Bibliography & Bookstore: Introductions to Islam

• Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World
  Akbar Ahmed
• Islam for Dummies
  Malcolm Clark
• The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Understanding Islam
  Yahiya Emerick and Qasim Najar (Alpha Books, 2001).
• What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam
  John Esposito
• An Introduction to Islam
  Frank Mathewson Denny, 2nd ed.
• An Introduction to Islam
  Gerhard Endress (English trans. from German, 1994)
• The Venture of Islam
  Marshall G.S. Hodgson, 3 vol. (1974). An influential study of Islamic religion and civilization.
• Understanding Islam: An Introduction to the Muslim World
  Thomas W. Lippman, 3rd ed.
• The Muslim Almanac: A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture, and Peoples of Islam
  Azim A Nanji (ed.) (1996)
• A Popular Dictionary of Islam
  I.R. Netton (London: Curzon Press, 1997).
• Islam: A Very Short Introduction
  Malise Ruthvan
• Introduction to Islamic Civilization
  R.M. Savory (ed.), (1976). Collection of scholarly articles on Islamic history, religion, literature, language, and other topics.
• Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization
  Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• Islam
  Fazlur Rahman (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1979).
• Islam: An Introduction
  Annemarie Schimmel
• Islam: A Concise Introduction
  Huston Smith