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SUGGESTED READING FOR MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS
Compiled by Dr. Orville Boyd Jenkins

This bibliography includes sources referenced for original research in the years from 1973.  Some of these sources may no longer be available.

Abdul, M. O. A.  The Prophet of Islam:  Life, Sayings and Deeds.  Lagos:  Islamic Publications Bureau, 1975.

Abdulati, Hammudah.  Islam in Focus.  London:  The Islamic Cultural Centre, 1975.

Abd-ul-Masih.  Islam and Christianity.  Ibadan, Nigeria:  Daystar Press, 1967.

Abilla, Walter D.  The Black Muslims in America.  Nairobi:  East African Literature Bureau, 1977.

Ahmad, Hazrat Mirza Chulam.  The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam.  London:  The London Mosque, 1979.

Al-Tahtawi, Azat Ismail.  Muhammad Prophet of Islam in the Old Testament, Gospel and Holy Qur'an.  Banjul, Gambia:  No publisher, no date.

'Arabi, Ibn al.  The Bezels of Wisdom (trans. R. W. J. Austin).  New York:  Paulist Press, 1980.

Arberry, A. J.  Sufism:  An Account of the Mystics of Islam.  London:  Unwin Paperbacks, 1979.

Armstrong, Karen.  Islam:  A Short History.  London:  Phoenix Press (Orion), 2002.

Armstrong, Karen.  Muhammad:  A Biography of the Prophet.  NY:  HarperCollins, 1992.

Ateek, Naim Stifan.  Justice and Only Justice:  A Palestinian Theology of Liberation.  Maryknoll, NY:  Orbis Books, 1997.

Aziz-us-Samad, Ulfat.  Islam and Christianity.  Karach:  Begum Aisha Bawany Wakf, 1970.

Barrett, Paul M.  American Islam:  The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion.  NY:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Bell, Richard.  The Origin of Islam in its Christian Environment.  London:  Frank Cass and Company, 1968.

Burckhardt, Tritus, trans. D. M. Matheson.  An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine.  Lahore, Pakistan:  Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Press, 1973.

Coulson, N. J.  A History of Islamic Law.  Edinburgh:  Edinburgh University  Press, 1964.

De Bellaigue, Christopher.  In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs:  A Memoir of Iran.  London:  HarperCollins, 2004.

Deedat, Ahmed.  What the Bible Says about Muhammed.  Nairobi:  Islamic  Charitable Services, Ltd., no date.

Dretke, James P.  A Christian Approach to Muslims:  Reflections from West Africa.  Pasadena, California:  William Carey Library, 1979.

Duncan, David Douglas.  The World of Allah.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.

Farah, Caesar E.  Islam.  Hauppage, NY:  Barron's, 1994.

Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn.  Islamic Society in Practice.  Gainesville, Florida:  University of Florida Press, 1994.

Foster, Frank Hugh.  “Is Islam a Christian Heresy?” Muslim World, XXII:126-133.

Gibb, H. A. R. and J. H. Kramers, eds.  Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam.  Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 1953.

Glub, John Bagot.  A Short History of the Arab Peoples.  London:  Quartet Books, 1978.

Greenlee, David H, ed.  From the Straight Path to the Narrow Way.  Waynesboro, Georgia, USA and Milton Keynes, Bucks, UK:  Anchor, 2001.

Guillaume, Alfred.  Islam.  Harmondsworth, Middlesex:  Penguin Books, Ltd., 1973.

Harvey, Andrew.  The Teachings of Rumi.  NY:  Barnes and Noble, 1994.

Hayek, Michel.  Le Christ de L’Islam.  Paris:  Editions du Seuil, 1959.

Houtsma, M. YTh. Et alia, eds.  Encyclopédie de l’Islam.  Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 1934.

Hughes, Thomas P.  A Dictionary of Islam.  London:  W. H. Allen and Co., 1935.

Husain, Ed.  The Islamist.  London:  Penguin, 2007.

Al-Husayni, Ishaq Musa.  “Christ in the Qur’an and in the Modern Arabic World,” Muslim World, 50:297-302.

Ibrahim, Exxedin and Denys Johnson-Davies.  An-Nawawi's Forty Hadith.  Beirut, Lebanon:  Holy Koran Publishing House, 1979.

Kalute, Grace.  Christian and Muslim Women on Education, Marriage and Family Life.  Nairobi:  No publisher given, 1978.

Kateregga, Badhru D. and David Shenk.  Islam and Christianity:  A Muslim and Christian in Dialogue.  Nairobi:  Uzima Press, 1980.

Khan, Hazrat Inayat.  The Sufi Message of H. I. K.  London:  Barrie Books, 1960.

Khuri, Fuad I.  Imams and Emirs:  State, Religion and Sects in Islam.  London:  Saqi Books and Beirut:  University Publishing House, 1990.

Kinzer, Stephen.  Crescent and Star:  Turkey Between Two Worlds.  NY:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Laffin, John.  The Dagger of Islam.  London:  Sphere Books, Ltd., 1979.

Mansfield, Peter.  The Arabs.  London:  Penguin, 1992.

Marozzi, Justin.  Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World.  London:  Harper Perennial, 2004.

Massignon, Louis.  Akhbar Al-Hallaj.  Paris:  Librairie Philosophique, 1957.

Maududi, Abul A’la.  Towards Understanding Islam.  Nairobi:  The Islamic Founda­tion, 1973.  

McCurry, Don M., ed.  The Gospel and Islam.  Monrovia, California:  MARC, 1979.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.  Ideals and Realities of Islam.  London:  Unwin Paperbacks, 1979.

The Message of the Towrat, the Zabur and the Injil.  Beirut:  Bible Society of Lebanon, 1978.

Musk, Bill A.  Touching the Soul of Islam.  Crowborough, East Sussex, UK:  MARC, 1995.

Nicholson, R. A.  Rumi:  Poet and Mystic.  London:  Unwin Paperbacks, 1978.

O'Leary, De Lacy.  Arabic Thought and Its Place in History.  NY:  Dover Publications, 2003 (reissue of original 1939 edition by Routledge and Kegan Paul).

O’Shaughnessy, T.  The Development of the Meaning of Spirit in the Koran.  Rome:  Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1953.

Oufkir, Malika.  Freedom:  The Story of My Second Life.  NY:  Hyperion (Miramax), 2006.

Parrinder, Geoffrey.  Jesus in the Qur’an.  NY:  Mentor, 1953.

Parshall, Phil.  New Paths in Muslim Evangelism.  Grand Rapids, Michigan:  Baker Book House, 1980.

Parshall, Phil and Julie.  Lifting the Veil:  The World of Muslim Women.  Waynesboro, Georgia: Gabriel Pub, 2003.

Pickthall, Mohammed Marmaduke, trans.  The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (An Explanatory Translation).  NY:  Mentor, 1953.

Qutb, Muhammad.  Islam the Misunderstood Religion.  No place given:  International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations, 1974.

Qutb, Sayyid.  Milestones.  Salmiyah, Kuwait:  International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations, 1974.

Rahman, Fazlur.  Islam.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Rao, Bandi Sreenivasa.  Christ in the Qur'an and Bible (Was He Crucified?).  West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India:  1975.

Robson, J.  “Mohammedan Teaching about Jesus,” Muslim World, XXIX:37-54.

Rodwell, J. M., trans.  The Koran.  London:  J. M. Dent & Sons, 1909.

Safa, Reza F.  Inside Islam.  Lake Mary, Florida:  Charisma House, 1996.

Salman, Ahmad.  Rock and Roll Jihad:  A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution.  NY:  Free Press, 2010.

Sarker, Abraham.  Understand My Muslim People.  Newberg, Oregon:  Barclay Press, 2004.

Sheikh, Bilquis.  I Dared to Call Him Father.  Bromley, England:  STL Books, 1978.

Stade, Robert Charles.  Ninety-Nine Names of God in Islam.  Ibadan:  Daystar Press, 1970.  ("A translation of a major por­tion of Al-Ghazali's Al-Maqsad Al-­Asna.")

Thompson, W.  “Al-Hallaj, Saint and Martyr,” Muslim World, XIX:383-402.

Trimmingham, J. Spencer.  Christianity Among the Arabs in Pre-Islamic Times.  London:  Longman Group, Ltd., and Librairie du Liban, 1979.

Trimmingham, J. Spencer.  Islam in East Africa.  London:  Edinburgh University Press, 1962.

Watt, W. Montgomery.  Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Islamic Surveys 1.  Edinurgh Edinburgh University Press, 1961.

Watt, W. Montgomery.  Muhammad at Medina.  London:  Oxford University Press, 1956.

Wilson, J. Christy.  Introducing Islam.  NY:  Friendship Press, 1959.

Wysham, William.  “Jesus in the Poetry of Iran,” Muslim World, XLII:104-111.

This bibliography includes sources referenced for original research in the years from 1973.  Some of these sources may no longer be available.

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Compiled by Orville Boyd Jenkins


Posted on Thoughts and Resources 19 November 2007
Last updated 7 January 2013

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