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World Regional Islam
Islamic History and Civilisation
Armstrong, K. (2002) Islam: a short history. New York, Modern Library.
Armstrong, K. (1992) Muhammad : a biography of the prophet. Harper, San Francisco.
Aslan, R. (2005) No god but God : the origins and evolution of Islam. New York, Delacorte Press.
Berkey, J. P. (2003) The formation of Islam : religion and society in the Near East, 600-1800. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
Bloom, J. (2001) Paper before print : the history and impact of paper in the Islamic world. New Haven, Yale
University Press
Denny, F. M. (2006) An introduction to Islam. Upper Saddle River, Pearson Prentice Hall.
Esposito, J. L. (2002) What everyone needs to know about Islam. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Esposito, J. L. (1999) The Oxford history of Islam. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Gilsenan, M. (1982) Recognising Islam: an anthropologist’s introduction. London, Croon Helm.
Goldschmidt A (2005) A concise history of the Middle East. Boulder, Westview Press.
Gutas, D. (1998) Greek thought, Arabic culture: the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in Baghdad and
early `Abbasid society. London, Routledge.
Hodgson, M. G. S. (1974) The venture of Islam : conscience and history in a world civilization. Chicago,
University of Chicago Press.
Hourani, A (1991) A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Harvard University Press
Kennedy, H. (2007) The great Arab conquests : how the spread of Islam changed the world we live in.
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Kennedy, H. (2004) The court of the Caliphs: the rise and fall of Islam's greatest dynasty. London,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Kennedy, H. (2001) The armies of the caliphs: military and society in the early Islamic state. London,
Routledge.
Kennedy, H. (1986) The prophet and the age of the caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the
eleventh century. London, Longman.
Lapidus, I. M. (2002) A history of Islamic societies. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Levy-Rubin, M (2011) Non-Muslims in the early Islamic Empire: from surrender to co-existence.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Sardar, Z. (2011) Reading the Quran: the contemporary relevance of the sacred text of Islam. London, Hurst
& Co.
Sells, M. A. (2007) Approaching the Quran: the early revelations. Ashland, White Cloud Press.
Islamic Law
Brown, J (2009). Hadith : Muhammad's legacy in the medieval and modern world. Oxford, Oneworld.
Burton, J (1994) An introduction to the Hadith. Edinburgh, University Press.
Coulson, N. J. (1978). A history of Islamic law. Edinburgh, University Press.
El-Shamsy, A. (2013) The canonization of Islamic law: a social and intellectual history. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
Hallaq, W. B. (2009). An introduction to Islamic law. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Hallaq, W. B. (2009). Sharia: theory, practice, transformations. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge
University Press.
Hallaq, W. B. (2003) (eds.) The formation of Islamic law. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Hallaq, W. B. (2001). Authority, continuity and change in Islamic law. Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press.
Weiss, B. G. (1998). The spirit of Islamic law. Athens, University of Georgia Press.
Vikor, K. (2005) Between God and the Sultan: a history of Islamic law. London, C Hurst.
Politics and political theory
Anderson, B. (1983) Imagined communities. New York, Verso.
Black, A. (2011). The history of Islamic political thought : from the Prophet to the present. Edinburgh,
Edinburgh University Press.
Chamberlain, M (1994) Knowledge and social practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
Crone, P. (1980) Slaves on horses : the evolution of the Islamic polity. London ; New York, Cambridge
University Press.
Crone, P. (2005) Medieval Islamic political thought. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.
Crone, P. and M. Hinds (1986) God's caliph: religious authority in the first centuries of Islam. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
Esposito, J. (1991) Islam and politics. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press
Halliday, F. (2003) Islam and the myth of confrontation : religion and politics in the Middle East. London,
I.B. Tauris
Hourani, A. (1983) Arabic thought in the liberal age, 1798-1939. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Mottahedeh, R. P. (2008) The mantle of the prophet : religion and politics in Iran. Richmond, Oneworld.
Moussalli A. (1992) Radical Islamic fundamentalism: the ideological and political discourse of Sayyid Qutb.
Beirut, American University of Beirut.
Ramadan, T (2007) Western Muslims and the future of Islam. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Trade and commerce
Abu-Lughod, J. (1971) Cairo: 1001 years of the city victorious. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Abu-Lughod, J. (1991) Before European hegemony: the world system AD 1250-1350. Oxford, Oxford
University Press
Banaji, Jairus (2007) Islam, the Mediterranean and the rise of capitalism, Historical Materialism 15 pp. 47-74
Cizakca, M. (2007) Democracy, economic development and Maqasid al-Sharia. Review of Islamic
Economics 11(1) 101-118
Cizakca, M. (2011) Islamic capitalism and finance: origins, evolution and the future. Cheltenham, Edward
Elgar.
Flood, F.B. (2009) Objects of translation: material culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” encounter.
Princeton, Princeton University Press
Emily Gilbert (1999) "Forging a National Currency: Money, State-Making and Nation-Building in Canada"
in Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner, ed. Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National
Currencies; London and New York: Routledge: 25-46.
Gotien, S.D. (1967) A Mediterranean Society: the Jewish communities of the world as portrayed in the
documents of the Cairo Geniza. Los Angeles, University of California Press. (Vol. 1, part 3)
Hodgson, M. (1974) The venture of Islam: conscience and history in a world civilisation. Chicago, University
of Chicago Press. (Vol. 1, book 2, chapter 2)
Hoffman, E (2001) Pathways of portability: Islamic and Christain interchange from the tenth to the twelfth
century. Art History 24(1) 17-50.
Heck, G.W. (2006) Charlemagne, Muhammad and the Arab roots of capitalism. Berlin, De Gruyter
Keohane, R. and Nye, J. (2000) Globalization: what’s new? What’s not? (and so what). Foreign Policy,
Spring, pp. 104-118.
Labib, S. Y. (1969) ‘Capitalism in Medieval Islam’, The Journal of Economic History, 29, 1 pp. 79–96
Rodinson, M (1973) Islam and Captialism. London, SAQI
Islamic Science
Choudhury, M. (2007) The universal paradigm and the Islamic world system: economy, society, ethics and
science. Hackensack, World Scientific.
Freely, J (2011) Light from the east: how the science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western world.
London, I.B. Tauris
Huff. T.E. (1993) The rise of early modern science: Islam, China and the West. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press.
Reisman, D.C (2004) Interpreting Avicenna: science and philosophy in Medieval Islam. Leiden, Brill.
Rosenthal, F (2007) Knowledge triumphant: the concept of knowledge in Medieval Islam. Boston, Brill.
Saliba, G. (2007) Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance. Cambridge, MIT Press.
Sardar, Z (1984) The touch of Midas: science, values and environment in Islam and the West. Manchester,
Manchester University Press.