Organization for Islamic Learning

Required Readings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14) Murata, Sachiko The Tao of Islam, Albany

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

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

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

18) Sachedina, Abdulaziz Islamic Messianism, Albany

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

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

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

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

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