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	Islam, A Short History  •  Karen Armstrong RELIGION •  2002 •  PAPER  • 230 PAGES A clear-headed, vivid survey of the history and impact of Islam from the birth of Muhammad to present day challenges. With timeline, glossary, biographies of major figures and bibliography. Armstrong brings authority and experience to the challenge. A member of the Association of Muslim Social Services in Jerusalem, she's a former Roman Catholic nun who teaches Judaism. (ISL15, $14.95)
	A Young Muslim's Guide to the Modern World  •  Seyyed Hossein Nasr RELIGION •  1994 •  PAPER  • 270 PAGES A clear, concise survey of Islamic religious, cultural and philosophical traditions by a leading scholar. Intended as a guide for Muslim youth, it's an excellent introduction to Islam for anyone with an interest in understanding the world from a Muslim point of view. (ISL14, $18.50)
	Islam, The Straight Path  •  John L. Esposito RELIGION •  2004 •  PAPER  • 286 PAGES A well-written survey of the faith, practice and beliefs of Islam. It's a balanced tome intended for an undergraduate audience, yet it also functions as an excellent overview for the general reader. (MDE22, $39.95)
	The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World  •  Francis Robinson RELIGION •  1999 •  PAPER  • 328 PAGES A concise history of Islam, its people, history and culture with contributions by eight scholars. Intended for the general reader, the lively text is accompanied by hundreds of color illustrations and excellent maps. (ISL09, $39.99)
	The Essential Koran, The Heart of Islam  •  Thoma Cleary RELIGION •  1994 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES Cleary chooses and annotates key passages of the Koran in this excellent introduction for non-Muslims. (REL57, $14.95)

	A History of God  •  Karen Armstrong   • RELIGION  •  A lucid and compelling history of God as conceived by Jews, Muslims, and Christians. (ISR24, $15.95)
	Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation  •  Ali Jamale Ahmed   • RELIGION  •  A handsome bilingual edition of the Holy Book of Islam as elegantly translated by the Pakistani novelist, critic and diplomat Ahmed Ali. (ISL02, $19.95)
	Among the Believers, An Islamic Journey  •  V.S. Naipaul   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A tenchant account set against the backdrop of Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran. (ISL17, $16.00)
	Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World  •  Edward W. Said   • HISTORY  •  An insightful, perceptive account of how the media has created an Islamic identity, by the influential scholar and thinker Edward Said. (ISL08, $14.95)
	Cultural Schizophrenia, Islamic Societies Confronting the West  •  Daryush Shayegan   • RELIGION  •  An illuminating account of the relationship between Islamic societies and the West (ISL38, $19.95)
	Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East  •  Donna Lee Bowen  •  Evelyn A. Early   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A diverse anthology of short articles and essays covering the experiences of ordinary life across the Miiddle East. (MDE34, $23.95)
	Following Muhammad, Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World  •  Carl W. Ernst   • HISTORY  •  An eloquent introduction to Islam for the general reader. Ernst illustrates the diversity of the faith, providing insight into its current debates about gender, politics and science. (ISL53, $17.95)
	God's Crucible, Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215  •  David Levering Lewis   • HISTORY  •  Lewis effortlessly interweaves the rise of Islamic empires into the fabric of early Europe in this sweeping, strikingly well written tale. (EUR283, $29.95)
	In the Footsteps of the Prophet, Lessons from the Life of Muhammad  •  Tariq Ramadan   • RELIGION  •  An admirably clear, brief account of the life of Muhammed by a respected scholar of Islam. (ISL68, $23.00)
	In the Shadow of the Prophet, The Struggle for the Soul of Islam  •  Milton Viorst   • HISTORY  •  A wideranging analysis based on interviews with key figures in Iran and the Arab world. (ISL18, $17.50)
	Introduction to Islam  •  Frederick Denny   • RELIGION  •  A very good introduction to Islam by an American scholar at the University of Colorado. Third edition. (ISL55, $70.80)
	Islam and Democracy, Fear of the Modern World  •  Fatima Mernissi   • HISTORY  •  A discussion of the Muslim world and the question of democracy. (ISL06, $17.50)
	Islam and the Muslim Community  •  Frederick Denny   • RELIGION  •  A very brief overview by an American scholar teaching at the University of Colorado of the practice of Islam and Muslim communities in the series Religious Traditions of the World. (ISL56, $13.95)
	Islam and the West  •  Bernard Lewis   • RELIGION  •  In this illuminating collection of essays, one of the great authorities on the Middle East explores the common ground shared by Islam and the West. (ARB12, $18.95)
	Islam, A Guide for Jews and Christians  •  F. E. Peters   • HISTORY  •  (REL25, $23.95)
	Islam, The View from the Edge  •  Richard Bulliet   • RELIGION  •  A revisionist history of the development of Islamic religious authority. (ISL34, $29.00)
	Islam: A Concise Introduction  •  Neal Robinson   • RELIGION  •  A brief introduction to Islam. (ISL32, $19.95)
	Islamic Art and Culture, A Visual History  •  Nasser D. Khalili   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An oversized volume examining 1,200 years of cultural and art history from all corners of the Islamic world. (ISL64, $65.00)
	Islamic Society in Practice  •  Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban   • RELIGION  •  An introduction to the influence of Islam on the structuring of Arab societies. (ISL12, $29.95)
	Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam  •  Gilles Kepel  •  Anthony Roberts   • RELIGION  •  A scholarly examination of the rise of militant Islamic extremism in the Middle East (ISL63, $19.50)
	Journey into Islam, The Crisis of Globalization  •  Akbar Ahmed   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Published by the Brookings Institution. (ISL70, $28.95)
	Muhammad, The Prophet for Our Time  •  Karen Armstrong   • RELIGION  •  In this extended essay, a volume in the Eminent Lives series, Armstrong looks at the significance of Mohammed's life and teachings. (ISL60, $21.95)
	Muslim Politics  •  Dale Eickelman  •  James Piscatori   • RELIGION  •  A succinct overview of politics, tradition, authority, religion and ethnicity in the contemporary Muslim world. (ISL36, $25.95)
	Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of Islamic Women  •  Geraldine Brooks   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A highly readable overview of the role of women in Islamic society, drawn from the author's many interviews with women throughout the Arab World. (ARB06, $14.95)
	No god but God, The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam  •  Reza Aslan   • RELIGION  •  Geared for a popular audience, this provocative book is both a call for reform and a history of early Muslim life and practice. (ISL50, $14.95)
	Postmodernism and Islam, Predicament and Promise  •  Akbar S. Ahmed   • RELIGION  •  A provocative analysis of contemporary Islam. (ISL33, $47.95)
	Price of Honor, Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World  •  Jan Goodwin   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A heart-breaking account based on interviews with women from all walks of life in 10 countries in the Middle East, Arabia and Central Asia. (ISL19, $16.00)
	Responses to 101 Questions on Islam  •  John Renard   • RELIGION  •  A brief overview of beliefs and customs of Islam. (ISL31, $12.95)
	Shattering the Myth, Islam Beyond Violence  •  Bruce Lawrence   • RELIGION  •  A provocative look at multi-faceted experiences of Islam. (ISL35, $27.95)
	The Crisis of Islam, Holy War and Unholy Terror  •  Bernard Lewis   • HISTORY  •  Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments of ttoday's Islamic world. (MDE158, $13.95)
	The Face Behind the Veil, The Extraordinary Lives of Muslim Women in America  •  Donna Gehrke-White   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Journalist Gehrke-White reveals the faces and voices of Muslim women who live in America, yet still shroud themselves in the veil their religion requires. What surfaces are not the stories of women determined by their faith, but women actively involved in their culture and the formation of a trans-continental identity. (ISL62, $22.95)
	The Great Arab Conquests, How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in  •  Hugh Kennedy   • HISTORY • FAVORITE  •  A scholarly history of the transformation of the world's religious and political landscape in the hundred years after the death of the Prophet. (MDE121, $27.95)
	The Heirs of Mohammad, Islam's First Century and the Origins of the Sunni-shia Split  •  Barnaby Rogerson   • RELIGION  •  Rogerson transports the reader back to the 7th-century in this gripping tale of the intrigue, politics and personalities surrounding the division of Islam into Shia and Sunni factions. (ISL65, $27.95)
	The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism  •  Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina   • HISTORY  •  An insightful examination of the Koran with an emphasis on pluralism, tolerance, ethics and the inherently democratic aspects of Islam. (ISL77, $25.00)
	The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?  •  John L. Esposito   • RELIGION  •  An insightful survey of Islam, its history and contemporary politics. (ISL03, $18.95)
	The Koran  •  N. J. Dawood   • RELIGION  •  The clear, fluent, authoritative English rendering of this holiest of Muslim texts preserves the characteristic flavor and rhythm of the original, following the sequence of the Koranic suras (ISL87, $12.00)
	The Koran, A Very Short Introduction  •  M. A. Cook   • HISTORY  •  One in series of pocket books, this lucid introduction by a Princeton professor illuminates the significance and diversity of interpretations of the Koran. (ISL69, $11.95)
	The Nature of Prejudice  •  Gordon W. Allport   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A pioneering social psychologist, Allport tackles the role of stereotyping, victimization, ethnic division, upbringing and group behavior with scholarship, anecdote and sparkling prose in the 25th anniversary edition of his classic. (GEN222, $25.00)
	Understanding Islam: An Introduction to the Muslim World  •  Thomas W. Lippman   • RELIGION  •  A concise introduction to the Muslim world and Islamic faith. (ISL04, $14.00)
	Unholy War, Terror in the Name of Islam  •  John Esposito   • RELIGION  •  A chronicle of the rise of extremist groups and anti-American feeling in Muslim society. (ISL22, $26.00)
	Who Speaks for Islam?, What a Billion Muslims Really Think  •  John Esposito  •  Dalia Mogahed   • HISTORY  •  Esposito and Mogahed draw on in-depth Gallup research to offer insight into what the Muslim world actually believes about key global issues. (ISL80, $22.95)
	Windows of the Soul, My Journeys in the Muslim World  •  Alexandra Avakian   • RELIGION  •  Prestigious photojournalist Avakian recounts in her own unforgettable images and words the experience of documenting the Muslim world. She covers the most notorious conflicts of our time, from violence in Gaza and Somalia, to the daily life of Hezbollah, to the famine in Sudan. (ISL75, $40.00)
	Women and Gender in Islam, Historical Roots of a Modern Debate  •  Leila Ahmed   • RELIGION  •  A history and analysis of the role of women in Islamic societies. (ISL37, $22.00)
	Formation of Islamic Art  •  Oleg Grabar   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A classic on the art and architecture of the Islamic World by a prominent authority. (ARB28, $30.00)
	Islamic Art and Architecture  •  Robert Hillenbrand   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Covering one thousand years and the geographic scope of Islam, this book is a wide-ranging guide to the arts of Islam, including architecture, calligraphy, ceramics, and textiles. (CAS17, $18.95)
	Islamic Arts  •  Jonathan Bloom  •  Sheila Blair   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A comprehensive survey of 1,000 years of Islamic architecture, design and decoration. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps and site plans. (ISL01, $24.95)
	Beyond Belief, Islamic Excursions Among the Converted People  •  V.S. Naipaul   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Revisiting his "Among the Believers", Naipaul returns to the Islamic nations of Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia and Iran. (ASA14, $15.00)
	In Morocco  •  Edith Wharton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A very enjoyable account of Wharton's month-long journey through Morocco just after World War I, including evocative portraits of Rabat, Fez and Marrakesh. (MRC02, $19.95)
	Muhammad  •  M. A. Cook   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Cook draws on traditional Muslim sources in this incisive account of Muhammad's life and teaching. (ISL79, $11.95)
	Muhammad, A Biography of the Prophet  •  Karen Armstrong   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The life of the Prophet in the context of seventh-century Arabia. (ARB09, $15.00)
	The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century  •  Ross E. Dunn   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A modern historian's account of Ibn Battuta's travels in the medieval Islamic world. When Battuta left his native Morocco in 1325, he intended a pilgrimage to Mecca; however his travels ultimately took him as far as Mali in the west and Malaysia in the east, stopping in China, the Middle East, and much of Africa along the way. (AFR103, $21.95)
	The Bin Ladens, An Arabian Family in the American Century  •  Steve Coll   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the best-selling Ghost Wars traces the Bin Laden family's rise to power and privilege, describes the diverse lifestyles of the generation to which Osama bin Laden belongs, and discusses their attempts to recover from the effects of September 11. (ARB104, $35.00)
	The Road to Mecca  •  Muhammad Asad   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The extraordinary account of how Leopold Weiss, born in Lvov in 1900, became a Muslim. A journalist, Asad writes of his travels, transformation and attachment to Islam and the Arab world. (ISL23, $17.95)
	The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction  •  Denys Johnson-Davies   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A sweeping and remarkably diverse collection of the work of 79 writers representing 14 countries. (ARB86, $15.95)
	Children of the Alley  •  Naguib Mahfouz   • LITERATURE  •  Providing great insight into a modern Muslim's view of the world, Mahfouz turns the history of an alley in Cairo into a rich parable, retelling the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. (EGY248, $14.95)
	Leo Africanus  •  Amin Maalouf   • LITERATURE  •  A fictional memoir of the first 40 years in the life of Leo Africanus, a Muslim whose travels led him throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. (MED55, $16.95)
	Shahnameh, The Persian Book of Kings  •  Abolqasem Ferdowsi  •  Azar Nafisi  •  Dick Davis   • LITERATURE  •  A sparkling new translation, in verse and prose, of the beloved 10th-century Persian epic. (MDE161, $25.00)
	The Adventures of Amir Hamza  •  Musharraf Ali Farooqi   • LITERATURE  •  A deft new translation of the rip-roaring tales of the storied life and fabulous exploits of the Prophet Mohammed's uncle Hamza and his heroic encounters with emperors, merchants, viziers, courtesans, warriors and magical beings. (IDA391, $25.00)
	The Conference of Birds  •  Farid-Ud-Din Attar   • LITERATURE  •  A classic example of mystic Sufi verse, stunningly translated into English. Attar's masterpiece has had tremendous influence on the West, and was adapted into a fine English poem by Chaucer in the late 14th century. (IRN12, $15.00)

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