Bibliography: Islam and Islamic Studies

The following bibliography was created and is maintained exclusively by me. It is not meant to be exhaustive and, instead, serves as a starting point for those unfamiliar with the Islamic religious tradition, reflecting texts that I feel are more accessible to larger audiences of scholars, practitioners, and laypeople alike. PDFs are provided only for extremely dated work or those already available to the public. Nonetheless, this bibliography may not be partially or fully reproduced without prior approval.

1. General Readings
2. Islam in the Americas
3. Islamophobia
4. Teaching Resources
5. Films Available Online
6. Relevant Academic Journals

• Ahmed, Leila. 1992. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• al-Fadli, 'Abd al-Hadi. 2011. Introduction to Hadith (2nd ed). Translated by Nazmina Virjee. London, UK: ICAS Press.
• Armstrong, Karen. 2000. Islam: A Short History. New York, NY: Random House Inc.
• ———. 2006. Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers LLC.
• Aslan, Reza. 2011. No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. New York, NY: Random House.
• Bonner, Michael. 2006. Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Brown, Daniel W. 2017. A New Introduction to Islam (3rd ed). Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• Calder, Norman, Jawid Mojaddedi, and Andrew Rippin (eds). 2012. Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature (2nd ed). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Esposito, John L. 2011. What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam (2nd ed). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Esposito, John L. and Dalia Mogahed. 2008. Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think. New York, NY: Gallup Press.
• Galadari, Abdulla. 2018. Quranic Hermeneutics: Between Science, History, and the Bible. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Ibrahim, Ayman S. 2020. A Concise Guide to the Quran: Answering Thirty Critical Questions. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
• Jackson, Sherman A. 2005. Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Masood-ul-Hasan, Syed and Ibrahim M. Kunna. 2019. 110 Hadith Qudsi. Darussalam International Publishing & Distribution.
• Mattson, Ingrid. 2013. The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life (2nd ed). West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Mughniyya, Muhammad Jawad. 1995-2021. The Five Schools of Islamic Law: Al-Hanafi, al-Hanbali, al-Ja'fari, al-Maliki, al-Shafi'i. Qum, Iran: Ansariyan Publications.
• Rahman, Fazlur. 2009. Major Themes of the Qur'an (2nd ed). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
• Reynolds, Gabriel Said. 2012. The Emergence of Islam: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
• Rippin, Andrew. 1988. Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the Qurʾān. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
• Saleh, Mahmoud Ismail. 2011. Dictionary of Islamic Words & Expressions. New York, NY: Darussalam.
• Salim, Ahmad Rashid. 2020. Islam Explained: A Short Introduction to History, Teachings, and Culture. Emeryville, CA: Rockridge Press.
• Sensoy, Özlem and Christopher Darius Stonebanks (eds). 2009. Muslim Voices in School: Narratives of Identity and Pluralism. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
• Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubayr. 1993. Hadith Literature: Its Origin, Development & Special Features. Cambridge, UK: The Islamic Texts Society.
• Wood, Simon A. and David Harrington Watt (eds). 2014. Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
• Yuksel, Edip, Layth Saleh al-Shaiban, and Martha Schulte-Nafeh. 2007. Quran: A Reformist Translation. Brainbow Press.
• Zanaty, Anwer Mahmoud. 2006. Glossary of Islamic Terms, English - Arabic.

• Ahsani, SAH. 1984. "Muslims in Latin America: A Survey -- Part I." Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, 5(2): 454-463.
• Akande, Habeeb. 2018. "Narratives of Conversion in Brazil: Why Black Brazilians Convert to Islam." Paper for Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar Symposium.
• Bowen, Patrick D. 2009. "Conversion to Islam in the United States: A Case Study in Denver, Colorado." Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies. 1(1): 41-64.
• ———. 2010. "Early U.S. Latina/o — African-American Muslim Connections: Paths to Conversion." The Muslim World, 100(4): 390-413.
• Bukele Kattán, Armando. 2010. El ABC del Islam. Salvador, El Salvador: Imprenta Nacional, Gobierno de el Salvador.
• Bukhari, Zahid H. et al. 2004. Muslims' Place in the American Public Square: Hope, Fears, and Aspirations. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
• Chitwood, Ken. 2017. "The Study of Islam and Muslim Communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas: the State of the Field." International Journal of Latin American Religions, 1(2): 57-76.
• Connell, Curtis C. 2004. Understanding Islam and Its Impact on Latin America. Research report, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
• Curtis IV, Edward E. (ed). 2002. Islam in Black America: Identity, Liberation, and Difference in African-American Islamic Thought. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
• ———. 2007. "Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War." American Quarterly, 59(3): 683-709.
• ———. 2017. The Practice of Islam in America: An Introduction. New York, NY: New York University Press.
• Dannin Robert. 2005. Black Pilgrimage to Islam, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Dirks, Jerald F. 2006. Muslims in American History: A Forgotten Legacy. Bethesda, MD: Amana Publications.
• Elfenbein, Caleb Iyer. 2021. Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us About America. New York, NY: New York University Press.
• Ernst, Carl W. 2013. Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance. New York, NY: Palgrave.
• Espinosa, Gastón, Harold Morales, and Juan Galvan. 2017. "Latino Muslims in the United States Reversion, Politics, and Islamidad." Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, 8(1): 1-48.
• Farrokh, Fred. 2014. Perceptions of Muslim Identity: A Case Study Among Muslim-Born Persons in Metro New York. Ph.D. Dissertation, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary.
• Fuentes, Velvet Rosemberg. 2012a. "La Influencia del Islam Político en América Latina en el Nuevo Siglo." Revista Convergencia Crítica, 1 (2): 167-186.
• ———. 2012b. "La Sociogeografía Latinoamericana del Islam en el Presente Siglo." Revista de Estudios de Asia y África. Asia y África Actuales XLVII, 147(1): 133-151.
• ———. 2016. "El Estudio del Islam en América Latina: Trabajos Académicos (1980-2010)." Península, 11(2): 123-141.
• Galvan, Juan (ed). 2017. Latino Muslims: Our Journeys to Islam. San Antonio, TX: Lulu.com.
• GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz. 2010. A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Gomez, Michael A. 2005. Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck (ed). 1991. The Muslims of America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck and Jane Idleman Smith. 1994. Muslim Communities in North America. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
• Hamann, Jennifer. 2008. Reverting to Islam in Seattle: American Women and an Emerging Muslim Identity. Undergraduate thesis, Seattle University
• Hammer, Juliane and Omid Safi (eds). 2013. The Cambridge Companion to American Islam. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Hilu da Rocha Pinto, Paulo Gabriel. 2011. "El Islam en Brasil: Elementos para una Antropología Histórica." Revista de Historia Internacional XII, 45: 3-21.
• Kettani, Houssain. 2010. "Muslim Population in the Americas: 1950-2020." International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, 1(2): 127-135.
• Karim, Jamillah A. 2007. "To Be Black, Female, and Muslim: A Candid Conversation about Race in the American Ummah." Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 26(2): 225-233.
• Lee, Victoria J. 2010. "The Mosque and Black Islam: Towards an Ethnographic Study of Islam in the Inner City." Ethnography, 11(1): 145-163.
• Lincoln, C. Eric. 1961. Black Muslims in America, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
• Londono, Stephanie. 2014. "Immigrant Latinas and their Shahadah in Miami." Commissioned Reports, Papers and Presentations, Florida International University, pp. 1-38.
• Martínez-Vázquez, Hjamil A. 2010. Latina/o y Musulmán: The Construction of Latina/o Identity among Latina/o Muslims in the United States. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.
• Mesa Delmonte, Luis. 2011. "Musulmanes en Cuba: Entre Necesidades Espirituales y Materiales." Revista de Historia Internacional XII, 45: 44-75.
• Montenegro, Silvia. 2021. "Experience of Muslims in Latin America." In Ronald Lukens-Bull and Mark Woodward (eds), Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives, pp. 217-235. Manhattan, NY: Springer.
• ———. 2022. "Sufi Western Islam: The Muslim Latin American Landscape." In Roberto Tottoli (ed), Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West, pp. 261-272. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Montenegro, Silvia y Fatiha Benlabbah (eds). 2013. Musulmanes en Brasil. Comunidades, Instituciones e Identidades. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de Rosario and the Institut des Études Hispano-Lusophones de la Université Mohammed V.
• Morales, Harold D. 2018. Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Narbona, María del Mar Logroño, Paulo G. Pinto, and John Tofik Karam (eds). 2015. Crescent Over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
• Nyang, Sulayman S. 1999. Islam in the United States of America. Chicago, IL: ABC International Group, Inc.
• Omanson, Lisa Gail. 2013. African-American and Arab American Muslim Communities in the Detroit Ummah. MA thesis, University of Iowa.
• Peek, Lori Ann. 2005. The Identity of Crisis: Muslim Americans after September 11. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado.
• Shahid, Hasan. 2010. Reconstructing Identity: A Study of New Muslims in São Paulo, Brazil. MA thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Shoaib, Mahwash et al. 2021. Muslim American Hyphenations: Cultural Production and Hybridity in the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY: Lexington Books.
• Sills, David M. and Kevin Baggett. 2011. "Islam in Latin America." Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, 15(2): 28-41.
• Spier, Troy E. 2022. "Islamophobia, Ideology, and Discourse Analysis in Ecuadorian Social Media." Lenguaje, 50(2): 322-357.
• Taboada, Hernán G.H. 2007. "Presencia Actual del Islam en América Latina." XXVI Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología. Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología, Guadalajara.
• ———. 2010. "El Islam en América Latina: del Siglo XX al XXI." Revistas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 15-34.
• United States Department of State. 2009. Being Muslim in America. Bureau of International Information Programs.
• Welborne, Bozena C. et al. 2018. The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

• Allen, Christopher. 2010. Islamophobia. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company.
• Awan, Imran and Irene Zempi. 2020. "A Working Definition of Islamophobia: A Briefing Paper."
• Bakali, Naved. 2016. Islamophobia: Understanding Anti-Muslim Racism through the Lived Experiences of Muslim Youth. Boston, MA: Sense Publishers.
• Beydoun, Khaled A. 2018. American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
• Conway, Gordan (ed). 1997. Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. London, UK: The Runnymede Trust.
• Elahi, Farah and Omar Khan. 2018. Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All. London, UK: The Runnymede Trust.
• Elfenbein, Caleb Iyer. 2021. Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us About America. New York, NY: New York University Press.
• Elsheikh, Elsadig and Basima Sisemore. 2021. Islamophobia through the Eyes of Muslims: Assessing Perceptions, Experiences, and Impacts. Berkeley, CA: Othering & Belonging Institute.
• Ernst, Carl W. 2013. Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance. New York, NY: Palgrave.
• Esposito, John L. 1999. The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Fekete, Liz. 2009. A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe. London, UK: Pluto Press.
• Green, Todd H. 2015. The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
• Hargreaves, Julian. 2016. Islamophobia: Reality or Myth? Ph.D. thesis, Lancaster University.
• Kazi, Nazia. 2018. Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018
• Kundnani, Arun. 2014. The Muslims Are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror. New York: Verso.
• Law, Ian, Amina Easat-Daas, and Salman Sayyid. 2018. Counter-Islamophobia Kit: Briefing Paper and Toolkit of Counter-Narratives to Islamophobia.
• Lean, Nathan. 2017. The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims. London, UK: Pluto Press.
• Liou, Daniel D. and Kelly D. Cutler. 2020. "Disrupting the Educational Contract of Islamophobia: Racialized Curricular Expectations of Muslims in Children's Literaturue." Race, Ethnicity and Education, 24(3): 1-21.
• Love, Erik. 2017. Islamophobia and Racism in America. New York, NY: New York University Press.
• Mir, Shabana and Loukia K. Sarroub. 2019. "Islamophobia in U.S. Education." In Irene Zempi and Imran Awan (eds), The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia, pp. 298-309. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Morgan, George and Scott Poynting (eds). 2012. Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company.
• Ramberg, Ingrid. 2005. Islamophobia and Its Consequences on Young People. Hungary: Council of Europe.
• Rana, Junaid. 2007. "The Story of Islamophobia." Souls, 9(2): 148-161.
• Shryock, Andrew (ed). 2010. Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Spier, Troy E. 2022. "Islamophobia, Ideology, and Discourse Analysis in Ecuadorian Social Media." Lenguaje, 50(2): 322-357.
• Zempi, Irene and Imran Awan. 2016. Islamophobia: Lived Experiences of Online and Offline Victimisation. Chicago, IL: Policy Press/The University of Chicago Press.
• ——— (eds). 2019. The Routledge International Handbook of Islamophobia. New York, NY: Routledge.

• Abbott, Lorraine and Steve Clarke. 2016. "Islam: Practices." London, UK: Hodder Education.
• ———. 2016. "Islam: Beliefs and Teachings." London, UK: Hodder Education.
• Alwani, Zainab. 2019. "Teaching Other Faiths About Islam." CrossCurrents, 69(1): 45-58.
• Aown, Najwa M. 2011. "A Place for Informal Learning in Teaching About Religion: The Story of an Experienced Non-Muslim Teacher and Her Learning About Islam." Teaching and Teacher Education, 27(8): 1255-1264.
• Berglund, Jenny. 2010. Teaching Islam: Islamic Religious Education in Sweden. New York, NY: Waxmann.
• Biesta, Gert, Farid Panjwani, and Lynn Revell. 2020. "Teaching About Islam: From Essentialism to Hermeneutics." In Gert Biesta and Patricia Hannam (eds), Religion and Education: The Forgotten Dimensions of Religious Education?, pp. 85-98. Boston, MA: Brill.
• Brooks, Sarah. 2019. "Teaching High School Students About Islam in a National Context of Islamophobia." The High School Journal, 102(2): 100-117.
• Chapman, Colin Gilbert. 1993. Teaching Christians About Islam: A Study in Methodology. MA thesis, University of Birmingham.
• Council on Islamic Education. 2007 [1995]. Teaching About Islam and Muslims in the Public School Classroom (3rd ed). Fountain Valley, CA.
• Crain-Welsby, Helen Margo. 2022. An Investigation of Non-Muslim Religious Educators' Attitudes, Perceptions and Experience in Relation to Teaching about Islam. Ph.D. dissertation, Charles Stuart University, Australia.
• Douglass, Susan L. 2001. "Building a Comfort Zone: Teacher Training and Standards-Based Education About Religion." Religion & Education, 28(1): 40-54.
• Elbih, Randa. 2015. "Teaching About Islam and Muslims While Countering Cultural Misrepresentations." The Social Studies, 106(3): 112-116.
• Ernst, Carl W. 2006. "Reading Strategies for Introducing the Qur'ān as Literature in an American Public University." Islamic Studies, 45(3): 333-344.
• Essa, Ahmed. "On Teaching About Islam." Social Studies Review, 42(1): 24-26.
• Franken, Leni and Bill Gent (eds). Islamic Religious Education in Europe: A Comparative Study. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Griffen, Lois. 1972. "Syllabus V: Islamic Literature in Translation." Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 6(2): 27-43.
• Haynes, Charles C. 2017 [2004]. A Teacher's Guide to Religion in the Public Schools. Washington, DC: Religious Freedom Center, Newseum Institute.
• Hossain, Kazi I. 2013. "Understanding Islam in the U.S. Classroom: A Guide for Elementary School Teachers." Multicultural Education, 20(2): 49-52.
• Hussain, Amir. 2005. "Teaching Inside-Out: On Teaching Islam." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 17(3): 248-263.
• Hussein, Ramona. 2009. Teaching About Religion: A Mixed Methods Study of Teachers' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Preparation, with a Focus on Islam and Muslims. Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Florida.
• Kelly, Nilufer. 2009. The Importance of Including Literature Written By and About Islamic Women into the High School English Curriculum. MA thesis, Stony Brook University.
• Kinloch, Nicolas. 2005. "A Need to Know: Islamic History and the School Curriculum." Teaching History, 120: 25-31.
• Law, Ian, Amina Easat-Daas, and Salman Sayyid. 2018. Counter-Islamophobia Kit: Briefing Paper and Toolkit of Counter-Narratives to Islamophobia.
• Liou, Daniel D. and Kelly D. Cutler. 2020. "Disrupting the Educational Contract of Islamophobia: Racialized Curricular Expectations of Muslims in Children's Literaturue." Race, Ethnicity and Education, 24(3): 1-21.
• Manjikian, Sevak. 2010. "Teaching Islamic Themes at the College Level." Counterpoints, 346: 309-320.
• Moore, James R. 2006a. "Teaching About Islam in Secondary Schools: Curricular and Pedagogical Considerations." Equity & Excellence in Education, 39(3): 279-286.
• ———. 2006b. "Islam in Social Studies Education: What We Should Teach Secondary Students and Why It Matters." The Social Studies, 97(4): 139-144.
• Moore, Diane L. 2007. "A Case Study: Teaching About Islam." In Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education, pp. 139-164. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Niyozov, Sarfaroz and Gary Pluim. 2009. "Teachers' Perspectives on the Education of Muslim Students: A Missing Voice in Muslim Education Research." Curriculum Inquiry, 39(5): 637-677.
• Phelps, Stephen. 2010. "Critical Literacy: Using Nonfiction to Learn About Islam." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 54(3): 190-198.
• Sensoy, Özlem and Christopher Darius Stonebanks (eds). 2009. Muslim Voices in School: Narratives of Identity and Pluralism. Boston, MA: Sense Publishing.
• Torres, Heidi J. 2019. "Beyond Hijabs and Ramadan: Teaching About Islam and Muslims in Elementary Classrooms." Social Studies Research and Practice, 14(2): 255-265.
• Thomas, Margaret O., and Kenneth J. Thomas. 2007. "Helping Christian Children to Learn About Islam: Teaching About Islam through Qur'anic Stories." Review & Expositor, 104(1): 97-110.
• Wheeler, Brannon M. 2003. Teaching Islam. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Zine, Jasmin. 2004. "Anti-Islamophobia Education as Transformative Pedadogy: Reflections from the Educational Front Lines." The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 21(3): 110-119.
• ———. 2006. "Unveiled Sentiments: Gendered Islamophobia and Experiences of Veiling among Muslim Girls in a Canadian Islamic School." Equity & Excellence in Education, 39(3): 239-252.

Inside Islam	Inside Islam: The Untold Story
Islam in America	Islam in America
Koran by Heart	La Caravana de los Manuscritos de Al Ándalus, Parte 1
La Caravana de los Manuscritos de Al Ándalus, Parte 2	Science and Islam: Establishing Islamic Knowledge
The Caliph, Part 1	The Caliph, Part 2
The Cultural Riches of Islam	The Life of Muhammad
The Messiah (بشارت منجی)	The Wonders of Islamic Art
When Art Meets Islam	When the Moors Ruled in Europe

Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law	Islamic Law and Society
Journal of Islamic Studies	Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies	Journal of Islamic Law and Culture
Journal of Islamic Law	Journal of Islamic Manuscripts
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs	Studia Islamica
The Muslim World