SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
General Reference
Esposito, John L., editor-in-chief. The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Esposito, John L., editor-in-chief. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Esposito, John L., ed. The Oxford History of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization. 3 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974.
Lapidus, Ira M. A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Voll, John O. Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World. 2d ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
Faith and Practice
Ali, A. Yusuf. The Koran: Text, Translation, and Commentary. Washington, D.C.: American International Printing Company, 1946.
Al-Qu’ran: A Contemporary Translation. Trans. Admed Ali. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.
Armstrong, Karen. Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993.
Asad, Muhammad. The Message of the Quran. Gibraltar: Dar al-Andalus, 1980.
Chittick, William C. The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984.
Esposito, John L. Islam: The Straight Path. 3d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Esposito, John L., and John O. Voll. Makers of Contemporary Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Fakhry, Majid, trans. The Quran: A Modern English Version. Berkshire: Garnet Publishing, 1996.
Guillaume, A., trans. and ed. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Haneef, Suzanne. What Everyone Should Know About Islam and Muslims. 12th ed. Chicago: Kazi Publications, 1995.
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Lings, Martin. What Is Sufism? Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Momen, Moojan. An Introduction to Shii Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shiism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985.
Nasr, Seyyid Vali Reza. Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Peters, F. E. Muhammad and the Origins of Islam. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Pickthall, Mohammed Marmaduke. The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. New York: New American Library and Mentor Books, n.d.
Rahman, Fazlur. Islam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Rahman, Fazlur. Major Themes of the Qur’an. Minneapolis and Chicago: Bibliotheca Islamica, 1980.
Rahnema, Ali. An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari’ati. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000.
Renard, John. Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Sachedina, Abdulaziz. The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Sadri, Mahmoud, and Ahmad Sadri, trans. and eds. Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Sardar, Ziauddin, and Zafar Abbas Malik. Muhammad for Beginners. New York: Totem Books, 1994.
Schimmel, Annemarie. And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Schimmel, Annemarie. Mystical Dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
Sedgwick, Mark J. Sufism: The Essentials. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2000.
Tamimi, Azzam S. Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat Within Islamism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Trimingham, J. Spencer. The Sufi Orders in Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Wadud, Amina. Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Watt, W. Montgomery. Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Wolfe, Michael. The Hadj: An American’s Pilgrimage to Mecca. New York: Grove Press, 1998.
Wolfe, Michael, ed. One Thousand Roads to Mecca : Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage. New York: Grove Press, 1999.
Islam and Other Religions
Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. London and New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Armstrong, Karen. Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today’s World. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, and Wadi Z. Haddad. Christian-Muslim Encounters. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.
Lewis, Bernard. The Jews of Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Menocal, Maria Rosa, and Harold Bloom. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. New York: Little, Brown, 2002.
Peters, F. E. Children of Abraham. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Watt, W. Montgomery. Islam and Christianity Today. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.
Customs and Culture
Abou El Fadl, Khaled, et al. Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women. Oxford: One World Publications, 2001.
Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Esposito, John L., with Natana J. De Long-Bas. Women in Muslim Family Law. 2d ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001.
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, and John L. Esposito, eds. Islam, Gender, and Social Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
MacLeod, Arlene Elowe. Accommodating Protest: Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Mernissi, Fatima. The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam. Trans. Mary Jo Lakeland. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991.
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Poya, Maryam. Women, Work, and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran. London: Zed Books, 1999.
Violence and Terrorism
Esposito, John L. The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? 3d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Esposito, John L. Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Hroub, Khaled. Hamas: Political Thought and Practice. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000.
Jansen, Johannes J. G. The Neglected Duty: The Creed of Sadat’s Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East. New York and London: The Free Press, 1988.
Peters, Rudolph. Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1996.
Qutb, Sayyid. Milestones. Boll Ridge, Ind.: American Trust Publications, 1988.
Qutb, Sayyid. This Religion of Islam. Chicago: Kazi Publications, 1996.
Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal. Hizbu’llah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press, 2002.
Society, Politics, and Economy
Abdo, Geneive. No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Armstrong, Karen. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Coulson, Noel J. A History of Islamic Law. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1964.
Esposito, John L. Islam and Politics. 4th ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Esposito, John L., and John O. Voll. Islam and Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hallaq, Wael. A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Mills, Paul S., and John R. Presley. Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Musallam, B. F. Sex and Society in Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Saeed, Abdullah. Islamic Banking and Interest: A Study of the Prohibition of Riba and Its Contemporary Interpretation. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.
Vogel, Frank E., and Samuel L. Hayes III. Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return. Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1998.
Muslims in the West
Daniel, Norman. Islam and the West: The Making of an Image. Rev. ed. Oxford: One World, 1993.
Esposito, John L., Yvonne Haddad, and Jane Smith. Immigrant Faiths: Christians, Jews, and Muslims Becoming Americans. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Alta Mira Press, 2002.
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, ed. Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, and John L. Esposito, eds. Muslims on the Americanization Path. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.
Nielsen, Jorgen. Muslims in Western Europe. 2d ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995.
Nielsen, Jorgen. Towards a European Islam. London: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Ramadas, Tariq. To Be a European Muslim. Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1998.
Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
Said, Edward W. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.