Selected Bibliography of Resources on Islam

ISLAM: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

Armstrong, Karen. Islam: a short history. New York: Modern Library, 2000. [BP 50
.A69 2000]

Black, Antony. The history of Islamic political thought: from the prophet to the present.
New York: Routledge, 2001. [JC 49 .B58 2001]

Hourani, Albert Habib. A history of the Arab peoples. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 1991. [DS 37.7 .H67 1991]

Lapidus, Ira M. (Ira Marvin). A history of Islamic societies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 1991. [DS 35.63 .L37 1988]

Leaman, Oliver. A brief introduction to Islamic philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Polity,
1999. [BL 741 .L42 2000]

Lewis, Bernard. Islam in history: ideas, people, and events in the Middle East. Chicago:
Open Court, 1993. [BP 52 .L46 1993]

Merlin Schwartz, trans. and ed. Studies on Islam. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1981. [BP 55 .S87]

MUHAMMED: THE PROPHET OF ISLAM

Armstrong, Karen. Muhammad: a biography of the prophet. San Francisco:
HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. [BP 75 .A76 1992]

Ashton, John and Tom Whyte. The quest for paradise: visions of heaven and eternity in
the world’s myths and religions. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001. [OVERSIZE BL 540 .A84 2001]

Glubb, John Bagot, Sir. The life and times of Muhammad. New York: Stein and Day,
1970. [BP 75 .G58]

Rodinson, Maxime. Mohammed. Trans. Ann Carter. New York: Pantheon, 1971 [BP 75
.R5713 1971]

Ibn Warraq, ed. and trans. The quest for the historical Muhammad. Amherst, NY:
Prometheus, 2000. [BP169 .Q47 2000]

Watt, W. Montgomery (William Montgomery). Muhammad: prophet and statesman.
London: Oxford University Press, 1974. [BP 75 .W33 1974]

ISLAMIC SOCIETY

Hotaling, Edward. Islam without illusions. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press,
2003. [BP 161.3 .H67 2003]

Orens, Geoffery, ed. The Muslim world. Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson Co., 2003. [BP 161.3
.M87 2003]

Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn. Islamic society in practice. Gainsville: University of Florida
Press, 1994. [BP 64 .A4 N6423 1994]

Ahmed, Akbar S. Islam today: a short introduction to the Muslim world. London: Tauris,
2002. [BP 161.2 .A46 1999]

Hanifi, M. Jamil (Mohammed Jamil). Islam and the transformation of culture. New
York : Asia, 1974. [BP 163 .H255 1974]

Lamb, David. The Arabs: journeys behind the mirage. New York: Random, 1987.
[DS 36.7 .L35 1985]

Pearson, Robert P. and Leon E. Clark. Through Middle Eastern eyes. New York: Center
for International Training and Education, 2002. [DS 42.4 .T48 2002]

ISLAM AND THE WEST

Fletcher, R.A. (Richard A). The quest for El Cid. New York: Knopf, 1990. [DP99 .F57
1990]

---. The cross and the crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the
reformation. New York: Viking, 2004. [BP 172 .F59 2004]

Gaiduk, Ilya V. The great confrontation: Europe and Islam through the centuries.
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. [D 34 .I85 G35 2003]
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Lewis, Bernard. Cultures in conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the age of
discovery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [D228 .L49 1995]

Menocal. Maria Rosa. The ornament of the world: how Muslims, Jews and Christians
created a culture of tolerance in Medieval Spain. Boston: Little, Brown, 2002.
[DP 102 .M46 2002]

O’Leary, De Lacy. How Greek science passed to the Arabs. London: Routledge and K.
Paul, 1949. [DS 38 .O38]

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, ed. Oxford illustrated history of the crusades. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995. [D157 .O48 1995]

Rogers, Michael. The spread of Islam. Oxford: Elsevier-Phaidon, 1976. [DS 36.855
.R63]
Searight, Sarah. The British in the Middle East. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969.
[DS 63.2 .G7 S4]

Wheatcroft, Andrew. Infidels: a history of conflict between Christendom and Islam. New
York: Random, 2004. [BP 172 .W52 2004]

WOMEN IN ISLAM

Barlas, Asma. “Believing women” in Islam: unreading patriarchal interpretations of the
Qur’an. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002. [BP 173.4 .B35 2002]

El Guindi, Fadwa. Veil: modesty, privacy and resistance. Oxford: Berg, 1999
[GT 2212 .E5 1999]

Goodwin, Jan. Price of honor: Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic world.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. [HQ 1170 .G66 1994]

Mernissi, Fatima. Scheherazade goes West: different cultures, different harems. New
York: Washington Square Press, 2001. [HQ 1170 .M467 2001]

---. Beyond the veil: male-female dynamics in a modern Muslim society. Cambridge,
MA: Schenkman, 1975. [HQ 1170 .M46]

Walther, Wiebke. Women in Islam. Princeton, NJ: M. Wiener Pub., 1993. [HQ 1170
.W2813 1992]

SUFISM: ISLAMIC MYSTICISM

Fadiman, James and Roger Frager, eds. Essential Sufism. San Francisco :
HarperSanFrancisco, 1997. [BP 189 .E86 1997]

Helminski, Camille Adams, comp. and introduction. Women of Sufism: a hidden
treasure, writings and stories of mystic poets, scholars and saints. Boston:
Shambhala, 2003. [BP 189/4 .W66 2003]

Muhaiyaddeen, M.R. Bawa. Islam and world peace: explanations of a Sufi. Philadelphia,
PA : Fellowship, 2002. [BP170.8 .M83 1987]

ARAB AND NEAR EASTERN LITERATURE

Allen, Roger M.A. An introduction to Arabic literature. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2000. [PJ 7510 .A43 2000]

The Arabian nights’ entertainments: or, the book of a thousand nights
and a night: a selection of the most famous and representative of these tales. Trans. Richard F. Burton ; introductory essay by Ben Ray Redman. New York: Modern Library, 1959. [PJ 7715 .B8 1959]

Barghouti, Mourid. I saw Ramallah. Trans. Ahdaf Soueif ; with a foreword by Edward
W. Said. New York: Anchor, 2003. [PJ 7816 .A682 R3313 2003]

Gibb, H.A.R. (Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen), Sir. Arabic literature. Clarendon, 1963.
[PJ 7510 .G5 1963]

Horch, Daniel. The angel with one hundred wings: a tale from the Arabian nights. New
York : Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 2002. [PS 3608 .O49445 A63 2002]

Irwin, Robert. Night and horses and the desert: an anthology of classical Arabic
literature. Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2000. [PJ 7694 .E1 N54 2000]

Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana. Rumi and Islam: selections from his stories, poems, and
discourses, annotated & explained. Trans. and annotation by Ibrahim Gamard. Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths, 2004 [BP 189.7 .M4 J3513 2004]

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, ed. Short Arabic plays: an anthology. New York: Interlink,
2003. [PJ 7694 .ESS56 2003]

---, ed. The literature of modern Arabia: an anthology. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1989. [PJ 7694 .E1 L5 1989]

Johnson Davies, Denys. The island of animals: adopted from an Arabic tale. Illustrated
by Sabiha Khemir. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1994. [OVERSIZE PN
989 .A78 J6 1994]

Parmenter, Barbara. Giving voice to stones: place and identity in Palestinian literature.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1994. [PJ 8190 .P3 P37 1994]

Turkish literature; comprising fables, belles-lettres, and sacred traditions, translated into
English for the first time with a special introduction by Epiphanius Wilson.
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970. [PL 271 .E1 T8 1970]

ISLAMIC ART

Abas, Syed Jan, et al. Symmetries of Islamic geometrical designs. Singapore: World
Scientific, 1995. [N6260 .A253 1995]

Bourgoin, Jules. Arabic geometrical pattern and design. New York: Dover, 1973.
[NK 1270 .B613 1973]

Grabar, Oleg. The formation of Islamic art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
[N6260 .G69]

Hull, Alistair. Kilim, the complete guide: history, pattern, technique, identification. San
Francisco: Chronicle, 1993. [OVERSIZE NK 2808 .H78 1993]

Khan, Gabriel Mandel. Arabic script: styles, variants, and calligraphic adaptations.
Trans. Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia. New York: Abbeville, 2001.
[NK 3633 .A2 M3613 2001]

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Oriental art [by] Jan
Fontein [and] Pratapaditya Pal. Boston; Distributed by New York Graphic Society,Greenwich, CT, 1969. [OVERSIZE N 7262 B6]

Nasir, Seyyed Hossein. The heart of Islam: enduring values for humanity. San Francisco:
HarperSanFrancisco, 2002. [BP 170.8 .N37 2002]

Okada, Amina. Indian miniatures in the Mughal court. Trans. Deke Dusinberre.
New York: Abrams, 1992. [OVERSIZE ND 1337 .I5 O37 1992]

Opre, James. Tribal rugs: nomadic and village weavings from the Near East and Central
Asia. London: Laurence King, 1992. [NK2873 .O65 1992 OVER]

Pinder-Wilson, Ralph H. Paintings from Islamic lands. Columbia: University of
South Carolina Press, 1969. [ND 2955 P55 1969B]

Pope, Arthur Upham, ed. A survey of Persian art, from prehistoric times to the present.
Tokyo: Meiji-Shobo, second impression, 1967. [OVERSIZE N7280 .P64] ]

Stewart, Desmond. The Alhambra. New York: Newsweek, 1974. [DP 402 .A4573]