Books on Islam, recommended by “On Faith” panelist John L. Esposito, professor of religion, international affairs and Islamic studies at Georgetown University. He also is founding director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Abou El Fadl, Khaled, ed. Islam and the Challenge of Democracy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Armstrong, Karen. The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. London and New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
------. Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993.
Bergen, Peter L. Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. New York: Free Press, 2001.
------. The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al-Qaeda's Leader. New York: Free Press, 2006.
Bloom, Jonathan, and Sheila Blair. Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002.
Bulliet, Richard W. “The Future of the Islamic Movement.” Foreign Affairs72, no. 5 (November/December 1993): 38-44.
Burgat, Francois. The Islamic Movement in North Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Burke, Jason. Al-Qaeda. London: I. B. Taurus, 2003.
Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Cole, David. Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism. New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.
Davis, Joyce. Martyrs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Diamond, Larry Jay, ed. Islam and Democracy in the Middle East. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Donohue, John J. and John L. Esposito. Islam in Transition: Muslim Rerspectives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Esposito, John L. Islam: The Straight Path. 3d rev ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
------.The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? 3d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
------, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
------, ed. The Oxford History of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
------, ed. Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform? Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1997.
------. Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Esposito, John L., and James Piscatori. “Democratization and Islam.” Middle East Journal 45, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 427
Esposito, John L., and John O. Voll. Makers of Contemporary Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Fakhry, Majid, trans. The Qura’n: A Modern English Version. Berkshire, U.K.: Garnet Publishing, 1996.
Fuller, Graham. The Future of Political Islam. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003.
Gerges, Fawaz A. Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006.
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, and John L. Esposito, eds. Islam, Gender, and Social Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Hunter, Shireen. The Future of Islam and the West: Clash of Civilizations or Peaceful Coexistence? Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.
Kandiyoti, Deniz. Women, Islam, and the State. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Kepel, Gilles. The War for Muslim Minds. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Lapidus, Ira M. A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Lewis, Bernard. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. New York: Random House, 2003.
------.What Went Wrong? New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Mahmood, Saba. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Mamdani, Mahmood. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. New York: Pantheon, 2004.
Milton-Edwards, Beverley. Contemporary Politics in the Middle East. Cambridge: Polity, 2006.
------. Islam and Violence in the Modern Era. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
------. Islamic Politics in Palestine. London; New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 1996 (1999).
Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza. The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future. New York: Norton, 2006.
Omid, Safi. Progressive Muslims: on Justice, Gender and Pluralism. Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.
Pape. Robert Anthony. Dying to Win: the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York: Random House, 2005.
Peters, F. E. Children of Abraham. 2d ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Peters, Rudolph. Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 1996.
Ramadan, Tariq. Western Muslims and the Future of Islam. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Richardson, Louise. The Roots of Terrorism. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Roy, Olivier. Globalised Islam. London: Hurst, 2004.
Sachedina, Abdulaziz. The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Said, Edward W. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
Salam
Sharabi, Hisham. “Modernity and Islamic Revival: The Critical Task of Arab Intellectuals.” Contention2, no. 1 (Fall 1992): 127
Voll, John O. Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World. 2d ed. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
Wadud, Amina. Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam. Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. New York: Knopf, 2006.
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