Islamic History & Civilisation

  • Lost Islamic History – Firas Alkhateeb
  • India in the Persianate Age — Richard Eaton
  • The Empire of the Great Mughals — Annemarie Schimmel
  • Islam: The Covenant Fulfilled — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
  • Medieval Arab Music and Musicians — Henry George Farmer
  • The Muqaddimah — Ibn Khaldun
  • The Story of the Moors in Spain — Stanley Lane-Poole
  • Muslim Spain and Portugal — Hugh Kennedy
  • Crusade and Jihad — William R. Polk
  • Napoleon’s Egypt — Juan Cole
  • The Ottoman Empire — Halil İnalcık
  • Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes — Tamim Ansary
  • A Living Islamic City: Fez — Titus Burckhardt
  • Islam in Transition — John Donohue & John Esposito (eds.)
  • Travellers in the Golden Realm — Fuat Sezgin / Al-Azami
  • Converting Persia — Rula Jurdi Abisaab
  • Inventing the Middle East — Guillermette Crouzet
  • Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define A Civilisation – Justin Marozzi
  • Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas — Sylviane Diouf
  • And Muhammad Is His Messenger — Annemarie Schimmel
  • Islam and Enlightenment — Ali Shah Zulfiqar
  • Islam and Romanticism — Jeffrey Einboden
  • Islam in Victorian Britain — Jamie Gilham
  • The Republic of Arabic Letters — Alexander Bevilacqua
  • The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment — Samar Attar
  • Slavery and Islam — Jonathan A.C. Brown
  • Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale – Lenn E. Goodman
  • Muslim Sicily (Italy): Encounters and Legacy – Nuha Alshaar
  • No God but God – Reza Aslan

Life of the Prophet Muhammad

  • And Muhammad is His Messenger – Annemarie Schimmel 
  • Muhammad – Martin Lings 
  • The Sirah of the Prophet – Yasir Qadhi 
  • The Mantle Adorned – Al Busiri 
  • Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires – Juan Cole 
  • Muhammad: Man of God – Seyyed Hossein Nasr 
  • Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction – Jonathan A. C.
  • The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad – Lesley Hazleton
  • Bilal — H.A.L. Craig

On Palestine

  • Blaming the Victims — Edward Said & Christopher Hitchens (eds.)
  • Covering Islam — Edward Said
  • From Oslo to Iraq — Edward Said
  • Fateful Triangle — Noam Chomsky
  • Eqbal Ahmad: Terrorism, Theirs and Ours — Eqbal Ahmad
  • The Holocast Industry – Norman Finkelstein
  • The Question of Palestine – Edward Said

Theology & Qur’an Studies

  • Al-Muwatta — Imam Malik
  • Peak of Eloquence — Imam Ali
  • The Message of the Qur’an — Muhammad Asad
  • The Study Quran — Seyyed Hossein Nasr (ed.)
  • The Qur’an — translated – M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
  • The Qur’an Beheld — Nuh Ha Mim Keller
  • The Jewels of the Qur’an — Al-Ghazali
  • The Niche of Lights — Al-Ghazali
  • The Book of Knowledge — Al-Ghazali
  • The Mysteries of the Prayer — Al-Ghazali
  • The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Worlds — Al-Ghazali
  • The Book of Assistance — Imam al-Haddad
  • The Lives of Man — Imam al-Haddad
  • The Divine Guide in Early Shi‘ism — Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
  • The Garden of the Hadith Scholars

Sufism & Mysticism

  • Sea Without Shore — Nuh Ha Mim Keller
  • Revelation of Mystery (Kashf al-Mahjub) — Ali Hujwiri
  • Fusūs al-Hikam (Bezels of Wisdom) — Ibn Arabi
  • The Tree of Being — Ibn Arabi
  • Sufis of Andalusia — Ibn Arabi
  • The Question for the Red Sulphur – Ibn Arabi
  • The Conference of the Birds — Attar
  • The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism — Henry Corbin
  • Mystical Dimensions of Islam — Annemarie Schimmel
  • Lings: A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century — Martin Lings
  • The Mantle Adorned — Imam al-Busiri, trans. Hamza Yusuf
  • The Hamziyya — Imam al-Busiri
  • Qasida Burda — Imam al-Busiri, trans. Abdal Hakim Murad
  • Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi — Sophia Rose Arjana
  • Breezes of the Elect — Umm al-Khayr
  • On the Horizons of Being — Michael Sugich
  • I Am Wind, You Are Fire — Annemarie Schimmel
  • The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism — Henry Corbin
  • My Soul is a Woman – The Feminine in Islam – Annemarie Schimmel
  • The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought – Sachiko Murata
  • Peak of Eloquence — Imam Ali
  • The Book of Assistance — Imam al-Haddad
  • The Lives of Man — Imam al-Haddad
  • The Divine Guide in Early Shi‘ism — Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
  • Caesarean Moon Births — Hamza Yusuf
  • On the Horizons of Being — Michael Sugich

Al-Ghazali Works

  • The Path to Sufism — Al-Ghazali
  • The Jewels of the Qur’an — Al-Ghazali
  • Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment — Al-Ghazali
  • The Niche of Lights — Al-Ghazali
  • Breaking the Two Desires — Al-Ghazali
  • Letter to a Disciple — Al-Ghazali
  • Vigilance and Self Examination — Al-Ghazali
  • Poverty and Abstinence — Al-Ghazali
  • The Book of Knowledge — Al-Ghazali
  • The Mysteries of the Prayer — Al-Ghazali
  • The Path of Worshippers to the Paradise of the Lord of the Worlds — Al-Ghazali
  • The Alchemy of Happiness – Al-Ghazali

Poetry & Literature

  • Tulip in the Desert — Mustansir Mir (on Iqbal)
  • The Glory of Iqbal — Ali Nadwi
  • Poems of Arab Andalusia — Cola Franzen
  • Face of Love — Dick Davis
  • Layli and Majnun — Nizami Ganjavi, translated. Dick Davis
  • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — trans. Juan Cole
  • Rumi: Gold — Haleh Liza Gafori
  • The Life and Work of Jalaluddin Rumi — Afzal Iqbal
  • I Am Wind, You Are Fire — Annemarie Schimmel
  • The Triumphal Sun – A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi – Annemarie Schimmel
  • Rumi’s World: The Life and Works of the Greatest Sufi Poet – Annemarie Schimmel
  • West-Eastern Divan — Goethe
  • The Muslim Jesus — Tarif Khalidi
  • The Lion House — Christopher de Bellaigue
  • Men in the Sun — Ghassan Kanafani
  • On Zionist Literature — Ghassan Kanafani
  • The Time Regulation Institute — Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar
  • Travelling Home — Abdal Hakim Murad

Colonialism, Politics & Critique

  • Discourse on Colonialism — Aimé Césaire
  • The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon
  • Dying Colonialism — Frantz Fanon
  • Inside the Battle of Algiers — Zohra Drif
  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa — Walter Rodney
  • Imagined Communities — Benedict Anderson
  • Notes on Nationalism — George Orwell
  • Men in the Sun — Ghassan Kanafani
  • On Zionist Literature — Ghassan Kanafani
  • Blaming the Victims — Edward Said & Christopher Hitchens (eds.)
  • Orientalism — Edward Said
  • Culture and Imperialism — Edward Said
  • Covering Islam — Edward Said
  • From Oslo to Iraq — Edward Said
  • Power, Politics, and Culture — Edward Said
  • Restating Orientalism — Daniel Martin Varisco
  • Understanding Power — Noam Chomsky
  • Fateful Triangle — Noam Chomsky
  • Eqbal Ahmad: Terrorism, Theirs and Ours — Eqbal Ahmad
  • Eqbal Ahmad: Selected Writings — Eqbal Ahmad
  • From the Ruins of Empire — Pankaj Mishra
  • The Shock Doctrine — Naomi Klein
  • The Invisible Doctrine — George Monbiot
  • The Crisis of the Modern World — René Guénon
  • Stealing from the Saracens — Diana Darke
  • Robert Fisk: The War for Civilisation — Robert Fis
  • Robert Fisk: The Age of the Warrior — Robert Fisk

Travel & Geography

  • The Road to Mecca — Muhammad Asad
  • Homecoming of the Heart — Muhammad Asad
  • Travels in Arabia — John Lewis Burckhardt
  • The Travels of Ibn al-Tayyib
  • The Travels of Ibn Jubayr — trans. Ronald Broadhurst
  • The Travels of Ibn Battuta — Ibn Battuta
  • Book of Travels — Nasir Khusraw
  • Travellers in the Golden Realm — Al-Azami
  • The Innocents Abroad — Mark Twain
  • Wind, Sand and Stars — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Aleppo: A History — Ross Burns
  • Damascus: A History — Ross Burns
  • The Monuments of Syria — Ross Burns
  • Muslim Sicily (Italy): Encounters and Legacy – Nuha Alshaar

Art, Architecture & Cities

  • Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain — Jerrilynn Dodds (ed.)
  • Moorish Spain — Richard Fletcher
  • The Story of the Moors in Spain — Stanley Lane-Poole
  • Stealing from the Saracens — Diana Darke
  • Music, Sound and Architecture in Islam — Michael Frishkopf & Federico Spinetti
  • A Living Islamic City: Fez (Fes) — Titus Burckhardt
  • The Age of Sinan — Gülru Necipoğlu
  • Aleppo: A History — Ross Burns
  • Damascus: A History — Ross Burns
  • The Monuments of Syria — Ross Burns
  • Muslim Sicily (Italy): Encounters and Legacy – Nuha Alshaar

Modern Thought & Science

  • King of the Castle — Gai Eaton
  • Islamic Science: An Illustrated Study — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
  • Caesarean Moon Births — Hamza Yusuf
  • Bombing Without Moonlight — Abdal Hakim Murad
  • Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life – Jorg Mathias Determann

For New Muslims

  • Being Muslim: A Practical Guide — Asad Tarsin
  • Islam: An Introduction – Annemarie Schimmel

Western Classics & Parallels

  • Paradise Lost — John Milton
  • The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Collected Essays — James Baldwin
  • The Innocents Abroad — Mark Twain
  • Wind, Sand and Stars — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry