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Suggestions for Further Reading
Part One
Religion and Common Life in the Pre-Islamic Near East
General
Corrigan, John, Frederick M. Denny, Carlos M. N. Eire, and Martin S. Jaffee. Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1998.
Frankfort, Henri. Kingship and the Gods: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Religion As the Integration of Society and Nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.
Frankfort, Henri, H. A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson, Thorkild Jacobsen, and William A. Irwin. The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. (Absorbing and accessible surveys of the Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations.)
Gaster, Theodor H. Thespis: Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1966.
Hallo, William W., and W. Kelly Simpson. The Ancient Near East: A History, 2d ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1997.
Kramer, Samuel Noah, ed. Mythologies of the Ancient World. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1961.
Leeming, David. Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Pritchard, James B., ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. 3rd ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1969.
Mesopotamia
Heidel, Alexander. The Babylonian Genesis. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1976.
Kramer, Samuel Noah. Sumerian Mythology. New York: Harper & Row, 1961.
Oppenheim, A. Leo. Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
Egypt
Cùerny«, Jaroslav. Ancient Egyptian Religion. London: HutchinsonÕs University Library, 1952.
Frankfort, Henri. Ancient Egyptian Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948: Harper Torchbooks, 1961.
Morenz, Siegfried. Egyptian Religion. London: Methuen, 1973.
Shafer, Byron E., ed. Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Wilson, John A. The Culture of Ancient Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951. (Originally entitled The Burden of Egypt.)
The Ancient Israelites and Judaism
Baron, Salo W. Social and Religious History of the Jews. 16 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952 et seq.
Bright, John. A History of Israel 4th ed. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000.
Brueggemann, Walter. An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination. Louisville, KY.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.
Goitein, S. D. B. Jews and Arabs: Their Contacts Through the Ages. New York: Schocken, 1955.
ÑÑÑ. A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World As Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza. 5 vols. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967 et seq.
Neusner, Jacob. The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism. 7th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2003.
Newby, Gordon Darnell. A History of the Jews of Arabia: From Ancient Times to their Eclipse Under Islam. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
Christianity
Atiyah, Aziz Suryal. Eastern Christianity. London: Methuen, 1968.
Attwater, Donald. The Christian Churches of the East. 2 vols. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, 1947Ð1948.
Barrett, C. K. (ed.) The New Testament Background: Selected Documents. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1961.
Bettenson, Henry. ed. Documents of the Christian Church, 3d ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Browne, Laurence E. The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia: From the Time of Muhammad till the Fourteenth Century. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1933.
Crossan, John Dominic. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991.
Meeks, Wayne A. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983.
Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. Vol. 1, The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (to a.d. 600). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
Walker, Williston. History of the Christian Church. 4th ed. New York: ScribnerÕs, 1985.
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Allouche, Adel. ÒArabian Religions,Ó in The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 1, Mircea Eliade et al., editors. New York: Macmillan, 1987, pp. 363Ð367.
Arberry, A. J. The Seven Odes: The First Chapter in Arabic Literature. London: Allen & Unwin, 1957.
Bravmann, M. M. The Spiritual Background of Early Islam. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972.
Gabrielli, Francesco, ed. LÕantica societˆ beduina. Rome: Centro di Studi Semitici, Istituto di Studi Orientali, Universitˆ di Roma, 1959, especially the chapters by Walter Dostal, ÒThe Evolution of Bedouin Life,Ó and Joseph Henninger, ÒLa religion bedouine prŽislamique.Ó The latter article is now available in English translation in Merlin L. Swartz, ed. Studies on Islam. New York and Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 3Ð22.
Gibb, H. A. R. ÒPre-Islamic Monotheism in Arabia,Ó Harvard Theological Review 55 (1962): 269Ð280.
Goldziher, Ignaz. Muslim Studies [Muhammedanische Studien]. Translated by S. M. Stern and C. R. Barber. Chicago: Aldine, 1966. ÒMuruwwa and Dõøn,Ó vol. 1, pp. 11Ð44; ÒThe Arabic Tribes and Islam,Ó vol. 1, pp. 45Ð97; ÒWhat Is Meant by Ôal-JaøhiliyyaÕ,Ó vol. 1, pp. 201Ð208.
Hitti, Phillip K. History of the Arabs, 9th ed. New York: St. MartinÕs Press, 1967.
Ibn al-Kalbõø. The Book of Idols. Translated by Nabõøh Amõøn Faøris. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1952.
Levi della Vida, Giorgio. ÒPre-Islamic Arabia.Ó In The Arab Heritage, edited by Nabih A. Faris. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1944, pp. 25Ð57.
Lyall, Sir Charles. Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry. London: Williams and Norgate, 1930.
OÕLeary, DeLacy. Arabia Before Muhammad. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and TrŸbner, 1927.
Ringgren, Helmer. Studies in Arabian Fatalism. Uppsala: Lundequistska Bokhandeln, 1955.
Shahid, Irfan. ÒPre-Islamic Arabia.Ó In The Cambridge History of Islam, edited by P. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, and Bernard Lewis. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1970, vol. 1, pp. 3Ð29.
Smith, W. Robertson. Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia. London: A. and C. Black, 1903.
ÑÑÑ. The Religion of the Semites. New York: Meridian Books, 1956.
Stetkevych, Jaroslav. Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Wolf, Eric R. ÒThe Social Organization of Mecca and the Origins of Islam.Ó Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 7(1951): 329Ð356.
Part Two
The Coming of Islam: The Prophet, His People, and GodÕs Religion
Reference Works and General Introduction to Islamic Religion
Bibliographic Aids
Adams, Charles J., ed. ÒIslaøm.Ó In A ReaderÕs Guide to the Great Religions, edited by Charles J. Adams, 2d ed. New York: Free Press, 1977, pp. 407Ð475. (Thorough and with valuable annotations and discussions.)
Index of Islamic Literature. Supplement to the Muslim World Book Review. Leicester, U.K.: The Islamic Foundation, 1980Ð . (Covers materials in English only.)
The Muslim World Book Review. Leicester, U.K.: The Islamic Foundation, 1980Ð . (Scholarly reviews.)
Pearson, J. D., comp. Index Islamicus, 1906Ð1955: A Catalogue of Articles on Islamic Subjects in Periodicals and Other Collective Publications. Cambridge, England: W. Heffer, 1958. (This indispensable resource for the serious student of Islam has several supplemental volumes and will, one hopes, be continued indefinitely. Multilingual coverage.)
Sauvaget, Jean. Introduction to the History of the Muslim East: A Bibliographical Guide. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965. (Based on the second edition as recast by Claude Cahen.) (Of special value for the advanced student, because it covers original sources and their editions.)
Reference Works
Bacharach, Jere L. A Near East Studies Handbook, 570Ð1974. Rev. ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977.
Crim, Keith, ed. The Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions. Nashville: Abingdon, 1981. (Numerous articles on Islamic topics, including ritual.)
Encyclopaedia of Islam. New ed. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1954Ð . (A basic reference that covers all aspects of Islamic religion, history, culture, and literature. The articles are arranged according to their vernacular terms [for example, masdjid for Òmosque,Ó fik.h for ÒjurisprudenceÓ], so that the reader must expend some effort in order to use the work efficiently.
Encyclopaedia of the QurÕaøn. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, general. ed. 5 vols. Leiden-Boston-Kšln: Brill, 2001Ð . (Authoritative entries on a vast variety of topics by leading scholars.)
Faøruøqõø, IsmaøÔõøl al- and Lois Lamyaø al-Faøruøqõø. The Cultural Atlas of Islam. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
GlassŽ, Cyril. The New Encyclopadia of Islam. Lanham, Md.: Altamira Press, 2001. (An unusually comprehensive, authoritative and sympathetic guide. Much easier to use by the nonspecialist than the Encyclopaedia of Islam.)
Hughes, Thomas Patrick. A Dictionary of Islam. London: W. H. Allen, 1935. (Old, but contains many items lacking in the Encyclopaedia of Islam.)
Kennedy, Hugh, ed. An Historical Atlas of Islam. 2d, revised ed. Leiden Boston-Kšln: Brill, 2002.
Weekes, Richard V., ed. Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey. 2d ed., 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pre...