📚 Islam

The Quran, the Five Pillars and the civilisation that grew from them: law, science and sect, and the story from Mecca to the modern world.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject islam in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Autobiografía Malcolm X	Alex Haley	1965	70
	Majmū` fatāwá Shaykh al-Islām Aḥmad ibn Taymĭyah	Ibn Taymiyyah	1997	38
	Taliban	Ahmed Rashid	2000	29
	The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Iḥyāʾ ʻulūm al-dīn)	al-Ghazzālī	1929	28
	The Faith of Islam	Edward Sell	1976	27
	Dictionary of Islam	Thomas Patrick Hughes	1885	23
	The preaching of Islam	Thomas Walker Arnold	1896	21
	Muhammad	Karen Armstrong	1991	20
	Islamic Art	David Talbot Rice	1965	17
	INITIATION 'A L'ISLAM (Introduction to Islam)	Muhammad Hamidullah	1959	16
	Ideals and Realities of Islam	Seyyed Hossein Nasr	1966	14
	History of the Arabs	Philip Khuri Hitti	1937	13
	A history of medieval Islam	J. J. Saunders	1965	13
	Muhammad	Martin Lings	1983	13
	Islam	Karen Armstrong	2000	13
	Islam	John L. Esposito	1988	12
	Risālah-yi dīnīyāt	Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi	1954	11
	The Road to Mecca	Muhammad Asad	1954	8
	Islam	Alfred Guillaume	1954	7
	Destiny disrupted	Mir Tamim Ansary	2009	7
	Islam	Fazlur Rahman	1966	6
	The spectacle of death including Glimpses of life beyond the grave	Khawaja Muhammad Islam	1976	6
	No god but God	Reza Aslan	2005	6
	A short history of Islam	S. F. Mahmud	1960	5
	Biografi Muhammad bin Abdullah - Perjalanan hidup seorang nabi	Zulkifli Mohd. Yusoff	2008	5
	Falsafah Hidup	Hamka	1982	4
	The heirs of Muhammad	Barnaby Rogerson	2007	4
	Sejarah umat Islam	Hamka	1961	3
	Islam ditinjau dari berbagai aspeknya	Harun Nasution	1979	3
	The dilemma of Muslim psychologists	Malik B. Badri	1979	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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