Reading Lists -- Abou El Fadl, Khaled. The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of Books. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Abou El Fadl, Khaled. The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. New York, NY: Harper San Francisco, 2005. Arkoun, Mohammed. Rethinking Islam: Common Questions Uncommon Answers. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History. New York: ...
Reading Lists -- Burnett, C. Scientific Weather Forecasting in the Middle Ages: The Writings of Al-Kindi. London, 2000 Burnett, C., Hogendijk, J. P., Plofker, K., and Yano, M. (eds.), Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree. Leiden: Brill, 2004 Dallal, A. An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy. Leiden: Brill, 1995 Dhanani, A. The Physical Theory of ...
Reading Lists -- Abou El Fadl, Khaled et al. The Place of Tolerance in Islam. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002.Chandhoke, Neera. The Conceits of Civil Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.Eberley, Don. The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2008. Edwards, Michael. Civil Society. London: Polity, 2004. Gellner, Ernest. Conditions of ...
Reading Lists -- General Works Baker, Patricia L. Islam and the Religious Arts. New York: Continuum, 2004. Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan M. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250 - 1800. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. ________. Islamic Arts. London: Phaidon, 1997. Clark, Emma. The Art of the Islamic Garden. Marlborough: Crowood Press, 2004. Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg ...
Reading Lists -- Abu Zahra, Nadia. The Pure and Powerful: Studies in Contemporary Muslim Society. Reading: Ithaca, 1997. Aghaie, Kamran Scott. The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi'i Symbols and Ritual in Modern Iran. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. ____. The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005. Ahmad, Imtiaz. Ritual ...
Reading Lists -- Baillie, Neil B. E. A Digest of Moohammadan Law. Lahore: Premier Book House, 1963. Fyzee, Asaf A. A. An Introduction to the Study of Mahomedan Law. London: H. Milford, 1931. Gleave, Robert. Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shii Jurisprudence. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Hallaq, Wael B. Law and Legal Theory in Classical and Medieval Islam. Aldershot: Variorum, UK; Brookfield, VT: ...
Reading Lists -- 1. Secondary Literature: Encyclopaedias and Book Series Monographs and edited volumes on the Qur'an and its interpretation have thrived in the last decades. Two exceptionally important contributions in recent years are the Journal of Quranic Studies, and the Encyclopedia of the Qur'an, ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Brill: 2001-2006. Three further reference works have been published, which are ...
Reading Lists -- a) Islamic Philosophy and Theology Ess, Josef van. The Flowering of Muslim Theology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Mutahhari, Murtada. Understanding Islamic Sciences, Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism. London: Islamic College for Advanced Studies Publications, 2002. Nasr, Sayyid Hussein. Knowledge and the Sacred. New York: State University of New York Press, 1989. ____ . Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin ...
Reading Lists -- 1. General Works Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad. The Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism,tr. D. Streight. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994; originally published as Le guide divin dans le Shi'isme original. Aux sources de l'ésotérisme en Islam. Paris, 1992. Arjomand, Said Amir. The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order and Societal Change in Shi'ite Iran from the Beginning ...
Reading Lists -- a. Religion & Modernity Al-Azmeh, Aziz. Islams and Modernities. London: Verso, 1993. Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God. New York: Knopf, 2000. Arkoun, Mohammed. The Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought. London and Beirut:Saqi Books, 2002. ____. Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers, tr. Robert D. Lee. London: Harper Collins, 1994. Asad, Talal. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. ...
Reading Lists -- 1. Early Islam Berkey, Jonathan P. The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East 600-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Bowersock, Glen W. Peter Brown and Oleg Grabar, ed. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical world. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, esp. Hugh Kennedy, 'Islam', pp. 219-237. Crone, Patricia. Medieval Islamic ...
Reading Lists -- Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. Akhtar, Shabbir. The Qur'an and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam. London: Routledge, 2007. Asad, Talal. The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam. Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Washington DC, 1986. Bunt, Gary R. Virtually Islamic: ...
