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Prestige, G. L., God in Patristic Thought (London, 1952). Particularly helpful on the technical Greek terms.

Williams, Rowan, Arius, Heresy and Tradition (London, 1987).

Andrae, Tor, Mohammed, the Man and his Faith (trans. Theophil Menzel, London, 1936). Some of this is outdated, but there are useful insights.

Armstrong, Karen, Muhammad, a Biography of the Prophet (London, 1991, and San Francisco, 1992).

Gimaret, Daniel, Les Noms Divins en Islam: Exégèse Lexicographique et Thé ologique (Paris, 1988).

Hodgson, Marshall G. S., The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilisation, 3 vols. (Chicago and London, 1974).

Far more than a history of Islam: Hodgson sets the development of the tradition in a universal context. Essential reading.

Jafri, H. M., Origins and Early Development of Shia Islam (London, 1981).

Lings, Martin, Muhammad, His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (London, 1983).

Khan, Muhammad Zafrulla, Islam, Its Meaning for Modern Man (London, 1962).

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.An inspiring Iranian scholar. Highly recommended.

Ideals and Realities of Islam (London, 1971).

Islamic Spirituality, 2 vols. I: Foundation (London and New York, 1987 ).

II: Manifestations (London and New York, 1991).

Rahman, Fazlur, Islam (Chicago, 1979). Perhaps the best one-volume study.

Rodinson, Maxime, Mohammad (trans. Anne Carter, London, 1971). A secularist interpretation by a Marxist scholar.

Ruthven, Malise, Islam and the World (London, 1984).

Von Grunebaum, G. E., Classical Islam, A History (600–1258) (trans. Katherine Watson, London, 1970).

Watt, W. Montgomery.Useful books by a prolific author:

Muhammad at Mecca (Oxford, 1953).

Muhammad at Medina (Oxford, 1956).

Islam and the Integration of Society (London, 1961).

Muhammad’s Mecca: History and the Quran (Edinburgh, 1988).

Wensinck, A. J., The Muslim Creed, Its Genesis and Historical Development (Cambridge, 1932). A fascinating work of scholarship.

Al-Farabi, Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (trans. and introduced by Muhsin Mahdi, Glencoe, III., 1962). An excellent presentation of the Faylasufs’ position.

Corbin, Henri, Histoire de la philosophie islamique (Paris, 1964).

Fakhry, Majid, A History of Islamic Philosophy (New York and London, 1970). A scholarly and readable account to the present day which includes theological developments.

Gilson, Etienne, The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy (London, 1936).

Guttmann, Julius, Philosophies of Judaism; The History of Jewish Philosophy from Biblical Times to Franz Rosenzweig (London and New York, 1964). Essential reading.

Husik, I., A History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Philadelphia, 1940).

Leaman, Oliver, An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy (Cambridge, 1985).

McCarthie, Richard, The Theology of al-Ashari (Beirut, 1953).

Meyendorff, John, Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality (New York, 1974).

Morewedge, P. (ed.), Islamic Philosophical Theology (New York, 1979).

(ed.) Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism (New York, 1981).

The Metaphysics of Avicenna (London, 1973).

Netton, I. R., Muslim Neoplatonists, An Introduction to the Thought of the Brethren of Purity (Edinburgh, 1991).

Pegis, Anton G., At the Origins of the Thomistic Notion of Man (New York, 1963). A brilliant study of the Augustinian roots of Western scholasticism.

Pelikan, Jaroslav, The Christian Tradition, A History of the Development of Doctrine, 5 vols.

II: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600–1700), (Chicago and London, 1974).

III: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600–1300), (Chicago and London, 1978).

Rosenthal, F., Knowledge Triumphant, The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam (Leiden, 1970).

Sharif, M. M., A History of Muslim Philosophy (Wiesbaden, 1963). Uneven but good on ar-Razi and al-Farabi.

Von Grunebaum, G. E., Medieval Islam (Chicago, 1946).

Watt, W. Montgomery, The Formative Period of Islamic Thought (Edinburgh, 1973).

Free Will and Predestination in Early Islam (London, 1948).

Muslim Intellectual: The Struggle and Achievement of Al-Ghazzali (Edinburgh, 1963).

Affifi, A. E., The Mystical Philosophy of Ibnu ’l-Arabi (Cambridge, 1938).

Arberry, A. J., Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam (London, 1950).

Bakhtiar, L., Sufi Expression of the Mystic Quest (London, 1979).

Bension, Ariel, The Zohar in Muslim and Christian Spain (London, 1932).

Blumenthal, David, Understanding Jewish Mysticism (New York, 1978).

Butler, Dom Cuthbert, Western Mysticism, The Teaching of Saints Augustine, Gregory and Bernard on Contemplation and the Contemplative Life, Neglected Chapters in the History of Religion (2nd ed., London, 1927).

Chittick, William C., The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (Albany, 1983).

Corbin, Henri.Three highly recommended books:

Avicenna and the Visionary Recital (trans. W. Trask, Princeton, 1960).

Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi (trans. W. Trask, London, 1970).

Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, From Mazdean Iran to Shiite Iran (trans. Nancy Pearson, London, 1990). Excellent on the alam al-mithal.

Green, Arthur, Jewish Spirituality, Volume I (London, 1986).

Gruenwold, Ithamar, Apocalyptic and Merkavah Mysticism (Leiden, 1980).

Jacobs, Louis (ed.), The Jewish Mystics (Jerusalem, 1976, and London, 1990).

Leclercq, J. (ed.), Spirituality of the Middle Ages (London, 1968).

Lossky, Vladimir, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (London, 1957). Essential reading.

Marcus, Ivan G., Piety and Society: The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany (Leiden, 1981).

Massignon, Louis, The Passion of al-Hallaj, 4 vols. (trans. H. Mason, Princeton, 1982). A classic work.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein (ed.), Islamic Spirituality: I: Foundations (London, 1987).

II: Manifestations (London, 1991).

Nicholson, Reynold A., The Mystics of Islam (London, 1914). A useful introduction.

Schaya, Leo, The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah (London, 1971).