Recommended Books for Islamic History Studies
A list of further reading into Islamic History
General Islamic History
The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam: 001 by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
002: The Venture of Islam, Volume 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
003: The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times (Venture of Islam Vol. 3) byMarshall G. S. Hodgson
The Cambridge History of Islam: by P. M. Holt (Editor), Ann K. S. Lambton(Editor), Bernard Lewis (Editor)
The Middle East: A History by William Ochsenwald
Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Karen Armstrong
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman.
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary.
The Holy Cities, The Pilgrimage and The World of Islam — Sultan Ghalib al-Quaiti
Lost Islamic History by Firas Alkhateeb
Islamic Societies to the Nineteenth Century: A Global History by Ira M. Lapidus(Author)
The Great Arab Conquests: How The Spread Of Islam Changed The World We Live In — by by Hugh Kennedy
The Oxford History of Islam by John L. Esposito
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History — ibn Khaldun (Princeton Classics)
Islamic Spain:
Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain by Matthew Carr
God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe 570–1215 by David Levering Lewis
Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 by L.P. Harvey
Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources edited by Olivia Constable
Muslim Spain and Portugal by Hugh Kennedy
A History of Islamic Spain by William Montgomery Watt
Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal
Islam in Africa & African American Muslims:
Black Pilgrimage to Islam by Robert Dannin
Ibn Battuta in Black Africa by Said Hamdun
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane Diouf
The History of Islam in Africa by Nehemia Levtzion
The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society800–1500 by Derek Nurse
The Crusades
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand (Islamic Surveys)
The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517. — P.M. Holt’s
The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam, and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace by Paul Moses
The Ottoman Empire:
Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire by Caroline Finkel
The First World War in the Middle East by Kristian Ulrichsen
The Grand Turk by John Freely
The Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition by Norman Itzkowitz
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300–1600 by Halil Inalcik
Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria (Studies in Middle Eastern History) by David Dean Commins
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
Miscellaneous:
Afghanistan: A Short History of its People and Politics by Martin Ewans
Invisible Nation: How the Kurds’ Quest for Statehood is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East by Quil Lawrence
Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiorre
The Jews of Islam by Bernard Lewis
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty by Hugh Kennedy
Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam by Akram Nadwi.
Orientalism by Edward Said
Islam and Secularism — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (Author)
Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World by Fatema Mernissi
The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham Ibn Abd Al-Malik and the Colla — Khaled Yahya Blankenship
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century — by Ross e Dunn
Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists by Michael H. Morgan
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam by Lesley Hazleton
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century — by Hugh Kennedy (Author)
The Great Seljuk Empire by A. C. S. Peacock
Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam (Brill Classics in Islam) Hardcover — November 29, 2006 by Franz Rosenthal(Author)
Mecca: From Before Genesis Until Now byMartin Lings
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
The Future of Islam by Wilfred Scawen Blunt
A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold A. Nicholson
The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe (The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys)by William Montgomery Watt
Islam in Britain, 1558–1685 by Nabil Matar
The Devil’s Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe byJames Chambers
