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

By Matthew Hassan Kukha, Toyin Falola, Matthew Hassan Kukah

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...

Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges

By Marvine Howe

Baba of Karo: A Woman of the Muslim Hausa

By Baba, of Karo, Mary F. Smith

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)

The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture

By Bernard Lewis

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

By Brian J. Peterson

Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa

By Paul Gifford

The Course of Islam in Africa

By Mervyn Hiskett

Islam and the Abolition of Slavery

By William Gervase Clarence-Smith

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

By Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Louis Brenner

The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt

By Patrick D. Gaffney

Islam without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists

By Raymond William Baker

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

By Michael Gomez

Islamic Law: Theory and Practice

By Robert Gleave, Eugenia Kermeli

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

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

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

By Michael J. Mazarr

Islamism and Islam

By Bassam Tibi

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

Islam's Black Slaves

By Ronald Segal

Shi'ite Islam: Polity, Ideology and Creed

By Yann Richard, Antonia Nevill

The Flight of the Intellectuals

By Paul Berman

Recognizing Islam: Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East

By Michael Gilsenan

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)

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

By Elisabeth McMahon (Tulane University, Louisiana)

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

By Bernard Lewis

God's Terrorists

By Charles Allen

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

By Brotton, Jerry

Forbidding Wrong in Islam: An Introduction

By Michael Cook (Princeton University, New Jersey)