Armstrong, Karen, The Bible: The Biography (London & New York, 2007).
Cragg, Kenneth, The Event of the Qur’an (Oxford, 1971). Замечательная книга.
Cragg, Kenneth, Readings in the Qur’an (London, 1988).
Fishbane, Michael, The Garments of Torah: Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics (Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1989).
Fishbane, Michael, The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology (Cambridge, MA, 1998). Очень рекомендую обе книги Фишбейна.
Gatje, Helmut, The Qur’an and Its Exegesis (Berkeley, 1976). Holcomb, Justin S., ed., Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction (New York & London, 2006). Kraemer, David, The Mind of the Talmud: An Intellectual History of the Bavli (New York & Oxford, 1990). Schniedewind, William M., How the Bible Became a Book (Cambridge, 2004).
Sells, Michael, introduced & trans., Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations (Ashland, OR, 1999). Превосходное введение в Коран, хорошо рассказывающее о его поэтике. Распространяется вместе с CD, на котором записано чтение Корана.
Smalley, Beryl, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1941).
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, What Is Scripture? A Comparative Approach (London, 1993). Tabataba’i, Muhammad, Qur’an in Islam (London, 1988).
Забота обо всех
В течение десятого шага («Знайте») я рекомендовала упражнение, основанное на этом списке (хотя, конечно, некоторые читатели предпочтут сами рыться в литературе). Для тех, кого устрашает длина списка, я пометила звездочкой (*) книги, с которых, на мой взгляд, удобно начинать.
Abou El Fadl, with Tariq Ali, Milton Viorst, John Esposito etc., The Place of Tolerance in Islam (Boston, 2002).
Abu-Nimer, Mohammed, Nonviolence and Peace Building in Islam: Theory and Practice (Gainsville, FL, 2003).
Al-Ali, Naji, A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali (London & New York, 2009).
*Ahmed, Leila, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven & London, 1992).
*Ahmed, Leila, A Border Passage: From Cairo to America: Woman’s Journey (New York, 1999).
*Ahmed, Salman, with Robert Schroeder, Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution (New York, 2010). С введением Мелиссы Этридж.
Al-Azmeh, Aziz, Islam and Modernities, 3rd ed. (London & Brooklyn, 2005).
Ansari, Zafar Ishaq & John Esposito, eds., Muslims and the West: Encounter and Dialogue (Islamabad & Washington, DC, 2001).
Appleby, R. Scott, ed., Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (Chicago & London, 1997).
Appleby, R. Scott, The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (Lanham, MD, Boulder, CO, New York & Oxford, 2000).
Armstrong, Karen, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (London & New York, 1996).
* Armstrong, Karen, Islam: A Short History (London & New York, 2000).
Armstrong, Karen, The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (London & New York, 2000).
*Aslan, Reza, No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam (London & New York, 2005).
Aslan, Reza, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization and the End of the War on Terror (New York, 2009).
Avineri, Schlomo, The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (London, 1981).
Avishai, Bernard, The Tragedy of Zionism: Revolution and Democracy in the Land of Israel (New York, 1985).
*Bauman, Zygmunt, Modernity and the Holocaust (Ithaca, NY, 1989).
Boone, Kathleen C., The Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of Protestant Fundamentalism (London, 1990).
Choueiri, Youssef M., Islamic Fundamentalism (London, 1990).
Delong-Bas, Natana J., Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad (Oxford, 2004).
Djait, Hichem, Europe and Islam: Cultures and Modernity (Berkeley, 1985).
*Elon, Amos, The Israelis: Fathers and Sons, rev. ed. (London, 1984).
Esposito, John, ed., Voices of Resurgent Islam (New York & Oxford, 1983).
Esposito, John, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam (New York & Oxford, 2002).
*Esposito, John with Danglia Mogahed, Who Speaks for Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really Think, Based on the World’s Gallup Poll (New York, 2007).
Esposito, John, The Future of Islam (New York & Oxford, 2010).
Fischer, Michael J., Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution (Cambridge, MA & London, 1980).
Fisk, Robert, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (London, 1990).
Friedman, Robert J., Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel’s West Bank Settlement Movement (New York, 1992).
Gole, Nilufa, The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling (Ann Arbour, MI, 1996).
Gopin, Marc, Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking (Oxford & New York, 2000).
*Gopin, Marc, Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East (New York & Oxford, 2002).
Gorenberg, Gershom, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 (New York, 2006).
Heikal, Mohamed, Autumn of Fury: The Assassination of Sadat (London, 1984).
Hertzberg, Arthur, The Zionist Idea (New York, 1969).
Hilterman, Joost R., A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja (Cambridge, UK, 2007).
*Holmes, Jonathan, Fallujah: Eyewitness Testimony from Iraq’s Besieged City (London, 2007).
Hourani, Albert, Islam in European Thought (Cambridge, UK, 1991).
Hroub, Khaled, Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (Washington, DC, 2000).
*Karmi, Ghada, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (London & New York, 2002).
Karmi, Ghada, Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine (London & Ann Arbor, 2007).
Keddie, Nikki R., Roots of Revolution: An Interpretative History of Modern Iran (New Haven & London, 1981).
Keddie, Nikki R., Scholars, Saints and Sufis: Muslim Religious Institutions in the Middle East since 1500 (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1972).
Keddie, Nikki R., ed., Religion and Politics and Iran: Schism from Quietism to Revolution (New Haven & London, 1983).
Kepel, Gilles, The Prophet and Pharaoh: Muslim Extremism in Egypt, trans. Jon Rothschild (London, 1985).
*Keshavartz, Fatemeh, Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran (Chapel Hill, 2007).