Jack Ammerman
Librarian and Director of Educational Technology
Hartford Seminary

Steven Blackburn
Reference and Instructional Services Librarian
Hartford Seminary

This bibliography was originally published in the November 2001 issue of the ATLA Newsletter. See also the Hartford Seminary Library web site for a continually updated list of resources.

In recent decades, we have learned that we are enriched when we include the voices of minorities in our conversations about faith. When women, African-Americans, and Hispanics, for example, are included in the conversations, our understanding of scripture is enhanced, and our theological understanding is expanded.

The seminary students that use our libraries will minister in contexts in which multiple faith communities are found. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, it seems even more important to provide resources to enable them to learn more about the faith of those whom they and their parishioners will encounter. This bibliography is a starting point for those desiring to provide resources to assist in the study of Islam. For additional resources, visit the Hartford Seminary Library web site.

Introductory

Esposito, John L. (1998). Islam: The Straight Path. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Esposito, John L. and John O. Voll (1996). Islam and Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lawrence, Bruce B. (1998). Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Robinson, Neal. (1999). Islam, A Concise Introduction. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Schimmel, Annemarie. (1992). Islam: An Introduction. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Reference

(1998). Index Islamicus on CD-ROM: A Bibliography of Publications on Islam and the Muslim World Since 1906. London, New Providence, NJ: Bowker-Saur.

Ali, A. Y. (1997). The Meaning of the Holy Qur'an. Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications.

Pickthall, M. W. and A. a. K. a. Ashsh'i (1999). The Meaning of the Glorious Qur'an: Text and Explanatory Translation. Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications.

Brill Academic Publishers. (1999). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, volumes 1-9. Leiden: Brill.

Esposito, John L. (1995). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. New York: Oxford University Press.

Holt, P. M., A. K. S. Lambton, et al. (1970). The Cambridge History of Islam. Cambridge, Eng.: University Press.

Nanji, A. (1996). The Muslim Almanac: A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture, and Peoples of Islam. Detroit, MI: Gale Research.

Islamic Practices

Padwick, C. E. (1961). Muslim Devotions: A Study of Prayer-Manuals in Common Use. London: SPCK.

Peters, Rudolph. (1996). The Jihad in Classical and Modern Times: A Reader. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener.

Renard, John. (1996). Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Islam and Women

Afkhami, M. (1995). Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press.

Haddad, Yvonne Y. and John L. Esposito, Eds. (1998). Islam, Gender, & Social Change. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Smith, Jane I. and Harvard University. Center for the Study of World Religions. (1980). Women in Contemporary Muslim Societies. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press.

Islam in America

Said, Edward W. (1997). Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. New York: Vintage Books.

Haddad, Yvonne Y. and Jane I. Smith (1994). Muslim Communities in North America. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Smith, Jane I. (1999). Islam in America. New York: Columbia University Press.

Turner, R. B. (1997). Islam in the African-American Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Webb, Gisela. (2000). Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Videos

The Arab World (Bill Moyers)
Living Islam
Women and Islam
Women in Islam

Web Sites

www.islamicity.org
www.al-sunnah.com
www.library.hartsem.edu

Periodicals

International Journal of Middle East Studies
Islamic Studies
Journal of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Middle East Journal
Muslim World
Studies in Contemporary Islam

Contemporary Islam

al-'Azmeh, A. (1993). Islams and Modernities. London, New York: Verso.

Abu-Rabi', Ibrahim M. (1996). Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Donohue, John J. and John L. Esposito, Eds. (1982). Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press.

Humphreys, R. Stephen. (1999). Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.

Jenkins, Everett. (1999). The Muslim Diaspora: A Comprehensive Reference to the Spread of Islam in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Kurzman, C. (1998). Liberal Islam: A Source Book. New York: Oxford University Press.

Voll, John O. (1994). Islam, Continuity and Change in the Modern World. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press.

Islam and Politics

Barazangi, N. H., M. R. Zaman, et al. (1996). Islamic Identity and the Struggle for Justice. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Choueiri, Y. M. (1990). Islamic Fundamentalism. London: Pinter.

Haddad, Y. Y. (1995). Islamists and the Challenge of Pluralism. Washington, DC: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding Georgetown University.

Quòtb, S. and W. E. Shepard (1996). Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of Social Justice in Islam. Leiden, New York: E.J. Brill.

Tibi, B. (1998). The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder. Berkeley, London: University of California Press.

Islamic Law

Edge, I., Ed. (1996). Islamic Law and Legal Theory. International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory. Legal cultures; 7. Aldershot: Dartmouth.

Islamic Mysticism

Fadiman, J. and R. Frager, Eds. (1997). Essential Sufism. [San Francisco], HarperSanFrancisco.

Sells, M. A., Ed. (1996). Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur'an, Mi'raj, Poetic and Theological Writings. New York: Paulist Press.