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Sectarianism Without Sects

By Azmi Bishara, Chris Hitchcock

Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian

By Bernard Lewis, PH D (Princeton University (Emeritus)), Buntzie Ellis Churchill

The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

By David M. Goldenberg

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

By Michael Gomez

Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions

By Paul E. Lovejoy

Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement

By Alexander Thurston

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

By Matthew Hassan Kukha, Toyin Falola, Matthew Hassan Kukah

Trans-Saharan Africa in World History

By Ralph A Austen (Professor Emeritus of African History, Professor Emeritus of African History, University of Chicago)

Jews of a Saharan Oasis

By John Hunwick

Saint Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter

By John V. Tolan (, Professor of History, University of Nantes)

A Faithful Sea

By Adnan A. Husain, K. E. Fleming

A History of Islamic Philosophy

By Majid Fakhry

Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000

By Felicitas Becker (Assistant Professor, African History, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam

By Chouki El Hamel (Arizona State University)

Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920

By David Robinson

Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges

By Marvine Howe

The Umma and the Dawla: The Nation-State and the Arab Middle East

By Tamim Al-Barghouti

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

The History of Islam in Africa

By Nehemia Levtzion, Randall L. Pouwels

The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire

By Allen J. Fromherz

Islam: Past, Present and Future

By Hans Kung

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

By Robert Irwin

The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 2, The Further Islamic Lands

By P. M. Holt, A. K. S. Lambton, B. Lewis

Caliphate

By Hugh Kennedy

Islam and the Abolition of Slavery

By William Gervase Clarence-Smith

Lost Maps of the Caliphs

By Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam

By Peter Oborne

The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt

By Patrick D. Gaffney

The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses

By Larbi Sadiki