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1	The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion more books like this by Robert Spencer add to wishlist New York Times" bestselling author and Islam expert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam--a portrait that is unbounded by fear and political correctness, unflinching, and willing to face the hard facts about Muhammads life that continue to affect the world today. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $7.55! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time more books like this by Karen Armstrong add to wishlist The "New York Times" bestselling author of "A History of God" and "The Battle for God" presents a fascinating portrait of the founder of a religion that has changed the course of world history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.59! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror more books like this by Bernard W Lewis (Read by) add to wishlist Based on Lewis's George Polk Award-winning article for "The New Yorker, Crisis of Islam" is a spectacular primer on the historical roots of anti-Americanism in the Islamic world. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to know where 9/11 came from, and how Americans can fight back. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.40! \| first editions \| SVS
4	No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam more books like this by Reza Aslan add to wishlist In this compelling--and profoundly hopeful--book, Aslan demonstrates that Islam has much in common with Christianity and Judaism, and bears seeds of egalitarianism and social reform at its core. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $7.44! \| signed copies \| SVS
5	The adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler of the fourteenth century more books like this by Ross E. Dunn add to wishlist Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three decades and took him not only eastward to India and ... see all copies from $3.38! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Islam: A Short History more books like this by Karen Armstrong add to wishlist In ISLAM: A SHORT HISTORY, the always erudite and engaging religion writer Karen Armstrong meets the needs of those who feel they are, for whatever reason, poorly informed or are just curious about one of the major world religions. As she did in her bestselling A HISTORY OF GOD, Armstrong presents Islam's basic history, key figures, and major ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Formation of Islam 1ed more books like this by Jonathan Berkey, Professor Patricia Crone (Editor) add to wishlist Jonathan Berkey's book surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from roughly 600 to 1800 CE. The opening chapter examines the religious scene in the Near East in late antiquity, and the religious traditions which preceded Islam. Subsequent chapters investigate Islam's first century and the beginnings of its own traditions, the ... see all copies from $10.97! new only from $13.52! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists more books like this by Khaledm Abou El Fadl add to wishlist This is a passionate defense of Islam against the encroaching tide of fundamentalists corrupting the true faith. In "The Great Theft", Khaled Abou El Fadl, one of the world's preeminent Islamic scholars argues that Islam is currently passing through a transformative moment no less dramatic than the movements that swept through Europe during the ... see all copies from $2.73! new only from $5.29! \| first editions
9	The Oxford History of Islam more books like this by John L Esposito (Editor) add to wishlist This lavishly illustrated book begins in the pre-Islamic world and details the birth, development, and growth of Islam through to the present. It is arranged both thematically and chronologically, tracing the growth of Islamic faith, laws science, art and philosophy through time and across the world, and discussing as well the spread of Islam ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $40.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror more books like this by Reza Aslan add to wishlist How does America win a Cosmic War--the war against Jihadism? By refusing to fight in one, according to Aslan, who maintains that the Jihadists have no earthly agenda because they are fighting a theological war. see all copies from $12.93! new only from $12.93! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Islamic Imperialism: A History more books like this by Professor Efraim Karsh add to wishlist From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So argues Efraim Karsh in this highly provocative book. Rejecting the conventional Western ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam more books like this by Prof. Gilles Kepel, Anthony Roberts (Translator) add to wishlist This history of the rise of fundamentalist Islam in the late 20th century focuses on its politics and ideology. The author, a French academic, evaluates the Islamist movement's success in attracting and keeping followers, and its somewhat less successful record in acquiring and keeping political power--resulting in a split into moderate and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.90! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Muqaddimah: an introduction to history more books like this by Ibn Khaldun, Franz Rosenthal add to wishlist The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and ... see all copies from $12.23! new only from $21.12! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda more books like this by Yaroslav Trofimov add to wishlist On November 20, 1979, hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islams holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Trofimov interviews for the first time scores of direct participants in the siege, including former terrorists, and draws on hundreds of once-classified documents. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.61! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam more books like this by Bernard W Lewis add to wishlist "No one writes about Muslim history with greater authority, or intelligence, or literary charm than Professor Bernard Lewis."--Sunday Times (London). The Assassins is a comprehensive, readable, and authoritative account of history's first terrorists. An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.38! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World more books like this by Jason Burke add to wishlist From one of the world's leading experts in modern Islamic militancy comes an intellectual and personal voyage through the Islamic world, the Muslim faith, and its perception throughout the world. A brilliant, fearless journalist who knows huge areas of the Islamic world intimately, Jason Burke now turns to the wider question of how we are to get ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity more books like this by Tariq Ali add to wishlist The aerial attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre, a global spectacle of unprecedented dimensions, generated an enormous volume of commentary. In this book, the editor of the New Left Review challenges the assumptions promulgated by the USA, arguing that what we have witnessed is the return of history in a horrific form. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization more books like this by Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr add to wishlist Explores the doctrines and beliefs of Islam, its practices and institutions, the history of the religion, schools of thought, its place in contemporary society, its relationship to other religions, and its spiritual significance. see all copies from $3.80! new only from $6.27! \| SVS
19 view cover	Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas more books like this by Sylviane A Diouf, Sylviane Kamara add to wishlist Many assume that what Muslim faith any West Africans took with them when transported to the Americas as slaves was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu. This book sets out to show that, in fact, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale. It presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas, and ... see all copies from $6.93! new only from $15.90! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City more books like this by Dore Gold (Read by) add to wishlist Radical Islam has long desired to seize Jerusalem and cut it off to Christian and Jewish believers. In his revealing new book, "The Fight for Jerusalem", bestselling author and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold explains why the battle for Jerusalem is intensifying today. Gold shows why only Israel can preserve its holy ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World more books like this by Justin Marozzi add to wishlist A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history's most extreme tyrants ever, and subject of Marlowe's play. Marozzi travelled in the footsteps of the great Mogul Emperor of Samarkland to write this wonderful book which is part history, part travelogue. The name of the last great ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.90! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power more books like this by Jonathan Bloom, Shelia S Blair, Sheila Blair add to wishlist In its first thousand years - from the revelations given to Muhammad in the 7th century to the great Islamic empires of the 16th - Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in such cities as Jerusalem, Damascus, Alexandria, Fez, Tunis, Cairo and Baghdad made remarkable advances in philosophy, science, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.67! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Islam After Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia more books like this by Adeeb Khalid add to wishlist Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history in this sophisticated analysis of the ways that Muslim societies in Central Asia have been transformed by the Soviet presence in the region. Arguing that the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world featured a sustained assault on Islam that destroyed patterns of ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $24.38! \| SVS
24 view cover	Islam-An Introduction: An Introduction more books like this by Professor Annemarie Schimmel add to wishlist For the general reader there are many profound insights of great consequence, for example, the passages on women, marriage, and inheritance, or the section on jihad, nearly always completely misunderstood in the press. see all copies from $3.57! new only from $11.87! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global more books like this by Fawaz A Gerges add to wishlist Fawaz Gerges' book on al Qaeda and the jihadist movement has become a classic in the field since it was published in 2005. In the intervening years, with the advance of the 'War on Terror' and the invasion of Iraq, much has changed and, just as Gerges showed, al Qaeda's fortunes have taken a significant downturn. Revisiting The Far Enemy in this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.30! \| first editions \| SVS

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