Foundations

Adam MezHardback, 544 pages9781784538910   The tenth century was a formative period for Islamic culture and Adam Mez's Renaissance of Islam offers ...

Andrew MarshamPaperback, 384 pages9780748643004   Explores the distinctive character of the Umayyad empire in its early Islamic context: its econom...

José C. Carvajal LópezHardback, 200 pages9781350006669   This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framewo...

Barnaby RogersonHardback, 432 pages9781781257258   At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old ...

Mustafa BriggsPaperback, 182 pages9798863162065   In Beyond Bilal: Black History in Islam, aside from Black history in the Quran and the black comp...

John BruntonHardback, 288 pages9781398107342   From humble beginnings as slaves in Egypt, the Mamluks trained as soldiers and rose in status to sei...

Syed Farid AlatasPaperback, 160 pages9780198090458   Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) was one of the most remarkable Muslim scholars of the pre-modern perio...

Michael Wolfe Paperback 9780802135865

Toby MatthiesenHardback, 944 pages9780198806554   The authoritative account of the sectarian division that for centuries has shaped events in the M...

Hannah-Lena HagemannPaperback, 316 pages9781474450898   Why are stories told about the Khārijites – purported rebels and heretics? From the Khāriji...

Travis ZadehHardback, 464 pages9780674258457   The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos   The astonishing biography of one ...

Mustafa BriggsPaperback9798413213117   For far too long, discussions around the black presence in, and contribution to Islam has been limited to Bi...

Nicholas MortonPaperback9781399803564   The Mongol Storm tells the story of the Mongols and the empires they conquered.   Drawing on years of deep ...

Roy P. MottahedehHardback, 640 pages9780861545605   In pieces drawn from over the course of his distinguished career, pre-eminent historian Roy Mot...

Ismai'il R. al-Faruqi, Lois Lamiya' al-FaruqiHardback, 750 pages9780029101902   Islam is a world religion which has stretched from Cordoba, Spain, ...

Hugh KennedyPaperback, 428 pages4th Edition9780367366896   The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century   The Prophet and the Age o...

Jonathan A.C. BrownHardback, 416 pages9780861544844   It is commonly claimed that Islam is anti-black, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Afri...

Samer Akkach Hardback 9781851685080

al-Hasan al-YusiPaperback, 280 pagesEnglish-only edition9781479810581   Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life   al-Ha...

Shahla HaeriPaperback, 278 pages9781107554894   In this landmark study, Shahla Haeri offers the extraordinary biographies of several Muslim women r...

Michelle KarnesPaperback, 272 pages9780226819754 A cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages.  Marvels like enchanted rings and ...

Karen Armstrong Paperback, 224 pages 9781842125830

Imam Dawud WalidPaperback, 150 pages9781909853195   Muslims speak of Islam in egalitarian terms: the religion of peace, the religion that seeks to ...

John D. HoslerPaperback, 254 pages9780300251494   Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle that Decided the Third Crusade   The siege of Acre...