvard)

Aesthetics

Putnam – collapse of fact / value

SEP

Turhan – causal efficacy

Reasonable Faith – William Lane Craig – articles. KCA

Wolfgang Smith -

Cambridge companion to natural law ethics

  Greeks
 Classical and Roman
 Medieval & Islamic and Jewish
Philosophy  The Enlightenment
Epochs  Modernist
 Post modernists

Philosophy  History of Philosophy

Disciplines
 Metaphysics
 Logic
 Epistemology
 Ethics
o Political philosophy
 Aesthetics
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 Philosophy of mind – Edward Frase, Plantinga
 Philosophy of religion – Plantinga, Ibn Rushd, Ghazali
 Philosophy of science – history and philosophy of
science

Ibn Rushd, Ghazali

Macintyre – (first essay) tasks of philosophy - after virtue, whose justice, 3 rivals version of moral enquiry, ethics and the conflict of modernity, being theistic
philosopher in a secularised culture.

Charles Taylor – secular age,

Arabic Reading List for Students of Knowledge by Mawlana Shahin-ur Rahman
SEPTEMBER 19, 2015 BILAL ALI6 COMMENTS

By Shahin-ur Rahman

In order to comfortably read Arabic texts without the need for diacritical marks, one must master the rules pertaining
to Naḥw and Ṣarf before embarking on the reading journey. Not only is it an imperative to familiarise oneself with all the rules of
grammar, but to be able to apply them into real literature and produce one’s own prose is of more importance. Therefore, it would
not be incorrect to say the ability to read Arabic poetry and prose without diacritical marks is a skill acquired, not a science studied.

To reach such a stage, below is a suggested reading list which has been prepared upon request by a student of knowledge.

Note: The list will exclude any non-Arabic primers; the following list has been written for those who already have previous, albeit
basic, knowledge of the fundamental Arabic sciences.

 Sharḥ Qaṭr al-Nadā by Ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī: This brilliant book will assist in revising and refreshing your previously-learnt
rules of grammar, while simultaneously allowing you to implement them into one’s readings. Since you will already be
familiar with a significant amount of their contents, it is only a matter of increasing your knowledge of the science while
exposing oneself to the Arabic style. It is one thing to be able to write/say things in Arabic; it is another thing to know how the
native speakers express the very same ideas. Should this be too difficult, you may study other simpler books first.
 Qiṣaṣ al-Nabīyyīn by Shaykh Abū ’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī al-Nadwī: With a dictionary at hand, this is a very enjoyable book to study; the
author had written it for young students of Arabic. In addition to equipping yourself with the skill to read and understand
basic Arabic literature, the book also educates you about the lives and mission of all the Prophets mentioned in the Holy
Qurʾān.
 Al-Mukhtaṣar by al-Qudūrī: Do not let the honorary status of this great work put you in awe. Among the brilliance of this
book is its surprisingly easy text: although such subjects need to be studied under a competent teacher, the text itself
personifies the fact that beauty is in simplicity. Even after having only studied the rudimentary primers of Arabic, you will find
the sentences in this book unbelievably simple in nature. Adherents to schools other than that of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah may
read equivalent texts of their respective schools.
 Ṣadīquk al-ʿArabī (Your Arabic Friend) by Ghassan Mahir: This GCSE textbook is a fantastic means through which you can
comfortably read casual Arabic passages. Since it is not a ‘religious’ book, you will not feel scared or guilty should you make a
mistake. Also, it contains numerous written, spoken and even conversational dialogues on day-to-day topics; this will help you
familiarise yourself with the Arabic style of politeness and courtesy (like how a child will seek permission from his/her mother
to do something), while coming across more modern-day vocabulary (like the telephone, plug, socket, hotel, airport,
aeroplane, passport, visa, elevator, escalator, satellite, television etc). You will also notice how Modern Standard Arabic
is not different from al-Fuṣḥā, as you might hear many people say. Rather, you will appreciate the richness of classical words,
and how they are broad enough to not be applied in the modern day; this will create more love for the Arabic language in
your heart. The book also contains exercises.
 Al-Mawsim al-ʿArabī (The Arabic Season) by Ghassan Mahir: This AS Level Arabic textbook by the same author has the same
benefits of the GCSE textbook, while slightly increasing the standard of Arabic. Other modern topics are discussed, like man’s
obsession with the Internet. There are translation exercises (both Arabic-English and English-Arabic) which will assist you in
building your translation skills. The prefaces of both books are a must-read: the author gives the reader important advice
about how to increase one’s knowledge of Arabic, and highlights common errors students make while translating texts from
one language to another. This much is sufficient for your objective. The A2 Level Arabic textbook is not as beneficial as
these two are.
 Ṣafwat al-Tafāsīr by Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Ṣābūnī: This brief commentary of the Holy Qurʾān should not be
underestimated. The actual commentary will benefit you by presenting easier Arabic words and phrases to explain the
Qurʾānic discourse. This will increase your vocabulary, as well as demonstrating to you the Arabic style of explaining difficult
words and phrases in simpler terms. The beginning of every sūrah has a brief introduction to the background of the sūrah in
 simple language. If you are familiar withBalāghah, the end of each passage highlights relevant points of Arabic rhetoric found
within it.
 Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm by Imām Ibn Kathīr: Once again, do not let the calibre of this book intimidate you. The reality is this
magnificent work has been written in brilliantly simple text. The only difficult parts are the texts of the ḥadīths quoted within
the book. I even go to the extent and say – without exaggerating – the Arabic of this book is even easier to read than Qiṣaṣ al-
Nabīyyīn.
 Any and every book written by authors who are particular about their Arabic. At the top of the list is the late Shaykh ʿAbd al-
Fattāḥ Abū Ghuddah. Two important books areQīmat al-Zaman and Ṣafaḥāt min Ṣabr al-ʿUlamāʾ ʿalā Shadāʾid al-ʿIlm wa
’l-Taḥṣīl.

This much, by the permission of Allāh, is sufficient to enable you to comfortably read a lot of Arabic works without the need for
diacritical marks. This obviously excludes specialist books related to certain subjects; these can only be understood after having
studied the core of the subjects, including the terminologies and concepts peculiar to them. It also excludes books and articles which
contain uncommon vocabulary.

Note: Apart from learning new vocabulary, there is no major benefit in reading Arabic news articles. Much of the grammar is just
embarrassing. Anyone familiar with the styles of Arabic will naturally feel disinclined to such writings. Even Arab linguists of today have
said such news articles are written as though they have been translated from English or French (which is not a good sign).

My final advice is the most important: read the Holy Qurʾān and ponder over its meanings. Contemplate the texts and reflect on what
you understand. This tadabbur of the Holy Qurʾān will open up your mind and heart. Among its infinite benefits, one is you will notice
the nuances of the Arabic language. You will begin to recognise the real way to read those words which many people mispronounce.
You will notice the correct usage of words which are wrongly misused in many writings. There are countless benefits to reciting the the
Holy Qurʾān with tadabbur; I have only mentioned a few which relate to improving your Arabic skills.

After all, your main objective of becoming fluent in Arabic is to have a better understanding of the Holy Qurʾān. How big a shame it
would be for us if we become fluent in the Arabic language, and let this distant us from the Word of Allāh. May Allāh enable us all to
prioritise our duties. Āmīn.
A Reading List of English Books in Hadith Studies

Beginner Level:
For beginners, I recommend several books that don’t require a heavily critical eye, are relatively brief in size, and are not overly
technical in nature. Such books include three which I highly recommend be read cover-to-cover and purchased for one’s personal
library.
1. Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development, and Special Features by M. Zubayr Siddiqi
2. Studies in Hadith Methodology and Literature by M.M. Azami
3. The Authority of Sunnah by Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Hashim Kamali’s A Textbook of Hadith Studies, but riddled with errors as well as with premature, uninformed, and entirely
unnecessary calls for reform – don’t read it. Another book is Ghassan Abdul Jabbar’s Bukhari but not essential (Ghassan Abdul Jabbar
is one of several pen names Dr. Iftikhar Zaman uses, I believe).

Intermediate Level:
For slightly advanced readers, I would suggest the following works, some of which need to be read slightly critically and preferably
with the opportunity to discuss its contents with an expert:
 1. Hadith: Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World by Jonathan A.C. Brown
2. Hadith and Sunnah: Ideals and Realities (14 Selected Essays)
3. Studies in Early Hadith Literature by M.M. Azami
4. An Introduction to the Conservation of Hadith by Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah
5. The Garden of the Hadith Scholars by Shah ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Dihlawi
6. The Sunnah and Its Role in Islamic Legislation by Dr. Mustafa al-Siba‘ee
7.
Advanced Level:
He/she is already quite advanced in Islamic sciences with access to Arabic works. The following works are useful for complementing
advanced Arabic works in Hadith Studies. Not all are necessary, some have exorbitant prices.
1. On Schacht’s Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence by M.M. Azami
2. An Introduction to the Science of Hadith by Ibn Salah trs. by Eerick Dickenson
3. The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon by Jonathan A.C. Brown
4. Constructive Critics, Hadith Literature, and the Articulation of Sunni Islam by Scott C. Lucas
5. The Evolution of a Hadith: Transmission, Growth, and the Science of Rijal in a Hadith of Sa’d b. Abi Waqqas by Dr. Iftikhar
Zaman
6. Analysing Muslim Traditions: Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghazi Hadith by Harald Motzki
Not included are Orientalist or Reductionist works, I also haven’t included the countless beneficial journal articles.

Reading List: Recommended Books on Sirah (Prophetic Biography)

1. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings(Inner Traditions International)

Probably the most recognized and popular English work on the sīrah, Martin Lings’s narrative of the Prophet’s life (upon him blessings
and peace) is now a classic. With the exception of several factual errors and the use of some weak sources, this work remains the most
recommended amongst traditional scholars and is unparalleled in its language and narrative description. Because it is a one-volume
work and avoids any sort of interruptive academic discussions, it is easy to get through and equally enjoyable. If one does not
purchase and study the more detailed sīrah works, this is an absolutely necessary read.

2. Prophet of Mercy by S. Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi (Haji Arfeen Academy) Translated by Mohiuddin Ahmad

One of my favorite works because of its emphasis on the aspect of the Prophet’s da’wah and struggles (upon him blessings and peace).
The author’s passion for religious revival can be seen throughout the work and highlights the inspirational and transformational
leadership style of the Prophet (upon him blessings and peace). The first chapters of the book, which focus on the reigious, social, and
political context in which the Messenger of Allah (upon him blessings and peace) was sent, are of particular importance. The printed
edition, however, is lacking in many respects. The translation is wanting and the actual binding and paper is of poor quality. A revised
translation is available online, but I have yet to find it in published form. Still, it is definitely worth the read. I studied that original
Arabic version of the book with my teacher Mawlana Tariq Jameel, who showered it with high praise and considered it a must-read for
every Islamic activist. [Update: Turath has recently published a beautiful revised edition that includes maps and fixes the complaints I
mentioned above. The recent print, in my humble opinion, makes this work an even more essential read and places it easily at the top
of my new list.]

3. The Jurisprudence of the Prophetic Biography by Dr. M Sa‘id Ramadan al-Buti (Dar al-Fikr) Translated by Nancy Roberts

Also a one-volume work, this book concentrates on lessons that can be learned from the life of the Messenger of Allah (upon him
blessings and peace), especially lessons of a political and legal nature. A unique feature of the work is the author’s rebuttal of
Orientalist and modernist objections to the prophetic biography and a clarification of the stance of the Ahl al-Sunnah on those
important issues. The work has fewer details than other works because of its emphasis on morals and lessons, which incorporate
nearly half of the text.

4. Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar) by Safi-ur-Rahman Al-Mubarakpuri

One of the more recognized and widely-distributed short works on the sīrah, The Sealed Nectar is a highly accurate and concise
narration of the Prophet’s life (upon him blessings and peace). Although a bit drier than Martin Lings’s work, I have found that many
students and teachers prefer its clear quotation of primary sources and citation of books. The book has gone through at least a couple
reprints and editions. The most recent, I’ve been told, has had significant improvements made to it and should be preferred when
purchasing. The author, recently deceased, was a renowned Ahle Hadith scholar of the subcontinent with an eye for accuracy in hadith
transmission. This is perhaps the work’s strongest feature.

5. Siratul Mustafa by Maulana Idris Sahib Kandehlawi (Zam Zam Publishers and Madrasah Arabia Islamia) Translated by Mufti
Muhammed Kadwa

I must thank Mawlana Hussain Kamani for reintroducing me to this book. I had previously only read sections of the second volume of
this three-volume masterpiece in the original Urdu while studying hadith in Karachi, Pakistan. At the time, my focus was on the legal
nature and details of the Madinan campaigns and I saw the book then as more of a maghāzi-focused work than a complete sīrah.
Having revisited the work upon Mawlana Hussain’s suggestion, I’ve quickly fallen in love with it and use it as a primary resource for my
teaching. Haven been written by an erudite hadith scholar, the book’s discussions on the hadith are excellent and unique to the work.
Although it is a bit technical at times for the novice, scholar and non-scholar alike will benefit highly from the book. Essentially written
in response to another popular work on the sīrah, it does go out of its way to clarify important issues and counter recent
misconceptions that have arisen around the Prophet’s noble life (upon him blessings and peace).

6. The Noble Life of the Prophet (Peace be upon Him) by Dr. ‘Ali Muhammad As-Sallaabee (Darussalam) Translated by Faisal Shafeeq

I must admit that I have yet to thoroughly read the English translation of Sallābī’s recent one-volume Arabic book. The English
translation occupies three thick volumes and based on a cursory look, seems up to par in respect to language and overall accuracy.
What is unique about this work is its avoidance of weak hadith transmissions and the devotion of a section after each chapter to a
discussion of morals and lessons that can be learnt from the Prophet’s life (upon him blessing and peace). Although it is a lengthy
work, I have benefited extensively from the book while preparing lessons and have used it in the past for lectures. Again, I can not
vouch for the translation as I have only read the Arabic original.

7. Atlas on the Prophet’s Biography: Places, Nations, Landmarks by Dr. Shawqi Abu Khalil (Darussalam)

A supplemental work really, this book is essentially a compilation of maps, charts, and pictures that will help any student visualize the
places, environment, climate, and geography of the prophetic biography. This book is especially important to those who have not
visited the Hijaz and visited the landmarks of the prophetic biography in person.

There is a plethora of other works available in English, Arabic, and Urdu that will be helpful to any student of the sīrah. However, in an
attempt at keeping this list concise, I have chosen to leave most of them out. In reality, I would be doing the list injustice if I didn’t
mention some other books that I benefited from in my study of the sīrah during different stages of my life.

In particular, I must mention Manṣūrpūri’s magnificent compilation Rahmatan li ‘l-ʿĀlamīn (a horrific translation exists
called Muhammad: Mercy for the Worlds in one volume; I have not read the 3-volume translation that is said to be much better), Ibn
Isḥāq’s Sīrah (translated by Guillaume as The Life of Muhammad: Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah), Ibn Hishām’s Sīrah, Ibn
al-Qayyim’sZād al-Maʿād, and last but not least, Sayyid Sulayman Nadwi’s Muhammad: The Ideal Prophet: A Historical, Practical,
Perfect Model for Humanity. My wife, a passionate reader of the sīrah, particularly enjoys Adil Salahi’s Muhammad: Man and
Prophet and often first recommends Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtum to her students.

Keep in mind that I have not include books of the Shamāʾil in the above list, since I hope to devote a separate detailed article to such
books in the future, Allah-willing.
Reading List for Islamic Theology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Secularism, Metaphysics, and
Other Issues

The following list was provided to us by our dear friend, Shaykh Omar Qureshi, after my request for a list of suggested readings for
students of theology interesting in furthering their understanding of Atheism and Evolution.

Reading list for Islamic Theology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Secularism, Metaphysics, and Other Issues

(Updated on 5/10/18)

 Anderson, Ryan T. 2018. When Harry became Sally: responding to the transgender moment. New York: Encounter Books.

 Al-Attas, Muhammad Naquib. Islām and Secularism. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: International Institute of Islamic Thought and
Civilization, 1993.

 al-Attas, Syed Muhammad Naquib. 2015. On justice and the nature of man: a commentary on surah al-nisa (4):58 and surah al-
mu’minun (23):12-14. Kuala Lumpur: IBFIM.

 Al-Attas, Muhammad Naquib. 2014. Prolegomena to the metaphysics of Islam: an exposition of the fundamental elements of the
worldview of Islam.

 al-Bayḍ āwi ̄, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar. translated by Edwin Elliott Calverley, James W. Pollock, and 2002. Nature, man and God in
medieval Islam ʻAbd Allah Baydawi’s text, Tawaliʻ al-anwar min mataliʻ al-anzar, along with Mahmud Isfahani’s commentary,
Maṭāliʿ al-anzar, sharh Ṭawāliʿ al-anwār. Leiden: Brill.

 Behe, Michael J. 1996. Darwin’s black box: the biochemical challenge to evolution. New York: Free Press.

 Blankinship, Khalid. “The early creed.” The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology. Ed. Tim Winter. Cambridge
University Press, 2008.

 Brown, Jihad. The Problem of Reductionism in the Philosophy of Mind and its Implications for Theism and the Principle of Soul:
Framing the issue for further. Available: http://www.newdualism.org/papers/J.Brown/Brown-Reductionism-Tabah-2013.pdf

 Burtt, Edwin A. (Edwin Arthur). The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954.

 https://www.hrstud.unizg.hr/_download/repository/Burtt,_The_Metaphysical_Foundations_of_Modern_Science.pdf

 Craig, William Lane. 1979. The kalām cosmological argument. New York: Barnes & Noble Books.

 Craig, William Lane, and James Porter Moreland. 2002. Naturalism: a critical analysis. London: Routledge.

 Dembski, William A. 1999. Intelligent design: the bridge between science & theology. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press.

 Denton, Michael. 1998. Nature’s destiny: how the laws of biology reveal purpose in the universe. New York: Free Press.

 Gagnon, Robert A. J. The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics. Nashville [TN]: Abingdon Press, 2001.

 al-Ghazzāli ̄, translated by ʻAbd-al-Laṭi ̄f at- Tibāwi ̄. 1965. Al-Ghazāli ̄’s tract on dogmatic theology. London: Luzac.

 al-Ghazzāli ̄. translated by Aladdin Mahmū d Yaqū b. 2013. Al-Ghazali’s Moderation in belief: al-Iqtiṣād fi ̄ al-iʻtiqād. The University of
Chicago Press.
 Al-Ghazali. translated by David B. Burrell and Nazih Daher. The Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God, al-Maqsad al-asna fi sharh
asma’ Allah al-husna. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1992.

 Al-Ghazāli ̄. translated by Eric L. (Eric Linn) Ormsby. Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment: Kitāb Al-maḥ abba wa’l-shawq wa’l-
uns wa’l-riḍ ā : Book XXXVI of the Revival of the Religious Sciences, Iḥ yāʼ ʻulū m Al-di ̄n. Cambridge, U.K.: The Islamic Texts Society,
2016.

 Girgis, Sherif, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George. 2012. What is marriage? man and woman: a defense. New York: Encounter
Books.

 Groff, Ruth. 2013. Ontology revisited: metaphysics in social and political philosophy. New York: Routledge.

 Haught, John F. 2006. Is nature enough?: meaning and truth in the age of science. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 Hazara Society for Science Religion Dialogue. Mansehra, Pakistan. http://www.hssrd.org/default.asp

 Ibn Khaldū n. Translated by Franz Rosenthal. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. New York: Pantheon Books, 1958.

 Jalajel, David Solomon. 2009. Islam and biological evolution: exploring classical sources and methodologies. Bellville: University of
the Western Cape.

 Jāmi ̄, ʻAbd al-Ghafū r Lāri ̄, and Nicholas Heer. The Precious Pearl: Al-Jāmi ̄sʼ Al-Durrah Al-fākhirah : Together With His Glosses and
the Commentary of ʻAbd Al-Ghafū r Al-Lāri ̄. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1979.

 al-Juwayni ̄, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn ʻAbd Allāh, Paul Ernest Walker, and Muhammad S. Eissa.

 A Guide to Conclusive Proofs for the Principles of Belief. Reading, U.K.: Garnet Pub., 2000.

 Keough, Gary. 2014. Reading Richard Dawkins a Theological Dialogue with New Atheism. Lanham: Fortress Press.

 MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.

 McGrath, Alister E., and Joanna Collicutt McGrath. 2007. The Dawkins delusion: atheist fundamentalism and the denial of the
divine. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press.

 Moreland, James Porter. 2008. Consciousness and the existence of God: a theistic argument. New York: Routledge.

 Muller, Jeremy Z. Coming Out Ahead: The Homosexual Moment in the Academy. 1993 First Things 35 (August/September 1993):
17-24.

 Available at http://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/08/001-coming-out-ahead-the-homosexual-moment-in-the-academy

 Murata, Sachiko. ‘Masculine-Feminine Complementarity in the Spiritual Psychology of Islam’ The Islamic Quarterly, 33 (1989), 165-
87.

 Murata, Sachiko. 1992. The Tao of Islam: a sourcebook on gender relationships in Islamic thought. Albany: State University of New
York Press.

 Nicholi, Armand M. 2002. The question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud debate God, love, sex, and the meaning of life. New
York: Free Press.

 Reilly, Robert R. 2014. Making gay okay: how rationalizing homosexual behavior is changing everything. San Francisco: Ignatius
Press.
 El-Rouayheb, Khaled. Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century: Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the
Maghreb. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

 Setia, ʿAdi. “Atomism Versus Hylomorphism in the Kalām of al-Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī: A Preliminary Survey of the Maṭālib al-
ʿĀlīyyah”. Islam and Science, 4:2, 2006.

 Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

 Wells, Jonathan. 2000. Icons of evolution: science or myth?: why much of what we teach about evolution is wrong. Washington,
DC: Regnery Pub.

 Ziadat, Adel A. 1986. Western science in the Arab world: the impact of Darwinism, 1860-1930. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
General Works on Islam and Muslims
 Abou El Fadl, Khaled. The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of Books. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

 Abou El Fadl, Khaled. The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. New York, NY: Harper San Francisco, 2005.

 Arkoun, Mohammed. Rethinking Islam: Common Questions Uncommon Answers. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

 Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, 2000.

 Armstrong, Karen. Muhammad. South Yarra, Vic.: Louis Braille Productions, 1993.

 Aslan, Reza. No God but God. New York: Random House, 2005.

 Aslan, Reza. Tablet & Pen. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.

 Bulliet, Richard W. Islam: The view from the Edge. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

 Cook, M. A. Commanding Right and Forbidding wrong in Islamic Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 Daftary, Farhad. Intellectual Traditions in Islam. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2000. Print.

 Denny, Frederick Mathewson. An Introduction to Islam. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co., 1994.

 Ernst, Carl W. Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.

 Esack, Farid. On being a Muslim. Oxford: Oneworld, 1999.

 Esposito, John L. What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

 Esposito, John L. Islam: The Straight Path. New York. Oxford University Press, 2011.

 Filali-Ansary, Abdou and Aziz Esmail. The Construction of Belief: reflections on the thought of Mohammad Arkoun.

 Hazleton, Lesley. The First Muslim: The story of Mohammed. New York: Riverhead Books, 2013.

 Kurzman, Charles. Liberal Islam: a source book. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

 Nanji, Azim and Nanji, Razia. The Penguin dictionary of Islam. London: Penguin, 2008.

 Nanji, Azim. The Muslim Almanac. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1996.
 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Teh Heart of Islam: enduring values of humanity. New York, NY: San Francisco : Harper One, 2010.

 Rahman, Fazlur. Islam & Modernity: Transformation of an intellectual challenge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

 Ramadan, Tariq. The Messenger: the meanings of the life of Muhammad. London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin books. 2007.

 Rippin, Andrew. Defining Islam: a reader. London: Equinox Pub., 2007.

 Ruthven, Malise. Historical atlas of the Islamic world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

 Ruthven, Malise. Islam: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.

 Ruthven, Malise. Encounters with Islam. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012.

 Safi, Omid. Memories of Muhammad: why the prophet matters. New York: HarperOne, 2009.

 Sajoo, Amyn B. Muslim Modernities: expressions of the civil imagination. London: I.B. Taurus, 2008.

 Sajoo, Amyn B. A Companion to Muslim Cultures. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011.

 Schimmel, Annemarie. Islam. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

 Shah-Kazemi, Reza. The spirit of tolerance in Islam. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2012.

 Surush Abd al-Karim. The Expansion of prophetic experience: essays on historicity, contingency and plurality on religion. Brill,
2009.

 Voll, John Obert. Islam, Continuity and Change in the Modern World. Boulder, Colo.: Syracuse University Press, 1994.

 Watt, W. Montgomery. A Short History of Islam. Oxford: One World 1996.

Reading List: Approaches to the Study of Islam

 Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

 Akhtar, Shabbir. The Qur’an and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam. London: Routledge, 2007.

 Asad, Talal. The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam. Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Washington DC,

1986.

 Bunt, Gary R. Virtually Islamic: Computer-mediated Communication and Cyber Islamic Environments. Cardiff: University of Wales

Press, 2000.

 Burton, John. An Introduction to the Hadith. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.

 Calder, Norman. Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin, ed. Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature. London:

Routledge, 2001.

 Eikelman, Dale F. The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998.

 Gilsenan, Michael. Recognizing Islam: An Anthropologist’s Introduction. London: Croom Helm, 1982.

 Huff, Toby and Schluchter, Wolfgang, ed. Max Weber and Islam. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1999.

 Humphreys, Steven R. Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.

 Hussain, Asaf, Robert Olson and Jamil Qureshi, ed. Orientalism, Islam, and Islamists. Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1984.

 Jackson, Roy. Nietzsche and Islam. London: Routledge, 2007.

 Martin, Richard C., ed. Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies. Oxford: Oneworld, 2001.

 Saeed, Abdallah. Islamic Thought: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 2006.

 Schimmel, Annemarie. Deciphering the Signs of God: A Phenomenological Approach to Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University

Press, 1994.
 Tripp, Charles. Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

 Turner, Bryan S., ed. Islam: Critical Concepts in Sociology. London: Routledge, 2003.

 Watt, W. Montgomery. Islamic Political Thought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1968; 2nd ed. 2007.

 Wiktorowicz, Quintan, ed. Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Muslim Contributions to Science

 Burnett, C. Scientific Weather Forecasting in the Middle Ages: The Writings of Al-Kindi. London, 2000

 Burnett, C., Hogendijk, J. P., Plofker, K., and Yano, M. (eds.), Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree.
Leiden: Brill, 2004

 Dallal, A. An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy. Leiden: Brill, 1995

 Dhanani, A. The Physical Theory of Kalam: Atoms, Space and Void in Basrian Mu’tazili Cosmology. Leiden: Brill, 1994

 Freudenthal, G. Science in Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions. Aldershot: Variorum, 2005

 Hogendijk, J. P. Ibn al-Haytham's Completion of the Conics. New York - Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985

 Langermann, Y. T. Ibn al-Haytham's On the Configuration of the World. New York, 1990

 Morrison, R. G. Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi. London – New York: Routledge, 2007

 Nasr, S. H. An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993

 Ragep, J. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi’s Memoir on Astronomy, 2 vols. - Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. New
York - Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993

 Rashed, R. Les Mathématiques infinitésimales du IXe au XIe siècle, 5 vols. London: al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1993-
2006

 Rashed, R. The Development of Arabic Mathematics: Between Arithmetic and Algebra - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of
Science, 156. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
 Rashed, R. and Morelon, R. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, 3 vols. London-New York: Routledge, 1996, rep.
2000

 Rashed, R. Omar Khayyam the Mathematician. New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000.

 Rashed, R. Geometry and Dioptrics in Classical Islam. London: al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2005

 Sabra, A. I. (ed. trans.). The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham, 2 vols. London: Warburg Institute, 1989

 Sabra, A. I. Optics, Astronomy and Logic: Studies in Arabic Science and Philosophy. Aldershot: Variorum, 1994

 Sabra, A.I., and Hogendijk, J. P. (eds.), The enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press,
2003

 Saliba, G. Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007

 Saliba, G. A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam. New York: New York University Press,
1994

 Savage-Smith, E. and Edson, E. Medieval Views of the Cosmos. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2004

 Savage-Smith, E. and Pormann, P. Medieval Islamic Medicine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

 Sezgin, F. (ed.). Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, 12 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1967-2000

 Syed, M. H. Islam and Science. New Delhi: Anmol Publications PVT. Ltd., 2005

 Turner, H. R. Science in Medieval Islam. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995

Muslim Rituals and Practices
 Abu Zahra, Nadia. The Pure and Powerful: Studies in Contemporary Muslim Society. Reading: Ithaca, 1997.

 Aghaie, Kamran Scott. The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi‘i Symbols and Ritual in Modern Iran. Seattle: Uni of Washington Press, 2004.

 ____. The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi‘i Islam. Austin, TX: UT Press, 2005.

 Ahmad, Imtiaz. Ritual and Religion among Muslims of the Sub-Continent. Lahore: Vanguard, 1985.

 Amin, Mohamed. Pilgrimage to Mecca. Washington, DC: Islamic Centre, 1980.

 Ayoub, Mahmoud. Redemptive Suffering in Islam: A Study of the Devotional Aspects of ‘Ashura in Twelver Shi‘ism. The Hague:
Mouton, 1978.

 ____. Islam: Faith and Practice. Markham: Open Press, 1989.

 Chelkowski, Peter, ed. Ta’ziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran. New York: New York University Press, 1979.

 Cook, Michael. Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 Elad, Amikam. Medieval Jerusalem and Islamic Worship: Holy Places, Ceremonies, Pilgrimage. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995.

 Ende, Werner. ‘The Flagellations of Muharram and the Shi‘ite ‘ulama’’, Der Islam, 55 (1978), pp. 19-36; repr. in Paul Luft and
Colin Turner, ed., Shi‘ism: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. London and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2008, vol. 3, pp. 33-49.

 Ernst, Carl W. and Bruce B. Lawrence. Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond. London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2002.

 Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn. Islamic Society in Practice. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1994.

 Gumley, Frances and Brian Redhead. The Pillars of Islam: An Introduction to the Islamic Faith. London: BBC Books, 1990.

 Halevi, Leor. Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

 Hammoudi, Abdellah. A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage, tr. Pascale Ghazaleh. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.

 Hawting, Gerald, ed. The Development of Islamic Ritual. Aldershot: Variorum, 2006, pp. xiii-xxxix.

 Hyder, Syed Akbar. Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

 Katz, Marion Holmes. Body of Text: The Emergence of the Sunni Law of Ritual Purity. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002.

 Mehta, Deepak, Work, Ritual, Biography: A Muslim Community in North India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.

 Morinis, Alan, ed. Sacred Journeys: the Anthropology of Pilgrimage. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992.
 Nakash, Yitzhak. ‘The Visitation of the Shrines of the Imams and the Shi‘i Mutjahids in the Early Twentieth Century’, Studia
Islamica, 81 (1995), pp. 153-163.

 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, ed., Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations. New York: SCM Press, 1991.

 Netton, Ian. Sufi Ritual: The Parallel Universe. London: Curzon Press, 2000.

 Padwick, Constance. Muslim Devotions; A Study of Prayer-Manuals in Common Use. London: SPCK, 1961.

 Parkin, David and Stephen Headly, ed. Islamic Prayer across the Indian Ocean: Inside and Outside the Mosque. London: Curzon,
2000.

 Pelly, Lewis, ed. The Miracle Play of Hasan and Husain. London: Gregg, 1879. 2 vols.

 Peters, Emrys. ‘A Muslim Passion Play’, Atlantic Monthly – Perspective of the Arab World – a Special Supplement, 198 (Oct. 1956),
pp. 176-180.

 Peters, F.E. The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

 Pinault, David. The Shi‘ites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1992.

 Renard, John. Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,
1996.

 Rippin, Andrew. Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. London: Routledge, 2005.

 Schubel, Vernon James. Religious Performances in Contemporary Islam: Shi‘i Devotional Rituals in South Asia. Columbia, SC:
University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

 Strathern, Andrew, and Pamela J. Stewart. Contesting Rituals: Islam and Practices of Identity-Making, Carolina Academic Press
Ritual Studies Monographs. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2004.

 Torab, Azam. Performing Islam: Gender and Ritual in Iran. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

 Turner, Colin. ‘Aspects of Devotional Life in Twelver Shi‘ism: The Practice of du’a’, in Paul Luft and Colin Turner, ed., Shi‘ism:
Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. London and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2008, vol. 3, pp. 375-408.

 Waugh, E. H. ‘Muharram Rites: Community Death and Rebirth’, in F. E. Reynolds and E. H. Waugh, ed., Religious Encounters with
Death. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 1977, pp. 200-213.

 Wolfe, Michael. The Hadj: A Pilgrimage to Mecca. London: Secker and Warburg, 1993.

Civil Society in a Muslim Context

Abou El Fadl, Khaled et al. The Place of Tolerance in Islam. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002.
Chandhoke, Neera. The Conceits of Civil Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Eberley, Don. The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up. San Francisco: Encounter Books,
2008.

Edwards, Michael. Civil Society. London: Polity, 2004.

Gellner, Ernest. Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
Giffen, Janice et al. The Development of Civil Society in Central Asia. Oxford: NGO Management & Policy INTRAC, 2005.

Guan, Lee Hock. Civil Society in Southeast Asia. Singapore: NIAS Press, 2005.

Hanafi, Hasan. ‘Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society: A Reflective Islamic Approach’, in S. Chambers, Simone and W. Kymlicka,

ed., Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society. Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Hashmi, Sohail H., ed. Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism and Conflict. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Heater, Derek. Citizenship: The Civic Ideal in World History, Politics and Education. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.

Herbert, David. Religion and Civil Society: Rethinking Public Religion in the Contemporary World. London: Ashgate, 2003.

Hodgkinson, Virginia and M.W. Foley, ed. The Civil Society Reader. Boston, MA: Tufts University, 2002.

Howell, J. and D. Mulligan, ed. Gender and Civil Society: Transcending Boundaries. London: Routledge, 2004.

Hudock, Ann. NGOs and Civil Society: Democracy by Proxy? London: Polity, 1999.

Jayaram, N. On Civil Society: Issues and Perspectives. Themes in Indian Sociology. India: Sage Publications, 2005.

Juergensmeyer, Mark, ed. Religion in Global Civil Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Kamali, Masoud. Multiple Modernities, Civil Society and Islam: The Case of Iran and Turkey. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006.

Kaviraj, S. and S. Khilnani, ed. Civil Society: History and Possibilities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Keane, John. Civil Society: Old Images, New States. London: Polity, 1998.

Maley, William, Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thaku, ed. From Civil Strife to Civil Society. Tokyo: United Nations University, 2003.

Maha Abdelrahman. Civil Society Exposed: The Politics of NGOs in Egypt. Library of Modern Middle East Studies. London: I.B. Tauris,

2004.

Norton, Richard A., ed. Civil Society in the Middle East. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Ozdalga, E. and S. Persson, ed. Civil Society, Democracy and the Muslim World. London: Routledge and Curzon, 1998.

Ruffin, M. Holt and Daniel Waugh, ed. Civil Society in Central Asia. Washington, DC: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Sachedina, Abdulaziz. The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Safi, Omid, ed. Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism. Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.

Sajoo, Amyn B., ed. Civil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary Perspectives. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002.

____. Pluralism in Old Societies and New States. Singapore: ISEAS, 1994.

Salvatore, Armando and Dale Eickleman, ed. Public Islam and the Common Good. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

Schak, D. and W. Hudson, ed. Civil Society in Asia. Law, Ethics and Governance.

Sudbury, MA: Dartmouth Publishing, 2003.

Shils, Edward. The Virtue of Civility: Selected Essays on Liberalism, Tradition, and Civil Society. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1997.

Turner, Bryan S., ed. Religious Diversity and Civil Society: A Comparative Analysis. Oxford: Bardwell Press, 2008.
Art and Architecture in the Muslim World
General Works

Baker, Patricia L. Islam and the Religious Arts. New York: Continuum, 2004.

Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan M. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250 - 1800.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.

________. Islamic Arts. London: Phaidon, 1997.

Clark, Emma. The Art of the Islamic Garden. Marlborough: Crowood Press, 2004.

Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina. Islamic Art and Architecture, 650–1250. Princeton, NJ: Yale

University Press, 2003.

Frishman, Martin and Hasan-Uddin Khan, ed. The Mosque: History, Architectural Development and Regional Diversity. London: Thames

and Hudson, 1994.

Hillenbrand, Robert. Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994.

a. Qur’anic Manuscripts, Calligraphy, Inscriptions and Coins

Bates, Michael. Dinars and Dirhams: Coins of the Islamic Lands - the Early Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Bayani, Manijeh, Anna Contadini and Tim Stanley. The Decorated Word: Qur’ans of the 17th to 19th Centuries. London: The Nour

Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1999.

Blair, Sheila S. Islamic Inscriptions. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.

________. Islamic Calligraphy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Déroche, François. The Abbasid Tradition: Qur’ans of the 8th to the 10th Centuries AD. London: The Nour Foundation in association

with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1992.

Ja’far, Mustafa. Arabic Calligraphy: Naskh Script for Beginners. London: British Museum Press, 2002.

James, David. After Timur: Qur’ans of the 15th and 16th Centuries. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions

and Oxford University Press, 1992.

_____. The Master Scribes: Qur’ans of the 10th to 14th Centuries AD. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth

Editions and Oxford UniversityPress, 1992.

Nicol, Norman Douglas. A Corpus of Fatimid Coins. Trieste: Giulio Bernardi, 2006.

Porter, Venetia. Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East, Exhibition Catalogue. London: British Museum Press, 2006.

Safwat, Nabil F. The Art of the Pen: Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries. London: The Nour Foundation in association with

Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1996.

Suleman, Fahmida, ed. Word of God, Art of Man: The Qur’an and its Creative Expressions: Selected Proceedings from the International

Colloquium, London, 18-21 October 2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2007.

Treadwell, Luke. Buyid Coinage: A Die Corpus. 322-445 AH. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2001.

b. Manuscripts, Painting and Portraiture

Atil, Esin. Kalila wa Dimna: Fables from a Fourteenth-Century Arabic Manuscript. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.

Beach, Milo Cleveland. The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660. ]Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art

Institute, 1978.

Canby, Sheila R. Persian Painting. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

_____. The Rebellious Reformer: The Drawings and Paintings of Riza-yi ‘Abbasi of Isfahan. London: Azimuth Editions, 1996.

_____. Princes, Poets and Paladins: Islamic and Indian Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan.
London: British Museum Press, 1998.

Contadini, Anna, ed. Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Diba, Layla S. ed. Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch, 1785-1925. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Brooklyn Museum of

Art, 1998.

Ettinghausen, Richard. Arab Painting. Lausanne: Skira, 1962.

Gray, Basil. Persian Painting. New York and London: Skira, 1961.

Grube, Ernst J. Islamic Paintings from the 11th to the 18th Century in the Collection of Hans P. Kraus. New York: H. P. Kraus, 1972.

______, ed. A Mirror for Princes from India: Illustrated Versions of the Kalilah wa Dimnah, Anvar-i Suhayli, Iyar-i Danish and Humayun

Nameh. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1991.

Leach, Linda York. Paintings from India. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University

Press, 1998.

Milstein, Rachel, Karin Rührdanz and Barbara Schmitz. Stories of the Prophets: Illustrated Manuscripts of Qisas al-Anbiya’. Costa Mesa,

CA: Mazda Publishers, 1999.

Raby, Julian. Qajar Portraits. London: Azimuth Editions in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, 1999.

Rogers, John Michael. Mughal Miniatures. London: British Museum Press, 2006.

Welch, Anthony and Stuart Cary Welch. Arts of the Islamic Book: The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. Ithaca and London:

Published for the Asia Society by Cornell University Press, 1982.

Welch, Stuart Cary. A King’s Book of Kings: The Shah-Nameh of Shah Tahmasp. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972.

______. Royal Persian Manuscripts. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.

Welch, Stuart Cary et al. The Emperors’ Album: Images of Mughal India. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.

c. Catalogues of Islamic Art. Mixed Media of Various Periods.

Akbarnia, Ladan, Benoît Junod and Alnoor Merchant, ed. The Path of Princes: Masterpieces from the Aga Khan Museum

Collection. Geneva: Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 2008.

Atil, Esin. Art of the Arab World. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1975.

______, ed. Islamic Art and Patronage: Treasures from Kuwait. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.
Carboni, Stefano, ed. Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.

Froom, Aimée, et al. Spirit and Life: Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection. Geneva: Aga Khan Trust for

Culture, 2007.Institut du Monde Arabe. Trésors Fatimides du Caire: Exposition Présentée à L’institut du Monde Arabe du 28 Avril au 30

Août 1998. Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 1998.

Jenkins, Marilyn, ed. Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum. London: Sotheby’s, 1983.

Komaroff, Linda and Stefano Carboni, ed. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. New York,

London and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2002.

Lentz, Thomas W. and Glenn D. Lowry. Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Los Angeles and

Washington, DC: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1989.

Melikian-Chirvani, Assadullah Souren. Le Chant du Monde: l’Art de l’Iran Safavide, 1501-1736. Paris: Somogy and Musée du Louvre,

2007.

Rogers, J. M. Islamic Art and Design, 1500 - 1700. London: British Museum Publications, 1983.

Roxburgh, David J. Turks: a Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2005.

Vernoit, Stephen. Occidentalism: Islamic Art in the 19th Century. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions

and Oxford University Press, 1997.

d. Ceramics, Glass, Metalwork, Woodwork and Lacquer

Alexander, David. The Arts of War: Arms and Armour of the 7th to 19th Centuries. London: The Nour Foundation in association with

Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1992.

Allan, James W. and Brian Gilmour. Persian Steel: The Tanavoli Collection. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Allan, James W. Islamic Metalwork: The Nuhad Es-Said Collection. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1999.

Atasoy, Nurhan and Julian Raby. Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey. London: Alexandria Press and Thames and Hudson, 1989.

Atil, Esin. Ceramics from the World of Islam. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.
Carboni, Stefano. Glass from Islamic Lands. London: Thames and Hudson in association with the al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-

Islamiyyah, Kuwait National Museum, 2001.

Carswell, John. Iznik Pottery. London: British Museum Press, 1998.

Grube, Ernst J., ed. Cobalt and Lustre: The First Centuries of Islamic Pottery. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth

Editions and Oxford University Press, 1994.

Khalili, Nasser D., B. W. Robinson and Tim Stanley. Lacquer of the Islamic Lands. London: The Nour Foundation in association with

Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1996.

Pancaroglu, Oya with Manijeh Bayani. Perpetual Glory: Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection. Chicago and

New Haven: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2007.

Porter, Venetia. Islamic Tiles. London: British Museum Press, 1995.

Ward, Rachel. Islamic Metalwork. London: British Museum Press, 1993.

Watson, Oliver. Ceramics from Islamic Lands. London: Thames and Hudson, 2004.

e. Textiles, Costumes and Carpets

Atasoy, Nurhan, et al. Ipek: Imperial Ottoman Silks and Velvets. London: Azimuth Editions, 2001.

Bailey, David A. and Gilane Tawadros, ed. Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art. London: Institute of International Visual

Arts in association with Modern Art Oxford, 2003.

Baker, Patricia L., Hülya Tezcan and Jennifer Wearden. Silks for the Sultans: Ottoman Imperial Garments from Topkapi Palace. Istanbul:

Ertug and Kocabiyik, 1996.

Ellis, Marianne and Jennifer Wearden. Ottoman Embroidery. London: V&A Publications, 2001.

Ellis, Marianne. Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2002.

Paine, Sheila. Embroidery from India and Pakistan. London: British Museum Press, 2001.

_____. Embroidery from Afghanistan. London: British Museum Press, 2007.

Thompson, Jon. Carpets: From the Tents, Cottages and Workshops of Asia. London: Laurence King, 1993.
_____. Silk, Carpets and the Silk Road. Tokyo: NHK Culture Center, 1998.

_____. Silk: 13th to 18th Centuries. Treasures from the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar. Doha and London: National Council for Culture,

Arts and Heritage in conjunction with the Islamic Art Society, 2004.

_____. Milestones in the History of Carpets. Milan: Moshe Tabibnia Gallery, 2006.

Wearden, Jennifer. Oriental Carpets and their Structure: Highlights from the V&A Collection. London: V&A Publications, 2003.

Weir, Shelagh. Embroidery from Palestine. London: British Museum Press, 2007.

f. Specialised Islamic Art Journals

Ars Orientalis: the Arts of Islam and the East. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1954-Present.

HALI: the International Journal of Oriental Carpets and Textiles. London: Oguz Press, 1978-Present.

Islamic Art: an Annual Dedicated to the Art and Culture of the Muslim World. New York: Islamic Art Foundation, 1981-1991, 2005.

Islamic Art, Supplement I.

Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983-Present. Available on JSTOR.

g. Regional Studies: Art and Architecture

Adahl, Karin and Berit Sahlström, ed. Islamic Art and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1995.

Barrucand, Marianne, ed. L’Egypte Fatimide: Son Art et Son Histoire. Actes du Colloque organisé à Paris les 28, 29 et 30 mai 1998.

Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction. Leiden: Brill, 1989.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris with photographs by Muhammad Yusuf. The Minarets of Cairo.

Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1985.

_____. Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Architecture and its Culture. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Bloom, Jonathan M. Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt. New Haven and London:

Yale University Press, 2007.

Canby, Sheila R. Safavid Art and Architecture. London: British Museum Press, 2002.

Dodds, Jerrilynn D., ed. Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.

Fathy, Hassan. Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

Flood, Finbarr Barry. The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Grabar, Oleg; with contributions by Mohammad al-Asad, Abeer Audeh and Said Nuseibeh. The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic

Jerusalem. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Hillenbrand, Robert, ed. The Art of the Saljuqs in Iran and Anatolia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Edinburgh in 1982. Costa

Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1994.

Koch, Ebba. The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006.

Necipoglu, Gülru. Architecture, Ceremonial and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York and

Cambridge, MA: Architectural History Foundation and MIT Press, 1991.

_____. The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture: Topkapi Palace Museum Library Ms H 195. Santa Monica,

CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995.

_____. The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. London: Reaktion Books, 2005.

Raby, Julian, ed. The Art of Syria and the Jazira, 1100 - 1250. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Raby, Julian and Jeremy Johns, ed. Bayt Al-Maqdis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 - 1999.

Rosen-Ayalon, Myriam. The Early Islamic Monuments of al-Haram al-Sharif: An Iconography Study. Jerusalem: Hebrew University of

Jerusalem, 1989.

Welch, Stuart Cary. India: Art and Culture, 1300 - 1900. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985.

h. Seals, Talismans, Astrology and Jewellery

Carboni, Stefano. Following the Stars: Images of the Zodiac in Islamic Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.

Content, Derek J., ed. Islamic Rings and Gems: The Benjamin Zucker Collection. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1987.
Edson, E. and Emilie Savage-Smith. Medieval Views of the Cosmos. Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2004.

Jenkins, Marilyn and Manuel Keene. Islamic Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.

Kalus, Ludvik. Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

Savage-Smith, Emilie et al. Science, Tools and Magic. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford

University Press, 1997.

Savage-Smith, Emilie; with a chapter on iconography by Andrea P. A. Belloli. Islamicate Celestial Globes: Their History, Construction

and Use. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

Wenzel, Marian. Ornament and Amulet: Rings of the Islamic Lands. London: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions

and Oxford University Press, 1993.

i. Reference Works and Theoretical Studies

Ådahl, Karin and Mikael Ahlund, ed. Islamic Art Collections: an International Survey. Richmond: Curzon, 2000.

Allen, Terry. Five Essays on Islamic Art. Sebastopol, CA: Solipsist Press, 1988.

Bloom, Jonathan M. Paper before Print: the History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World. New Haven and London: Yale University

Press, 2001.

al-Qaddumi, Ghada al-Hijjawa, tr. Book of Gifts and Rarities: Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf, Selections Compiled in the Fifteenth Century

from an Eleventh Century Manuscript on Gifts and Treasures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Beauty in Arabic Culture. Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner, 1999.

Leaman, Oliver. Islamic Aesthetics: an Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.

Ruggles, D. Fairchild, ed. Women, Patronage and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies. Albany, NY: State University of New York

Press, 2000.

Shalem, Avinoam. Islam Christianized: Islamic Portable Objects in the Medieval Church Treasuries of the Latin West. Frankfurt and

Main: Peter Lang, 1996.

Vernoit, Stephen, ed. Discovering Islamic Art: Scholars, Collectors and Collections, 1850-1950. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000.
Law in Muslim Context
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Fyzee, Asaf A. A. An Introduction to the Study of Mahomedan Law. London: H. Milford, 1931.

Gleave, Robert. Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shii Jurisprudence. Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Hallaq, Wael B. Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam. Aldershot: Variorum, UK; Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1995.

____. A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. Cambridge and New York; Cambridge University Press,

1997.

____. Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

____, ed. The Formation of Islamic Law. Aldershot: Variorum, 2004.

Heer, Nicholas, ed. Islamic Law and Jurisprudence. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990.

Kamali, Mohammad Hashim. Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1991.

Khadduri, Majid and Herbert J. Liebesny, ed. Law in the Middle East. Volume 1, Origin and Development of Islamic Law, with a

foreword by Justice Robert H. Jackson. Washington, DC: The Middle East Institute, 1955.

Lokhandwalla, Shamoon T. ‘The Origins of Ismaili Law’, Thesis. D. Phil. University of Oxford, Faculty of Oriental Studies, 1951.

Makdisi, George. Religion, Law, and Learning in Classical Islam. Hampshire, UK and Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1991.

Motzki, Harald. The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools, tr. Marion H. Katz. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Fyzee, Asaf A. A, tr. The Pillars of Islam: Daaim al-Islam of al-Qadi al-Numan, completely revised and annotated by Ismail Kurban

Husein Poonawala.

as-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir. Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence, tr. and with an introduction by Roy Parviz Mottahedeh. Oxford:

Oneworld, 2003.

Tabatabai, Hossein Modarressi. An Introduction to Shii Law: A Bibliographical Study. London: Ithaca Press, 1984.

Weiss, Bernard G. The Spirit of Islamic Law. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1998.
al-Zwaini, Laila and Rudolph Peters. A Bibliography of Islamic Law, 1980-1993. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994.

Qur’an and its Interpretation

1. Secondary Literature: Encyclopaedias and Book Series

Monographs and edited volumes on the Qur’an and its interpretation have thrived in the last decades. Two exceptionally important

contributions in recent years are the Journal of Quranic Studies,

http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/jqs(link is external)

and the Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Brill: 2001-2006.

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=18&pid=23761(link is external)

Three further reference works have been published, which are expected to become classics in this field:

Leaman, Oliver, ed. The Qur’an: An Encyclopaedia. London: Routledge, 2005.

McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Rippin, Andrew, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

And a useful variorum compilation of articles in four volumes:

Colin Turner, ed. The Koran: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. London: Routledge Curzon, 2005.

Vol I: Provenance and Transmission.

Vol II: Themes and Doctrines. Form, Content and Literary Structure.
Vol III: Style and Structure. The Koran and the Development of the Islamic ‘Sciences’.

Vol IV: Translation and Exegesis. Koranic Exegesis.

A valuable, high-quality contribution is Brill’s series on ‘Texts and Studies on the Qur’an’, edited by Gerhard Böwering (Yale University)

and Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Georgetown University). The four titles that have appeared so far in this series include monographs on

medieval commentators on the Qur’an, the edition of a classical text and the reprint of a classic (see the list below):

Amir-Moezzi, Etan Kohlberg, ed. Revelation and Falsification. Leiden: Boston: E.J. Brill, 2008.

Saleh, The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition: The Qur'an Commentary of Al-Tha'labi Leiden Boston: E.J. Brill 2004

Lane, Andrew. A Traditional Mufitazilite Qur’an Commentary. Leiden: Boston: E.J. Brill, 2006.

Lawrence, Bruce. The Qur’an: A Biography. Oak Lawn, IL: Atlantic Press, 2006.

Jeffery, Arthur. The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur’an. Leiden: Brill, 2006 (originally published in 1938) with a Preface by Gerhard

Böwering and Jane Dammen McAuliffe.

A new series by Routledge has been announced: Routledge Studies in the Qur’an

Ashgate has also published three volumes of re-published essays through its Formation of the Classical Islamic World Series. The

Qur’an: Formative interpretation, 1999 and The Qur’an: Style and contents, 2001, and its Variorum Collected Studies Series, The

Qur’an and its Interpretive tradition, 2001.

Finally, there are some catalogues of Qur’an translations and manuscripts:

The Holy Koran in the Library of Congress: A Bibliography, compiled by Fawzi Mikhail Tadros. Washington: Library of Congress, 1994.

World Bibliography of Translations of the Meaning of the Holy Quran, printed translations, 1515-1980. Istanbul: IRCICA, 1986,

Compiled by Ismet Binark and Halit Eren; edited and preface by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu,

World Bibliography of Translations of the Holy Qur’an. Istanbul: IRCICA, 2000, Compiled by M. Nejat Sefercioglu; edited and

introduction by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu,

2. Concordances and Dictionaries

‘Abd al-Baqi, Muhammad Fu’ad. al-Mu’jam al-mufahras li-alfaz al-Qur’an. Cairo: n.d.
El-Said, Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haleem, ed. Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur’anic Usage. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Jones, Alan. Arabic through the Qur’an. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2005.

Kassis, Hanna E. A Concordance of the Qur’an. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Mir, Mustansir. Dictionary of Qur’anic Terms and Concepts. NY: 1987.

Penrice, John. Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran. London: Routledge Curzon, 1995.

3. Secondary Literature: Chronological Bibliography

The chronological bibliography provided below illustrates the increasing number of works on Qur’an and Qur’anic exegesis (please
note that only books are included):

a. General introductions to the Qur’an

Bell, R. and M. Watt. Bell’s Introduction to the Qur’an. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970. Campanini, Massimo. The Qur’an:

The Basics. London: Routledge, 2007.

Cook, Michael. The Koran. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Cragg, Kenneth. The Event of the Qur’an: Islam in its Scripture. London: Allen and Unwin, 1971.

Esack, Farid. The Qur’an: A User’s Guide. A Guide to its Key Themes, History and Interpretation. Oxford: Oneworld, 2005.

Robinson, Neal. Discovering the Qur’an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text. London: SCM Press, 1996; 2nd ed. 2003.

Saeed Abdullah. The Qur’an: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Sells, Michael. Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations. Ashland: White Cloud Press, 1999. [extracts translated, with an

introduction].

Siddiqui, Mona. How to Read the Qur’an. London: Granta Books, 2007.

b. Studies on the text and style of the Qur’an:

Burton, John. The Collection of the Qur’an. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

El-Awa, Salwa M. S. Textual Relations in Qur’an: Relevance, Coherence And Structure. London: Routledge, 2006.
Gwynne, Rosalind Ward. Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur’an: God’s Arguments. London: Routledge Curzon, 2004.

Hoffmann, Thomas. The Poetic Qur’an: Studies on Qur’anic Poeticity. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007.

Jeffery, Arthur. The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur’an. Leiden: Brill, 2006 (originally published in 1938) with a Preface by Gerhard

Böwering and Jane Dammen McAuliffe.

Madigan, Daniel A. The Qur’an’s Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam’s Scripture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Reynolds, Gabriel S., ed. The Qur’an in its Historical Context. London: Routledge, 2007.

Rippin, Andrew, ed. The Qur’an, Style and Contents. Aldershot: Variorum, Hampshire; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2001.

Wild, Stefan. ed. The Qur’an as Text. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.

c. Studies on the Themes of the Qur’an:

Abdel Haleem, M. A. Understanding the Qur’an: Themes and Style. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999.

Cragg, Kenneth. Readings in the Qur’an. San Francisco: Collins, 1988.

Izutsu, Toshihiko. Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1966; repr. 2002. [Originally: The

Structure of the Ethical Terms in the Koran, 1959, repr. Chicago: ABC International, 2000.]

Jomier, Jacques. The Great Themes of the Qur’an. London: SCM Press, 1997.

Rahman, Fazlur. Major Themes of the Qur’an. Minneapolis: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1980; repr. 1989, 1994.

On the Historical Context of the Qur’an

d. Prophets and ancient stories

Dundes, Ian. Fables of the ancients?: Folklore in the Qur’an. Lanham, MD; Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Tottoli, Roberto. Biblical Prophets in the Qur’an. London: Routledge, 2001.

Wheeler, Brannon, ed. Prophets in the Quran. New York: Continuum, 2002.

e. Recitation
Abdul Quasem, Muhammad. The Recitation and Interpretation of the Qur’an: al-Ghazali’s Theory. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya

Press, 1979.

Graham, William A. Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 1987; repr. 1993.

Nelson, Kristina, The Art of Reciting the Qur’an. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984; repr. Cairo: AUC, 1985 and 2001.

Sa’id, Labib. The Recited Koran: A History of the First Recorded Version, translated and adapted by Bernard Weiss, M. A. Rauf and

Morroe Berger. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1975; original Arabic: al-Jam’ al-sawti al-awwal li’l-Qur’an al-karim awal-mushaf al-murattal.

Cairo: Dar al-Katib al-‘Arabi, 1967; rev, ed. Cairo: Dar al-Ma’arif, 1978.

f. Artistic expressions

Baker, Colin F. Qur’an Manuscripts: Calligraphy, Illumination, Design. London: British Library, 2007.

Lings, Martin. Splendours of Qur’an Calligraphy and Illumination. Vaduz, Liechtenstein: Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, 2005.

Roxburgh, David J. Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007.

Suleman, Fahmida, ed. Word of God, Art of Man: The Qur’an and its Creative Expressions: Selected Proceedings from the International

Colloquium, London, 18-21 October 2003. Oxford : Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2007.

g. Comparative approaches (very few studies to date):

Ipgrave, Michael, ed. Scriptures in Dialogue: Christians and Muslims Studying the Bible and the Qur’an Together. London: Church

House Publishing, 2004. [a more faith-based approach].

Jomier, Jacques. The Bible and the Qur’an. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002.

McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, Barry D. Walfish, and Joseph W. Goering, ed. With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in

Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Oxford and New York: OUP, 2003.

Reeves, J. C. Bible and Qur’an: Essays in Scriptural Intertextuality. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2004.

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. What is Scripture? A Comparative Approach. London: SCM, 1993.

h. Interpretations of the Qur’an and its Reception History:

Arkoun, Mohammed. Lectures du Coran. Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1982; reprinted, Tunis: Alif, les Éditions de la

Méditerranée, 1993.

Berg, Herbert. The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the Formative Period.

Richmond: Curzon, 2000.

Burman, Thomas E. Reading the Qur’an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Dhahabi, Muhammad Husayn. Al-Tafsir wa’l-mufassirun: bahth tafsili ‘an nash’at al-tafsir wa-tatawwurihi wa-alwanihi wa-

madhahibihi. Cairo: Dar al-Kutub al-Haditha, 1961-62. 3 vols.

Gätje, Helmut. The Qur’an and its Exegesis: Selected Texts with Classical and Modern Interpretations, tr. Alford T. Welch. Berkeley and

Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976; original German: Koran und Koranexegese. Zürich: Artemis, 1977.

Goldziher, Ignaz. Schools of Koranic Commentators, ed. and tr. Wolfgang H. Behn. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006; with an

introduction by Fuat Sezgin on Goldziher and Hadith from Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums; originalGerman: Die Richtungen der

islamischen Koranauslegung. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1920.

Hawting, R. and Abdul-Kader A. Shareef, ed. Approaches to the Qur’an. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.

Johns, Anthony H., ed. International Congress for the Study of the Qur’an. Canberra: Australian National University, 1981.

Lawrence, Bruce. The Qur’an: A Biography. London: Atlantic Books, 2006.

McAuliffe, Jane Dammen. Qur’anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

1991.

Mohammed, Khaleel and Andrew Rippin, ed. Coming to Terms with the Qur’an: A Volume in Honor of Professor Issa Boullata, McGill

University. North Haledon, NJ: Islamic Publications International, 2007.

Rippin, Andrew, ed. Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qur’an. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988; New York: OUP, 1988.

____, ed. The Qur’an: Formative Interpretation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.

____, ed.The Qur’an and its Interpretive Tradition. Aldershot: Variorum, Hampshire, 2001; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001.

Wansbrough, John E. Quranic Studies. Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation. Oxford: OUP, 1977.
i. Studies on individual commentators

Abrahamov, Binyamin. Anthropomorphism and interpretation of the Qur’an in the Theology of al-Qasim Ibn Ibrahim. Kitab al-

Mustarshid. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Gilliot, Claude. Exégèse, langue et théologie en Islam. L’Exégèse coranique de Tabari. m. 311/923. Paris: J. Vrin, 1990.

Gimaret, Daniel. Une lecture mu’tazilite du Coran. Le Tafsir d’Abu ‘Ali al-Djubba’i [m. 303/915]. Louvain and Paris, 1994.

Keeler, Annabel. Sufi Hermeneutics: The Qur’an Commentary of Rashid al-Din Maybudi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in association

with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2006.

Lagarde, Michel. Index du Grand Commentaire de Fahr al-Din al-Razi. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Lane, Andrew J. A Traditional Mu’tazilite Qur’an Commentary: The Kashshaf of Jar Allah al-Zamakhshari. d. 538/1144. Leiden and

Boston: Brill, 2006.

Saleh, Walid A. The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition: the Qur’an Commentary of al-Tha’labi. d.427/1035. Leiden and Boston:

Brill, 2004.

Whittingham, Martin. Al-Ghazali and the Qur’an: One Book, Many Meanings. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.

(forthcoming: Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali and Etan Kohlberg, ed. Revelation and Falsification. The Kitab al-qira’at of Ahmad b.
Muhammad al-Sayyari. Leiden and Boston: Brill).

j. Shi‘i approaches to the Qur’an:

Bar-Asher, Meir M. Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999.

k. Sufi approaches to the Qur’an:

Abü Zayd, Nasr Hamid. Falsafat al-ta’wil : dirasa fi ta’wil al-Qur’an fiinda Muhyi’l-din Ibn ‘Arabi. Beirut: Dar al-Tanwir; Dar al-Wahdah,

1983.

Böwering, Gerhard. The Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam. The Qur’anic Hermeneutics of the Sufi Sahl al-Tustari. d.

283/896. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1980.

____ , ed. The Minor Qur’anic Commentary of Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Sulami. d. 412/1021.

Ziyadat Haqa’iq al-Tafsir. Beirut: Dar al-Mashriq, 1995; 2nd ed. 1997.
Keeler, Annabel. Sufi Hermeneutics: The Qur’an Commentary of Rashid al-Din Maybudi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in association

with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2006.

Lory, Pierre. Les commentaires ésotériques du Coran d’après Qashani. Paris: Les Deux Océans, 1980.

Nwiya, Paul. Exégèse coranique et language mystique: nouvel essai sur le lexique technique des mystiques musulmanes. Beirut: Dar al-

Mashriq, Imprimérie Catholique, 1970.

Sands, Kristin Zahra. Sufi Commentaries on the Qur’an in Classical Islam. London: Routledge Curzon, 2006.

l. Contemporary Interpretations:

Baljon, Johannes Marinus Simon. Modern Muslim Koran Interpretation, 1880-1960. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1961.

Saeed, Abdullah. Interpreting the Qur’an: Towards a Contemporary Approach. Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge, 2006.

Taji-Farouki, Suha. Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur’an. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of

Ismaili Studies, 2004.

m. Regional Approaches:

Jansen, J. J. G. The Interpretation of the Koran in Modern Egypt. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974.

Saeed, Abdullah. Approaches to the Qur’an in Contemporary Indonesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in association with the

Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2005.

n. Gender perspectives:

Barlas, Asma. ‘Believing Women’ in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Stowasser, Barbara Freyer. Women in the Qur’an, Traditions, and Interpretation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Wadud, Amina. Qur’an and Woman: Re-reading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective. Oxford: OUP, 1999.

4. Most Recent Translations of the Qur’an

Ali, Ahmed, tr. al-Qur’an: A Contemporary Translation, rev. ed. Woodstock, Oxon; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Cleary, Thomas F., tr. The Qur’an: A New Translation. Chicago: Starlatch Press, 2004.
Fakhry, Majid, tr. An Interpretation of the Qur’an: English Translation of the Meanings: A Bilingual Edition. New York: New York

University Press, 2002.

Jones, Alan, tr. The Qur’an. Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, 2007.

The Qur’an, tr. M. A. Abdel Haleem. Oxford and New York: OUP, 2004.

Seddik, Youssef, tr. Le Coran, autre lecture, autre traduction. La Tour d’Aigue: Aube, 2006.

Starkovsky, Nicolas, tr. The Koran Handbook: An Annotated Translation. New York: Algora Publications, 2005.

5. Websites and Electronic Resources

There are now a number of websites dedicated to the Qur’an and the Tafsir.

See the comprehensive, although maybe in need of an update, article by Andrew Rippin:

‘The Study of Tafsir in the 21st century: etexts and their Scholarly Use’, MELA Notes 69-70 (1999-2000), pp. 1-13. with two appendixes.

Carl W. Ernst, from the University of North Carolina, which includes both academic and non-academic

works: http://www.unc.edu/~cernst/quranstudy.htm(link is external)

Alan Godlas, from the University of Georgia: http://www.uga.edu/islam/quran.html(link is external)

The Near East Department of the University of Michigan

Intellectual Traditions in Islam
a) Islamic Philosophy and Theology

Ess, Josef van. The Flowering of Muslim Theology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Mutahhari, Murtada. Understanding Islamic Sciences, Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism. London: Islamic College for Advanced

Studies Publications, 2002.

Nasr, Sayyid Hussein. Knowledge and the Sacred. New York: State University of New York Press, 1989.

____ . Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present. New York: State University of New York Press, 2006.

____ and Oliver Leaman. History of Islamic Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2001.

____ . An Introduction to Islamic Cosmological Doctrines. New York: State University of New York, 1993.

____ . Classification of Knowledge in Islam: A Study in Islamic Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Islamic Texts Society, 1999.

____ . Three Muslim Sages. Oxford: Caravan Books, 1964. Izutsu, Toshihiko. The Concept and Reality of Existence. Keio Institute of

Cultural and Linguistic Studies, 1971.

b) Islamic Philosophy

Adamson, P. and R. C. Taylor, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

____ . Al-Kindi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Belo, C. Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

de Callataÿ, G. Ikhwan al-Safa’: A Brotherhood of Idealists on the Fringe of Orthodox Islam. Oxford: Oneworld, 2005.

Druart, T.-A. Arabic Philosophy, East and West: Continuity and Interaction. Washington DC: Center for Contemporary Arabic Studies,

1988.

El-Bizri, Nader. The Phenomenological Quest between Avicenna and Heidegger. Binghamton, New York: Global Publications, SUNY at

Binghamton, 2000.

Goodman, L. E. Islamic Humanism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

____ . Avicenna. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

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____ . Greek Thought, Arabic Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1998; repr. 2002.

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Kunt, Metin, and Christine Woodhead. Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World.

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Laiou, Angeliki and Roy Mottahedeh, ed. The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. Washington, DC:

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2001.

Lapidus, Ira. Muslim Cities in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

____. A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Lambton, Ann K. State and Government in Medieval Islam. Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 1981.

Leslie, Donald Daniel. Islam in Traditional China: A Short History to 1800. Canberra: Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1986.

Levtzion, Nehemia and Humphrey Fisher, ed. The History of Islam in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000.

Lewis, Bernard. The Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day. London: Phoenix, 2000.

____. Studies in Classical Ottoman Islam (7th-16th Centuries). London: Variorum

reprints, 1976.

Lewis, I. M., ed. Islam in Tropical Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1966.

Lister, R. P. Genghis Khan. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993.

____. Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam. Aldershot: Variorum, 1992.

Mahida, Ebrahim. History of Muslims in South Africa: A Chronology. Durban: Arab Study Circle, 1993.

Mazzaoui, Michel M., ed. Safavid Iran and her Neighbours. Salt Lake City, UT, 2003.

Morgan, David. The Mongols. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

____. Medieval Persia 1040-1797. London: Longman, 1988.

Morgan, David and Reuven Amitai-Preiss, ed. The Mongol Empire and its Legacy. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 1999.

Morony, M. G. Iraq after the Muslim Conquest. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Mottahedeh, Roy. Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Newman, Andrew J. Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period. Leiden, 2003.

____. Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. London, 2006.

Petry, C. The Civilian Elite of Cairo in the Later Middle Ages, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Quataert, D. The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922. 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Ratchnevsky, Paul. Genghis Khan: His Life and Times, tr. Thomas Haining. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

Richards, John. The Mughal Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Robinson, Francis, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Robinson, David. Muslim Societies in African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Salibi, Kamal. Syria under Islam: Empire on Trial, 634-1097. Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1977.

Savory, Roger M. Iran under the Safavids. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Sourdel, Dominique. Medieval Islam, tr. J. Montgomery Watt. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.

Southern, R.W. Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Stern, Samuel M. History and Culture in the Medieval Muslim World. London: Variorum, 1984.
Taha, Abdulwahid Dhannun. The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain. London: Routledge, 1989.

Tayob, Abdulkader. Islam in South Africa: Mosques, Imams and Sermons. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1999.

Turner, Colin. Islam without Allah? The Rise of Religious Externalism in Safavid Iran. London: Routledge Curzon, 2000.

Udovitch, A.L., ed. The Islamic Middle East, 700-1900: Studies in Economic and Social History. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1981.

Watt, Montgomery W. The Majesty that was Islam: The Islamic World, 661-1100. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1974.

3. Modern Period

Abou El Fadl, Khaled. The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. New York: Harper, 2005.

Abu-Rabi’, Ibrahim. The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

Aziz Said, Abdul, Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Meena Sharify-Funk, ed. Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, Not Static. London: Routledge,

2006.

Esposito, John L. and John O. Voll. Makers of Contemporary Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Kurzman, Charles, ed. Liberal Islam: A Source-book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Kurzman, Charles, ed. Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Source-book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Nasr Abu Zayd, Reformation of Islamic Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

Rahnema, Ali, ed. Pioneers of Islamic Revival. London: Zed Books, 2006.

Roy, Olivier. Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Umma. Columbia: C. Hurst, 2006.

Taji-Farouki, Suha and Basheer M. Nafi, ed. Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century. London: I. B. Tauris, 2004.

Shi‘i Islam
1. General Works

Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad. The Divine Guide in Early Shi‘ism, tr. D. Streight. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994; originally published as Le

guide divin dans le Shi‘isme original. Aux sources de l’ésotérisme en Islam. Paris, 1992.

Arjomand, Said Amir. The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order and Societal Change in Shi‘ite Iran from the

Beginning to 1890. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1984.

____, ed. Authority and Political Culture in Shi‘ism. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1988.

Brunner, Rainer and Werner Ende, eds. The Twelver Shi‘a in Modern Times. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Clarke, L., ed. Shi‘ite Heritage Essays on Classical and Modern Traditionalism. New York: Binghamton University Press, 2001.

Cole, Juan. Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi‘ite Islam. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002.

____ and Nikki Keddie, ed. Shi‘ism and Social Protest. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.

Enayat, Hamid. Modern Islamic Political Thought: The Response of the Shi‘i and Sunni Muslims to the Twentieth Century. London: I. B.

Tauris, 1982.

Fahd, Toufic, ed. Le Shi‘isme imamite, Colloque de Strasbourg 6-9 May 1968. Paris, 1970.

Gleave, Robert. ‘Shi‘i’, in Y. Choueiri, ed., A Companion to the History of the Middle East. Oxford, 2005, pp. 87-105.

Halm, Heinz. Shi‘ism, tr. J. Watson and M. Hill. 2nd ed., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004; originally published as Die Schia,

Darmstadt, 1988.

____. Shi‘a Islam: From Religion to Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Jafri, S. Hussain M. Origins and Early Developments of Shi‘a Islam. Beirut: Longman and Librairie Liban, 1979; 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2000.

Kasravi, Ahmad. On Islam and Shi‘ism. Costa Mesta, CA: Mazda, 1990.

Keddie, Nikki, ed. Iran: Religion, Politics and Society: Collected Essays. London: Frank Cass, 1980.

____. Religion and Politics in Iran: Shi‘ism from Quietism to Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.

Kramer, Martin, ed. Shi‘ism, Resistance and Revolution. London: Continuum, 1987.
Lalani, Arzina. Early Shi‘i Thought: The Teachings of Muhammad al-Baqir. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000.

Lambton, Ann K. State and Government in Medieval Islam: An Introduction to the Study of Islamic Political Theory: The Jurists. Oxford:

Curzon Press, 1981.

Lawson, Todd, ed. Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought. Essays in Honour of

Hermann Landolt. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.

Luft, Paul and Colin Turner, ed. Shi‘ism: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. London: Routledge, 2008.

____. Religious and Ethnic Movements in Islam. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 1992.

____. ‘Shi‘a’, EI2, vol. 9, pp. 420-424.

Momen, Moojan. An Introduction to Shi‘i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi‘ism. New Haven, CT and London: Yale

University Press, 1985.

Mottahedeh, Roy. Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.

____. The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran. Oxford: Oneworld, 2000.

Moussavi, Ahmad Kazemi. Religious Authority in Shi‘ite Islam: From the Office of Mufti to the Institution of Marja’. Kuala Lumpur:

IIITCS, 1996.

Al-Muzaffar, Muhammad Rida. The Faith of Shi‘a Islam. Qumm, 1982.

Nasr, S. Hossein et al., ed. Shi‘ism: Doctrines, Thought and Spirituality. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1988.

____. Expectation of the Millennium: Shi‘ism in History. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989.

Shomali, Mohammad. A. Shi‘i Islam: Origins, Faith and Practices. London: Islamic College for Advanced Studies Publications, 2003.

____. Discovering Shi‘i Islam. 4th ed., Qumm, 1384/2006. Stern, Samuel M. History and Culture in the Medieval Muslim World. London:

Variorum, 1984.

Walbridge, Linda, ed. The Most Learned of the Shi‘a: The Institution of the Marja’ Taqlid. Oxford and New York: Oxford University

Press, 2001.

Yann, Richard. Shi‘ite Islam: Polity, Ideology, and Creed, tr. Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
2. The Zaydis

Note: There are very few accessible works on the Zaydis. Much of the scholarship on the Zaydis is in German. Please refer
to sections on Zaydiyya in the General Works on Shi‘i Islam.

van Arendonk, Cornelis. ‘Yahya’ b. Zayd’, EI2, vol. 4, pp. 1214-1215.

van Ess, Josef. ‘The Kamiliya: On the Genesis of a Heresiographical Tradition’, in E. Kohlberg, ed., Shi‘ism. Aldershot: Variorum, 2003,

pp. 209-219.

Jarrar, Maher. ‘Some Aspects of Imami Influence on Early Zaydite Theology,’ in Brunner, R., et al, ed. Islamstudien ohne Ende.

Festschrift W. Ende. Würzburg: Ergon, 2002, pp. 201-223.

Khan, M.S. ‘The Early History of Zaydi Shi‘ism in Daylaman and Gilan’, in E. Kohlberg,ed., Shi‘ism. Aldershot: Variorum, 2003, pp. 221-

234.

Madelung, Wilferd. Der Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim und die Glaubenslehre der Zaiditen. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1965.

____. ‘Imama’, EI2, vol. 3, pp. 1163-1169.

____. ‘Zaydiyya’, EI2, vol. 11, pp. 477-481.

____. ‘Zayd b. ‘Ali’, EI2, vol. 11, pp. 473-474.

Mortel, Richard. ‘Zaydi Shi‘ism and the Hasanid Sharifs of Mecca’, IJMES, 19 (1987), pp. 455-472.

3. The Ismailis

Aga Khan III, Sultan Muhammad Shah. The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time. London: Cassel, 1954.

____. Aga Khan III: Selected Speeches and Writings of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, ed. K. K. Aziz. London: Kegan Paul, 1997-1998.

Aga Khan IV, Karim. Speeches. Mombasa, 1963-1964. 2 vols.

Ali, S. Mujtaba. The Origin of the Khojahs and their Religious Life Today. Würzburg: Ergon, 1936.

Amiji, Hatim M. ‘The Asian Communities’, in J. Kritzeck and W.H. Lewis, ed., Islam in Africa. New York: Van Nostrand-Rheinhold, 1969,

pp. 141-181.

____. ‘The Bohras of East Africa’, Journal of Religion in Africa, 7 (1975), pp. 27-61.
Anderson, J. N. D. ‘The Isma‘ili Khojas of East Africa: A New Constitution and Personal Law for the Community’, Middle Eastern Studies,

1 (1964), pp. 21-39.

Asani, Ali. ‘The Ginan Literature of the Ismailis of Indo-Pakistan: Its Origins, Characteristics, and Themes’, in D.L. Eck and F. Mallison,

ed., Devotion Divine: Bhakti Traditions from the Regions of India. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1991, pp. 1-18.

____. ‘The Ismaili ginans as Devotional Literature’, in R.S. McGregor, ed., Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985-

1988. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 101-112.

____. ‘The Ismaili ginans. Reflections on Authority and Authorship’, in F. Daftary, ed., Mediaeval Isma‘ili History and Thought.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 265-280.

____. ‘The Khojahs of South Asia: Defining a Space of their Own’, Cultural Dynamics, 13 (2001), pp. 155-168.

____. Ecstasy and Enlightenment: The Ismaili Devotional Literature of South Asia. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002.

Blank, Jonah. Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2001.

Boivin, Michael. ‘The Reform of Islam in Ismaili Shi‘ism from 1885 to 1957’, in F. ‘Nalini’ Delvoye, ed., Confluences of Cultures: French

Contributions to Indo-Persian Studies. New Delhi: Manohar, 1994, pp. 197-216.

Brett, Michael. The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Tenth Century. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Canard, Marius. ‘Fatimids’, EI2, vol. 2, pp. 850-862.

Clarke, P. B. ‘The Ismailis: A Study of Community’, The British Journal of Sociology, 27 (1976), pp. 484-494.

____. ‘The Ismaili Sect in London: Religious Institutions and Social Change’, Religion, 8 (1978), pp. 68-84.

Cortese, Delia and Simonetta Calderini. Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Dabashi, Hamid. ‘The Philosopher/Vizier: Khwaja Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the Isma‘ilis’, in Mediaeval Isma‘ili History and Thought, pp.

231-245.

Daftary, Farhad. The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma‘ilis. London: I. B. Tauris, 1994.

____. ed., Mediaeval Isma‘ili History and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
____. A Short History of the Ismailis: Traditions of a Muslim Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998; Arabic tr., S.

Kassir. Damascus: Al-Mada, 2001; French tr., Les Ismaéliens, tr. Z. Rajan-Badouraly. Paris, 2003; German tr., Kurt Maier. Würzburg:

Ergon, 2003; Gujarati tr., J. Merchant and S. Muhammad. Mumbai: A. N. Thakkar, 2007; Persian tr., Mukhtasari dar ta’rikh-i

Isma‘iliyya, tr. F. Badra’i. Tehran, 1378 Sh./1999; Portuguese tr., Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto. Lisbon: Universidade Católica Portuguesa,

2003; Russian tr., Kratkaia istoriia Isma‘ilizma, tr. L. R. Dodikhudoeva and L. N. Dodkhudoeva. Moscow, 2003.

____. Ismaili Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies. London: I. B. Tauris, 2004.

____. Ismailis in Medieval Muslim Societies. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.

____. The Isma‘ilis: Their History and Doctrines. 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Dumasia, Naoroji M. A Brief History of the Aga Khan. Bombay: Times of India Press, 1903.

____. The Aga Khan and His Ancestors: A Biographical and Historical Sketch. Bombay: Times of India Press, 1939; repr., New Delhi:

Readworthy, 2008.

Eboo Jamal, Nadia. Surviving the Mongols: Nizari Quhistani and the Continuity of Ismaili Tradition in Persia. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002.

Engineer, Asghar Ali. The Bohras. New Delhi: Vikas, 1980.

Esmail, Aziz. A Scent of Sandalwood: Indo-Ismaili Religious Lyrics. Ginans. Volume 1. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2002.

Frischauer, Willi. The Aga Khans. London: Bodley Head, 1970.

Fyzee, Asaf A. A. ‘Bohoras’, EI2, vol. 1, pp. 1254-1255.

Halm, Heinz. The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids, tr. M. Bonner. Leiden: Brill, 1996.

____. The Fatimids and Their Traditions of Learning. London: I. B. Tauris, 1997.

Hamdani, Abbas H. The Beginnings of the Isma‘ili Da‘wa in Northern India. Cairo: Sirovic, 1956.

Hamdani, Sumaiya A. Between Revolution and State: The Path to Fatimid Statehood. London: I. B. Tauris, 2006.

Hillenbrand, Carole. ‘The Power Struggle between the Saljuqs and the Isma‘ilis of Alamut, 487-518/1094-1124: The Saljuq Perspective’,

in Daftary, ed., Mediaeval Isma‘ili History and Thought, pp. 205-220.

Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The Order of the Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Isma‘ilis Against the Islamic World. The Hague:

Mouton, 1955; repr., New York, 1980.

Hunsberger, Alice C. Nasir Khusraw, The Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher. London: I. B.

Tauris, 2000.

Ivanow, Wladimir. ‘The Sect of Imam Shah in Gujarat’, JBBRAS, NS, 12 (1936), pp. 19-70.

____. Studies in Early Persian Ismailism. 2nd ed., Bombay: Ismaili Society, 1955.

____. Alamut and Lamasar: Two Mediaeval Ismaili Strongholds in Iran. Tehran: Ismaili Society, 1960.

Kassam, Tazim R. Songs of Wisdom and Circles of Dance: Hymns of the Satpanth Isma‘ili Muslim Saint, Pir Shams. Albany, NY: SUNY

Press, 1995.

Keshavjee, Rafique H. Mysticism and the Plurality of Meaning: The Case of the Ismailis of Rural Iran. London: I. B. Tauris, 1998.

Khan, A. Z. ‘Ismailism in Multan and Sind’, Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, 23 (1975), pp. 36-57.

Khan, Dominique-Sila. Conversions and Shifting Identities: Ramdev Pir and the Ismailis in Rajasthan. New Delhi: Manohar, 1997.

____. Crossing the Threshold: Understanding Religious Identities in South Asia. London: I. B. Tauris, 2004.

Kjellberg, E. The Ismailis in Tanzania (M. A. thesis). Dar es-Salaam: University College, 1967.

Klemm, Verena. Memoirs of a Mission: The Ismaili Scholar, Statesman and Poet al-Mu’ayyad fi’l-Din al-Shirazi. London: I. B. Tauris,

2003.

Lev, Yaacov. State and Society in Fatimid Egypt. Leiden: Brill, 1991.

Lewis, Bernard. The Origins of Isma‘ilism: A Study of the Historical Background of the Fatimid Caliphate. Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1940;

repr., New York: AMS, 1975.

____ . The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967; French tr., Les Assassins, tr. A. Pélissier. Paris:

Berger-Levrault, 1982.

Lokhandwalla, Sh. T. ‘The Bohras, a Muslim Community of Gujarat’, Studia Islamica, 3 (1955), pp. 117-135.

Madelung, Wilferd. ‘Isma‘iliyya’, EI2, vol. 4, pp. 198-206.

____ and Paul Walker, ed. and tr. The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi‘i Witness. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000.

Mirza, Nasseh Ahmad. Syrian Ismailism: The Ever Living Line of the Imamate, AD 1100-1260. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1997.

Mitha, Farouk. Al-Ghazali and the Ismailis: A Debate on Reason and Authority in Medieval Islam. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001.

Nanji, Azim. ‘Modernization and Change in the Nizari Ismaili Community in East Africa – A Perspective’, Journal of Religion in Africa, 6

(1974), pp. 123-139.

____. The Nizari Isma‘ili Tradition in the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent. Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1978.

Poonawala, Ismail K. Biobibliography of Isma‘ili Literature. Malibu, CA: Undena, 1977.

Ruthven, Malise. ‘Aga Khan III and the Ismai‘ili Renaissance’, in Peter B. Clarke, ed., New Trends and Developments in the World of

Islam. London: Luzac Oriental, 1998, pp. 371-395.

Shackle, Christopher and Zawahir Moir. Ismaili Hymns from South Asia: An Introduction to the Ginans. Rev. ed. Richmond: Curzon,

2000.

Sanders, Paula. Ritual, Politics and the City in Fatimid Cairo. Albany, NY: SUNY Press,1994.

Virani, Shafique. ‘The Eagle Returns: Evidence of Continued Isma‘ili Activity at Alamut and in the South Caspian Region Following the

Mongol Conquest’, JAOS, 123 (2003), pp. 351-370.

Walker, Paul E. Exploring an Islamic Empire: Fatimid History and Its Sources. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002.

____. Abu Ya‘qub al-Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary. London: I. B. Tauris, 1996.

____. Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani: Ismaili Thought in the Age of al-Hakim. London: I. B. Tauris, 1999.

____. Exploring an Islamic Empire: Fatimid History and its Sources. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002.

____ and Wilferd Madelung, ed. and tr. The Advent of the Fatimids: A Contemporary Shi‘i Witness, Ibn al-Haytham’s Kitab al-

Munazarat. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000.

____ with Ayman Fu’ad Sayyid and Maurice A. Pomerantz. The Fatimids and their Successors in Yaman: The History of an Islamic

Community. London: I. B. Tauris, 2002.

Willey, Peter. Eagle’s Nest: Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.
4.The Ithna‘ashariyya

Note: Most of the works listed in the Shi‘i Islam: General Works section are also relevant to this topic

Abissab, Rula Jurdi. Converting Persia: Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire. London: I. B. Tauris, 2004.

Algar, Hamid. Religion and State in Iran 1758-1906: The Role of the Ulama in the Qajar Period. Berkeley, CA: University of California

Press, 1969.

Ayoub, Mahmoud. The Crisis of Muslim History: Religion and Politics in Early Islam. Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.

Bayat, Mangol. Iran’s First Revolution: Shi‘ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Bayhom-Daou, Tamima. Shaykh Mufid. Oxford: Oneworld, 2005.

Ghaffari, Salman. Shi‘ism or Original Islam. 2nd ed., Tehran, 1971.

Hussain, Jassim. The Occultation of the Twelfth Imam: A Historical Background. London: Muhammadi Trust, 1982.

Kennedy, Hugh. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century. London:

Longman, 1986.

____. The Early Abbasid Caliphate: A Political History. London: Croom Helm, 1981.

Kohlberg, Etan. ‘From Imamiyya to Ithna-‘Ashariyya,’ BSOAS, 39 (1976), pp. 521-534.

Madelung, Wilferd. The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Mazzaoui, Michel M. The Origins of the Safawids: Shi‘ism, Sufism and the Gulat. Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1972.

Shaban, Muhammad A. The Abbasid Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.

Sharon, Moshe. Black Banners from the East: The Establishment of the ‘Abbasid State – Incubation of a Revolt. Jerusalem and Leiden:

Magnes Press, 1983.

Sobhani, Ayatolloh Jaffer. Doctrines of Shi‘i Islam: A Compendium of Imami Beliefs Practices, tr. and ed. Reza Shah-Kazemi. London: I.

B. Tauris, 2001.

Zaman, Muhammad Q. Religion and Politics under the Early ‘Abbasids: The Emergence of the Proto-Sunni Elite. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
PhD Ibn Haldun University

Reading List
July 2016 Comp List
Islam
 Hodgson, The Venture of Islam , 3 vols. (500×3 pages)
 Ibn Haldun Mukaddime (1200×2 pages)
 Muhammad Hamidullah, Intorduction to Islam
 Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 400 pages
 Halil İnalcık, The Ottoman Empire, The Classical Age, 1300-1600 (272 pages).
 M. Sharif, A History of Muslim Philosophy 2 vols. (1792 pages)
Wael Hallaq, An Introduction to Islamic Law (206 pages)
Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam – 480 pages
Anthology of Islamic literature : from the rise of Islam to modern times. / introduced and edited by James Kritzeck. — London :
Penguin Books, 1964
Further Reading:
Modern Islamic literature : from 1800 to the present. / with an introduction and commentaries by James Kritzeck. — New York : Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, 1970. 310 s. ; 24 cm.
Majid Fakhry, Islam Felsefesi Tarihi, Insan yayinlari 440 sayfa
Ömer Mahir Alper, Osmanlı Felsefesi (Seçme Metinler), (Klasik Yay, 517 sayfa)
Cüneyt Kaya, İslam Felsefesi: Tarih ve Problemler (İSAM, 869 sayfa)
Fazlur Rahman, Islam (Ankara okulu yayinlari- 370 sayfa)
Bernard G. Weiss, The Spirit of Islamic Law- 232 sayfa
Halil İnalcık (2 Cilt) Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Ekonomik ve Sosyal Tarihi – 1200 sayfa
Kenneth George, Picturing Islam (2010)
Bloom and Blair, Islamic Arts
Robert Irwin titled Night and the Horses and the Desert
Marilyn Waldman, with Malika Zeghal, “The Islamic World”, a summary of The Venture of Islam in 50 pages; see
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/295765/Islamic-world
Methodology:
 1. Allawi, Ali. Islam Uygarliginin Buhrani, Efil Yayinevi
2. Hodgson, Marshall G. S. Dunya Tarihini Yeniden Dusunmek, Yonelis Yayinlari, 487 sayfa
3. Sait Halim Paşa, Buhranlarımız
4. Ahmet Davutoğlu, Ben İdraki
5. Aliya İzzetbegovic, Doğu Batı Arasında İslam
6. Ziya Gökalp, Türkleşmek, İslamlaşmak, Muasırlaşmak
7. Said, Orientalism (Introduction)
8. Talal Asad, Sekulerligin Bicimleri (Introduction)
9. Recep Şentürk, Açık Medeniyet,
İslam Dünyasında Modernleşme ve Toplumbilim (Giriş)
Türk Düşüncesinin Sosyolojisi: Fıkıhtan Sosyal Bilimlere
10. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (Introduction)
11. Armando Salvatore (2009) “Tradition and Modernity within Islamic Civilisation and the West,”
in Muhammad Khalid Masud, Armando Salvatore and Martin van Bruinessen (eds), Islam and
Modernity: Key Issues and Debates, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
12. Braudel, Uygarlıkların Grameri, Çev. M. Ali Kılıçbay, İmge Yay.,
13. Katzenstein, Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives – 248 sayfa
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* Elias, Norbert, “Civilization, State and Bourgeois Society: The Theoretical Contribution of Norbert Elias,” Theory, Culture &
Society June 1987/4
* Johann P. Arnason (2001) Civilizational Patterns and Civilizing Processes, International Sociology, 16(3): 387–405.
* Johann P. Arnason (2006) “Marshall Hodgson’s Civilizational Analysis of Islam: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives,” in:
Johann P. Arnason, Armando Salvatore A, Georg Stauth (eds) Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives, vol.
7, Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam. Bielefeld: Transcript; New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 23-47.
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* Concept and History of”, ve “Civilizational Analysis, History of”
* DİA, Medeniyet ,
* Encyclopedia of Social Theory, “Civility” ve “Civilizing Process”,
Burawoy, M. (2009) Prologue: Bringing Theory to the Field, The extended case method: Four countries, four decades, four great
transformations, and one theoretical tradition. Univ of California Press.(p. xi – xviii, and 1-19. skim and scan also chapter one).
Packer, M. (2010). What is Science? The Science of Qualitative Research. Cambridge University Press, P. 17-41
Almond, Gabriel A., and Sidney Verba. 1965. The civic culture: political attitudes and democracy in five nations: an analytical study.
London: Sage. (Chapter 1, p. 1-44)
59. Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method, New York: Free Press, 1964, 34-47, 50-59.
http://comparsociology.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Emile-Durkheim-Rules-of-Sociological-Method-1982.pdf
Hughes, C. 2002. Key concepts in Feminist Theory and Research, Sage Publications Ltd. p.151-173
Geertz C. (2003) Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture in Lincoln, Y. S., & Denzin, N. K. (Eds.). (2003).
Turning points in qualitative research: Tying knots in a handkerchief (Vol. 2). Rowman Altamira. pp. 143-168.
Clifford, James 2003 On Ethnographic Authority, in Lincoln, Y. S., & Denzin, N. K. (Eds.). (2003). Turning points in qualitative
research: Tying knots in a handkerchief (Vol. 2). Rowman Altamira. pp. 121-139.
John Searle (1997) “The Building Blocks of Social Reality” (1-29) and “Creating Institutional Facts” (31-57) in The Construction of
Social Reality, Free Press.
Ray R. (2013). “Conell and Postcolonial Sociology” in Go, J. (Ed.). Decentering Social Theory (Vol. 25). Emerald Group Publishing. p.
147-156.
Evans, M., Miller A, Hutchinson, P., and Dingwall C. 2014 “Decolonizing Research Practice: Indigenous Methodologies, Aboriginal
Methods, and Knowledge/Knowing” in Particia Leavie (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, Oxford University Press.
p. 179- 194
Sandoval, C. (2000). Methodology of the Oppressed (Vol. 18). U of Minnesota Press.
Kemmis, Stephen, Robin McTaggart, and John Retallick 2014 The Action Research Planner, Springer
Gingrich, Andre (2009) “Anthropological Comparison as a Research Method in Arabia: Concepts, Inventory, and a Case Study” in
Roger Heacock and Édouard Conte (eds) Critical Research in the Social Sciences: A Transdisciplinary East-West Handbook, Ibrahim
Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies Birzeit University, Birzeit – Palestine, Chp. 3, p.83-107.
Carr E.H. 1987 [1961] What is History? Penguin Books
Western Civilization:
1- Robert Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age ( sections on Greek and Indian Civilizations)
2- Virgil, Aeneid (Dido and Romus and Romulus sections)
3- Genesis (Old Testament), Sermon on the Mount
4- St. Augustine, Confessions (Childhood and Monica sections)
5- Dante, Inferno (Canto 28)
6- Cervantes, Don Quixote (The Captive’s Tale)
7- Shakespeare, Hamlet
8- Freud, Bir Yanılsamanın Geleceği Uygarlık ve Hoşnutsuzlukları – Idea yayinevi 146 sayfa
9- Auerbach, Mimesis (Odysseus section)
10- Jakob Burckhardt, İtalya’da Renaissance Kültürü, 2 Cilt, Kültür Bakanlığı Yay. 1974;
11- Jakob Burckhardt, Reflections on History, London 1943 (3. İmpression 1950);
12- Buckle, A History of Civilization in England, 3 Cilt, London 1869;
13- Guizot, General History of Civilization in Europe, New York 1840;
14- Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, New York 1926;
15- Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas
16- Milton, Paradise Lost,
22- Chakrabarty Avrupa’yı Taşralaştırmak 
Postkolonyal Düşünce ve Tarihsel Farklılık, Bogazici Universitesi Yayinevi (intro)
24- Timothy Mitchell, Questining Modernity (intro)

Further Reading:
Goethe, Dr. Faustus,
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Iliad (Book 1)
Goethe, Dr. Faustus
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Iliad (Book 1)
de Tocqeville, Democracy in America
Derrida, Monolingualism of the Other
Benjamin, Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Adorno and Horkheimer, The Culture Industry

GENERAL FURTHER READING

Tarif Khalidi, Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994 This book is thought to
give the historical
Reynold A. Nicholson, A Literary History of the Arabs, 2nd ed. New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan, 2008.
John A. Williams, Themes of Islamic Civilization, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. [Prof. Lawrence has reservations.
Marilyn Waldman, set out to provide a more comprehensive and accessible anthology: The Islamic World (1984).]
Ira M. Lapidus, İslam Toplumları Tarihi Cilt: 1 Hazreti Muhammed’den 19. Yüzyıla, Iletisim Yayinlari- 785 sayfa
Vernon Egger, A History of the Muslim World to 1405: the Making of a Civilization, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.
Vernon Egger, A History of the Muslim World since 1260: the Making of a Global Community, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.
Abu Lughod, Janet. Before European Hegemony: The World System, A.D. 1250-1350. By. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989
Katzenstein, Peter J. Anglo-America and Its Discontents: Civilizational Identities beyond West and East (Routledge, 2012).
Arnason, Johann, Armando Salvatore, Georg Stauth, Islam in Process: Historical and Civilizational Perspectives (Yearbook of the
Sociology of Islam vol. 7), (Bielefeld, Transcript/New Brunswick, Transaction, 2007).
Delanty, Gerard. Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies, (New York, Routledge Press, 2012).
Masud, Khalid, Armando Salvatore, Martin van Bruinessen. Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates, (Edinburgh, Edinburgh
University Press, 2009).
Salvatore, Armando, Dale Eickelman. Public Islam and the Common Good, Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East
and Asia, vol. 95, ed. Reinhard Schulze, (Leiden, Brill, 2004).
Iqtidar. Humeira. “Cosmopolitanism, religion and inter-civilizational dialogue,” in Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies, 198-
207, (New York, Routledge Press, 2012).
1Mas, Ruth. “Why Critique?” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, vol. 23, No.4 & 5, 2012.