Resources for Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World
The links provided below connect to resources discussed in Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (2nd edition, University of North Carolina Press, 2027).
Chapter 1. Islam in the Eyes of the West
- “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions: Nostra Aetate, proclaimed on October 28, 1965,”
- Jim Zwick, “Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898 —1935,” History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web
- Thomas P. Macaulay, “Macaulay’s Minute on Education”
- William Muir, The life of Mahomet and history of Islam to the era of the Hegira (1858)
- Report of the Runnymede Trust Commission, “Islamophobia: Still A Challenge For Us All”
- Robert Harris, “Evaluating Internet Research Sources”
Chapter 2. Approaching Islam in Terms of Religion
Chapter 3.The Sacred Sources of Islam
- Biography of Prophet Muhammad, by Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari.
- Toby Lester, “What is the Koran?” The Atlantic Monthly, January 1999.
- Kenneth L. Woodward, “In the Beginning, There Were the Holy Books,” Newsweek, February 11, 2002
- Constitution of Iran
Chapter 4.Ethics and Life in the World
- The clay pillow from Kerbala
- Muslim Philosophy
- Website of Dr. Abdul-Karim Soroush
- Film: Divorce Iranian Style, directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir Hosseini Juan Cole, review of Bernard Lewis’s What Went Wrong, in Global Dialogue 4, no. 4 (Autumn 2002)
- George Saliba,“Whose Science Is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe?”
- Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Historiography (New York, 2001), chapter 1
Chapter 5. Spirituality in Practice
- Institute of Ismaili Studies
- Dawood Bohras
- Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project
- The office of Iran’s supreme leader
- Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Islamic architecture, on the ArchNet website at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning
- Contemporary examples of Islamic architectural ornamentation (Bonner Design)
- Carl W. Ernst, “The Spirit of Islamic Calligraphy: Baba Shah Isfahani’s Adab al-mashq,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 112 (1992): 279–86
- Carl W. Ernst, “Sufism and the Art of Penmanship according to Siraj al-Shirazi’s Tuhfat al-Muhibbin (1454),” Journal of the American Oriental Society 129.3 (2009):431-441,
- Hollywood Harems, film produced and written by Tania Kamal Eldin (Women Make Movies, 1999
Chapter 6. Postscript: Reimagining Islam in the Twenty-first Century