Islamic Studies: a Bibliography (books—in English)

I - General: Ahmed, Akbar.Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society. New York: Routledge, revised ed., 2002.

Ahmed, Akbar.Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World. London: I.B. Tauris,1999.

Ali, Syed Ameer.The Spirit of Islam: A History of the Evolution and Ideals of Islam, with a Life of the Prophet . London: Chatto & Windus, 1978.

Armstrong, Karen.Islam: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, revised ed., 2002.

Awde, Nicholas, trans. and ed.Women in Islam: An Anthology from the Qur’an and Hadīths. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair.Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.

Bogle, Emory C.Islam: Origin and Belief. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1998.

Bowker, John.What Muslims Believe. Oxford, UK: Onewworld, 1999.

Brown, Daniel W.A New Introduction to Islam. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.

Calder, Norman, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin, eds.Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of  of Religious Literature. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Daniel, Norman.Islam and the West: The Making of an Image. Oxford, England: Oneworld, 2000 (reprint ed.).

Davies, Merryl Wyn and Zia Sardar.The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam. London: Verso, 2004.

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

Elias, Jamal J.Islam. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.

Endress, Gerhard.Islam: An Historical Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2nd ed., 2002.

Ernst, Carl W.Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Esposito, John L., ed.The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Esposito, John L.The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 4 Vols. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Esposito, John L.Islam: The Straight Path. New York: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed.,1998.

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

Gibb, Hamilton A.R. and J.H. Kramers, eds.Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: E.J. Brill,  1997 (reprint ed.).

Gilsenan, Michael.Recognising Islam: an anthropologist’s introduction. London: Croom Helm, 1982.

Glassé, Cyril.The New Encyclopedia of Islam. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2003.

Guillaume, Alfred.The Traditions of Islam: An Introduction to the Study of Hadīth Literature. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1924.

Hodgson, Marshall G.S.The Venture of Islam, 3 Vols. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Keller, Nuh Ha Mim, trans.Al-Nawawi’s Manual of Islam. Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society, 1996.

Lewis, Bernard, ed.The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992.

Murata, Sachiko.The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Murata, Sachiko and William C. Chittick.The Vision of Islam. New York: Paragon House, 1994.

Murphy, Caryle.Passion for Islam—Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience. New York: Scribner, 2002.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity. San Francisco, CA:Harper SanFrancisco, 2002.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.Ideals and Realities of Islam. London: Allen & Unwin, 1966.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization. San Francisco, CA: Harper SanFrancisco, 2002.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.Islamic Life and Thought. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1981.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.Islamic Spirituality I: Foundations. New York: Crossroad, 1987.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.Islamic Spirituality II: Manifestations. New York: Crossroad, 1991.

Netton, Ian Richard.A Popular Dictionary of Islam. London: Curzon Press, 1992.

Newby, Gordon D.A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2002.

Nigosian, S.A.Islam: Its History, Teaching, and Practices. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Peters, F.E.A Reader on Classical Islam. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Rahman, Fazlur.Islam. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed., 1979.

Rejwan, Nissim, ed.The Many Faces of Islam: Perspectives on a Resurgent Civilization. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2000.

Renard, John.In the Footsteps of Muhammad: Understanding the Islamic Experience. New York: Paulist Press, 1992.

Renard, John.Responses to 101 Questions on Islam. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1998.

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

Renard, John, ed.Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.

Riddell, Peter G. and Peter Cotterell.Islam in Context: Past, Present, and Future. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003.

Rippin, Andrew.Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2000.

Rippin, Andrew and Jan Knappert, eds.Textual Sources for the Study of Islam. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Robinson, Francis.Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500. New York: Facts on File, 1982.

Robinson, Neal.Islam: A Concise Introduction. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999.

Ruthven, Malise.Islam: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Ruthven, Malise.Islam in the World . New York: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2000.

Savory, R.M., ed.Introduction to Islamic Civilization. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Schimmel, Annemarie.Islam: An Introduction. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Schulze, Reinhard.A Modern History of the Islamic World. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 2000.

Schuon, Frithjof.Islam and the Perennial Philosophy. London: World of Islam Festival Publ. Co., 1976.

Schuon, Frithjof (D.M. Matheson, trans.).Understanding Islam. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963.

Sonn, Tamara.A Brief History of Islam. London: Polity Press, 2004.

Tayob, Abdulkader.Islam: A Short Introduction. Oxford, England: Oneworld, 1999.

Waines, David.An Introduction to Islam. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed.2003.

Watt, William Montgomery.Islam: A Short History. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 1996.

Watt, William Montgomery.What is Islam? London: Longman, 1970.

Williams, John Alden, ed.The Word of Islam. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1994