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

By Michael Gomez

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

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

Islamic Law: Theory and Practice

By Robert Gleave, Eugenia Kermeli

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

By Michael Gomez

Islam without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists

By Raymond William Baker

The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt

By Patrick D. Gaffney

Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Louis Brenner

The Glorious Qur'an: Text, Translation & Commentary (Koran)

By Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Islam and the Abolition of Slavery

By William Gervase Clarence-Smith

The Course of Islam in Africa

By Mervyn Hiskett

Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa

By Paul Gifford

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

By Brian J. Peterson

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

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...

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

By Matthew Hassan Kukha, Toyin Falola, Matthew Hassan Kukah

Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement

By Alexander Thurston

Pioneers of Islamic Revival

By Ali Rahnema

Nation and Religion in the Middle East

By Fred Halliday

It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

By Mariam Khan

Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity

By Faisal Devji

Securitizing Islam: Identity and the Search for Security

By Stuart Croft (University of Warwick)

The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition

By Alison Pargeter

What Muslims Believe

By John Bowker

'God Alone is King': Islam and Emanicipation in Senegal - The Wolof Kingdoms of Kajoor and Bawol, 1859-1914

By James F. Searing

Symbolic Confrontations: Muslims Imagining the State in Africa

By Donal B.Cruise O'Brien

Questioning French Secularism: Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb

By Jennifer Selby

African Christianity: Its Public Role

By Gifford, Paul