Organization for Islamic Learning

Recommended Readings

1) Ahmad, Leila Women and Gender in Islam

2) Arberry, A. J. The Koran Interpreted, McMillan

3) Ayoub, Mahmoud The Qur’an and its Interpreters, 2 vols. Albany

4) Carter, Jimmy Palestine: Peace not Apartheid, Simon & Schuster

5) Chittick, William and Murata, Sachiko The Vision of Islam, Paragon

6) Chittick, William The Sufi Path of Love, Albany

7) Chittick, William The Sufi Path of Knowledge, Albany

8) Coulson, Noel J. A History of Islamic Law, Edinburgh

9) Cragg, Kenneth The Call of the Minaret, Oxford

10) Cragg, Kenneth The Event of the Qur’an: Islam in its Scripture, London

11) Enayat, Hamid Modern Islamic Political Thought, Texas

12) Fundamentalisms Observed, Vol. I, Chicago (There are four other volumes in this series.)

13) Goldziher, Ignaz Muslim Studies, 2 vols. Albany, NY

14) Hodgson, M. G. S. Venture of Islam, 3 vols. Chicago

15) Hourani, Albert Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, Cambridge

16) Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad, trans. By A. Guillaume, Oxford

17) al-Khu'l, Abu al-Qasim The Prolegomena to the Qur’an, trans. A. Sachedina, K Oxford

18) Mernissi, Fatima Beyond the Veil

19) Morgan, Kenneth ed., Islam, the Straight Path: Islam Interpreted by Muslims, NY, Ronald Press

20) Mottahedeh, Roy The Mantle of the Prophet, Simon and Schuster

21) Muhaiyaddeen, M. R. Bawa Islam and World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi

22) Muhaiyaddeen, M. R. Bawa The Wisdom of Man

23) Muhaiyaddeen, M. R. Bawa The Resonance of Allah

24) Muhaiyaddeen, M. R. Bawa Four Steps to Pure Iman

25) Murata, Sachiko The Tao of Islam, Albany

26) Rahman, Fazlur Major Themes of the Qur’an, Chicago

27) Rahman, Fazlur Prophecy in Islam, Chicago

28) Sachedina, Abdulaziz The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism, Oxford

29) Sachedina, Abdulaziz The Just Ruler in Shi`ite Islam, Oxford

30) Sachedina, Abdulaziz Islamic Messianism, Albany

31) Salbi, Zainab Between Two Worlds: Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam, Gotham

32) Schacht, Joseph An Introduction to Islamic Law, Oxford

33) Schimmel, Annemarie The Mystical Dimension of Islam, Chapel Hill

34) Soroush, Abdolkarim Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam, Oxford

35) Watt, W. Montgomery Muhammad at Mecca, Oxford

36) Watt, W. Montgomery Muhammad at Medina, Oxford

37) Watt, W. Montgomery Free Will and Predestination in Early Islam, Luzac, London

38) Watt, W. Montgomery The Faith and Practice of al-Ghazali, London

39) Wensinck, A.J. The Muslim Creed, Cambridge

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