Islamic Civilization

Interested in books about Islam, Islamic history, and Islam & politics? Dr. Jonathan Brown offers some book recommendations for you to consider while at home.

Reading List:

• The Message of the Qur’an by Muhammad Asad
• The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad
• The Venture of Islam by Marshall Hodgson
• On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton
• Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott
• Islam and Liberal Citizenship by Andrew F. March
• Islamic Revival in British India by Barbara Daly Metcalf
• Islamic Art and Spirituality by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlān
• The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades by Usama Ibn Munqidh
• The Travels of Ibn Jubayr Translated by Roland Broadhurst
• The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century by Ross E. Dunn
• Westward Bound: Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb by Mushirul Hasan Letters by Mary Wortley Montagu