Religion - Islam - Research Resources

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Background References:

General Islamic History -

Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History (New York: The Modern Library, 200)

Hodgson, Marshal G.S. The Venture of Islam: The Classical Age of Islam (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974) Volume One

Hodgson, Marshal G.S. The Venture of Islam: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974) Volume Two

Hodgson, Marshal G.S. The Venture of Islam: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974) Volume Three

Humphreys, R. Stephen. Islamic History: A Framework of Inquiry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991)

Watt, W. Montgomery. Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman (London: Oxford University Press, 1961)

Islamic Civilization -

Bulliet, Richard W. The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization (New York, Chichester, England: Columbia University Press, 2004)

Jayyusi, Salma Khadra, ed. The Legacy of Muslim Spain, vol. 1, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994)

Hoodboy, Pervez. Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality (London: Zed Books, 1991)

Makdisi, George. The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981)

Rosenthal, Franz. The Classical Heritage in Islam and the Christian West Emile and Jenny Marmorstein, trans. (New York: Routlege, 1992)

Rosenthal, Franz. Knowledge Triumphant: the Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970)

Watt, Montgomery W. The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972)

Islamic Law and Jurisprudence -

Al-Affendi, Abdelwahab, et al. Islam and Justice: Debating the Future of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1997)

Goldziher, Ignaz. Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981)

Kamali, Mohammad Hashim. Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1991, Revised Edition)

Sadr, Muhammad Baqir. Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence, translated and with an introduction by Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, (Oxford: Oneworld, 2003)

Islam - Reform and Democracy -

An-Naim, Abdullahi Ahmed. Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and International Law, (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1990)

Choudhury, Masudul Alam and Malik, Uzir Abdul. The Foundations of Islamic Political Economy, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992)

Goldberg, Ellis, et al., eds. Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law and Society, (Jakcson School Publications in International Studies, 1993)

Hoexter, Miriam, et a;l., eds. The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002)

Lampe, Gerald E. Justice and Human Right in Islamic Law (Washington, DC: International Law Institute, 1997)

Sachedina, Abdulaziz. The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2001)

Jewish - Muslim - Christian Relations -

Abramson, Glenda et al. Nettler, Ronald L. (ed.) Studies in Muslim - Jewish Relations (Harwood Academic Publishers in cooperation with the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1993)

Cohen, Mark R. Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews, Ca. 1065-1126 (Princeton Studies on the Near East, 1980)

Cohen, Mark R. Under the Crescent Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages, also translated into Turkish and Hebrew, (Princeton, 1994)

Goitein, S.D. Jews and Arabs, their Contacts through the Ages (New York: Schocken Books, 1964)

Goitein, S.D. A Mediterranean Society: the Jewish Communities of the Arab World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza (Berkeley: University of California press, 1967-1993)

Grose, George and Hubbard, Benjamin J. The Abraham Connection: A Jew, Christian & Muslim in Dialogue (Notre Dame, IN: Cross Cultural Publications, Inc., 1994)

Hourami, Albert. Europe and the Middle East (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980)

Kedar, Benjamin Z. Crusade and Mission: European Approaches Toward the Muslims (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984)

Laiou, Angeliki and Mottahedeh, Roy Parviz, eds. The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2001)

Madden, Thomas F. The Crusades: The Essential Readings (Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002)

Jihad, Just War, Holy War -

Adeney, Bernard T. Just War, Political Realism and Faith (The American Theological Library Association and the Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ and London, 1988) pp. 23-48, 94-97 & 124-131

Donner, Fred M. "The Sources of Islamic Conceptions of War," in John Kelsay and James Turner Johnson (eds.), Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions (Greenwood Press, 1991) pp. 31-69

Elshtain, Jean Bethke "Epilogue: Continuing Implications of the Just War Tradition," in Elshtain (ed.), Just War Theory (Blackwell, Oxford, 1992) pp. 323-333.

John L. Esposito, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Hashmi, Sohail H. "But was it Jihad? Islam and the Ethics of the Persian Gulf War," in William Head and Earl H. Trilford, Jr. (eds.), The Eagle in the Desert: Looking Back on US Involvement in the Persian Gulf War (Praeger, 1996) pp. 47-64.

Hashmi, Sohail H. "Interpreting the Islamic Ethics of War and Peace" in Terry Nardin (ed.), The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives (Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 146-166.

Johnson, James Turner "Historical Roots and Sources of the Just War Tradition in Western Culture" in Kelsay and Johnson (eds.) Just War and Jihad, pp. 3-30.

Kimelman, Reuven "The Ethics of National Power: Government and War from the Sources of Judaism," Daniel J. Elazar, Authority, Power and Leadership in the Jewish Polity: Cases and Issues (University Press of America 1991), pp. 247-294.

Langan, S.J John. The Western Moral Tradition on War: Christian Theology and Warfare in Kelsay and Johnson (eds.) Just War and Jihad, pp. 71-90.

Ravitzky,Aviezer "Prohibited Wars in the Jewish Tradition" in Nardin, Ethics of War and Peace, pp. 115-127.

Russell, Frederick H. "Conclusion." The Just War in the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 1975) pp. 292-308.

Walters, LeRoy "Historical Applications of the Just War Theory: Four Case Studies in Normative Ethics," James T. Johnson and David H. Smith (eds.) Love and Society: Essays in the Ethics of Paul Ramsey (American Academy of Religion and Scholars Press, 1974) pp. 115-138 (Distributed by Scholars Press, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59801)

Walters, LeRoy "The Just War and the Crusade: Antithesis or Analogies?" The Monist 67/4 October 1973, pp. 584-594.

Michael Walzer, "War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition," in Nardin (ed.), Ethics of War and Peace, pp. 95-114.

Noam J. Zohar, "Can a War be Morally 'Optional'?" The Journal of Political Philosophy 4/3 November 1996, pp. 229-241.

Critical Perspectives on Islam -

Lewis, Bernard. What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle East Response (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Lewis, Bernard. The Political Language of Islam (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)

Lewis, Bernard. Islam and the West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)

Critical Perspectives on Western Treatments of Islam -

Khalidi, Rashid. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, 1st Cloth Edition, (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004)

Said, Edward W. Orientalism, 1st Vintage Books ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 1979)

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