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• A Mosque Among the Stars (c2008), ed. by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad and Ahmed A. Khan (PDF with commentary at islamscifi.com)

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• Some Trouble With Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict, by Beth Roy (HTML at UC Press)

• Ahmad, the Guided One: A Life of the Holy Founder of the Movement to Unite All Religions, by Iain Adamson (Javascript-dependent page images at alislam.org)
• Biographien Muhammeds, Seiner Gefährten und der Späteren Träger des Islams, Bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht (9 volumes (some in multiple parts, but omitting a 1940 late index part), in Arabic and German; Leiden: Brill, 1905-1928), by Muḥammad Ibn Sa'd, ed. by Eduard Sachau, Eugen Mittwoch, Josef Horovitz, Friedrich Schwally, Julius Lippert, K. V. Zetterstéen, Bruno Meissner, and Carl Brockelmann
  • all volumes (except 1940 index part): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I part II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II part II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX part I: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Autobiography of Nicholas Said, A Native of Bournou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa (Memphis, TN: Shotwell and Co., Publishers, 1873), by Nicholas Said
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, c2014), by Wen-Chin Chang (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Pilgrimage (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c1999), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)
• The Sky Lighter (Ontario, CA: Chick Publications, c2003), by Jack T. Chick (page images with commentary at chick.com)

• Code of Ethics for Muslim Men and Women (c2000), by Mas'ud Ma'sumi, trans. by Arifa Hudda and Saleem Bhimji (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Othello, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

• Veiled Mysteries of Egypt and the Religion of Islam (1913), by S. H. Leeder (multiple formats at TIMEA)

• Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), ed. by Barbara Metcalf (HTML at UC Press)

• Zofloya, or The Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century (3 volumes; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806), by Charlotte Dacre
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• The Sea-Hawk, by Rafael Sabatini (Gutenberg text)
• The Sea-Hawk (illustrated with scenes from the 1924 silent film; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1924), by Rafael Sabatini
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Four Californian Lectures (1989), by Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Observations on the Mussulmauns of India (second edition, 1917), by Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali, ed. by William Crooke (Gutenberg text)
• The History of India as Told by its Own Historians: The Local Muhammadan Dynasties: Gujarát (London: W.H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Sikandar ibn Muhammad, ed. by Edward Clive Bayley, trans. by John Dowson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Nederland en de Islâm (second expanded edition, in Dutch; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1915), by C. Snouck Hurgronje (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (includes Arabic texts; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Three Nigerian Emirates: A Study in Oral History (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1972), by Victor N. Low (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), ed. by Barbara Metcalf (HTML at UC Press)

• ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies (2015-) (partial serial archives)

• Études sur l'Islam au Sénégal (2 volumes in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1917), by Paul Marty
  • Tome I (Les Personnes): page images at Gallica
  • Tome I (Les Personnes): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Tome II (Les Doctrines et les Institutions): page images at Gallica

• A Warm Call From Hizb ut-Tahrir to the Muslims, by Taqī al-Dīn Nabhānī (PDF with commentary at hizb-ut-tahrir.org)

• Islam and Communism: A Conference Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the USSR at the Carnegie International Center, New York City, June 25, 1960, ed. by Jaan Pennar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Being Muslim in America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2009), ed. by George Clack and Michael Jay Friedman (PDF at state.gov)
• Four Californian Lectures (1989), by Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Mosque in America, A National Portrait: A Report from the Mosque Study Project (Washington DC: Council on American-Islamic Relations, 2001), by Ihsan Abdul-Wajid Bagby, Paul M. Perl, and Bryan T. Frochle (PDF at cair.com)
• Religious Diversity in America: The Emergence of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Others (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 2002), by Tom W. Smith (PDF at bjpa.org)

• The Mohammedan World of To-Day: Being Papers Read at the First Missionary Conference on Behalf of the Mohammedan World Held at Cairo April 4th-9th, 1906 (New York et al: F. H. Revell Co., c1906), ed. by Samuel Marinus Zwemer, E. M. Wherry, and James L. Barton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Persian Women and Their Creed (London: Church Missionary Society, 1899), by Mary R. S. Bird (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mission to Islam and Beyond: A Practical Theology of Mission, by Jens Christensen (HTML with commentary at answering-islam.org)
• The Mohammedan Missionary Problem (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, c1879), by Henry Harris Jessup
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Rebuke of Islam (5th edition; London: United Council for Missionary Education, 1920), by W. H. T. Gairdner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at muhammadanism.org
• The Reproach of Islam (London: Student Volunteer Missionary Union, 1909), by W. H. T. Gairdner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reproach of Islam (3rd edition; London: Church Missionary Society, 1910), by W. H. T. Gairdner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Summary of Rulings by Grand Ayatullah Nasir Makarem Shirazi: A Translation of His Original Work, Zubdah al-Ahkaam (second edition, c2006), by Nasir Makarim Shirazi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• A Shi'ite Encyclopedia (electronic edition), ed. by Ali Abbas (HTML at al-islam.org)

• The Life of Imam 'Ali al-Hadi: Study and Analysis, by Baqir Sharif Quarashi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Ahmad, the Guided One: A Life of the Holy Founder of the Movement to Unite All Religions, by Iain Adamson (Javascript-dependent page images at alislam.org)

• Fatima is Fatima, by Ali Shariati, trans. by Laleh Bakhtiar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Fatima the Gracious, by Abu Muhammad Ordoni (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Imam Husain and His Martyrdom, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (HTML at al-islam.org)
• Nafasul Mahmum Relating to the Heart Rending Tragedy of Karbala, by 'Abbas ibn Muhammad Rida Qummi (HTML at al-islam.org)

• Al-Imam al-Mahdi: The Just Leader of Humanity, by Ibrahim Amini, trans. by Abdulaziz Sachedina (HTML at al-islam.org)

• Biographien Muhammeds, Seiner Gefährten und der Späteren Träger des Islams, Bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht (9 volumes (some in multiple parts, but omitting a 1940 late index part), in Arabic and German; Leiden: Brill, 1905-1928), by Muḥammad Ibn Sa'd, ed. by Eduard Sachau, Eugen Mittwoch, Josef Horovitz, Friedrich Schwally, Julius Lippert, K. V. Zetterstéen, Bruno Meissner, and Carl Brockelmann
  • all volumes (except 1940 index part): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I part II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II part II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX part I: multiple formats at archive.org
• Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar): Memoirs of the Noble Prophet, by Safi al-Rahman Mubarakfuri (PDF at finsburyparkmosque.org)
• A Glance at the Life of the Holy Prophet of Islam, trans. by N. Tawheedi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• The Life of Mahomet (4 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1861), by William Muir
  • volume I: HTML at answering-islam.org
  • volume II: HTML at answering-islam.org
  • volume III: HTML at answering-islam.org
  • volume IV: HTML at answering-islam.org
• The Life of Mohammad, From Original Sources (reprint of 1912 edition; Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1923), by William Muir and T. H. Weir
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Life of Mohammed: Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens (Harper's stereotype edition; New York: J. and J. Harper; 1831), by George Bush (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Mohammed: Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens (Harper's stereotype edition; New York: J. and J. Harper; 1832), by George Bush (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Mohammed: Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens (Harper's stereotype edition; New York: J. and J. Harper; 1833), by George Bush (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Mohammed: Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens (New York: A. L. Fowle, 1900), by George Bush (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Muhammad the Prophet, by Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Mahomet, Founder of Islam, by Gladys M. Draycott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Seal of the Prophets and His Message: Lessons on Islamic Doctrine, by Mujtaba Musavi Lari, trans. by Hamid Algar (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• What the Bible Says About Mohammed, by Ahmed Deedat (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Alcoran of Mahomet, Translated Out of Arabique into French (earliest known English translation of the Qur'an, from Du Ryer's French; with a life of Mohammed, and a closing essay by Ross; 1649), trans. by André Du Ryer, contrib. by Alexander Ross
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• An Apology for Mohammed and the Koran (London: J. Davy and Sons, 1869), by John Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is Muhammad Foretold in the Bible?, by John Gilchrist (HTML at answering-islam.org)
• A Restatement of the History of Islam and Muslims, CE 570 to 661, by Ali Asgher Razwy (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Islam, or True Christianity: Including a Chapter on Mahomed's Place in the Church (London: Trübner and Co., 1889), by Ernst von Bunsen
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Mohammed and Mohammedanism, Critically Considered (London: Rivingtons, 1889), by S. W. Koelle (page images at HathiTrust)

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