Blake Michael's bibliography

ISLAM: SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIC SUGGESTIONS (2002 September 25) R. Blake Michael

English Renditions of Qur'an

Ali, Amhed, trans., Al-Qur'an (Princeton, 1988)
Arberry, Arthur J., trans., The Koran Interpreted (London, 1955)
Bell, Richard, trans. The Qur'an: Translated (Edinburgh, 1939)
Pickthall, Muhammad M., trans. The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (London, 1930)
Sell Michael, trans. & ed. Approaching the Qur'an (Ashland, OR, 1999).

Qur'anic Commentaries

Ayoub, Mahmoud, The Qur'an and Its Interpreters (Albany, 1984)
Balion, J.M.S., Modern Muslim Koran Interpretation (Leiden, 1968)
Gatje, Helmut, The Qur'an and Its Exegesis, (trans. Alford Welch, Oxford, 1996)
At-Tabari, Abu Jafar Muhammad B. Jarir, The Commentary on the Quran (trans. J. Cooper, London, 1987)

Modern Approaches to Islam

Boullata, Issa, ed., Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qur'an (Richmond, UK: 2000)
Cook, Michael, The Koran (Oxford, 2000)
Hawting, G.R. and A. Shareef, eds. Approaches to the Qur'an (London, 1993)
Al-Ku'l, Al-Sayyid Abu Al-Qasim Al-Musawi, The Prolegomena to the Qur'an (New York, 1998)
Rippin, A. The Qur'an: Formative Interpretation (Booksfield, VT, 2000)
Robinson, Neal, Discovering the Qur'an (London, 1996)

The Prophet Muhammed

Andrae, Tor, Muhammad: The Man and His Faith (trans. Theophil Menzel, London, 1936)
Armstrong, Karen, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet (London, 1991) - recommended
Guillame, A. (trans. and ed.), The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Isheq's Sirat Rasul Allah (London, 1955)
Kathir, Ibn, The Life of the Prophet (trans. Trevor Le Gassick, Reading, UK, 1999)
Lings, Martin, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earlier Sources (London, 1983)
Nasr, Sayyid Hossein, Muhammad, the Man of Allah (London, 1982)
Rodinson, Maxime, Mohammed (trans. Anne Carter, London, 1971)
Watt, W. Montgomery, Muhammad at Mecca (Oxford, 1953)
______, Muhammad at Medina (Oxford, 1956)
Zakaria, Rafiq, Muhammad and the Quran (London, 1991)

Islamic Fundamentalism

Appleby, R. Scott (ed.), Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (Chicago, 1997)
Armstrong, Karen, The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (London and NY, 2000)
Choueiri, Youssef M., Islamic Fundamentalism (London, 1990)
Lawrence, Bruce B., Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age (London and NY, 1990)
Marty, Martin E., and R. Scott Appleby (eds.), Fundamentalisms Observed (Chicago & London, 1991)
Mawdudi, Abud Ala, Jihad in Islam (Lahore, 1976)

Islam and Women

Ahmed, Lelia, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven and London, 1992)
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, and John L. Esposito, (eds.), Islam, Gender and Social Change (Oxford and NY, 1998)
Keddie, Nikki R. and Beth Baron (eds.), Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (New Haven and London, 1991)
Mernissi, Fatima, Women and Islam: An Historical and Theological Enquiry (trans. Mary Jo Lakehead, Oxford, 1991)
Stowasser, Barbara Freyer, Women in the Qur'an (New York, 1994)
Wadud-Muhsin, Amina, Qur'an and the Woman (Oxford, 1999)

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