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ING Recommended Reading List: Intro to Islam

Qur’an Translations

Thomas Cleary (translator), The Qur’an: A New Translation

M.A. Abdel Haleem (translator), The Qur’an (Oxford World’s Classics)

Bruce Lawrence,The Qur’an: A Biography

Biographies of the Prophet Muhammad Karen Armstrong, Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

Omid Safi,Memories of Muhammad

Islam: General
Reza Aslan, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Sumbul Ali-Karamali, The Muslim Next Door
Karen Armstrong,Islam: A Short History
William Chittick, The Vision of Islam
Gordon Newby, A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam
Fazlur Rahman, Islam

Muslim Women
Maria M. Ebrahimji(editor), I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim
Jamillah Karim, American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender Within the Ummah

Islam in America
Sulayman Nyang,Islam in the United States
Umar F. Abd-Allah, A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb
Allan D. Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles
Edward E. Curtis IV, Muslims in America: A Short History by
Louis A. DeCaro, On the Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X
Sylviane Diouf, Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Yvonne Haddad & Jane Smith, Muslim Communities in North America
Yvonne Y. Haddad, ed., The Muslims of America
Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Jonathan Curiel, Al-America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots,
Jane I. Smith, Islam in America, 2nd edition
Michael Wolfe, The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca
Edward E. Curtis,Muslims in America

Islamic History
Maria Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World
Sir. Thomas W. Arnold, The Spread of Islam in the World
Khaled Abou al-Fadel, The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
Ross E. Dunn, The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century

Islamic Mysticism
Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam

Interfaith
Ranya Idilby, Suzane Oliver, Priscilla Warner, The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew: Three Women Search for Understanding
Eboo Patel, Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation

Poetry
Jalal al-Din Rumi, The Masnavi, Book One (Oxford World’s Classics)
Hafiz, The Gift

Fiction
Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
Willow Wilson, Butterfly Mosque

Youth Fiction
N.H. Senzai, Shooting Kabul
Naomi Shihab Nye, Sitti’s Secrets
Asma Mubin-Uddin, My Name is Bilal

Islamophobia
Edward Said, Covering Islam
Same Hate, New Target: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States,CAIR/ Center for Race and Gender-UC Berkeley, Available at: http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia-report-0910
Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, Center for American Progress, Available at: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/islamophobia.html