Modern Classics on Islam

For the complete list of Modern Classics Click Here. [1st Draft – Published on 21st August, 2022; Updated: 03 November, 2022]

1. Hadith
   1. Misquoting Muhammad – Jonathan AC Brown
   2. Hadith – Muhammad’s Legacy – Jonathan AC Brown
   3. Hadith and Sunnah – Ideals and Realities
   4. Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of hadith Transmission – Recep Senturk
   5. Hadith Literature: Its Origin and Development – Muhamad Zubayr Siddiqi
   6. Studies in Early Hadith Literature – Mustapha Azami
   7. Hadith Methodology and Literature – Mustapha Azami
2. History
   1. After the Prophet Lezley Hazleton
   2. Islam – A Short History by Karen Armstron
   3. No God but God Reza Aslan
   4. Oxford History of Islam by John L Esposito
   5. Administrative and Cultural History of Islam – Muhammad Suhail
   6. Seeing Islam as Others Saw it by Robert Hoyland
   7. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology
   8. The Cambridge History of Islam
   9. History of Islam – Mubarakpuri
   10. The Early Caliphate – Muhammad Ali
   11. Muhammad and Charlemagne – Henri Pirenne
   12. The Venture of Islam – Hodgson
   13. The Majesty that was Islam: The Islamic World – Montgomery Watt
   14. Europe and the Mystique of Islam – Maxime Rodinson
   15. The Jews of Islam – Bernard Lewis
   16. Religion vs Religion – Ali Shariati
   17. When Christians First Met Muslims – A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam – Michael Philip Penn
3. Jurisprudence/Law
   1. Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence by Muhammad Bakir As Sadar
   2. Criminal Law of Islam – AQ Oudha Shaheed
   3. Philosophy of Islamic Law and the Orientalists – Muhammad Muslehuddin
   4. Development of Usul al Fiqh – MY Faruqi
   5. Muslim Society – Ali Hashmi
   6. Freedom of Religion in Shariah – Mahbubul Islam
   7. Introduction to Islamic Finance – Taqi Uthmani
   8. Lawful and Prohibited in Islam – Qardavi
   9. Theories of Islamic Law – Imran Ahsan Khan Niyazee
   10. Islamic Legal Theories: Introduction to Sunni Usul al fiqh – Wael Hallaq
   11. Juristic Differences and How to resolve them in Islamic State – Amin Ahsan Islahi
   12. Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence – Joseph Schaht
   13. On Schaht’s Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence – Mustafa al Azami
   14. Reliance of the Traveller – Ibn Naqib al Misri
   15. Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence – Muhammad Hashim Kamali
   16. Women Between Islam and Western Society – Wahiduddin Khan
   17. Women in Islamic Shariah – Wahiduddin Khan
   18. War and Jihad in Islam – Muhammad Farooq Khan
   19. The Islamic State – Taqiuddin an Nabhani
   20. Jihad in Classical and Medieval Islam – Rudolph Peters
4. Muhammad (saw)
   1. The First Muslim Lezley Hazleton
   2. Siratun Nabi – Shibli Naumani and SS Nadwi
   3. Muhammad – Prophet of Peace – Juan Cole
   4. Muhammad at Mecca Montgomry Watt
   5. Muhammad at Medina Montgomery Watt
   6. Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet – Karen Armstrong
   7. The Life of Muhammad – Haykal
   8. The Prophet’s Establishing a State and his Succession – Muhammad Hamidullah
   9. The Noble Life of Prophet – Ali Muhammad As Sallabee
   10. Muhammad in World Scriptures – Abdul Haq Vidhyarthi
   11. Muhammad – Martin Lings
   12. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
   13. Life and Work of the Prophet of Islam – Muhammad Hamidullah
   14. Faces of Muhammad – John V. Tolan
   15. Muhammad Reconsidered: A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy – Anna Bonta Moreland
   16. The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ishaq – A. Guiallaume
   17. Muhammad: Prophet for our Time – Karen Armstrong
   18. Muhammad, the Man of Allah – Hossein Nasr
   19. Muhammad – Maxime Rodinson
5. Quran
   1. AY Ali translation
   2. Marmaduke Pickthall Translation
   3. Arberry Translation
   4. Mariful Quran – Maulana Muhammad Shafi
   5. The Quran – Nicolai Sinai
   6. Tafsirul Quran – Abdul Majid Daryabadi
   7. The Message of Quran – Muhammad Asad
   8. Tadabbur e Quran – Amin Ahsan Islahi
   9. The Quran – A Biography – Bruce Lawrence
   10. Al Bayan – Javed Ahmed Ghamidi
   11. Aijazul Quran – Rafiq Ahmed
   12. An Approach to the Quranic Sciences – Taqi Uthmani
   13. A Study of Quranic Oaths – Hamidduddin Farahi
   14. Exordium to the Coherence of Quran – Hamuddiddin Farahi
   15. Fundamentals of Hadith Interpretation – Amin Ahsan Islahi
   16. The Quran – Abdel Haleem
   17. The Holy Quran: Translations of Selected Verses – Martin Kings
   18. Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān – Brill – 19 Volumes
   19. Collection and Arrangement of Quran – Maulana Muhammad Ali
   20. Divine Origin of Holy Quran – Mowlvi Mohammad Ali
   21. Sources of Islam – Tisdall
   22. The Purity of the Text of the Holy Quran – Mowlvi Mohammad Ali
6. Sects
   1. Split – Muhammad Ali
7. Spirituality/Sufism
   1. The Masterpiece of Sufism 7 Vols
   2. Emerald Hills of Heart – Gulen
   3. Women in Sufism – Camille Helminski
   4. Sufism and Theology – Ayman Shihadeh
   5. Love in the Holy Quran – HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
   6. Invocation of God – Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyya
   7. Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam – A.J. Arberry
   8. Islamic Spirituality – Hossein Nasr
   9. The Mystics of Islam – Reynold Nicholson
   10. The Prophetic Invocations – Mostafa al-Badawi
8. Contemporary Issues
   1. Jihad: Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia – R Ahmed
   2. Islam, Fundamentalism and Betrayal of Tradition – Joseph Lumbard
   3. Islam and Secularism – Muhammad Naqib al Atta
   4. Islam at Crossroads – Muhammad Asad
   5. The Tao of Islam: Gender Relationships – Sachiko Murata
   6. Muslim Marriage Guide – Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
   7. Bombing Without Moonlight – Abdal Hakim Murad
   8. Voices of Resurgent Islam – John Esposito
   9. Islam and Modernity – Fazlur Rahman
   10. What is to be Done – Ali Shariati
   11. Islam and Revolution – Ruhollah Khomeini
   12. The Economic Problem of Man and its Islamic Solution – Mawdudi
   13. Milestones – Syed Qutb
   14. Islam and Universal Peace – Syed Qutb
   15. Secularism Confronts Islam – Oliver Roy
   16. Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence – Bruce Lawrence
9. Art/Culture/Philosophy/Education
   1. Architecture of Mughal India – Cambridge
   2. Islamic Thought and Its Place in History – De Lacy O’Leary
   3. Islamic Art and Architecture – Thomas Arnold
   4. The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy – Mehdi Yazdi
   5. Muslim Thought and It’s achievements – M M Sharif
   6. A History of Muslim Philosophy – MM Sharif
   7. History of Islamic Philosophy – Seyyed Hossein Nasr
   8. The Quran and the Secular Mind – Shabbir Akhtar
   9. Philosophy in the Islamic World – Oxford Short Introduction
   10. Classification of Knowledge in Islam – Osman Bakar
   11. A History of Islamic Philosophy – Majid Fakhry
   12. History of Islamic Philosophy – Henri Corbin
   13. Free Will and Predestination in Early Islam – Montgomery Watt
   14. Islamic Philosophy and Theology – Montgomery Watt
   15. The Formative Period of Islamic Thought – Montgomery Watt
   16. God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason – John Walbridge
10. Others
    1. Submission, Faith and Beauty – Joseph Lambard
    2. A thinking person’s guide to Islam
    3. New Testament in Muslim Eyes – Shabbir Akhter
    4. Islam as a Political Religion – Shabbir Akhter
    5. A Faith for all seasons: islam and the challenge of the modern world – Shabir Akhtar
    6. The Emergence of Islam – Muhammad Hamiddullah
    7. The Vision of Islam – Chittick and Murata
    8. Who Speaks for Islam – What a Billion Muslims Really think – John Esposito
    9. Islam – A Comprehensive Introduction – Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
    10. No God but God – Reda Aslan
    11. Islam between East and West – Alija Izentbegovic
    12. Spread of Islam – Thomas Arnold
    13. Unveiling Islam – Roger Pasquier
    14. Islamic Faith and its Presentation – Amin Ahsan Islahi
    15. Islam – Source and Purpose of Knowledge – International Institute of Islamic Thought
    16. Knowledge Triumphant – Franz Rosenthal
    17. Muslims Most Civilised, Yet not Enough – Dr. Javed
    18. Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter: Studying the ‘Other’, Understanding the ‘Self’ – Basit Bilal Koshul
    19. Taking Back Islam – Michael Wolfe
    20. Islam and the West – Bernard Lewis
    21. Orientalism – Edward Said
    22. The Islamic World – A.R. Momin
    23. An Introduction to Shii Islam – M Momen
    24. Understanding Islam and Muslims – Tim Windter and John Williams
    25. Islam and Modernism – Mufti Taqi Uthmani
    26. Islam and Orientalism – Maryam Jameelah
    27. Islam vs West – Maryam Jameelah
    28. Islam and Peace – Wahidduddin Khan
    29. The Spirit of Islam – Ameer Ali
    30. Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam – Alana Iqbal
    31. Progressive Muslims – Saifi
    32. Islam and The Destiny of Man – Gai Eaton
    33. Introduction to Sociology: An Islamic perspective – AR Momin
    34. Sociology in Islamic Perespective – AR Momin
    35. The Religion of Islam – Maulana Muhammad Ali
    36. Ideals and Realities of Islam – Seyyed Hossein Nasr
    37. Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam – Ed. Sebastian Gunther
    38. The Devine Reality: God, Islam and the Mirage of Atheism – Hamza Andreas Tzortzis
    39. Islam, the Straight Path – John Esposito
    40. The Sociology of Islam – Ali Shariati
    41. This Religion of Islam – Syed Qutb

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