The Koran Interpreted, The Opening; The Fig; The Blood-Clot; Power;
The Clear Sign; Afternoon; The Clatterer; The Backbiter; Rivalry; The Elephant; Charity; Koraish
(Quraysh); Abundance; The Night Star; The Most High; The Greeks; Light; The Believers; Mary;
The Cow (v. 1-70; 180-185 on Ramadan); The Star (v. 1-15); and The Throne Verse (2:255)
2. Al-Kisa'i (fl. 1200 CE)
The Tales of the Prophets, "Jesus son of Mary"
3. Ibn Ishaq (d. 768 CE) and Ibn Hisham (d. 833 CE)
The Life of Muhammad, "Of the woman who offered herself in marriage to
Abdullah; What was said to Amina when she had conceived the Apostle; The birth of the Apostle
and his suckling; Amina dies and the Apostle lives with his grandfather; The Apostle of God
marries Khadija; The Prophet's mission; Khadija accepts Islam; The prescription of prayer; 'Ali b.
Abu Talib; The Apostle's public preaching and the response; How the Apostle was treated by his
own people; The Night Journey and the Ascent to heaven; How God dealt with the mockers; The
death of Abu Talib and Khadija; The covenant between the Muslims and the Medinans and the
Jews; Brotherhood between the emigrants and the helpers; The call to prayer"
4. Ibn Sa'd (d. 844 CE)
Kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir, "Account of the change of Qiblah from
Jerusalem to the Ka'bah; Fasting in Ramadan; Account of the order of the Apostle of Allah, may
Allah bless him, to Abu Bakr to lead the people in prayers during his illness; Account of the
closing up the doors of the apartments opening into the mosque except that of Abu Bakr, may
Allah be pleased with him"
5. Al-Baladhuri (d. 892 CE)
Kitab futuh al-buldan (The Origins of the Islamic State), "The Conquest
of Syria; The battle of Ajnadain; Palestine; The conquest of Egypt and al-Maghrib"
6. John, Bishop of Nikiu (fl. 692 CE)
The Chronicle (A Coptic Christian bishop's perspective on the conquest of
Egypt)
7. Oleg Grabar
The Formation of Islamic Art, "The Symbolic Appropriation of the Land"
and "Islamic Attitudes toward the Arts"
8. Al-Tabari (d. 923 CE)
"The Death of 'Uthman," Ziyad b. Abihi (r. 661-680) "Inagural Speech," Hasan al-Basri (d. 728),
Letter to 'Umar II, from McNeill/Waldman,
The Islamic World
9. F.E. Peters
A Reader on Classical Islam, "'Ali and the Imamate; Shi'ism; A juridical
portrait of the sunni caliph"
10. Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406 CE)
The Muqaddimah, "On dynasties, royal authority, government ranks, and
all that goes with these things"
11. Al-Shafi'i (d. 820 CE)
Al-Risalah fi usul al-fiqh (Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic
Jurisprudence)
12. 'Attar (d. ca. 1230 CE)
Tadhkirat al-awliya' (Muslim Saints and Mystics), Hasan of Basra;
Rabe'a (Rabi'ah); Abu Yazid al-Bestami; al-Jonaid (al-Junayd); al-Hallaj; Ebrahim al-Khauwas
(Ibrahim al-Khawwas); al-Shebli (al-Shibli)
13. Al-Jahiz (d. 868 CE )
The Life and Works of Jahiz, "The createdness of the Koran; Drink and
the Drinker; Passionate love; Superiority of the belly to the back"
14. A son writes to his father a
"Letter from Baghdad" (late 8th c. CE)
15. Nizam al-Mulk (d. 1092 CE)
The Art of Muslim Kingship
16. Al-Ghazali (d. 1111 CE)
Deliverance from Error
17. David S. Powers
Studies in Qur'an and Hadith, On the authenticity of the hadith literature
in Western scholarship
18. Muhammad 'Ali
A Manual of Hadith, "Fasting"
19. Al-Misri (d. 1368 CE)
The Reliance of the Traveller, Book I, "Fasting"
20. Khalil b. Ishaq al-Jandi al-Maliki (d. 1374 CE)
The Mukhtasar, "A Manual of the Law of Marriage"
21. Al-Nawawi (d. 1277 CE)
Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam, "Sufism"
22. Al-Qushayri (d. 1072 CE)
Al- Risalah (Principles of Sufism), "Remembrance"
23. Najm al-Din Razi (d. 1256 CE)
The Path of God's Bondsmen from Origin to Return, "Concerning the
Need for zekr (dhikr)"
25. Al-Suhrawardi (d. 1168 CE)
A Sufi Rule for Novices
26. Rumi (d. 1273 CE)
Tales from the Masnavi
27. Bernard Lewis
The Jews of Islam, "The Judeo-Islamic Tradition"
28. Paul Fenton
The Treatise of the Pool, "Judaism and Sufism"
29. Guity Nashat and Judith Tucker
Restoring Women to History: Women in the Middle East and North
Africa
30. Nikki R. Keddie and Beth Baron, eds.
Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and
Gender, Keddie, "Introduction;" Leila Ahmed, "Early Islam and the Position of
Women: The Problem of Interpretation;" Jonathan P. Berkey, "Women and Islamic Education in
the Mamluk Period"