 | The Essential Koran
Buy used from: $0.01 A good introductory selection of Quranic suras in a clear translation.
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 | The Wisdom of the Prophet: The Sayings of Muhammad
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $3.10 A collection of ahadith by the same master translator.
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 | Deciphering the Signs of God: Phenomenological Approach to Islam by Annemarie Schimmel
Buy used from: $48.00 An excellent, very erudite and highly readable digest of Muslim lore
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 | Symbols of Islam by Tanja Al Hariri-Wendel
Buy used from: $0.78 A much-needed primer of Islamic symbology and mythology.
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 | The Vision of Islam (Visions of Reality. Understanding Religions) by Sachiko Murata
Buy new: $12.51 / Used from: $5.99 A general theological overlook of Islam.
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 | Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims by John Renard
Buy new: $21.46 / Used from: $9.44 An in-depth analysis of Islamic realities.
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 | Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $2.94 A sequel and companion to "Seven doors of Islam".
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 | Remembering God : Reflections on Islam by Charles Le Gai Eaton
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $8.99 A commonsense approach to Islam by a Western Sufi.
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 | The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad
Buy used from: $11.00 An account of a conversion to Islam by a Polish Jew.
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 | Struggling to Surrender: Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam by Jeffrey Lang
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.65 A conversion account and a lucid discussion of Islam by an American scientist.
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 | The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca by Michael Wolfe
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $3.00 A Jewish-American convert's experiences in Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
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 | Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Karen Armstrong
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.08 Arguably the best short introduction to Islam.
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 | Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $6.21 THE biography of the Prophet.
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 | Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong
Buy used from: $2.72 A more modern approach to the life of Muhammad, sometimes unnecessarily apologetic.
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 | Mystical Dimensions of Islam by Annemarie Schimmel
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $17.85 As all works of Annemarie Schimmel, monumental and beautifully written.
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 | The Illuminated Prayer: The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufis by Coleman Barks
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $5.99 A somewhat eclectic but spiritually moving discussion of as-salat.
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 | Ninety-Nine Names of Allah by Shems Friedlander
Buy used from: $16.13 An introduction to an important Islamic mystical practice.
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 | Forty Days by Michaela M Ozelsel
Buy used from: $9.52 A very important account of the khalva by a Western-trained woman scholar.
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 | Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Buy used from: $35.96 A book full of wonders and surprises. Not for the fundamentalists.
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 | The Unlimited Mercifier: The Spiritual Life and Thoughts of Ibn 'Arabi by Stephen Hirtenstein
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $7.18 A good biography of the Great Shaikh.
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 | Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn 'Arabi (Islamic Texts Society) by Claude Addas
Buy new: $35.95 / Used from: $25.10 Another excellent biography of Ibn-Arabi, the most influential mystic of Islam.
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 | Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi by W.M. Thackston Jr.
Buy new: $19.46 / Used from: $7.95 The real Rumi, unspoiled by the idiosyncracies of Coleman Barks.
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 | Revelations of the Unseen (Futuh al-Ghaib) by Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
Buy used from: $15.50 A very important text by a follower of Ibn-Arabi.
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 | Living and Dying with Grace: Counsels of Hadrat Ali by Thomas Cleary
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $4.93 Good advice from a Shi'a saint.
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 | The Taste of Hidden Things: Images of the Sufi Path by Sara Sviri PhD
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $4.80 By a modern Sufi woman, full of striking insights.
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