The following list of religious / geopolitical books deals with various aspects of Islam and / or issues related to Islam / Muslims, the other monotheistic faiths (specifically Judaism and Christianity), and the world at large. The books listed are owned and / or reviewed by the webmaster and contributing associates. These readings were selected based on scholarship and intellectual / academic integrity. We encourage visitors to review commentaries on the suggested reading material based on their areas of interest (e.g., at Amazon.com and other well-known sites) before investing in or acquiring any of the following books.
| Books | Authors |
|---|---|
| The Message of the Quran | Muhammad Asad |
| The Principles of State and Government in Islam | Muhammad Asad |
| This Law of Ours and Other Essays | Muhammad Asad |
| Islam at the Crossroads | Muhammad Asad |
| Islam | Fazlur Rahman |
| Major Themes of the Quran | Fazlur Rahman |
| Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition | Fazlur Rahman |
| Coming to Terms with the Quran: A Volume in Honor of Professor Issa Boullata | Khaleel Mohammed and Andrew Rippin |
| No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam | Reza Aslan |
| The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists | Khaled M. Abou El Fadl |
| And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses | Khaled M. Abou El Fadl |
| Qur'an Liberation & Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective Of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression | Farid Esack |
| Interpreting the Qur'an: Towards a Contemporary Approach | Saeed Abdullah |
| Against Islamic Extremism: The Writings of Muhammad Sa'id al-'Ashmawy | Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban |
| Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im |
| Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and International Law | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im |
| Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought | Daniel W. Brown |
| Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law | Ignaz Goldziher, Andras Hamori, and Bernard Lewis |
| Western Muslims and the Future of Islam | Tariq Ramadan |
| Crescent Between Cross and Star: Muslims and the West after 9/11 | Iftikhar H. Malik |
| Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader | Sohail Inayatullah and Gail Boxwell |
| The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam | Muhammad Iqbal |
| The Religion of Islam | Maulana Muhammad Ali |
| Muhammad The Prophet | Maulana Muhammad Ali |
| The Early Caliphate | Maulana Muhammad Ali |
| "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an | Asma Barlas |
| Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective | Amina Wadud |
| The Veil And The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation Of Women's Rights In Islam | Fatima Mernissi |
| Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate | Leila Ahmed |
| The Crescent and the Pen: The Strange Journey of Taslima Nasreen | Hanifa Deen |
| Islam and the Discovery of Freedom | Rose Wilder Lane and Imad-Ad-Dean Ahmad |
| Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World | Akbar S. Ahmed |
| Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization | Akbar S. Ahmed |
| Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers | Mohammed Arkoun and Robert D. Lee |
| The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam | Taha Jabir Al-Alwani |
| Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence (The Usul of Islamic Fiqh) | Taha Jabir Al-Alwani |
| Issues in Contemporary Islamic Thought | Taha Jabir Al-Alwani |
| Islamic Thought: An Approach to Reform | Taha Jabir Al-Alwani |
| Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World | Edward W. Said |
| Peace and the Limits of War: Transcending Classical Conception of Jihad | Louay M. Safi |
| Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam | Jeffrey Lang |
| Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America | Jeffrey Lang |
| Losing My Religion: A Call For Help | Jeffrey Lang |
| Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources | Martin Lings |
| What Is the Origin of Man? | Maurice Bucaille |
| The Bible, The Qur'an and Science: The Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light of Modern Knowledge | Maurice Bucaille |
| The History of the Quranic Text, from Revelation to Compilation: A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments | Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami |
| Studies in Early Hadith Literature | Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami |
| Studies on the Origins and Uses of Islamic Hadith | G. H. A. Juynboll |
| The Sources of Islamic Law: Islamic Theories of Abrogation | John Burton |
| The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam | Yusuf Al Qaradawi |
| The Cross & The Crescent | Jerald F. Dirks |
| The Philosophy of the Kalam | Harry Austryn Wolfson |
| Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think | John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed |
| Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam | John L. Esposito |
| What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam | John L. Esposito |
| The Oxford History of Islam | John L. Esposito |
| Islam: The Straight Path | John L. Esposito |
| The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? | John L. Esposito |
| Islam and Democracy | John L. Esposito and John O. Voll |
| Islam: A Short History | Karen Armstrong |
| A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam | Karen Armstrong |
| The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions | Karen Armstrong |
| The Battle for God | Karen Armstrong |
| Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet | Karen Armstrong |
| Muhammad: A Prophet for our Time | Karen Armstrong |
| Holy War: The Crusades and their Impact on Today's World | Karen Armstrong |
| Islam: The Alternative | Murad Hofmann |
| Islam 2000 | Murad Hofmann |
| Why They Don't Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil | Mark LeVine |
| A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman's Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide | Mark D. Siljander |
| Muslim-Jewish Encounters: Intellectual Traditions and Modern Politics | Ronald L. Nettler and Suha Taji-Farouki |
| Abraham: Signs of Hope for Jews, Christians and Muslims | Ronald L. Nettler and Suha Taji-Farouki |
| The Invention Of The Jewish People | Shlomo Sand |
| The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire And Its Heritage | Arthur Koestler |
| Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid | Jimmy Carter |
| Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why | Bart D. Ehrman |
| The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love | John Shelby Spong |
| The Dark Side of Christian History | Helen Ellerbe |
| The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism | Regina M. Schwartz |
| The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East | Robert Fisk |
| Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture ... and Destruction of Planet Earth | Grace Halsell |
| Prophecy and Politics: Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War | Grace Halsell |
| Journey to Jerusalem | Grace Halsell |
| Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East - The Egyptian Experience | Caryle Murphy |
| Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA | Tim Weiner |
| State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration | James Risen |
| Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance | Noam Chomsky |
| The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future | Craig Unger |
| Satanic Purses: Money, Myth, and Misinformation in the War on Terror | R. T. Naylor |
| Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army | Jeremy Scahill |
| The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals | Jane Mayer |
| The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict | Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes |
| The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy | John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt |
| Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War | Michael Isikoff and David Corn |
| The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder | Vincent Bugliosi |
| Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone | Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
| Lawless World: The Whistle-Blowing Account of How Bush and Blair Are Taking the Law into Their Own Hands | Philippe Sands |
| The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (previously published as Standard Operating Procedure) | Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Alex Haley |