History

Afsaruddin, Asma.  First Muslims: History and Memory.  One World Publications, 2007.

Afsaruddin, Asma.  Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership.  Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.

Armstrong, Karen.  Islam: A Short History.  New York: Modern Library, 2000.

Bulliet, Richard W.  Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Crone, Patricia.  Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Dabashi, Hamid.  Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads.  New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publ., 1989.

Donohue, John and John L. Esposito.  Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2006.

Esposito, John L.  The Oxford History of Islam.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2000.

Ibn Khald_n (Franz Rosenthal, trans.).  The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, 3 Vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Keddie, Nikki R., ed.  Scholars, Saints and Sufis: Muslim Religious Institutions in the Middle East since 1500.   Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1972.

Maalouf, Amin. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. New York: Schocken, 1989.

Mottahedeh, Roy P.  Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Rahman, Fazlur.  Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition.  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Voll, John O.  Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1982.

Watt, William Montgomery.  Early Islam: Collected Articles.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.

---. The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972.

---. The Majesty that was Islam: The Islamic World, 661-1100.  London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.