Islamic Studies: a Bibliography (books—in English)

XII - Miscellany: Abbott, Nabia.Aishah: The Beloved of Mohammad . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1942.

Abdallah, Anouar, ed.For Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech. New York: George Braziller, 1994.

Abou El Fadel, Khaled.Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001.

Abu-Izzeddin, Nejla M.The Druzes: A New Study of their History, Faith and Society. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2nd ed., 1993.

Ahmad, Barakat.Muhammad and the Jews: A Re-examination. Delhi: Vikas, 1979.

al-Hassan, Ahmad Y. and Donald R. Hill.Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Allen, Roger.The Arabic Literary Heritage: The Development of its Genres and Criticism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Allen, Roger.The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Anees, Munawar Ahmad.Islam and Biological Futures: Ethics, Gender and Technology. London: Mansell, 1990.

Arberry, Arthur John.Aspects of Islamic Civilization. London: Allen & Unwin, 1964.

Asad, Mohammad.The Road to Mecca. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2001 reprint ed.

Baljon, Jon M.S.The Reforms and Religious Ideas of Sayyid Ahmad Khan . Lahore: Ashraf, 1953.

Bangura, Ahmed S.Islam and the West African Novel: The Politics of Representation. London: Lynne Rienner, 2000.

Beinin, Joel.Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.

Berg, Herbert. The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from The Formative Period. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000.

Betts, Robert Brenton.The Druze. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

Birkeland, Harris.The Legend of the Opening of Muhammad’s Breast. Oslo: Nordske Videnskaps Academi, 1955.

Bowen, John R.Muslims through Discourse. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Bradway, Becky, ed.In the Middle of the Middle East: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003..

Brass, Paul R.The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India. Seattle, WA:University of Washington Press, 2003.

Buck-Morss, Susan.Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left. London: Verso, 2003.

Bulliet, Richard W.The Camel and the Wheel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Burton, Richard.Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah . New York: G.P. Putnam and Co., 1853.

Campo, Juan Eduardo.The Other Sides of Paradise: Explorations into the Religious Meanings of Domestic Space in Islam. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

Combs-Schilling, M.E.Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Corbin, Henry (Leonard Fox, trans.).Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam. West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 1995.

Cragg, Kenneth.The Call of the Minaret. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.

Daniel, Norman.Islam and the West: The Making of an Image. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1958.

Dannin, Robert.Black Pilgrimage to Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Donaldson, William J. and Mashary Abdullah Naim.Sharecropping in the Yemen: A Study in Islamic Theory, Custom and Pragmatism. Leiden: Brill Academic Publ., 2000.

Doumato, Eleanor Abdella. Getting God’s Ear: Women, Islam and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf . New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Dundes, Alan.Fables of the Ancients?: Folklore in the Qur’an. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Dunn, Ross E.The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.

Easwaran, Eknath.Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, A Man to Match His Mountains. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 2nd ed., 2000.

Eickelman, Dale and James Piscatori, eds.Muslim Travelers: Pilgrimage, Migration, and the Religious Imagination. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.

Esack, Farid. On Being a Muslim. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 1999.

The Encyclopedia of Islam , new ed. 9 vols., in progress. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1954--.

Firro, Kais M.A History of the Druzes. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.

Foltz, Richard C. Frederick M. Denny and Azizan Baharuddin, eds.Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Gallagher, Nancy Elizabeth, ed. Approaches to the History of the Middle East: Interviews with Leading Middle East Historians. Reading, UK: Ithaca, 1997.

Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Maurice.Muslim Institutions . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Gibb, Hamilton A.R.Whither Islam? London: Gollancz, 1932.

Gibb, Hamilton A.R.Modern Trends in Islam. New York: Octagon Books, 1972.

Goldschmidt, Arthur, Jr.Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.

Grunebaum, Gustave E. von.Muhammadan Festivals. Leiden: Brill, 1958.

Hallaq, Wael B. and Donald P. Little, eds.Islamic Studies Presented to Charles J. Adams. Leiden:E.J. Brill, 1991.

Hassan, Hassan.In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album, 1805-1952. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000.

Hawting, Gerald, ed.The Development of Islamic Ritual. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Hill, Donald R. (David A. King, ed.).Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology: From Philo to al-Jazari, from Alexandria to Diyar Bakr. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.

Hiro, Dilip.Dictionary of the Middle East . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996.

Hogendijk, J.P. and A.I. Sabra, eds.The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

Hoodbhoy, Perez.Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality. London: Zed Books, 1991.

Hourani, Albert.Islam in European Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Huff, Toby E.The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Husain, Ali Akbar.Scent in the Islamic Garden: A Study of Deccani Urdu Literary Sources. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Irwin, Robert.Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature. New York: Overlook Press, 2000.

Jaschok, Maria and Shui Jinjin.The History of Women’s Mosques in Chinese Islam. Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000.

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, ed.Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra and Roger Allen, eds.Modern Arabic Drama: An Anthology. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Johnstone, Penelope, trans.Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziiyya: Medicine of the Prophet. Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society, 1998.

Joseph, Suad, ed.The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill Academic, 2003.

Kahera, Akel Ismail.Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender and Aesthetics. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Kanaaneh, Rhoda.Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Kassam, Tazim R.Songs of Wisdom and Circles of Dance: Songs of the Satpanth Ismā‘īlī Muslim Saint, Pir Shams. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Kennedy, Edward S.Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1998.

Khalidi, Tarif, trans. and ed.The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Khan, Gabriel Mandel.Arabic Script: Styles, Variants, and Calligraphic Adaptations. New York: Abbeville Press Publ., 2001.

Kimball, Michelle and Barbara R. von Schlegell.Muslim Women Throughout the World: A Bibliography. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997.

King, David A.Astronomy in the Service of Islam. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1993.

King, David A.World Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999.

Kritzek, James.Peter the Venerable and Islam. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.

Kueny, Kathryn.The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Lamoreaux, John C.The Early Muslim Tradition of Dream Interpretation. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.

Lane, E.W.Arabic-English Lexicon, 2 Vols. Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society, 1984.

Laurance, Robin.Portrait of Islam A Journey through the Muslim World. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002.

Lorch, Richard.Arabic Mathematical Sciences: Instruments, Texts and Transmission. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1995.

Malcolm X.The Autobiography of Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley). New York: Ballantine, 1992 (reprint ed).

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

Martin, Richard C.Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2nd ed., 1995.

Masri, Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad.Animals in Islam. Petersfield, England: Athene Trust, 1989.

Mattar, Philip, ed.Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. New York: Facts on File, 2000.

Macfie, A.L., ed.Orientalism: A Reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.

Nafisi, Azar.Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books . New York: Random House, 2003.

Naipaul, V.S.Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.The Need for a Sacred Science. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Nettler, Ronald L. and Suha Taji-Farouki, eds.Muslim-Jewish Encounters: Intellectual Traditions and Modern Politics. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Netton, Ian Richard, ed.Golden Roads: Migration, Pilgrimage and Travel in Mediaeval and Modern Islam. Richmond, England: Curzon Press, 1993.

Nimer, Mohamed.The North American Muslim Resource Guide. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Nimni, Ephraim, ed.The Challenge of Post-Zionism: Alternatives to Israeli Fundamentalist Politics. London: Zed Books, 2003.

Nomachi, Ali Kazuyoshi and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Mecca the Blessed, Medina the Radiant: The Holiest Cities of Islam. New York: Aperture, 1997.

Peled, Alisa Rubin. Debating Islam in the Jewish State: The Development of Policy Toward Islamic Institutions in Israel. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Peters, Francis E.The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Peters, Francis E.Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Piamenta, Moshe.Islam in Everyday Arabic Speech. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1979.

Rahman, Fazlur.Health and Medicine in the Islamic Tradition: Change and Identity . New York: Crossroad, 1987.

Riddell, Peter G. and Tony Street, eds.Islam: Essays on Scripture, Thought and Society. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.

Ridgeon, Lloyd V.J.Crescents on the Cross: Islamic Vision of Christianity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Robinson, Francis, ed.The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Robinson, Neal.Christ in Islam and Christianity. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991.

Rosenthal, Franz.Humour in Early Islam. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1956.

Rosenthal, Franz.Science and Medicine in Islam: A Collection of Essays. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1991.

Samsó, Julio.Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Spain. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, 1994.

Sardar, Ziauddin.Explorations in Islamic Science. London: Mansell, 1989.

Sardar, Ziauddin.The Future of Muslim Civilization. London, Mansell, 2nd ed., 1987.

Sardar, Ziauddin.Science, Technology, and Development in the Muslim World. London: Croom Helm, 1977.

Savage-Smith, Emilie, ed.Magic and Divination in Early Islam . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Shaheen, Jack G.Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People. New York: Olive Branch Press, 2001.

Shariati, Ali (Laleh Bakhtiar, trans.).Hajj: Reflections on its Rituals. Chicago, IL: Kazi Publ., 1993.

Shirazi, Faegheh.The Veil Unveiled. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001.

Simon, Reeva S., Philip Mattar and Richard W. Bulliet, eds.The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, 4 Vols. New York: Macmillan, 1996.

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell.On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies. The Hague: Mouton, 1981.

Suleiman, Yasir.A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Turner, Bryan S.Marx and the End of Orientalism. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978.

Turner, Bryan S.Weber and Islam: A Critical Study . Lo:ndon Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.

Turner, Howard R.Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction . Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Ullmann. Manfred.Islamic Medicine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997.

van der Veer, Peter.Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994.

von Grunebaum, G.E.Islam: Essays in the Nature and Growth of Cultural Tradition. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 2nd ed., 1961.

von Grunebaum, G.E., ed.Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1955.

Wang, Jianping.A Glossary of Chinese Islamic Terms. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001.

Warraq, Ibn, ed.Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.

Webb, Gisela, ed.Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Wheeler, Brannon M.Moses in the Quran and Islamic Exegesis. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Wheeler, Brannon M., ed.Teaching Islam. (American Academy of Religion) Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Wolfe, Michael.The Hadj: An American’s Pilgrimage to Mecca. New York: Grove Press, 1993.

Wolfe, Michael, ed.One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage. New York: Grove Press, 1997.

Wolfe, Michael, ed. Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim their Faith . Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 2002.