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General Resources on Islam, Afghanistan and Central Asia
(compiled by the Central Eurasia Project)

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Ajami, Fouad: Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey
July, Vintage Books, 368 pp., ISBN: 0375704744

Armstrong, Karen: Islam: A Short History
2000, Modern Library, 222 pp., ISBN: 0679640401

Bodman, Herbert L. and Nayereh Tohidi, eds.: Women in Muslem Societies. Diversity Within Unity
1998, Lynne Reinner Publishers, ISBN: 1555875785

Eickelman, Dale: The Middle East and Central Asia : An Anthropological Approach
2001 (4th edition), Prentice Hall, 400 pp., ISBN: 0130336785

Eickelman, Dale and James Piscatori, eds.: Muslim Politics
1996, Princeton University Press, 240 pp., ISBN: 0691008701

Esack, Farid: On Being a Muslim
1999, Oneworld Publications Ltd, 224 pp., ISBN: 1851681469

Esposito, John: The Islamic Threat : Myth or Reality?
1999 (3rd edition), Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0195213475

Esposito, John: Islam : The Straight Path

1998 (3rd edition), Oxford University Press, 304 pp., ISBN: 0195112342

Esposito, John: Islam and Politics
1998 (4th edition), Syracuse University Press

Esposito, John: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 4 volumes
2001, Oxford University Press

Halliday, Fred: Nation and Religion in the Middle East
2000, Lynne Rienner Publishers, ISBN: 1555879357

Humphreys, Stephen. Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age
1999, University of California Press, 319 pp., ISBN: 0520214110

Hunter, Shireen. The Future of Islam and the West
1998, Praeger, 208 pp., ISBN: 0275962873

Ilkkaracan, Pinar, ed. Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies
2000, New Ways and WLUML, Istanbul

Kinzer, Stephen. Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
2001, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 272 pp., ISBN: 0374131430

Miller, Judith. God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East
1997, Touchstone Books, 574 pp., ISBN: 0684809737

Peters, F.E.: Muhammad and the Origins of Islam

1994, State University of New York Press, ISBN: 0791418766

Pope, Hugh and Nicole Pope. Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey
2000, Overlook Press, 373 pp., ISBN: 1585670960

Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
2001, Yale University Press, 288 pp., ISBN: 0300083408

Rashid, Ahmed: The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism?
1994, Zed Books, ISBN: 1856491323

Roy, Olivier. The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations
2000, New York University Press, 272 pp., ISBN: 0814775551

Roy, Olivier: The Failure of Political Islam
1996, New York University Press, ISBN: 0674291417

Roy, Olivier: Afghanistan: From Holy War to Civil War
1995, Darwin Press, ISBN: 0878500766

Rubin, Barnett. The Fragmentation of Afghanistan : State Formation and Collapse in the International System
1995, Yale University Press, 378 pp., ISBN: 0300059639

Rubin, Barnett: The Search for Peace in Afghanistan: From Buffer State to Failed State
1995, Yale University Press, ISBN: 0300063768

Ruthven, Malise. Islam in the World
2000 (2nd edition), Oxford University Press, 448 pp., ISBN: 0195138414

Said, Edward. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
1997, Vintage Books, ISBN: 0679758909

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