General Texts

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• A Manual of Hadith — Muhammad Ali — A systematic compilation of hadith organized by topic, with Arabic text references and scholarly commentary.
• Adab al-Nufus — Al-Muhasib — First English translation of al-Muḥāsibī's classical Islamic treatise on spiritual self-discipline, sincerity, and governance of the soul
• Christ in Islam — Robson — Islamic traditions about Jesus drawn from the Quran, hadith, and Muslim devotional literature.
• Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory — MacDonald — A comprehensive survey of Islamic intellectual history covering theology, law, and political theory.
• Hadith of Bukhari — The complete Sahih al-Bukhari hadith collection, the most authoritative compilation of the sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad.
• Islam — Williams — An anthology of key texts spanning the full spectrum of Islamic tradition, from theology and law to mysticism and philosophy.
• The Alchemy of Happiness — Al-Ghazali — Al-Ghazali's guide to happiness through self-knowledge, divine love, and the purification of the heart — eight chapters abridged from the Ihya Ulum al-Din, in Claud Field's 1910 translation
• The Confessions of Al-Ghazali — Al-Ghazali's spiritual autobiography — his descent into skepticism, his examination of theology, philosophy, and Sufism, and his embrace of mystical experience.
• The Gospel of Barnabas — A controversial text presenting an alternative account of the life and teachings of Jesus from an Islamic perspective.
• The Hanged Poems — Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry — The Mu'allaqat, the greatest pre-Islamic Arabic odes, originally displayed in the Kaaba at Mecca.
• The History of Philosophy in Islam — De Boer — A comprehensive survey of the flowering of Islamic philosophy from the eighth to the twelfth century.
• The Koran — Rodwell — The complete Quran in the chronological arrangement of J.M. Rodwell, with scholarly introduction and notes.
• The Meaning of the Glorious Quran — Pickthall — The complete Quran in the translation of Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, one of the most respected English renderings by a Muslim scholar.
• The Mishkat al-Anwar — al-Ghazali — Al-Ghazali's mystical commentary on the Light Verse of the Quran, exploring the nature of divine illumination.
• The Philosophy of Alfarabi — Hammond — A study of the Second Teacher of Islamic philosophy, the thinker who reconciled Plato and Aristotle with Islam.
• The Quran — Palmer (Sacred Books of the East) — The complete Quran in E.H. Palmer's translation from the Sacred Books of the East series, with introduction and scholarly notes.