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Islamic Law: Theory and Practice

By Robert Gleave, Eugenia Kermeli

Islam For Dummies

By Malcolm Clark

The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800

By Jonathan P. Berkey (Davidson College, North Carolina)

The Middle East Bedside Book

By Tahir Shah

Light Force

By Andrew, Brother, Janssen, Al

Underground to Canada

By Flanagan, Cara, Smucker Barbara

Forbidding Wrong in Islam: An Introduction

By Michael Cook (Princeton University, New Jersey)

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

By Brotton, Jerry

God's Terrorists

By Charles Allen

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

By Bernard Lewis

Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability

By Elisabeth McMahon (Tulane University, Louisiana)

The Coptic Question in the Mubarak Era

By Sebastian Elsasser (Assistant Professor, Institute of Oriental and Islamic Studies, Assistant Professor, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel, Kiel, Germany)

Recognizing Islam: Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East

By Michael Gilsenan

The Flight of the Intellectuals

By Paul Berman

Shi'ite Islam: Polity, Ideology and Creed

By Yann Richard, Antonia Nevill

Islam's Black Slaves

By Ronald Segal

Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa: The Institution in Saharan and Sudanic Africa and the Trans-Saharan Trade

By Allan G.B. Fisher, Humphrey J. Fisher

Islamism and Islam

By Bassam Tibi

Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity

By Michael J. Mazarr

An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)

By Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi, Daniel L. Newman

Islam, Gender, and Social Change

By Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (Professor of Islamic History, Professor of Islamic History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst), John L. Esposito (Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understan...

The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture

By Bernard Lewis

Pariah Politics: Understanding Western Radical Islamism and What Should be Done

By Shamit Saggar (Professor of Political Science, University of Sussex; Visiting Professor of Public Policy, University of Toronto; Senior Associate, Demos; Senior Fellow, 21st Century Trust)

Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa

By Baba, of Karo, Mary F. Smith

Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges

By Marvine Howe

Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement

By Alexander Thurston

The Halal Frontier: Muslim Consumers in a Globalized Market

By J. Fischer

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

By Michael Gomez

Islamization from Below: The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960

By Brian J. Peterson

Religious Militancy and Self-assertion: Islam and Politics in Nigeria

By Matthew Hassan Kukha, Toyin Falola, Matthew Hassan Kukah