This is a list of works about Islamic apologetics (Kalam) .

General

• Zafar, Harris. Demystifying Islam: Tackling the Tough Questions. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.
• Alsayyid, Ahmad Yusuf. Misconceptions and Refutations. Osoul Center, 2019.
• Mawdudi, Abul A'la. Human Rights in Islam. Leicester: The Islamic Foundation. ISBN 0-9503954-9-8.
• Qutb, Muhammad. Islam: The Misunderstood Religion. India: Markazi Maktaba Islami Publishers, 2004.
• Reeves, Minou, and P. J. Stewart. Muhammad in Europe: a Thousand Years of Western Myth-Making. Reading: Garnet, 2016.
• Arnold, Thomas Walker. The Preaching of Islam: A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith. India: Adam Publishers & Distributors, 2002.
• Hawramani, Ikram. An Intelligent Person's Guide to Understanding Islam and Muslims: What the West Misunderstands about Culture, Politics, Sexuality, Women and Rationality in Islamic Societies. Independently Published, 2018.
• Naik, Zakir. Answers to Non-Muslims' Common Questions about Islam. India: Islami Kitab Ghar, 2012.
• Said, Edward. Covering Islam: how the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-75890-7.
• Starr, S. Frederick. Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland. London: Routledge, 2015.
• Aly, Waleed. People Like Us. Pan Macmillan, 2007. ISBN 978-0-330-42380-9.
• Lyons, Jonathan. Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism. United States: Columbia University Press, 2014.
• Attar, Samar. The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought. United States: Lexington Books, 2007.
• Sheikh, Zia U.. Islam: Silencing the Critics. United States: Createspace Independent Pub, 2012.
• Gulen, Fethullah. Questions And Answers About Islam. United States: Tughra Books, 2007.
• Murata, Sachiko. Chittick, William. Vision of Islam. Paragon House, 1994.
• Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity. HarperCollins, 2004.

Comparative Religion

• Naik, Zakir. The Concept of God in Major Religions. Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007.

Philosophy and Theology

• al-Ghazālī, Abu Hamid. The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Tr. Marmura, Michael E. Utah: Brigham Young University Press. ISBN 0-8425-2466-5)
• al-Juwainī, ʻAbd-al-Malik Ibn-ʻAbdallāh. A Guide to Conclusive Proofs for the Principles of Belief (Kitāb Al-irshād ilā qawātiʻ Al-Adilla fī uṣūl Al-iʻtiqād). Translated by Paul E. Walker. Reading: Garnet, 2001.
• al-Uthaimeen, Shaikh Muhammad ibn Saleh. Are We Forced or do we have Free Will? Quran Sunnah Educational Programs.

Qur'an

• Draz, Muhammad Abdullah, Salahi, Adil. The Qur'an: An Eternal Challenge. Kube Publishing Limited. ISBN 9780860376491
• Ameri, Sami. Hunting for the word of God. Academic Research Initiative for Comparative Religion, 2017.
• Ali, Muhammad Mohar. The Qurʼân and the Orientalists: An Examination of Their Main Theories and Assumptions. United Kingdom: Jamʻiyat ʼIhyaaʼ Minhaaj al-Sunnah, 2004.
• Saeh, Bassam. The Miraculous Language of the Qur'an: Evidence of Divine Origin. United Kingdom: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2015.
• Aʻẓamī, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá. The History of the Qur'ānic Text: From Revelation to Compilation: a Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments. United Kingdom: UK Islamic Academy, 2003.
• Taslaman, Caner. The Quran: Unchallengeable Miracle. Turkey: Nettleberry/Çitlembik Publications, 2006.
• Al-Imam, Ahmad Ali. Variant Readings Of The Quran: A Critical Study Of Their Historical And Linguistic Origins. International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2006.
• El-Awa, Salwa. Textual Relations in the Quran: Relevance, Coherence and Structure. Routledge, 2006.
• Farrin, Raymond. Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation: a Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam's Holy Text. White Cloud Press, 2014.

Muhammad

• Ali, Muhammad Mohar. Sîrat Al-Nabî and the Orientalists. King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an, 2018.
• Zayed, Moustafa. The Lies about Muhammad: An Answer to the Robert Spencer Book "The Truth about Muhammad". United States: Createspace Independent Pub, 2010.
• Armstrong, Karen. Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. United States: HarperCollins, 1993.
• Vidyarthi, Abdul. Mohammad in World Scriptures. India: Adam Publishers & Distributors, 1999.
• Cole, Juan. Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires. United States: Bold Type Books, 2018
• Lings, Martin. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. United Kingdom: Islamic Texts Society, 1983..

Hadith

• Jonathan A. C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy Oneworld, 2015.^[1]

History

• Al-Djazairi, S. E. The Myth of Muslim Barbarism and Its Aims. Manchester: Bayt Al-Hikma Press, 2007.
• al-Djazairi, S. E. The Hidden Debt to Islamic Civilisation. MSBN Books, 2018.
• Graham, Mark A. How Islam Created the Modern World. United States: Amana Publications, 2006.
• Morgan, Michael Hamilton. Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists. Philippines: National Geographic, 2008.
• Lyons, Jonathan. The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury USA, 2010.
• Nadvī, Abulḥasan ʻAlī. Saviours of Islamic Spirit. United States: White Thread Press, 2015.
• Alkhateeb, Firas. Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past Oxford University Press, 2017.^[2]
• Murphy, Tim-Wallace. What Islam Did For Us: Understanding Islam's contribution to Western Civilization. Watkins, 2006.
• Al-Khalili, Jim. The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance. Penguin Press, 2011

Women

• Nadwī, Muḥammad Akram. Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam. United Kingdom: Interface Publications, 2013.
• Bewley, Aisha. Islam: The Empowering of Women. Ta-Ha, 1999.
• Murata, Sachiko. The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought. State University of New York Press, 1992.
• Bullock, Katherine. Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes. International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2002.

Islamic Law

• Al-Bouti, Muhammad Sa’id. Islamic Legal Punishments & The Zeitgeist. 2020. ISBN 9780359975914.
• Aʻẓamī, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá. On Schacht's Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence. United Kingdom: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 1996.
• Ahmed, Rumee. Sharia Compliant: A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law. United States: Stanford University Press, 2018..
• Ahmed, Rumee. Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory OUP Oxford, 2012. ISBN 9780191630149
• Emon, Anver. Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law. OUP Oxford, 2012.

Science

• Bucaille, Maurice. The Bible, the Quran & Science. New Delhi: Adam Publishers & Distributors, 2012.
• Naik, Zakir. The Qur'an & Modern Science: Compatible or Incompatible?. India: Darussalam, 2007.
• Guessoum, Nidhal. Islam's Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
• Tzortzis, Hamza Andreas. Embryology in the Quran onereason.

Slavery

• Brown, Jonathan A.C.. Slavery and Islam. United Kingdom: Oneworld Publications, 2020.
• Diouf, Sylviane A. Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas NYU Press, 1998.^[3]

Terrorism and Extremism

• Ridley, Yvonne. In the Hands of the Taliban. United Kingdom: Pavilion Books, 2014.
• Yahya, Harun. No Room for Terrorism in Islam. India: Adam Publishers & Distributors, 2004.
• Abou El Fadl, Khaled M. The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists HarperOne, 2009.^[3]
• al-Yaʻqūbī, Muḥammad. Refuting ISIS: Destroying Its Religious Foundations and Proving That It Has Strayed from Islam and That Fighting It Is an Obligation. Herndon, VA: Sacred Knowledge, 2016.

By region

Politics

• Quṭb, Sayyid. Milestones. India: Islamic Book Service, 2003.

Psychology

• Utz, Aisha. Psychology from the Islamic Perspective. Saudi Arabia: International Islamic Publishing House, 2011.
• Benslama, Fethi, Bononno, Robert. Psychoanalysis and the challenge of Islam. United Kingdom: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

A biographical book defending Islam

Nature

• Abdul-Matin, Ibrahim. Green Deen: What Islam Teaches about Protecting the Planet. United States: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010.

Communism

• Yahya, Harun. Communism in Ambush. Turkey: Global Pub., 2003.

Autobiographical

• Asad, Muhammad. The Road to Mecca. Malaysia: Islamic Book Trust, 1996.
• Linda iLham Barto. Memoirs of a Hillbilly Muslim. United States: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC, 2011.
• Cole, Donald Powell. Road to Islam: From Texas to Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Egypt: Dar Alraya Top, 2009.
• al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid Muhammad. Deliverance from Error: An Annotated Translation of Al-Munqidh Min Al Dalal and Other Relevant Works of Al-Ghazali. Translator: McCarthy, Richard Joseph. United Kingdom: Fons Vitae, 1999.^[4]

Literature and plays

• Tufayl, Ibn. Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale. Translator: Lenn Evan Goodman, University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• Aboulela, Leila. Minaret. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.

Intra-Islam

• al-Ghazālī, Abu Hamid. The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Tr. Fazl ul Kareem, Pakistan: Darul Ishat)
• ibn al-Jawzi, A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions.
• Iqbal, Muhammad. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam Kitab Bhavan, 2000. ISBN 81-7151-081-7.
• al-Ghazali, Zainab. Return of the Pharaoh. The Islamic Foundation.
• Khan, Nouman Ali. Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective. United Kingdom: Kube Publishing Limited, 2017.

See also

• Bibliography of books critical of Christianity
• Bibliography of books critical of Islam
• Bibliography of books critical of Judaism
• Bibliography of books critical of Mormonism
• Bibliography of books critical of Scientology
• List of apologetic works
• List of Christian apologetic works

References