NEWSPAPERS

• Christian Science Monitor (daily; tends to be pro-Arab)

• Economist (weekly; excellent coverage of worldwide economics and politics)

• Wall Street Journal (five days a week; tends to be pro-Israeli)

ADDITIONAL READING

The list includes fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose, and obscure and famous works. It addresses many topics beyond political history suitable to a course in the humanities, such as art, music, and science; it even includes a few entries on natural history. Personal favorites of the course author are marked with a star. Among this select list, Seven Pillars of Wisdom tops all, for prose that reads like poetry (select any sentence at random), adventure, description of character or geography, and complex psychological questions the book raises about its author.

• *Andrae, T. 1936. Muhammad, The Man and His Faith.
• Ajami, F. 1981. The Arab Predicament.
• Amin, M. 1978. Pilgrimage to Mecca.
• Anderson, R. 1982. Politics and Change in the Middle East.
• Anthony, J. 1975. Arab States in the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum.
• Antonius, G. 1965. The Arab Awakening.
• Arberry, A. 1957. The Seven Odes. (poetry)
• Arnold, T. 1965. Painting in Islam.
• Ashrawi, H. 1995. This Side of Peace.
• Attiyah, E. 1968. The Arabs.
• Barakat, H. 1993. The Arab World.
• Basson, P., et. al. 1977. Biotopes of the Western Arabian Gulf: Marinelife & Environments.
• Berman, R. 1932. The Mahdi of Allah.
• Binur, Y. 1989. My Enemy, My Self.
• Boullata, I. 1990. Trends and Issues in Contemporary Thought.
• Brockelmann, C. 1960. History of the Islamic Peoples.
• Brooks, G. Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women.
• Burton, R. 1955. Thousand and One Nights. (many other translations and editions)
• Burton, R. 1964. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al-Madinah and Meccah.
• *Charhadi, D. (P. Bowles, trans.), 1964. A Life Full of Holes. (fiction)
• Crone, P. 1987. Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law.
• *Doughty, C. 1888 [sic!]. Travels in Arabia Deserts. (many subsequent editions)
• Ehrenkreutz, A. Saladin.
• Eickelman, D. 1981. The Middle East: An Anthropological Approach.
• Eiland, M. 1976. Oriental Rugs.
• Esposito, J. 1983. Voices of Resurgent Islam.
• Esposito, J. 1988. Islam: The Straight Path.
• Ettinghausen, R. 1987. The Art and Architecture of Islam.
• Fahkry, M. 1983. A History of Islamic Philosophy.
• Farmer, H. 1929. A History of Arabian Music.
• Fishman, M. & Kham, U. The Mosque.
• Forsyth, F. 1995. The Fist of God.
• France, J. Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade.
• Franklin, D. 1990. A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Middle East 1914-1922.
• Friedman, T. 1989. From Beirut to Jerusalem.
• Ghitani, G. (F. Wahab, trans.) 1988. Zayni Barakat. (fiction)
• Gibb, H. 1974. Arabic Literature: An Introduction.
• Gibb, H. (ed.) 1961. Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam.
• Gibb. H. 1953. Mohammedanism.
• Guillaume, A. 1956. Islam.
• Hadar, L. 1995. Quagmire: America in the Middle East.
• Hansen, E. 1991. Motoring with Mohammed.
• Hawkins, C. 1977. The Dhow: An Illustrated History of the Dhow and Its World.
• *Hayes, J. (ed.) 1983. Genius of Arab Civilization: Source of the Renaissance.
• Held, C. 1989. Middle Eastern Patterns: Places, People, Politics.
• Hitti, P. 1964. An Arab-Syrian Gentleman in the Period of the Crusades.
• Hodgson, ?. 1974. The Venture of Islam.
• Horne, A. 1977. A Savage War of Peace.
• Horwitz, T. 1991. Baghdad Without a Map.
• Hourani, A. 1983. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age.
• Hourani, A. 1970. The Islamic City.
• Hoyt, E. 1975. Arab Science: Discoveries and Contributions.
• Hurewitcz, J. (ed.) 1956. Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East: A Documentary Record.
• Kaplan, R. 1994. The Arabists.
• Kelly, J. 1968. Britain and the Persian Gulf 1795-1880.
• Kennedy, H. 1986. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates.
• Kerr, A. Come With Me from Lebanon.
• Kerr, M. 1971. The Arab Cold War, 1958-1970.
• Khalid, T. 1984. Classical Arab Islam.
• Kritzeck, J. 1964. Anthology of Islamic Literature.
• L'Amour, L. 1984. The Walking Drum.
• Lamb, D. 1987. The Arabs.
• Lapidus, I. 1990. A History of Muslim Societies.
• *Lawrence, T. E. 1926. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. (many subsequent editions)
• Lewis, A. 1977. The Arabs in History.
• Lewis, B. The Middle East.
• Lewis, B. The Middle East and the West.
• Maalouf, A. 1984. The Crusades through Arab Eyes.
• Madelung, W. 1985. Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam.
• Makdisi, G. 1981. The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West.
• Mansfield, P. 1972. The British in Egypt.
• Marshall, C. Warfare in the Latin East: 1192-1291.
• Momen, M. 1985. An Introduction to Shi'i Islam.
• Monroe, E. 1963. Britain's Moment in the Middle East 1914-1956.
• Moore, Molly, 1993. A Woman at War.
• Mountfort, G. 1965. Portrait of a Desert.
• Musallam, B. 1983. Sex and Society in Islam.
• Parry, V. (ed.) 1975. War, Technology, and Society in the Middle East.
• Peters, R. 1995. The Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam.
• Philby, H. 1928. Arabia of the Wahhabis.
• Philby, H. 1955. Saudi Arabia.
• Polk, ?. 1968. Beginnings of Modernization in the Middle East.
• Rice, D. 1975. Islamic Art.
• *Richards, A. 1990. A Political Economy of the Middle East.
• Ross, H. 1978. Bedouin Jewelry in Saudi Arabia.
• Runciman, S. 1951-1954. History of the Crusades. (3 vols.)
• Sadat, A. 1977. In Search of Identity.
• Safadi, Y. 1978. Islamic Calligraphy.
• Said, E. 1978. Orientalism.
• Schacht, J. (ed.) 1974. The Legacy of Islam.
• Schedeina, A. 1981. The Idea of the Mahdi in Twelver Shi'i.
• Shipler, D. 1986. Arab and Jew.
• Smith, C. 1988. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
• Smith, J. & Haddad, Y. 1981. Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection.
• Sordo, E. 1963. Moorish Spain: Cordoba, Seville, Granada.
• Spuler, B. 1995. The Age of the Caliphs.
• Thesiger, W. 1959. Arabian Sands.
• Thesiger, W. 1985. The Marsh Arabs.
• Ullman, M. 1978. Islamic Medicine.
• Vincent, B. 1977. Wild flowers of Central Saudi Arabia.
• Vincent, B. 1982. Animal Life in Saudi Arabia.
• Waddy, C. 1980. Women in Muslim History.
• Walther, W. 1995. Women in Islam.
• Watt, M. 1960. Muhammad in Mecca, Muhammad in Medina.
• Watt, M. 1962. Muhammad in Mecca, Muhammad in Medina.
• Watt, M. 1974. The Majesty That Was Islam.
• Whitehouse, D. 1983. Muhammad, Charlemagne, and the Origins of Europe.
• Yapp, M. 1987. The Making of the Modern Near East: 1792-1923.
• Yapp, M. 1991. The Near East Since the First World War.

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