Books about Islam

• Introductory
  • Esposito, John. L. (1998). Islam: the straight path. New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Esposito, John. L. and John. O. Voll (1996). Islam and democracy. New York, Oxford University Press.
  • Lawrence, Bruce. B. (1998). Shattering the myth: Islam beyond violence. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.
  • Robinson, Neal. (1999). Islam, a concise introduction. Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press.
  • Schimmel, Annemarie. (1992). Islam: an introduction. Albany, State University of New York Press.
• Reference
  • (1998). Index islamicus on CD-ROM: a bibliography of publications on Islam and the Muslim world since 1906. London; New Providence, NJ, Bowker-Saur.
  • Ali, A. Y. (1997). The meaning of the Holy Qur`an. Beltsville, Md., Amana Publications.
  • Pickthall, M. W. and A. a. K. a. Ashsh`i (1999). The meaning of the glorious Qur'an : text and explanatory translation. Beltsville, Md., Amana Publications.
  • Brill Academic Publishers. (1999). The encyclopaedia of Islam volumes 1-9. Leiden, Brill.
  • Esposito, John. L. (1995). The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world. New York, Oxford University Press.
  • Holt, P. M., A. K. S. Lambton, et al. (1970). The Cambridge history of Islam. Cambridge Eng., University Press.
  • Nanji, A. (1996). The Muslim almanac : a reference work on the history, faith, culture, and peoples of Islam. Detroit, MI, Gale Research.
• Islamic Practices
  • Padwick, C. E., (1961). Muslim devotions; a study of prayer-manuals in common use. London, SPCK.
  • Peters, Rudolph. (1996). The jihad in classical and modern times : a reader. Princeton, N.J., Markus Wiener.
  • Renard, John. (1996). Seven doors to Islam : spirituality and the religious life of Muslims. Berkeley, University of California Press.
• Islam and Women
  • Afkhami, M. (1995). Faith and freedom : women's human rights in the Muslim world. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press.
  • Haddad, Yvonne Y. and John L. Esposito, Eds. (1998). Islam, gender, & social change. New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Smith, Jane I. and Harvard University. Center for the Study of World Religions. (1980). Women in contemporary Muslim societies. Lewisburg Pa., Bucknell University Press.
• Islam in America
  • Said, Edward W. (1997). Covering Islam : how the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world. New York, Vintage Books.
  • Haddad, Yvonne Y. and Jane I. Smith (1994). Muslim communities in North America. Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press.
  • Smith, Jane I. (1999). Islam in America. New York, Columbia University Press.
  • Turner, R. B. (1997). Islam in the African-American experience. Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
  • Webb, Gisela. (2000). Windows of faith: Muslim women scholar-activists in North America. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press.
• Contemporary Islam
  • al-`Azmeh, A. (1993). Islams and modernities. London ; New York, Verso.
  • Abu-Rabi`, Ibrahim M. (1996). Intellectual origins of Islamic resurgence in the modern Arab world. Albany, N.Y., State University of New York Press.
  • Donohue, John. J. and John. L. Esposito (eds.) (1982). Islam in transition : Muslim perspectives. New York, Oxford University Press.
  • Humphreys, R. Stephen. (1999). Between memory and desire : the Middle East in a troubled age. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press.
  • Jenkins, Everett. (1999). The Muslim diaspora : a comprehensive reference to the spread of Islam in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland.
  • Kurzman, C. (1998). Liberal Islam : a source book. New York, Oxford University Press.
  • Voll, John O. (1994). Islam, continuity and change in the modern world. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press.
• Islam and Politics
  • Barazangi, N. H., M. R. Zaman, et al. (1996). Islamic identity and the struggle for justice. Gainesville, University Press of Florida.
  • Choueiri, Y. M. (1990). Islamic fundamentalism. London, Pinter.
  • Haddad, Y. Y. (1995). Islamists and the challenge of pluralism. Washington, DC, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Georgetown University.
  • Quòtb, S. and W. E. Shepard (1996). Sayyid Qutb and Islamic activism : a translation and critical analysis of social justice in Islam. Leiden, The Netherlands ; New York, E.J. Brill.
  • Tibi, B. (1998). The challenge of fundamentalism : political Islam and the new world disorder. Berkeley, Calif. ; London, University of California Press.
• Islamic Law
  • Edge, I., Ed. (1996). Islamic law and legal theory. International library of essays in law and legal theory. Legal cultures ; 7. Aldershot, Dartmouth.
  • Islamic Mysticism
  • Fadiman, J. and R. Frager, Eds. (1997). Essential sufism. [San Francisco], HarperSanFrancisco.
  • Sells, M. A., Ed. (1996). Early Islamic mysticism : Sufi, Qur'an, Mi'raj, poetic and theological writings. New York, Paulist Press.
    

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