A preliminary reading list, suggested by Omid Safi
Intro to Islam textbooks:
1) Chittick, Vision of Islam
2) Islam and the Destiny of Man
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/088706163X/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_f/107-1900587-9711761
3) Fred Denny, An Introduction to Islam
4) Mecca the Blessed, Madina the Radiant
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/089381752X/ref=pd_sim_books/107-1900587-9711761
5) Early Islamic Mysticism
On Qur'an:
1) Approaching the Qur'an
2) Qur'an, Liberation, and Pluralism
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1851681213/ref=pd_sim_books/107-1900587-9711761
3) The Essential Koran:
4) The meaning of the Holy Qur'an
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0915957760/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/107-1900587-9711761
On Prophet Muhammad:
1) Martin Lings,
2) Karen Armstrong, Muhammad
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062508865/qid=1003522598/sr=2-2/107-1900587-9711761
3) Muhammad Man of God
4) And Muhammad Is his messenger
Islamic spirituality:
1) Way of Sufi Chivalry
2) Love is the wine
3) Essential Sufism
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006251475X/ref=pd_sim_books/107-1900587-9711761
4) Shambhala Guide to Sufism
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570621802/ref=pd_sim_books/107-1900587-9711761
5) Traveling the path of love
6) The Essential Rumi
7) The Heat of Sufism
Contemporary muslims;
1) On Being a Muslim
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1851681469/ref=pd_sim_books/107-1900587-9711761
2) Islam and World Peace
On Islam and Extremist movements:
1) Bruce Lawrence, Defenders of God
2) Mark Jeurgensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence.
3) Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, Vanguard of the Revolution
4) Bruce Lawrence, Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence.
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