LibGuides: GU-Q: HIST 1109: Islamic World: Books

Finding Books

Library Catalog

Keyword Search - use when getting started and you only have broad concepts or terms

(Ex. islam and egypt or Islamic world)

Author or Title Search - use when you know the author or title of a book

(Ex. Tabari or Taʼrīkh al-rusul wa-al-mulūk)

Subject Search - use to find very specific results based on the subject words

(Ex. Women in Islam; or Islamic modernism.)

Call No. Search - use when you have a call number or want to view a call number range

(Ex. N6263.N4 M48 2012)

The library has an extensive collection of books, periodicals, videos and other materials in Arabic, all of which are listed in the library catalog. Check out this page, from Lauinger Library in Washington DC, to learn helpful strategies for identifying Arabic sources in the library.

Subject Heading can help you find books specifically focused on your topic.
Look at the examples below to get some idea of how they work.

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Subject Headings - Primary Sources

Early Sources on Middle East History, Geography and Travel by Irwin; Hiroyuki Mashita (Editor)
Call Number: DS38.3 .M88 2007
Publication Date: 2007
This is a collection of classic works from The Royal Asiatic Society, the main centre in Britain for scholarly work on Asia in the 19th century.
The History of Islam in Africa by Nehemia Levtzion (Editor); Randall L. Pouwels (Editor)
Call Number: BP64.A1 H62 2000
Publication Date: 2000
A detailed historic mapping of the cultural, political, geographic, and religious past of this significant presence on a continent-wide scale. This comprehensive work treats the historical development of the religion in each major region and examines its effects.
Islam in Hong Kong by Paul O'Connor
Call Number: DS731.M87 O36 2012
Publication Date: 2012-12-20
More than a quarter of a million Muslims live and work in Hong Kong. This book explores the lives of Muslims as ethnic and religious minorities in this postcolonial Chinese city. Drawing on interviews with Muslims of different origins, we get a detailed picture of daily life through topical chapters on language, space, religious education, daily prayers, maintaining a halal diet in a Chinese environment, racism, and other subjects.
Living in the Ottoman Realm by Christine Isom-Verhaaren (Editor); Kent F. Schull (Editor)
Call Number: DR486 .L58 2016
Publication Date: 2016
This title brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. It explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence and includes accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English translation for the first time.
Muslimism in Turkey and Beyond by Neslihan Cevik
Call Number: BP63.T8 C487 2016
Publication Date: 2015
Muslimism, a term identified by Neslihan Cevik in this book, refers to a new Islamic form in Turkey at the turn of the century. Muslimism neither rejects nor submits to modernity but actively engages it through Islamic categories and practices. Cevik conceptualizes "cultural sites of hybridity" in which people use Islam to shape their practice of modernity.
New Thinking in Islam by Katajun Amirpur
Call Number: JSTOR DDA (eBook)
Publication Date: 2015
Katajun Amirpur argues that the West's impression of Islam as a backward-looking faith, resistant to post-Enlightenment thinking, is misleading and--due to its effects on political discourse--damaging. Introducing readers to key thinkers and activists--such as Abu Zaid, a free-thinking Egyptian Qur'an scholar; Abdolkarim Soroush, an academic and former member of Khomeini's Cultural Revolution Committee; and Amina Wadud, an American feminist who was the first woman to lead the faithful in Friday Prayer--Amirpur reveals a powerful yet lesser-known tradition of inquiry and dissent within Islam, one that is committed to democracy and human rights.
Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context by M. Reza Pirbhai
Call Number: BP63.A37 P57 2009
Publication Date: 2009
This book presents and challenges staple perspectives with a comprehensive reinterpretation of doctrinal sources, literary expressions and colonial records spanning the period from the reign of the 'Great Mughals' to end of the 'British Raj' (1526-1947). The result is an alternative vision of this transformative period in South Asian history.
Women and Peace in the Islamic World by Yasmin Saikia; Chad Haines
Call Number: JZ5578 .W66 2015
Publication Date: 2014
How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Middle East? This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. Drawing upon original research from different parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, including Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan, the authors offer a refreshing new look at Muslim women as peacemakers.
Young Islam by Avi Max Spiegel
Call Number: BP173.7 .S72 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Drawing on extensive ethnographic researc, Avi Spiegel shows how Islamist movements are encountering opposition from an unexpected source-each other. In vivid and compelling detail, he describes the conflicts that arise as Islamist groups vie with one another for new recruits, and the unprecedented fragmentation that occurs as members wrangle over a shared urbanized base.