History

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...

Elias Muhanna Paperback 9780691191454   Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest e...

Yohanan FriedmannHardback, 268 pages9780861543113   Expectation of a redeemer is a widespread phenomenon across many civilizations. Classical Islam...

Clifford Geertz Paperback, 144 pages 9780226285115   "In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay...

Daniella Talmon-Heller Paperback, 288 pages 9781474460972   Explores the construction of sanctity and its manifestations in the medieval Muslim Mid...

Christopher Tyerman Paperback, 184 pages  9780192806550   Contents 1. Definition and Scope 2. Sources and Perspectives 3. Holy War 4. Holy lands 5....

Abdul Wahab Waheed and Mustafa Rasheed Paperback 9781847741547   Every now and then some great people have come along to protect and revive Islam. ...

John Tolan Hardcover, 328 pages 9780691167060   In European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But th...

Muhammad Mojlum Khan Paperback 2021 Revised Edition 9781847741769   The Muslim 100 provides a highly readable, fascinating and equally inclusive ex...

Ira M. Lapidus Paperback, 1018 pages Third Edition 9780521732970   This new edition of one of the most widely used course books on Islamic civiliza...

Thomas Bauer Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall (translation) Paperback, 336 pages 9780231170659   In the Western imagination, Islamic cultur...

James L. Gelvin, Nile Green (eds.) Paperback 9780520275027   The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroad...

David Motadel (editor) Paperback, 328 pages 9780198754343   At the height of the imperial age, European powers ruled over most parts of the Islamic...

Tayeb El-Hibri Paperback, 360 pages 9781316634394   The period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258) has long been recognized as the formative period...

Matthew S. Gordon Hardback, 176 pages 9781851688098   Makers of the Muslim World   Ahmad ibn Tulun (835-884) governed Egypt on behalf of the Abbasi...

Mona Hassan Paperback 9780691183374   A Transregional History   This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims around the worl...

Hassan Abbas Hardback, 256 pages 9780300229455   Ali ibn Abi Talib is arguably the single most important spiritual and intellectual authority in Is...

Ira M. Lapidus Paperback, 788 pages 9780521732987   This book, based on fully revised and updated parts one and two of this monumental work,describ...

Ahmed Idrissi Alami Paperback, 272 pages 9781438447346   Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the ...