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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)

Underground to Canada

By Flanagan, Cara, Smucker Barbara

Light Force

By Andrew, Brother, Janssen, Al

The Middle East Bedside Book

By Tahir Shah

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

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

Islam For Dummies

By Malcolm Clark

An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914

By George R. Trumbull IV (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics

By L. Carl. Brown

Beyond Islam: A New Understanding of the Middle East

By Sami Zubaida

Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam

By Nile Green

Radical Arab Nationalism and Political Islam

By Lahouari Addi, Anthony Roberts

Depicting the Veil: Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror

By Robin L. Riley

Between Reason and Revelation: Twin Wisdoms Reconciled

By Eric Ormsby

Diversity and Pluralism in Islam: Historical and Contemporary Discourses Amongst Muslims

By Zulfikar Hirji

Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety

By Dr Karen Bauer (Senior Research Associate, The Institute of Ismaili Studies), Dr Feras Hamza (Head of School, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Wollongong in Dubai and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ismaili Studies)

Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

By Attiya Ahmad

The Spirit of Tolerance in Islam

By Reza Shah-Kazemi