Assisting the Muslim and non-Muslim communities of KW

Muslim Social Services

Information about Islam: A bibliography on Islam and Muslims

Reliable English translations of the Quran:

The Glorious Quran Mohammad M. Pickthall

The meaning of the Holy Quran Abdullah Yusuf Ali

 

Akbar S. Ahmed

             Islam Today: A short introduction to the Muslim World , 1999.

 

Haroon Siddiqui

             Being Muslim, 2006.

 

John Esposito

             Islam: The Straight Path, 2004.

             Unholy War: Terror in the name of Islam, 2003.

             The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality, 1999.

 

Karen Armstrong

             Islam: A short history, 2002.

             Muhammad: A Prophet of our time, 2006.

 

Anne Marie Schimmel

             Islam: An Introduction, 1992.

             Mystical Dimensions of Islam, 1978.

             And Muhammad is His Messenger: The veneration of the Prophet in Islamic piety, 1985.

             My Soul is a Woman: The feminine in Islam, 2002.

 

Paul Findley

             Silent No More: Confronting America’s false images of Islam, 2001.

 

Harun Yahya

             Islam Denounces Terrorism, 2002.

 

Tariq Ramadan

             Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, 2005.

             In the Footprints of the Prophet: Lessons from the life of Muhammad, 2007.

 

Sayed Qutb

             Islam and Universal Peace (English Translation), 1977.

 

Muhammad Asad

             The Principles of State and Government in Islam, 1961.

 

Al-Ghazali (translated by Muhtar Holland)

             Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship, 1983.

 

Muhammad Husayn Haykal (translated by Ismail Ragi Al-Faruqui)

             The Life of Muhammad, 1976.

 

Sachiko Murata

             The Tao of Islam: A sourcebook on gender relationships in Islamic Thought, 1992.

 

Sachiko Murata and Willam Chittick

             The Vision of Islam, 1996.

 

John Renard

             101 Questions and Answers on Islam, 2004.

 

Edward W. Said

             Covering Islam: How the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world, 1997.

 

Seyyed Hossain Nasr

             The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for humanity, 2004.

 

Donna Gehrke-White

             The Face Behind the Veil: The extraordinary lives of Muslim women in America, 2006.

 

Katherine Bullock

             Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging historical and modern stereotypes, 2002.

             Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves, 2005.

 

Amina Wudud

             Quran and Woman: Rereading the sacred text from a woman’s perspective, 1999.

 

Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John Esposito

             Islam, Gender, and Social Change, 1997.

 

Joey Green

             Jesus and Muhammad: The parallel sayings, 2003.

 

Jeffrey Lang

             Even Angels Ask: A journey to Islam in America, 1997.

 

Charles Le Gai Eaton

             Islam and the Destiny of Man

 

Basheer Ahmed

             Muslim Contributions to World Civilization, 2005.