Islam Bibliography

Introductory 
Allen, Roger and Shawkat M. Toorawa, Eds. (2011). Islam : a short guide to the faith. Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans.

Hewer, C. T. R. (2006). Understanding Islam : an introduction. Minneapolis, Fortress Press.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. (2003). Islam : religion, history, and civilization. San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco.

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 
Adamec, Ludwig W. (2009). The A to Z of Islam. Lanham MD, Scarecrow Press.

Esposito, John. L. (2009). The Oxford encyclopedia of the modern Islamic world. New York, Oxford University Press. 
Gaborieau, Marc, et al, Eds. (2007). The encyclopaedia of Islam three. Leiden, Brill.

Holt, P. M., A. K. S. Lambton, et al. (1970). The Cambridge history of Islam. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press. 
McAuliffe, Jane Dammen, Gen. Ed. (2001-06). Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an. Leiden, Brill.

Nanji, A. (1996). The Muslim almanac: a reference work on the history, faith, culture, and peoples of Islam. Detroit MI, Gale Research. 

Ruthven, Malise. (2004). Historical atlas of Islam. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press.

Skreslet, Paula Youngman, and Rebecca Skreslet. (2006). The literature of Islam : a guide to the primary sources in English translation. Lanham MD, Scarecrow Press.

 

Islamic Practices 
Bakhtiar, Laleh, Ed. (1995). Ramadan : motivating believers to action : an interfaith perspective. Institute for Traditional Psychoethics and Guidance.

Farah, Caesar E. (2000). Islam : beliefs and observances. Hauppauge NY, Barron's Educational Series.

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 NJ, Markus Wiener. 
Renard, John. (1996). Seven doors to Islam : spirituality and the religious life of Muslims. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Schimmel, Annemarie. (1985). And Muhammad is his messenger : the veneration of the Prophet in Islamic piety. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.

 

Islam and Women 
Afkhami, M. (1995). Faith and freedom: women's human rights in the Muslim world. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press. 
Haddad, Yvonne Y. and John L. Esposito, Eds. (1998). Islam, gender, & social change. New York ; Oxford, Oxford University Press. 
Joseph, Suad, Gen. Ed. (2003). Encyclopedia of women and Islamic cultures. Leiden, Brill.

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., Jane I. Smith and Kathleen M. Moore. (2006). Muslim women in America : the challenge of Islamic identity today. New York, Oxford University Press. 
Smith, Jane I. (1999). Islam in America. New York, Columbia University Press. 
Turner, Richard Brent. (2003). 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, Verso. 
Abu-Rabi`, Ibrahim M. (1996). Intellectual origins of Islamic resurgence in the modern Arab world. Albany NY, State University of New York Press. 
Humphreys, R. Stephen. (1999). Between memory and desire : the Middle East in a troubled age. Berkeley CA, 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 NC, McFarland. 
Kurzman, C. (1998). Liberal Islam : a source book. New York, Oxford University Press.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islam in the modern world : challenged by the West, threatened by fundamentalism, keeping faith with tradition. New York, HarperOne. 
Voll, John O. (1994). Islam, continuity and change in the modern world. Syracuse NY, 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. 
Esposito, John. L. and John. O. Voll (1996). Islam and democracy. New York, Oxford University Press. 
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, Brill. 
Tibi, B. (1998). The challenge of fundamentalism: political Islam and the new world disorder. Berkeley CA, University of California Press. 

 

Islamic Law 
Bakhtiar, Laleh. (1996). Encyclopedia of Islamic law : a compendium of the views of the major schools. Chicago: ABC International Group.

Edge, I., Ed. (1996). Islamic law and legal theory. International library of essays in law and legal theory. Legal cultures; 7. Aldershot, Dartmouth.

Hallaq, Wael B. (2009). Shari`a: theory, practice, transformations. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press.

 

Islamic Mysticism 
Fadiman, J. and R. Frager, Eds. (1997). Essential sufism. [San Francisco], HarperSanFrancisco. 

Schimmel, Annemarie. (1975) Mystical dimensions of Islam. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
Sells, M. A., Ed. (1996). Early Islamic mysticism : Sufi, Qur'an, Mi'raj, poetic and theological writings. New York, Paulist Press.

Trimingham, J. Spencer. (1971). The Sufi orders in Islam. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press.