Sample Sourcebooks and Introductions to Islam in English
Islamic Studies Reading Room, 602 Butler Library (Non-Circulating).
Compiled by Casey Primel and Kaoukab Chebaro, Columbia University Libraries.
(September 2009)

Arberry, A. J. (1964). Aspects of Islamic civilization, as depicted in the original texts. New York: A.S. Barnes.
Call No.: BP89 .Ar16

Black, A. (2001). The history of Islamic political thought: From the Prophet to the present. New York: Routledge.
Call No.: JC49 .B58 2001

Calder, N., Mojaddedi, J. A., & Rippin, A. (2003). Classical Islam: A sourcebook of religious literature. New York: Routledge. Calder, N., Mojaddedi, J. A., & Rippin, A. (2003). Classical Islam: A sourcebook of religious literature. New York: Routledge.
Call No.: BP89 .C56 2003

Eaton, R. M. (2003). India's Islamic traditions, 711-1750. Oxford in India readings. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Call No.: BP63.I4 I53 2002g

Endress, G. (1988). An introduction to Islam. New York: Columbia University Press.
Call No.: DS35.6 .E5313 1988

Gätje, H. (1996). The Qurān and its exegesis: Selected texts with classical and modern Muslim interpretations. Rockport, Me: Oneworld Publications.
Call No.: BP130.45 .G313 1996g

Goldziher, I., & Lewis, B. (1981). Introduction to Islamic theology and law. Modern classics in Near Eastern studies. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Call No.: BP161 .G5713

Jeffery, A. (1987). A reader on Islam. Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer.
Call No.: BP20 .R42 1987g

Lapidus, I. M. (1988). A history of Islamic societies. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press.
Call No.: DS35.63 .L37 1988

Lewis, B. (1993). Islam in history: Ideas, people, and events in the Middle East. Chicago: Open Court.
Call No.: BP52 .L46 1993

Maudoodi, S. A. . (1986). Towards understanding Islam. Jamaica, Queens, N.Y.: Islamic Circle of North America, 1986.
Call No.: BP161 .M46 1986g

Moaddel, M., & Talattof, K. (2002). Modernist and fundamentalist debates in Islam: A reader. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Call No.: BP163 .C64 2000

Nasr, S. H. (1981). Islamic life and thought. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Call No.: BP25 .N27 1981

Ostle, R. (2008). Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean: Self-expression in a Muslim culture from post-classical times to the present day. The Islamic Mediterranean, 7. London: I.B. Tauris.
Call No.: PJ809 .S46 2008g

Peters, F. E. (1994). A Reader on classical Islam. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Call No.: BP161.2 .R43 1994

Renard, J. (1996). Seven doors to Islam: Spirituality and the religious life of Muslims. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Call No.: BP161.2 .R47 1996

Renard, J. (1998). Windows on the house of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Call No.: BP161.2 .W57 1998

Smith, H. (2001). Islam: A concise introduction. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.
Call No.: BP161.2 .S57 2001

Watt, W. M. (1990). What is Islam? Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
Call No.: BP161.2 .W35 1990g