 | Islam and the West: The Making of an Image by Norman Daniel
Buy used from: $10.96 The most comprehensive historical study of the West's attitudes towards Islam. The author was a doctoral student of Montgomery Watt.
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 | Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of Essays by John Tolan
Buy used from: $45.49 Islam as the West's religious "Other." Tolan covers territory Daniel doesn't, like pre-Christian Roman views of the Arabs as wild barbarians. Tolan has done a fine job in editing this piece.
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 | Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong
Buy used from: $2.98 Armtrong retraces popular modern attitudes to Muhammad to earlier European ones. She attempts to see Muhammad through the eyes of Muslims.
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 | The Oxford Companion to the Bible (Oxford Companions)
Buy new: $51.60 / Used from: $2.28 Read the entry on "Ishmael" and learn about the biblical bias against Arabs, the descendents of Abraham who were cut off from the Promise. For Massignon, Islam was "the religion of Ishmael's tears."
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 | Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern
Buy used from: $88.30 A very brief summary account of what medieval writers had to say about Islamic beliefs and civilization.
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 | Saracens by John V. Tolan
Buy new: $31.00 / Used from: $11.73 Another look at medieval polemics against Arabs and Muslims.
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 | The Muslim Discovery of Europe by Bernard Lewis
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.79 Muslims had their own distorted views of Europe in the past. An enjoyable read by an important Orientalist.
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 | Orientalism by Edward W. Said
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.75 Contemporary studies of Islam are rooted in a conflictual past. Islam is constructed in the imagination of the Westerner in a way that tells us more about the viewer than the viewed. A must read.
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 | In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power by Daniel Pipes
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $4.73 A modern product of premodern prejudices. Find something -- anything -- positive about Islam here.
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 | The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy
Buy new: $25.38 / Used from: $9.79 The title speak for itself
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