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Islamic studiesThis page was last updated September 14th, 2024
Texts
Al-Ghazali
On the Duties of Brotherhood; trans. Muhtar Holland. (hb) £8.00
Jim Colville, trans.
Two Andalusian Philosophers: The Story of Hayy ibn Yaqzan, by Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Tufayl; & The Definitive Statement, by Abu’l Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd. (hb) £25.00
Timothy Freke
The Wisdom of the Sufi Sages. (hb) £4.50
Rev. J. M. Rodwell, trans.
The Koran: Rodwell’s Translation; Rev. G. Margoliouth, intro. (hb) £4.00
Reference
[Exhibition guide].
Islamic Art in Egypt 969-1517. (pb) £10.00
Godfrey Goodwin
Islamic Spain. (pb) £5.00
Martin Lings and Yasin Hamid Safadi
The Qur’an: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Qur’an Manuscripts (World of Islam Festival 1976). (pb) £6.50
Louis Mitler
Ottoman Turkish Writers: A Bibliographical Dictionary of Significant Figures in pre-Republican Turkish Literature. (pb) £6.00
Justin Wintle
The Rough Guide History of Islam. (pb) £3.00
Secondary sources
M. J. Akbar
The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam & Christianity. (hb) £6.00
Abdelwahab El-Affendi, ed.
About Muhammad: The Other Western Perspective on the Prophet of Islam, a short anthology. (pb) £4.50
Richard Fletcher
The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation. (hb) £8.50
Francesco Gabrieli
Muhammad and the Conquests of Islam. (pb) £8.00
John Bagot Glubb
The Great Arab Conquests. (hb) £12.00
Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
The Thoughtful Guide to Sufism. (pb) £4.00
Jean Jenkins and Poul Rovsing Olsen
Music and Musical Instruments in the World of Islam. (pb) £5.00
Bruce Lawrence
The Qur’an: A Biography. (pb) £4.00
Bernard Lewis
The Arabs in History; 4th edn. (pb) £5.00
Muriel Maufroy
Rumi’s Daughter. (hb) £6.00
Abdelwahab Meddeb
Islam and its Discontents. (hb) £6.00
Ebrahim Moosa
Ghazali and the Poetics of the Imagination. (hb) £9.00
Ian Richard Netton
Al‑Farabi and his School. (pb) £20.00
Muhammad A. Rauf
The Life and Teaching of the Prophet Muhammad. (pb) £10.00
David Talbot Rice
Islamic Art. (hb) £6.00
Andrew Rippin
Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices; 2nd edn. (pb) £6.00
Adam Sabra
Poverty and Charity in Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517. (hb) £30.00
Idries Shah
The Way of the Sufi. (hb) £10.00
Tim Stanley
Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Middle East. (pb) £9.50
Andrina Stiles
The Ottoman Empire, 1450-1700. (pb) £5.00
Christian W. Troll, ed.
Muslim Shrines in India: Their Character, History and Significance; 2nd edn. (hb) £15.00
W. Montgomery Watt
A History of Islamic Spain. (hb) £15.00
Books & journals containing related material
Journal of the Muhyiddin ibn ʾArabi Society
Kamil J. Asali, ed.
Jerusalem in History: 3000 BC to the Present Day; rev. edn. (pb) £7.00
Gavin Baddeley and Paul Woods
God’s Assassins: The Medieval Roots of Terrorism. (pb) £5.00
Warwick Ball
Out of Arabia: Phoenicians, Arabs and the Discovery of Europe. (pb) £8.00
Edward Burman
The World Before Columbus, 1100-1492. (hb) £6.00
Lluís Casals, photographer
The Alhambra of Granada; text by Félix Bayón. (pb) £3.50
Marilyn J. Chiat and Kathryn L. Reyerson, eds.
The Medieval Mediterranean: Cross-Cultural Contacts [festchrift for Carl D. Sheppard]. (pb) £20.00
Stanley Chodorow, MacGregor Knox, Conrad Schirokauer, Joseph R. Strayer, Hans W. Gatzke.
The Mainstream of Civilization to 1715, 5th edn. (pb) £6.00
Christopher Dawson
The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity, 400-1000 AD. (hb) £8.50
Henry George Farmer
Sa’adyah Gaon on the Influence of Music / Maimonides on Listening to Music / "Ghosts": An excursus on Arabic musical bibliographies. (hb) £50.00
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
1492: The Year Our World Began. (pb) £4.00
Ronald C. Finucane
Soldiers of Faith: Crusaders and Moslems at War. (hb) £6.00
John Freely
The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II — Conqueror of Constantinople, Master of an Empire and Lord of Two Seas. (hb) £10.00
Simon Goldhill
The Temple of Jerusalem. (hb) £5.00
The Temple of Jerusalem. (pb) £6.00
Georg Graf
Georg Graf: Christlicher Orient und schäbische Heimat Kleine Schriften, Anläßlich des 50; ed. Hubert Kaufhold. (2 vols., pb) £15.00
Michael Grant
Dawn of the Middle Ages. (hb) £6.00
Judith Herrin
The Formation of Christendom. (pb) £12.00
Andrew Hunter, ed.
Thornton and Tully’s Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors: A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in relation to the History of Science; 4th edn. (hb) £6.00
James Kirkman, ed.
City of San'a': Nomad and City Exhibition. (pb) £6.00
Malcolm C. Lyons
The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature: A Study of a Medieval Arab Hero. (hb) £35.00
Kathleen Norman
The Rise of Christian Europe AD 800 — AD 1100. (hb) £5.00
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study; photographs by Roland Michaud. (hb) £10.00
Umar ibn Muhammed al-Nefzawi
The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi; tr. Sir Richard Burton; intro. Alan Hull Walton. (hb) £2.00
B. M. Pande
Qutb Minar and its Monuments. (hb) £6.00
James Reston, Jr.
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade. (hb) £6.00
Susan Rose
Islam Versus Christendom: The Naval Dimension, 1000-1600. (pb) £4.50
Martin Tamcke
Christen in der islamischen Welt, von Mohammed bis zur Gegenwart. (pb) £5.00
Raleigh Trevelyan
Shades of the Alhambra. (hb, Folio Soc.) £3.00
Lesley Twomey, ed.
Faith and Fanaticism: Religious Fervour in Early Modern Spain. (hb) £6.00
Geert Jan van Gelder
Of Dishes and Discourse: Classical Arabic Literary Representations of Food. (hb) £20.00
Modern fiction & literature
Catherine Hermary-Vieille
The Grand Vizier of the Night. (pb) £10.00
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