Tasneem Project

Islam/Muslims:

A Personal Bibliography

Ali, K. (2006) Sexual Ethics in Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence (Oxford: Oneworld Publications)

Arkoun, M. (2006) Islam: To Reform or to Subvert (Saqi Books)

Asad, M. (1980) The Message of the Qur’an (Gibraltar: Dar al-Andalus)

Tayob, A. (1999) Islam: A Short Introduction (Oxford: Oneworld)

Berg, H. (2009) The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the Formative Period (London: Routledge)

Bewley, A. (1998) Glossary of Islamic Terms (London: Ta-Ha)

Ernst, C. (1997) The Shambhala Guide to Sufism (London: Shambala)

Ernst, C (2003) Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (NC: The University of North Carolina Press)

Easwaran, E. (1999) Nonviolent Soldier of Islam (Nilgiri Press)

Hughes, A. (2008) Situating Islam: The Past and Future of an Academic Discipline (London: Equinox Publishing)

Kamali, M. H. (2003) Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence: 3rd Rev Ed (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society)

Marranci, G. (2008) The Anthropology of Islam (Oxford: Berg)

Momen, M. (1987) An Introduction to Shi'i Islam: History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism (Yale University Press)

Murata, S. and Chittick, W. C. (1996) The Vision of Islam (I.B. Tauris)

Sardar, Z. and Davies, M. W. (2004) The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam (London: NI/Verso)

Sayyid, B. (2003) A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentricism and the Emergence of Islamism: Second Edition (London: Zed Books)

Sedgwick, M. (2006) Islam and Muslims: A Guide to Diverse Experience in A Modern World (Intercultural Press Inc)

Varisco, D. M. (2004) Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan)

Zaman, M. Q. (2002) The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (Princeton University Press)

REFERENCE TOOL:
Jafri, A., Shah, R. N. and Shah, S. N. (2000) Alim 6.0.11.1 Software (Silver Spring, USA: ISL Software Corporation)
 

HISTORY

Ahmed, L. (1992) Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven: Yale University Press)

Ansari, H. (2004) The Infidel Within: The History of Muslims in Britain, 1800 to the Present (London: C. Hurst & Co)

Berkey, J. P. (2002) The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Bulliet, R. (1995) Islam: The View from the Edge (Columbia University Press)

Chamberlain, M. (2002) Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Daftary, F. & Meri, J. [Eds] (2003) Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam (London: I B Tauris)

Daftary, F. (2005) The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Isma'ilis (London: I B Tauris)

Esposito, J. L. [Ed] (1999) The Oxford History of Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Hodgson, M. (1977) The Venture of Islam: Volumes 1-3 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)

Hourani, A. (1991) A History of the Arab Peoples (Harvard University Press)

Karamustafa, A. T. (2006) God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Middle Period 1200-1550 (Oxford: One World)

Lapidus, Ira M. (2000) A History of Islamic Societies (Cambridge University Press)

Lindholm, C. (2002) The Islamic Middle East: Tradition and Change, 2nd Ed (London: WileyBlackwell)

Safi, O. (2006) The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)

O'Shea, S. (2007) Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World (London: Profile Books)

Watt, W. M. (1994) Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe: New Edition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

Watt, W. M. (1996) Islam: A Short History (Oxford: One World)

Zaman, M. Q. (1997) Religion and politics under the early Abbasids (Leiden: Brill)

Zayd, Nasr Hamid Abu (2006) Reformation of Islamic Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press)
 

CORE TEXTS, THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY:

Barazangi, by N. H. (2005) Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading (Florida: University Press of Florida)

Barlas, A. (2002) Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an (Texas: University of Texas Press)

Berg, H. (2000) The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the Formative Period (London: Routledge-Curzon)

Cook, M. (2000) The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Craig, William L. (1979) The Kalam Cosmological Argument (London: The Macmillan Press)

Denffer, A. V. (1983) Ulum al-Qur'an: An Introduction to the Sciences of the Qur'an (Leicester: Islamic Foundation)

Esack, F. (1999) The Qur'an: A Short Introduction (Oxford: One World)

Haleem, M. A, (2001) Understanding the Qur'an: Themes and Style (London: I. B. Taurus)

Hamid, Abdul Wahid (2001) Graded Steps in Qur’an Reading: The Uthmani Script (London: MELS)

Hamid, Abdul Wahid (1998) Access to Qur’anic Arabic (London: MELS)

Lawrence, B. (2006) The Qur'an: A Biography (London: Atlantic Books)

Fakhry, M. (2004) A History of Islamic Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press)

Nelson, K. (2001) The Art of Reciting the Qur'an (The American University in Cairo Press)

Sells, M. (1999) Approaching The Qur'an: The Early Revelations (Oregon; White Cloud Press)

Seoharvi, M. H. R. (2004) Stories from the Qur’an: Qasasul Qur’an (Karachi: Darul Ishaat)

Sheikh, M. Saeed (1962/1982) Islamic Philosophy (London: Octagon Press)

Stowasser, B. F. (1994) Women in the Qur’an: Traditions and Interpretations (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Wadud, A. (1999) Qur’an and Women: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Women’s Position, 2nd Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Watt, W. M. (1998) The Formative Period of Islamic Thought (Oxford: One World)

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1998) Divine Attributes in the Qur'an: Some poetic aspects, in Cooper, J., Nettler, R. and Mahmoud, M. [Eds.] (1998)  Islam and Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond (London: I. B. Tauris) pp. 120-211

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (2004) Rethinking the Qur'an: Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics (Utrecht: Humanistics University Press)
 

BEYOND JAMAA I-SUNNI ISLAM:

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

Bill, J. A. & Williams, J. A. (2002) Roman Catholics & Shi'i Muslims: Prayer, Passion and Politics (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press)

Daftary, F. (1992) The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge University Press)

Halm, H. (2004) Shi’ism: Second Revised Edition (Edinburgh University Press)

Haddad, Y. Y. and Smith, J. I. (1993) Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America (University Press of Florida)

Spat, E. (2005) The Yezidis (Saqi)
 

AND:

Abu-Rabi, Ibrahim [Ed.] (2006) The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (Blackwell)

Ahmed, A. S. (1992) Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise (London: Routledge)

Akhtar, S. (1990) Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World, in C. Kurzman [Ed.] (1998) Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

al-Attas, Syed M. N.  (1985) Islam, Secularism and the Philosophy of the Future (London: Mansell)

Al-Azmeh, Aziz (1996) Islams and Modernities: 2nd Revised Edition (Verso Books)

Al-Ghazali, M. Holland [Trans] (1992) Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship (Leicester: Islamic Foundation)

Al-Ghazali; T J Winter [Trans] (1995) Disciplining The Soul (Cambridge: The Islamic Texts Society)

Al-Ghazali; Watt, W. M., Watt, W. M. [Translator] (2000) The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali: Al-Munqidh Min Ad-Dalal (Oxford: Oneworld)

Ali, Ameer (2007) 'The Closing of the Muslim Mind', Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 27:3, 443 — 453

Ali, W. (1997) Modern Islamic Art: Development and Continuity (University of Florida Press)

Alim, H. S. (2005) 'A New Research Agenda: Exploring the Transglobal Hip Hop Umma', in M. Cooke and B. B. Lawrence [Eds.] (2005) Muslim Networks: from Hajj to Hip Hop (The University of North Carolina Press)

Allievi, Stefano and Nielsen, J. [Eds.] (2003) Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe (Leiden: Brill)

An-Na`im, Abdullahi Ahmed (1990) 'Sharia and Basic Human Rights Concerns', in C. Kurzman [Ed.] (1998) Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

An-Na`im, Abdullahi Ahmed (1996) Towards an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press)

Arkoun, M. (2003) Rethinking Islam today, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 588: 1, p.18-39

Asad, M. (1987) Islam at the Crossroads (Gibraltar: Dar al-Andalus)

Asad, M. (1994) The Road to Makkah (New Delhi: Islamic Book Service)

Asad, T. (1993) Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Asad, T. (2003) Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Stanford University Press)

Said, A. A. & Abu-Nimer, M. (2006) Contemporary Islam (London Routledge)

Baderin, M., Monshipouri, M., Welchman, L.  and Mokhtari, S. (2006) Islam and Human Rights: Advocacy for Social Change in Local Contexts (New Delhi: Global Media Publications, New Delhi)

Bartels, E. A. C (2000) 'Dutch Islam': Young People, Learning and Integration, Current Sociology, 48:4 p.59-73

Blank, J. (2002) Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras (University of Chicago Press)

Bowen, D. L. & Early, E. A. [Eds.] (1993) Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East (Bloomington: Indiana University Press)

Bunt, G. (2003) Islam in the Digital Age (London: Pluto Press)

Boubekeur, A. (2005) Cool and Competitive: Muslim Culture in the West, ISIM Review, 16, p.12-13

Cesari, J. (2003) Muslim Minorities in Europe: The Silent Revolution, in John Esposito and François Burgat [Eds] (2003) Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in the Middle East and in Europe (Rutgers University Press)

Clark, P. (1996) The Shahrur phenomenon: A liberal Islamic voice from Syria, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 7:3 pp.337 - 341

Cook, M. (2000) Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Eickelman, D. and Anderson, J. (2003) New Media in the Muslim World: Second Edition (Indiana University Press)

Eickelman, D. F. and Piscatori, J. (1996) Muslim Politics (Princeton University Press)

El Fadl, K. A. (2003) The Ugly Modern and The Modern Ugly: Reclaiming The Beautiful in Islam, in O. Safi [Ed] (2003) Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism (Oxford, One World)

El Fadl, K. A. (2005) The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam for the Extremists (New York: Harper Collins)

Engineer, Asghar Ali (1990) Islam and liberation theology: essays on liberative elements in Islam (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers)

Esack, F. (1997) Qur'an, Liberation and Pluralism (Oxford: Oneworld)

Esposito, J. and Voll, J. (2001) Makers of Contemporary Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Fischer, M. and Abedi, M. (1990). Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press)

Geaves, R. (1996) Sectarian Influences Within Islam in Britain (Leeds: University of Leeds)

Geaves, R. (2005) The Dangers of Essentialism: South Asian Communities in Britain and the "World Religions" Approach to the Study of Religions, Contemporary South Asia 14(1) p.75-90

Goodman, L. E. (2003) Islamic Humanism (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Greil, A. L.  and Rudy, D. (1984) 'What Have We Learned from Process Models of Conversion?' Sociological Focus 17 p.305-323

Hafez, M. M. (2004) Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World: New Edition (Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, US)

ul-Haq, Shaykh Abu Yusuf Riyadh (1998) The Salah of the Believer in the Qur'an and the Sunnah (Birmingham: Al Kawthar)

Hefner, R. W. & Zaman, M. Q. [Eds.] (2006) Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (Princeton University Press)

Hourani, A. (1983) Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Hussain, M. H. and Kamali, A. H. (1977) The Nature of the Islamic State (Karachi: The National Book Foundation)

Inayatullah, S. and Boxwell, G. [Eds] (2003) Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (London: Pluto Press)

Iqbal, M. (1930) 'The Principle of Movement in the Structure of Islam', in C. Kurzman [Ed.] (1998) Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Jafri, S. H. M. (2002) The Origins and Early Development of Shi'a Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Juynboll, G. H. A. (2008) Muslim Tradition: Studies in Chronology, Provenance and Authorship of Early Hadith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Kamali, M. H. (1997) Freedom of Expression in Islam (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society)

Kamrava, M. (2006) The New Voices of Islam: Reforming Politics and Modernity: A Reader (IB Taurus)

Kassir, S. and Fisk, R. (2006) Being Arab (London: Verso)

Khalid, A. K. (1998) The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (University of California Press)

Khuri, F. I. (1990) Tents and Pyramids: Games and Ideology in Arab Culture from Backgammon to Autocratic Rule (London: Saqi Books)

Kidwai, A. R. and D'Oyen, F. M. (1999) What Should We Say? A selection of prayers for daily use (Leicester: Islamic Foundation)

Klausen, J. (2009) The Cartoons That Shook the World (New Haven: Yale University Press)

Knight, M. M. (2007) The Taqwacores (London: Telegram)

Kose, A. (1999) The Journey from the Secular to the Sacred: Experiences of Native British Converts to Islam, Social Compass 46(3), p.301–312

Kurzman, C. [Ed.] (1998) Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (Oxford University Press)

Levine, M. (2008) Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam (Random House)

Lindholm, C. (2002) The Islamic Middle East: Tradition and Change, 2nd Ed (London: WileyBlackwell)

Lings. M. (1983) Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (London: Islamic Texts Society)

Majid, A. (2001) Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World (Duke University Press)

Malik, A. A. [Ed.] (2006) The State We Are In: Identity, Terror and the Law of Jihad (Bristol: Amal Press)

Mandaville, P. (2001) Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma (London: Routledge)

Martin, R. (1982) Islam: a Cultural Perspective (NJ: Prentice-Hall)

Martin, R., Woodward, M. and Atmaja, D. S. (1997) Defenders of Reason in Islam: Mu'tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol (Oxford: Oneworld Publications)

Mohamedou, M. (2006) Understanding Al Qaeda: The Transformation of War (London: Pluto Press)

Motzki, H. [Ed.] (2000) The Biography of Muhammad: The Issue of the Sources (Leiden: Brill)

Murata, S. and Chittick, W. C.(1996) The Vision of Islam (I.B. Tauris)

Muzaffar, C. (1979) Universalism in Islam, in C. Kurzman [Ed.] (1998) Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Nandy, A. (1983) The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press)

Naqvi, N. H. (1981) Ethics and Economics: An Islamic Synthesis (Leicester: The Islamic Foundation)

Nasr, S. H. (1985) Ideals and Realities of Islam (London: Unwin)

Nasr, S. H. (1987) Science and Civilization in Islam (Cambridge: The Islamic Texts Society)

Nasr, S. H. (1988) Three Muslim Sages: Avicenna, Suhrawardi, Ibn Arabi (Lahore: Suhail Academy)

Nasr, S. V. R. (1996) Mawdudi and the Making of Islamic Revivalism (Oxford University Press) 

Neilson, J. (2004) Muslims in Western Europe: Third Edition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

Office for National Statistics (2004) Focus on Religion (London: Office for National Statistics)

Parwez, G. A. (1968) Islam: A Challenge to Religion (Lahore: Idara-e-Tulu-e-Islam)

Parwez, G. A. (1998) Quranic Permanent Values (Glasgow: Signature Press)

Peach, C. [Ed.] (1997) Islam in Europe: The Politics of Religion and Community (Basingstoke: Macmillan)

Peter, F. (2006) Individualization and Religious Authority in Western European Islam, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 17(1) p.105-118

Poole, E. (2002) Reporting Islam (London: I B Tauris)

Poole, E and Richardson, J. E. [Eds.] (2006) Muslims and the News Media (London: I B Tauris)

ProgressiveMuslims.Org (2003) The Natural Republic: Rediscovering Islam's Lost Jewel (iUniverse)

Qutb, S; John B. Hardie & Hamid Algar [Trans] (1999) Social Justice in Islam (Islamic Publications International)

Rahman, F. (1979) Islam [2nd Edition] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)

Rahman, F. (1984) Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)

Rahman, F., Moosa, E. [Intro] (2000) Revival and Reform in Islam (Oxford: One World)

Renard, J. (1996) Seven doors to Islam: spirituality and the religious life of Muslim (Berkeley, University of California Press)

Ramadan, T. (2003) Western Muslims and the Future of Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Rejwan, N. (2002) The Many Faces of Islam: Perspectives on a Resurgent Civilization (University of Florida Press)

Rosenthal, F. (2006) Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam (Leiden: Brill)

Sabet, Amr G. E. (2008) Islam and the Political: Theory, Governance and International Relations (Pluto Press)

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Sanyal, U. (2005) Ahmad Riza Khan (Oxford: Oneworld)

Sardur, Z. (1992) ‘The Making and Unmaking of Islamic Culture’, in S. Inayatullah and G. Boxwell [Eds] (2003) Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (London: Pluto Press)

Sardar, Z. (1999) Orientalism (Milton Keynes: Open University Press)

Sardur, Z. and Z. Malik (2004) Introducing Islam (Royston: Icon Books)

Shaheen, J. G. (2001) Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (NY: Olive Branch Press)

Steele, J. (1997) An Architecture for People: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy (Thames & Hudson)

Sarwar, G. (2006) Islam: Beliefs and Teachings, 8th Edition (London: Muslim Educational Trust)

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Shariati, A. (1969/1982) Humanity and Islam, in C. Kurzman [Ed.] (1998) Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

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Soroush, Abdul-Karim (1995) 'The Evolution and Devolution of Religious Knowledge', in C. Kurzman [Ed.] (1998) Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed (1996) The Second Message of Islam, in C. Kurzman [Ed.] (1998) Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

Taji-Farouki, S. and Nafi, B. M. (2004) Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave MacMillan)

Turner, B. S. (2001) Cosmopolitan Virtue: On Religion in a Global Age European Journal of Social Theory, 4:2 p.131-152

Varisco, D. (2008) Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid (Washington: University of Washington Press)

Watt, W. M. (1997) The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali (New Delhi: Islamic Book Service)

Wilson, P. L. (1993) Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam (City Lights Books, U.S.)

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Younis, I. (2005) My Son The Mystic, in S. Abdul-Ghafur [Ed.] Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak (Boston: Beacon Press)
 

LEAVE THIS GOOSE SHIT ON THE BOOKSHELF

Pipes, D. (1981) 'Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System' (New Haven: Yale University Press)

Warraq, Ibn [Ed.] (1998) 'he Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book' (New York: Prometheus Books)

Warraq, Ibn [Ed. and Trans] (2000) 'The Quest for the Historical Muhammad' (New York: Prometheus Books)

...and almost everything written by journalists with 'jihad' in the title!