Suggested Reading

About Spirituality

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# Author Title Publisher
1 William Chittick and Sachiko Murata The Vision of Islam Paragon
2 William Chittick The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi SUNY
3 M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Four Steps to Pure Iman: Explanations of a Painting The Fellowship Press
4 W. Montgomery Watt (translator) The Faith and Practice of al-Ghazali Oneworld Academic
5 Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib Nahj al-Balagha

About Islamic History

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# Author Title Publisher
1 Ibn Ishaq, translated by A. Guillaume The Life of Muhammad Oxford University Press
2 Abdulaziz Sachedina The Just Ruler in Shi'ite Islam Oxford University Press
3 W. Montgomery Watt Free Will and Predestination in Early Islam Cambridge University Press
4 Roy Mottahedeh The Mantle of the Prophet Simon and Schuster
5 Noel J. Coulson A History of Islamic Law Edinburgh University Press

About Islam

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# Author Title Publisher
1 Albert Hourani Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age: 1798 – 1939 Cambridge University Press
2 Abdulaziz Sachedina Islamic Biomedical Ethics Oxford University Press
3 Leila Ahmed Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate Yale University Press
4 Muhammad Asad The Message of the Quran The Book Foundation
5 Fazlur Rahman Major Themes of the Quran University of Chicago Press

Other

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# Author Title Publisher
1 Zainab Salbi Between Two Worlds—Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam Gotham Books
2 Jimmy Carter Palestine: Peace not Apartheid Simon & Schuster

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