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Issue 44, December 2004
Islam: Resources for Peace
A. Rashied Omar
Note to readers:
This is a selected resource listing and is not intended to be comprehensive. It will be regularly updated. We welcome suggestions from readers omar.1@nd.edu
Books:
Abou El Fadl, Khaled (2004)
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Bin Talal, Prince El Hassan, et al (2004)
To Be a Muslim: Islam, Peace, and Democracy.
Sussex, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press
Ramadan, Tariq (2004)
Western Muslims and The Future of Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Safi, Omid Ed.(2003)
Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Nationalism
Oxford: Oneworld Publications.
Abu-Nimer, Mohammed (2003)
Nonviolence and Peacebuilding in Islam.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Muhaiyaddeen, M. R. Bawa., et al (2003)
Islam & World Peace: Explanations of a Sufi. http://www.bmf.org/iswp
Winter, T.J. and John A.Williams (2002)
Understanding Islam and the Muslims:
The Muslim Family and Islam and World Peace. Fons Vitae
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein (2002)
The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity
San Francisco: Harper Sanfranscisco
Smock, David R. (2002)
Islamic perspectives on peace and violence. Washington D.C.: USIP
Sachedina, Abdulaziz (2001)
The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Said, Abdul Aziz, Nathan C. Funk, and Ayse S. Kadayifci Editors. (2001)
Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice.
Lanham: University Press of America.
Engineer, Asghar Ali (2001)
On Developing Theology of Peace in Islam. Bombay: Institute of Islamic Studies.
Khan, Maulana Wahiduddin (2000)
Islam and Peace. New Delhi: Goodword Books.
Esack, Farid (1997)
Qur’an, Liberation and Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Apartheid. Oxford: Oneworld Publications.
Wadud-Muhsin, Amina (1997).
Women and the Qur’an: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Satha-Anand, Chaiwat, Glenn Paige, and Sarah Gilliat (1993)
Islam and Nonviolence. Honolulu: University of Hawaii.
Organizations:
JUST WORLD TRUST: The International Movement for a Just World
Muslim Peace Fellowship (Fellowship of Reconciliation Network-New York)
The Islamic Foundation-United Kingdom
World Council of Muslims for Interfaith Relations
The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID)
Journals and Newsletters
Encounters: Journal of Inter-Cultural Perspectives
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs
Peace Newsletter AS-SALAMU ‘ALAYKUM
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations: ed. John Esposito
The Muslim World: Duncan MacDonald Center-Hartford Seminary
Websites:
Peace Train
Asghar Ali Engineer
Islam, Peace and Nonviolence Bibliography
United States Institute of Peace: Special Initiative on the Muslim World
Fons Vitae
Islam and Social Justice Page
Jawdat Said
A. RASHIED OMAR is an imam from Cape Town, South Africa and currently serves as coordinator of the Kroc Institute’s Project on Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame. This paper was presented at the 6th W. A. Visser’t Hooft Memorial Consultation on Religion, Power and Violence: An Interreligious Consultation for Peace, 8-13 June 2004, Ecumenical Institute Bossey, in cooperation with the World Council of Churches.
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