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Orientalism
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Author: Edward Wadie Said
CERIS Faculty Readers' Forum choice for February 8, 2007.
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
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Author: Maria Rosa Menocal (Little, Brown and Company, 2002)
The third reading for CERIS's Faculty Readers' Forum.
Science in Medieval Islam
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Author: Howard R. Turner
This book offers a fully illustrated, highly accessible introduction to an important aspect of Islam's Golden Age - the scientific achievements of medieval Islam.
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
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Author: Sylviane A. Diouf
CERIS Faculty Readers' Forum choice for November 1, 2007.
Teaching About Islam and Muslims in the Public School Classroom
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The Council on Islamic Education was founded in 1991 to provide academic support and scholarly resources about Islam and Muslim history to K-12 textbook publishers, educators, and others. We went on to cultivate expertise in world history and teaching about world religions, producing assessments of national and history-social studies state standards, training thousands of teachers, publishing high-quality teaching materials, and reviewing numerous social studies textbooks.
What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam
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Author: John Esposito
Esposito presents in question-and-answer format the information about Islam that people most want to know. One of the three books used for the introduction of Pitt's Fulbright Hays study tour for high school teachers in 2009 to Egypt. Link to PDF of book below. An accessible book for high school students.
Research and Presentation Tips
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Great tips on research and presentation (useful for participants in CERIS's Undergraduate Research Symposium) at Pitt's Speaking in the Disciplines page.
NAFSA Poster Session Reading Resources on Middle East / North Africa
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Click here for a PDF list of books and articles on the Middle East and North Africa from a poster session at the NAFSA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, in May, 2002.
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
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Author: Amin Maalouf
Amin Maalouf has combed the works of Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, many of them eyewitnesses and participants in the events they describe. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes is a vivid portrait of a society nearly destroyed by internal conflict and shaken by a traumatic encounter with an alien culture. Maalouf offers fascinating insights into the historical forces that even today shape Arab and Islamic consciousness. The book is available in Pdf at link below.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Islam
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Author: John Emerick
Using the "Idiot's Guide's" formula of questions and answers, sidebars, and small, easy-to-digest essays, Emerick makes Islam accessible to anyone.

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