Scholars' Corner

Introduction to Islam
Selected Basic Bibliography

Carol Bier, 9 May 2002

Ali, Abdullah Yusuf, tr. The Holy Qur’an: Text,
    Translation, Commentary. Washington, D.C.:
    The Islamic Center, 1978. [Published in a variety
    of editions since; originally published 1934, Lahore].

Ali, Ahmed, tr. Al-Qur’an: A Contemporary Translation.
    Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Belt, Don. "In Focus: World of Islam," National
    Geographic, January 2002, pp. 76-85.

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. Islam: A Thousand
    Years of Faith and Power. New Haven: Nota Bene,
    Yale University Press, 2002.

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila Blair. Islamic Arts. Arts &
    Ideas. London: Phaidon, 1997.

Cook, Michael. The Koran: A Very Short Introduction.
    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

al-Faruqi, Isma’il R. and Lois Lamya al-Faruqi. The
    Cultural Atlas of Islam. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

Peters, F. E. Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity,
    and Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
    1982.

Robinson, Francis. Atlas of the Islamic World since 1500.
    Facts-on-File, NY, 1982.

Schimmel, Annemarie. Islam: An Introduction. Albany:
    State University of New York Press, 1992.

Understanding Islam and the Muslims. Published by the
    Department of Islamic Affairs, Embassy of the Islamic
    Republic of Saudi Arabia (n.d.).

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