Culture Corner

Understanding Islam: Title List

The following titles have been selected for the Spring/Summer 2004 Culture Corner, "Understanding Islam". The list is divided into ten sections by general categories and by call number order within each section. The categories are: Art & Architecture, General, History, Law, Literature & Poetry, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science & Technology, and The Woman in Islam. ALL BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CHECK-OUT. Click on the title of the book to navigate to the UT Libraries' catalog and check the circulation status of the book.

Art & Architecture
Call Number	Title	Author
N6260.E79 2001	Islamic Art and Architecture 650 - 1250	Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina
N6260.I75 2000	Islamic Art and Architecture	Hattstein, Markus and Peter Delius
Oversize: N6264.N4A484 1999	Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art: the Art of Islam	Piotrovsky, Mikhail B.
N7419.S93D3554 2000	Damascus: Hidden Treasures of the Old City	Keenan, Brigid
NA380.A734 1994	Architecture for Islamic Societies Today	Steele, James (ed.)
NA380.C5713 2000	Splendors of Islam: Architecture, Decoration and Design	Clévenot, Dominique
NA380.D36 1995	Moorish Style	Danby, Miles
NA380.S4 1989	Space for Freedom: The Search for Architectural Excellence in Muslim Societies	Serageldin, Ismail
NA380.U54 2002	Understanding Islamic Architecture	Petruccioli, Attilio and Khalil K. Pirani
NA380.Y46 2000	The Story of Islamic Architecture	Yeomans, Richard
NA1483.H47 1991	Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan	Herdeg, Klaus
NK3636.5.A2K4613 1976b	The Splendour of Islamic Calligraphy	Khatibi, Abdelkebir and Mohammed Sijelmassi
NK3636.5.A2S23 1973	Islamic Calligraphy	Safadi, Yasin Hamid
NK3636.5.A2W44	Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World	Welch, Anthony
NK9202.5.G7E44 2001	Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt	Ellis, Marianne
General
Call Number	Title	Author
BP10.I73 1992	Islam and Islamic Groups: A Worldwide Reference Guide	Shaikh, Farzana
BP50.H57 1993	Some to Mecca Turn to Pray: Islamic Values and the Modern World	Hiskett, Mervyn
BP50.S56 2003	Islam in a Globalizing World	Simons, Jr., Thomas W.
BP65.A1R3613 2004	Western Muslims and the Future of Islam	Ramadan, Tariq
BP67.U6.H38 2000	American Muslims: The New Generation	Hasan, Asma Gull
BP67.U6M33 1995	African American Islam	McCloud, Aminah Beverly
BP67.U6T87 1997	Islam in the African-American Experience	Turner, Richard Brent
BP70.E86 2001	Makers of Contemporary Islam	Esposito, John L. and John O. Voll
BP 161.M46 1981	Towards Understanding Islam	Mawdudi, Abul a'la
BP 161.2.G66 2002	Islam: Origins, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Persons, Sacred Places	Gordon, Matthew S.
BP161.2.I266 1997	A Brief Illustrated Guide to Understanding Islam	Ibrahim, I.A.
BP161.2.R87 2000	Islam in the World	Ruthven, Malise
BP192.7.I68M67 1985	The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran	Mottahedeh, Roy
BP 221.L56 1993	The Black Muslims in America	Lincoln, C. Eric
History
Call Number	Title	Author
BP50.A69 2000	Islam: A Short History	Armstrong, Karen
BP50.W38 1990	Early Islam	Watt, W. Montgomery
BP52.L46	Islam in History: Ideas, Men and Events in the Middle East	Lewis, Bernard
BP60.V64 1994	Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World	Voll, John Obert
BP161.3.R53 2003	Islam in Context: Past, Present, and Future	Riddell, Peter G. and Peter Cottarell
BP161.3.H67 2003	Islam Without Illusions: Its Past, Its Present, and its Challenge for the Future	Hotaling, Ed
BP172.A736 2002	Islam, Christianity, and the West: A Troubled History	Armour, Sr., Rollin
BP173.7.S25	Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity	Salvatore, Armando
BP182.A436 2003	The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity	Akbar, M. J.
DS35.6.E5313 2002	Islam: An Historical Introduction, 2nd Edition	Endress, Gerhard
DS35.63.L37 2002	A History of Islamic Societies, 2nd Edition	Lapidus, Ira M.
DS38.B72 1960	History of the Islamic Peoples	Brockelmann, Carl
Law
Call Number	Title	Author
BP165.7.H35 2001	Authority, Continuity and Change in Islamic Law	Hallaq, Wael B.
BS1199.L3R45 1990	Religion and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives	Firmage, Edwin B., Bernard G. Weiss, and John W. Welch
JC49.A54	Islamic Law in the Modern World	Anderson, J. N. D.
JC49.F9 1974	Outlines of Muhammadan Law, 4th Edition	Fyzee, Asaf A. A.
JC49.R3	Islamic Law: Its Scope and Equity	Ramadan, Said
JC49.S2	Introduction to Islamic Law	Schacht, Joseph
KBL.A54L39	Law Reform in the Muslim World	Anderson, J. N. D.
KBL.A95I8 1988	Islamic Law: Social and Historical Contexts	'Azmah, 'Aziz
KBL.R6J8 2000	The Justice of Islam: Comparative Perspectives on Islamic Law and Society	Rosen, Lawrence
KBLO.I8 1997	Islamic Law: Theory and Practice	Gleave, R. and E. Kermeli (eds.)
Literature & Poetry
Call Number	Title	Author
BP87.5.A44	A Rosary of Islamic Readings, 7th to 20th Century	Allana, Gulam (ed.)
BP89.C56 2003	Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature	Calder, Norman, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin (eds.)
BP166.2.J3513	The Precious Pearl: Al-Jami's Al-Durrah Al-Fakhirah, Together with his Glosses and the Commentary of 'Abd al-Ghafur al-Lari - Translated with an Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by Nicholas Heer	Heer, Nicholas (trans.)
PJ409.K7	Modern Islamic Literature: From 1800 to the Present	Kritzeck, James (ed.)
PJ7694.E1K7 cop. 2	Anthology of Islamic Literature: From the Rise of Islam to Modern Times	Kritzeck, James (ed.)
PK6480.A1 1925 v.7	The Mathnawí of Jalálu'ddín Rúmí, Edited from the Oldest Manuscripts Available, with Critical Notes, Translation and Commentary, by Reynold A. Nicholson. Containing the commentary of the first & second books	Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana
PK6480.A1 1925 v.8	The Mathnawí of Jalálu'ddín Rúmí, Edited from the Oldest Manuscripts Available, with Critical Notes, Translation and Commentary, by Reynold A. Nicholson. Containing the commentary of the third, fourth, fifth & sixth books, with indices to volumes 7 & 8	Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana
PK6480.A21 1968	Mystical Poems of Rumi: First Selection, Poems 1-200	Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana
PK6480.E5J35 2001	The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems	Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana
PK6513.A1 1946	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Khayyam, Omar
PK6513.A1 1997	Edward FitzGerald: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Critical Edition	Decker, Christopher (ed.)
PR6068.U757Z56 1993	Sacrilege Versus Civility: Muslim Perspectives on The Satanic Verses Affair	Ahsan, M. M. and Kidwai, A. R. (eds.)
PS3513.I25P7 1968	The Prophet	Gibran, Kahlil
Philosophy
Call Number	Title	Author
B741.F23 1970	A History of Islamic Philosophy	Fakhry, Majid
B741.S468 v. 2	A History of Muslim Philosophy	Sharif, M. M. (ed.)
B749.Z7F35 2001	Averroes (Ibn Rushd): His Life, Works and Influence	Fakhry, Majid
B751.Z7M67	The Metaphysica of Avicenna (ibn Sina)	Morewedge, Parviz
B753.G34W3	Muslim Intellectual: A Study of al-Ghazali	Watt, W. Montgomery
B753.I24A35 1974	The Mystical Philosophy of the Muhyid Din-Ibnul 'Arabi	Affifi, Abul Ela
B755.G66 1999	Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age	Goodman, Lenn E.
BP88.G47E5 1980	Freedom and Fulfillment: An Annotated Translation of Al-Ghazali's al-Munqidh min al-dalal and Other Relevant Works of al-Ghazali	McCarthy, Richard Joseph
BP134.L54I85 2003	Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia	Brockopp, Jonathan E. (ed.)
Politics
Call Number	Title	Author
BP60.D38 2002	Islamic Fundamentalism: An Introduction	Davidson, Lawrence
BP163.T529	Islam between Culture and Politics	Tibi, Bassam
BP173.7.I87 1991	Islamic Politics and the Modern World	Kimmens, Andrew C.
BP173.7.K453 2002	Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam	Kepel, Gilles
BP173.7.S25	Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity	Salvatore, Armando
BP173.7.Z33 1989	The Struggle Within Islam: The Conflict Between Religion and Politics	Zakaria, Rafiq
DS35.63.I64 1988	Islam, Politics, and Social Movements	Burke, III, Edmund and Ira M. Lapidus
DS63.2.E8B56 1995	Western Dominance and Political Islam: Challenge and Response	Sayeed, Khalid Bin
JC49.A928 1991	Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Arab World	Ayubi, Nazih N.
JC49.B58 2001	The History of Islamic Political Thought: from the Prophet to the Present	Black, Antony
JC49.M26 2001	Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma	Mandaville, Peter
JC49.T73 2004	Transnational Political Islam: Religion, Ideology and Power	Karam, Azza
JC599.A65D35 1998	Islam, Liberalism and Human Rights: Implications for International Relations	Dalacoura, Katerina
JC599.A65K485 2003	Human Rights in the Muslim World: Fundamentalism, Constitutionalism and International Politics	Khan, Maimul Ahsan
Religion
Call Number	Title	Author
BP88.E73 1999	On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today	Esack, Farid
Oversize BP100 1961	Mushaf Jawami'i Sharif (Koran)
BP100.3.M55	Leaves from Three Ancient Qurâns, Possibly Pre-'Othmânic, with a List of their Variants	Mingana, Alphonse and Agnes Smith Lewis (eds.)
BP109 1985	The Qur'an: The First American Version	Irving, T. B. (trans.)
BP109.K48 1975	The Quran: The Eternal Revelation vouchsafed to Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets	Khan, Muhammad Zafrulla (trans.)
BP134.C45I85 2000	Islamic Interpretations of Christianity	Ridgeon, Lloyd (ed.)
BP161.2.R47 1996	Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims	Renard, John
BP161.2.R59 1999	Islam: A Concise Introduction	Robinson, Neal
BP161.2.W29 2003	An Introduction to Islam	Waines, David
BP187.3.W65 1993	The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca	Wolfe, Michael
BP222.B35 2002	Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin	Baldwin, Lewis V. and Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid
PJ827.S3313 1985	And Muhammad is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety	Schimmel, Annemarie
Science & Technology
Call Number	Title	Author
BP190.5.S3H66 1991	Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality	Hoodbhoy, Pervez
BP190.5.S3O86 1999	The History and Philosophy of Islamic Science	Bakar, Osman
BP190.5.S3S25	Science: The Islamic Legacy	Lunde, Paul and ARAMCO
GA1263.6.K56 1999	World Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance of Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Society	King, David A.
HC499.C462 2000	The Islamic Worldview: Socio-Scientific Perspectives	Choudhury, Masudul Alam
Q127.I74H55 1993	Islamic Science and Engineering	Hill, Donald R.
Q127.I742T78 1997	Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction	Turner, Howard R.
Q127.M628S27 1989	Science and Medicine in Islam: A Collection of Essays	Sardar, Ziauddin
Q127.M628R67 1990	Explorations in Islamic Science	Rosenthal, Franz
Q127.N15N37	Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study	Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
The Woman in Islam
Call Number	Title	Author
BP134.W6H45 1997	Women and the Koran: The Status of Women in Islam	Hekmat, Anwar
BP134.W6S76 1994	Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation	Stowasser, Barbara Freyer
BP134.W6W6 2000	Women in Islam: An Anthology from the Qur'an and Hadiths	Awde, Nicholas (ed.)
BP173.4.B35 2002	"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an	Barlas, Asma
BP173.4.S48 2003	The Idea of Women in Fundamentalist Islam	Shehadeh, Lamia Rustum
GT2112.E5 1999	Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance	El Guindi, Fadwa
HQ1170.C75 2001	Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature	Cooke, Miriam
HQ1170.E55 1992	The Rights of Women in Islam	Engineer, Asghar Ali
HQ1170.R63 2001	Women in Islam: The Western Experience	Roald, Anne Sofie
HQ1170.W587 1998	Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity Within Unity	Bodman, Herbert L. and Nayereh Tohidi (eds.)
HQ1236.G54 2001	Globalization, Gender, and Religion: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts	Bayes, Jane H. and Nayereh Tohidi (eds.)
HQ1726.5.M64 2003	Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East	Moghadam, Valentine M.
NX688.A4W66 2000	Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies	Ruggles, D. Fairchild (ed.)