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The horrific events of September 11 have deeply saddened all of us at the Harvard Book Store. Our thoughts and sympathies are with all those who are suffering as a result of this terrorist attack. This selected list of books relevant to events since September 11th focuses on political and religious information. A number of the authors have been prominent media commentators. Titles in bold have been recommended by experts in the Middle East. There are inevitable omissions of books that should have been listed, for which we apologize.

The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong (2001)

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong (1993)

Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong (2000)

Jihad Vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Re-Shaping the World by Benjamin R. Barber (1996)

Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America by: Yossef Bodansky (2001)

America's Strategic Choices edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen Cote, Jr., Steven E. Miller, and Sean M. Lynn-Jones (2000)

Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future by Ashton B. Carter and John P. White (2001)

Islam and Modernity: Muslim Intellectuals Respond edited by and Ronald Nettler John Cooper, Muhammad Mahmoud (2000)

Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center by Eric Darton (2001)

National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War by Craig R. Eisendrath (2000)

The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? by John L. Esposito (1999)

Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism: A Work of Comparative Political Theory by Roxanne Leslie Euben (1999)

America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack by Richard A. Falkenrath, Bradley A. Thayer, Robert D. Newman (1998)

The Arab World: Forty Years of Change by Elizabeth Warnock Frenea and Robert A. Fernea (1997)

Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center by Angus Kress Gillespie (1999)

Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban by Larry P. Goodson (2001)

Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin (1998)

War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton & the Generals by David Halberstam (2001)

Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2001)

Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror & Atrocity by Priscilla B. Hayner (2000)

Terrorism and America: A Commonsense Strategy for a Democratic Society by Philip B. Heymann (2000)

Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age by R. Stephen Humphreys (2001)

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington (1998)

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence by Mark Juergensmeyer (2000)

The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War by Robert D. Kaplan (2001)

6 Nightmares by Anthony Lake (2001)

The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction by Walter Laqueur (1999)

Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence by Bruce B. Lawrence (2000)

The Multiple Identities of the Middle East by Bernard Lewis (2001)

War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet by Eric S. Margolis (2000)

Islamic Fundamentalism: The New Global Threat by Mohammad Mohaddessin (1993)

Among Believers: An Islamic Journey by V. S. Naipaul (2000)

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V. S. Naipaul (1999)

Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists by Benjamin Netanyahu (1997)

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid (2001)

The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden, and the Future of Terrorism by Simon Reeve (1999)

Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W. Siad (1996)

The Unfinished Twentieth Century by Jonathan Schell (2001)

Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords, and a World of Endless Conflict by William Shawcross (2001)

The Ultimate Terrorists by Jessica Stern (2000)

Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemcial and Biological Weapons by Jonathan B. Tucker (2000)

Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict by Stephen Van Evera (2001)

The Terrorism Reader by David J. Whittaker (2001)

 

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