Emergence, Development and Evolution of Islamic Thought
Fazlur Rahman, Islam.
M.M. Sharif (ed.), A History of Muslim Philosophy (2 Vols)
Majid Fakhry, Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism: A Short Introduction.
Marshall G. S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam (3 vols.)
Syed Ameer Ali, The Spirit of Islam.
William Montgomery Watt, The Formative Period of Islamic Thought.
Classical Muslim Thinkers
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, The Book of Knowledge [Kitab al-‘ilm].
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam [Faysal al-tafriqa bayna al-Islam wa al-zandaqa].
Abu Nasr al-Farabi, On the Perfect State [Mabadi’ ara’ ahl al-madinat al-fadilah].
Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History.
Ibn Miskwayh, The Refinement of Character [Tahdhib al-akhlaq].
Ibn Rushd, On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy [Kitab fasl al-maqal].
Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan.
Ya’qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, On First Philosophy [Fi al-falsafah al-ula].
Modern Qur’anic Exegesis and Hermeneutics
Abdullah Saeed, Approaches to the Qur’an in Contemporary Indonesia.
Amina Wadud, Qur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective.
Farid Esack, Qur’an, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity against Oppression.
Fazlur Rahman, Major Themes of the Qur’an.
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Rethinking the Qur’an: Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics.
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, The Second Message of Islam.
Suha Taji-Farouki, Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur’an.
Contemporary Islamic Thought and Thinkers
Abdolkarim Soroush, Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush.
Charles Kurzman (ed.), Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook.
Fazlur Rahman, Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition.
Hassan Hanafi, Islam in the Modern World, 2 vols.
John J. Donohue and John L. Esposito (eds.), Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives.
Mehran Kamrava (ed.), The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity, A Reader.
Mohamed A. Mahmoud, A Critical Examination of the Thought of Mahmud Muhammad Taha.
Mohammed Arkoun, Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers.
Nasr Abu Zayd, Reformation of Islamic Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis.
Nurcholish Madjid, The True Face of Islam: Essays on Islam and Modernity in Indonesia.
Tariq Ramadan, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam.
Contemporary Theology in Islam
Abdulaziz Sachedina, The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism.
Asghar Ali Engineer, Islam and Liberation Theology: Essays on Liberative Elements in Islam.
Harun Nasution, Teologi Islam: Aliran-Aliran, Sejarah, Analisa, Perbandingan.
Muhammad ‘Abduh, The Theology of Unity [Risalat al-Tauhid].
Contemporary Approaches to Shari’ah, Islamic Law and Jurisprudence
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and International Law.
Khaled Abou El Fadl, Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women.
Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence.
Wael Hallaq, The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law.
Contemporary Arab-Islamic Intellectual History
Albert Hourani, Arab Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939.
Ibrahim M. Abu Rabi’, Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History.
Leonard Binder, Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Development Ideologies.
Gender Studies
Asghar Ali Engineer, The Rights of Women in Islam.
Asma Barlas, “Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an.
Fatima Mernissi, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam.
Kecia Ali, Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith and Jurisprudence.
Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate.
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran.
Science and Philosophy in Muslim World
C. A. Qadir, Philosophy and Science in the Islamic World.
Majid Fakhry, A History of Islamic Philosophy.
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality.
Mohammed ‘Abed al-Jabri, Arab-Islamic Philosophy: A Contemporary Critique.
Economic and Development Issues in Muslim World
Maxime Rodinson, Islam and Capitalism.
Ozay Mehmet, Islamic Identity and Development: Studies of the Islamic Periphery.
Timur Kuran, Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism.
Religious Resurgence in Malay World
Chandra Muzaffar, Islamic Resurgence in Malaysia.
Zainah Anwar, Islamic Revivalism in Malaysia: Dakwah Among the Students.
Judith Nagata, The Reflowering of Malaysian Islam: Modern Religious Radicals and their Roots.
Hussein Mutalib, Islam and Ethnicity in Malay Politics.
Religious Fundamentalism and Political Islam
Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Who Needs an Islamic State?
Asghar Ali Engineer, The State in Islam: Nature and Scope.
Bassam Tibi, The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder.
Dale F. Eickelman and James P. Piscatori, Muslim Politics.
Fouad Zakaria, Myth and Reality in the Contemporary Islamist Movement.
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam.
Nazih Ayubi, Political Islam: Religion and Politics in the Arab World.
Olivier Roy, The Failure of Political Islam.
Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah.
Youssef M. Choueiri, Islamic Fundamentalism.
