The bibliography is a limited rather than exhaustive list of basic books which were chosen for their reliable information and ease of use, or richness as a mine for developing lessons for classroom use. The list also includes teaching guides and resources in binder format, as well as a partial list of useful educational websites related to the topics.

 

Teaching about Religion

 

 Islam in World History

  • Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • Afsaruddin, Asma. The First Muslims: History and Memory. Oxford: Oneworld, 2008.
  • Bowen, Donna Lee, and Evelyn A. Early, eds. Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East: Second Edition. Second Edition. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Brown, Jonathan. Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions 261. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Bulliet, Richard W. Islam: The View from the Edge. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
  • Burke, Edmund III, and David Yaghoubian, eds. Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East: Second Edition. 2nd ed. University of California Press, 2005.
  • Burke, Edmund III. “Islam at the Center: Technological Complexes and the Roots of Modernity.” Journal of World History 20, no. 2 (2009): 165–86.
  • Cole, Juan Ricardo. Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • Constable, Olivia Remie, ed. Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources. Second Edition. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
  • Douglass, Susan L. Rise and Spread of Islam, 622-1500. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002.
  • Ernst, Carl W. Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
  • Esposito, John L, ed. Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, n.d.
  • Esposito, John L. (Editor-in-Chief), The Islamic World: Past and Present, 3 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). N.B. This was especially adapted by a team of text experts for high school and college audience.
  • Esposito, John L. and Natana DeLong-Bas. Shariah: What Everyone Needs to Know®. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Esposito, John L. The Future of Islam. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • Esposito, John L., ed. The Oxford History of Islam. New York, N.Y: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Euben, Roxanne L., and Muhammad Qasim Zaman, eds. Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from Al-Banna to Bin Laden. Princeton University Press, 2009.
  • Gettleman, Marvin E., and Stuart Schaar, eds. The Middle East and Islamic World Reader: An Historical Reader for the 21st Century. Third Edition. Grove Press, 2012.
  • Jackson, Sherman A. “Domestic Terrorism in the Islamic Legal Tradition.” The Muslim World 91, no. 3‐4 (September 1, 2001): 293–310. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-1913.2001.tb03718.x.
  • Khater, Akram Fouad. Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East. 2nd ed. Cengage Learning, 2010.
  • Kurzman, Charles, ed. Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook. Oxford University Press, USA, 1998.
  • Kurzman, Charles, ed. Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook. Oxford University Press, USA, 2002.
  • Mandaville, Peter G. Global Political Islam. London ; New York: Routledge, 2007. Update is entitled, Islam and Politics 2nd ed. (2014)
  • McNeill, William H., and Marilyn Robinson Waldman, eds. The Islamic World. University of Chicago Press, 1984.
  • Renan, Ernst. “Ernst Renan, ‘What Is a Nation?’” http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/core/hss3/e_renan.html.
  • Risso, Patricia. Merchants and Faith: Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean. New Perspectives on Asian History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
  • Ruthven, Malise. “Historical Atlas of Islam.” Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004.
  • Said, Edward “The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations” 1, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBzrqF4vmo.
  • Said, Edward “The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations” 2, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir1haaeeMSo.
  • Said, Edward “The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations” 3, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHLCUti-J7A.
  • Said, Edward “The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations” 4, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8djF62Qlmo.
  • Said, Edward W. Orientalism. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.

 

 Islamic Culture

    • Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” http://www.metmuseum.org/toah
    • Douglass, Susan L. Beyond a Thousand And One Nights: A Sampler of Literature from Muslim Civilization. Council on Islamic Education, 1999.
    • Douglass, Susan L., and Karima Alavi. The Emergence of Renaissance: Cultural Interactions Between Europeans & Muslims. Edited by Munir A. Shaikh. Fountain Valley CA: Council on Islamic Education, 1999.
    • Faruq Abdullah, Omar. “Nawawi Foundation Paper: Islam & the Cultural Imperative.” Nawawi Foundation http://www.nawawi.org/?p=192.
    • Faruq Abdullah, Omar. Nawawi Foundation Paper: “Innovation & Creativity in Islam” Nawawi Foundation http://www.nawawi.org/?p=201.
    • Finlay, Robert. “The Pilgrim Art: The Culture of Porcelain in World History.” Journal of World History 9, no. 2 (October 1, 1998): 141–87.
    • Hassan, Ahmad Y. al-, and Donald R. Hill. Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
    • Ruggles, D. Fairchild, ed. Islamic Art and Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources. 1st ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

 

Islam in America

      • “2011 Mosque Report by Ihsan Bagby | Faith Communities Today.” http://faithcommunitiestoday.org/2011-mosque-report-ihsan-bagby.
      •  “North American Slave Narratives.” Accessed June 19, 2011. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html.
      • “Omar Ibn Said, b. 1770? And J. Franklin Jameson (John Franklin), 1859-1937, Edited by Autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831. Ed. John Franklin Jameson. From The American Historical Review, 30, No. 4. (July 1925), 787-795.” http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/omarsaid/menu.html.
      • “Saudi Aramco World : The Life of Omar Ibn Said.” http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201002/the.life.of.omar.ibn.said.htm.
      • “Slave Narratives.” http://www.vgskole.net/prosjekt/slavrute/primary.htm.
      • “The Man in the Knit Cap.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020300827_pf.html.
      • “Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.” http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces.
      • African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.
      • Ahmed, Akbar S. Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2010.
      • Alford, Terry. Prince Among Slaves. 30th anniversary ed. Oxford: New York, 2007.
      • Beliefnet (Firm). Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith. Emmaus, Penn: Rodale, 2004.
      • Curtis, Edward E. Muslims in America: A Short History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
      • Diouf, Sylviane. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
      • Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2007.
      • Ghanea Bassiri, Kambiz. A History of Islam in America: From the New World to The New World Order. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
      • Gomez, Michael Angelo. Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
      • Grewal, Zareena. Islam Is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority, 2013. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1477465.
      • Haddad, Yvonne Y., Jane I. Smith, and Farid Senzai. Educating the Muslims of America. Oxford University Press, 2009.
      • Haddad, Yvonne. The Oxford Handbook of American Islam. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
      • Jackson, Sherman A. “Domestic Terrorism in the Islamic Legal Tradition.” The Muslim World 91, no. 3‐4 (September 1, 2001): 293–310. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-1913.2001.tb03718.x.
      • Jackson, Sherman A. Islam and the Blackamerican : Looking Toward the Third Resurrection. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
      • Nyang, Sulayman S. Islam in the United States of America. [Chicago, Ill.] : ABC International Group, Inc, 1999.
      • Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Islamophobia and the Challenges of Pluralism in the 21st Century. Washington, D.C: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, 2008.

 

World History Readings and Frameworks

      • Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
      • Allardyce, Gilbert. “Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course,” Journal of World History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 23-76
      • Anderson, Benedict R. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. London: Verso, 2006.
      • Blaut, James M. The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. New York: Guilford Press, 1993.
      • Bose, Sugata. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006.
      • Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
      • Cheddadi, Abdesselam. “The master-chronologers of Islam” includes articles At-Tabari and Ibn Khaldun: In Pursuit of the Past: History and Memory,” UNESCO Courier, March 1, 1990, retrieved at  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1990_March/ai_8929495.
      • Christian, David. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. The California world history library. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
      • Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange; Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub. Co, 1972.
      • Dunn, Ross E. The New World History: A Teacher’s Companion. A Bedford reader. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000.
      • Frank, Andre Gunder. ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
      • Geyer, Michael, and Charles Bright. “World History in a Global Age.” The American Historical Review 100, no. 4 (October 1995): 1034–60.
      • Ho, Engseng. The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
      • Hodgson, Marshall G. S. Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam, and World History. Studies in comparative world history. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
      • Lockard, Craig. “World History and the Public,” Perspectives (May 2000) – American Historical Association, at  http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2000/0005/0005spl6.cfm.
      • Manning, Patrick. Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
      • Mazlish, Bruce. “Comparing Global History to World History,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Winter, 1998), pp. 385-395.
      • McNeill, John Robert. The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.
      • McNeill, William. “The Shape of World History,” History and Theory 34, no. 2 (May 1995).
      • Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York, N.Y: Viking, 1985.
      • Pomper, Philip. “World History and Its Critics.” History and Theory 34, no. 2 (May 1995): 1-7.
      • Stavrianos, L. S. “The Teaching of World History.” The History Teacher 3, no. 1 (November 1969): 19-24.
      • Thornton, John Kelly. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
      • Wolf, Eric R. Europe and the People Without History: With a New Preface. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
      • Background on Standards & US Social Studies Curriculum
      • “Geography Standards – The National Council for Geographic Education.” http://www.ncge.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3314.
      • “History Content Standards, Grades K-4.” http://nchs.ucla.edu/standards/thinking5-12_toc.html.
      • “National History Standards K-https://phi.history.ucla.edu/nchs/history-standards/.
      • “Standards in Historical Thinking in Grades K-4.” http://nchs.ucla.edu/standards/thinking5-12.html.
      • Erickson, Megan. “Standardized Testing: The Monster That Ate American Education.” Big Think, February 6, 2012. http://bigthink.com/think-tank/standardized-testing-the-monster-that-ate-american-education.
      • Nash, Gary B., Ross E. Dunn, Charlotte Crabtree. History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past. 1st ed. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1997.
      • Ravitch, Diane. The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Children Learn. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 2003.
      • Waugh, Dexter and Catherine Cornbleth. “The Great Speckled Bird: Multicultural Politics and Education Policymaking – – Google Books.” https://books.google.com/books?id=hWUrfSGB0-8C&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=charlotte+crabtree+%22history+in+the+schools%22&source=bl&ots=3U4JxKA-8z&sig=jCKpAMnI4X74KmvwjQu1bXtGfXM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=io42VfCICOPLsATnx4DgDw&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=charlotte%20crabtree%20%22history%20in%20the%20schools%22&f=false.

 

Curriculum and Pedagogy

      • Bain, Robert and Tamara L. Shreiner. “The Dilemmas of a National Assessment in World History: World Historians and the 12th Grade NAEP.” World History Connected | Vol. 3 No. 3 http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/3.3/bain.html.
      • Bass, Randy. “The Scholarship of Teaching: What’s the Problem? (Introduction).” http://doit.gmu.edu//Archives/feb98/randybass.htm.
      • Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and American Association for Higher Education. Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Exploring Common Ground. Washington, D.C: American Association for Higher Education, 2002.
      • Center for History and New Media. “Essays.” Center for History and New Media, George Mason University  http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/.
      • Huber, Mary Taylor. The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
      • Project Zero. “Projects | Project Zero.” http://www.pz.harvard.edu/projects.
      • Vacca, Richard T., Jo Anne L. Vacca, and Maryann E. Mraz. Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum. 11th  edition. Boston: Pearson, 2013.
      • Wiggins, Grant P, and NetLibrary, Inc. Understanding by Design. Expanded 2nd ed. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005.
      • Wineburg, Samuel S. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Critical Perspectives on the Past. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

 

Youth and Children’s Literature