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Boatwright Memorial Library

Humanities & Film Librarian

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Nick Dease
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Boatwright Library, Rm. 185
261 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
804-289-8453

Book List

Minaret by Leila Aboulela, PR6051.B68ZM56 2005

A Quiet Revolution by Leila Ahmed, BP190.5.H44A446 2011

The Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar, PK6451.F4 M2813 1984

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the renaissance by Jim Al-Khalil, Q127 .A5A4 2011

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford, E444.I25A78 2007

Islamic Arts by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, N6260 .B57 1997

Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction by Johnathan A. C. Brown, BP136.B76 2011

The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States edited by Edward E. Curtis IV,
E184.M88C65 2009

In an Antique Land by Amitav Gosh, DT56.2.G48 1993

When Asia Was the World: traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East” by Stewart Gordon, DS5.95.G67 2008

Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf, PQ 979.2.M28 L413 1988

The Arabian Nights(anonymous) edited by Muhsin Mahdi, PJ 7715.M87  2010

In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar, PR6113.A871515 2007

The Story of the Qur’an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life by Ingrid Mattson, BP132.M39 2008

The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal, DP102.M46  2002

Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi, CT 2678.M46 A3 1994

Rumi: Poet and Mystic edited by Reynold A. Nicholson, PK6480.E5N5 1995

Snow by Orhan Pamuk, PL248.P34K36513 2004

Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel,   E184.M88P38 2007

The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam by F. E. Peters, BM157.P47 2004

The Art of Hajj by Venetia Porter, N6260.P67 2012

House of Stone by Anthony Shield, HQ663.9.S53 2012b

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, PN6747.S245P4713 2003

Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie, PR9540.9.S485B76 2005

The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson, BP170.5.W55 W55 2010