Texts on the Middle East/Islam?

Miscellaneous History
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Hello

I am searching for books on topics relating to the Middle East and Islam (I am interested in almost any topic).

Can anyone recommend me titles written by authors who are free-minded, unbiased, reject or at least treat with suspicion the reasoning of the ‘War on Terror’ and in general dismiss war-mongering, statist and collectivist agendas?

If no suggestions can be made I suppose I will proceed with the mainstream offerings (with due caution).

Thank you very much.

Gerry.

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Read the Quran.

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World War IV: The War on Islamofacism.

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Thanks John, this looks fantastic.

‘The War on Islamofascism’ doesn’t at all seem to fit my criteria unfortunately.

Thanks all.

Further suggestions would be much appreciated.

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http://www.memri.org/

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As salam alikum,

I think all the human beings are subject to biasedness therefore please do not presume anything I listed below are free from biasedness.

Please encounter to any books with suspicion and critical thinking.

As this blog is of Austrian economic school, all the books and papers listed below are related to economics.

For more general understanding, you may rather goto Youtube and listen to poeple such as Hamza Yusuf says.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLKVBgp7hzs

or read the below.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/10042607/Towards-Understanding-Islam-Sayyid-Abul-Ala-Maududi

Some of the books about economics.

Old school economic thought

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4977425/Wealth-and-Economy-in-Islam-Yusuf-Qaradawi

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6666847/Economics-Thought-of-AlGbazali

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3943477/The-Economic-System-of-Islam-Taqiuddin-anNabhani-Hizb-utTahrir

New School economic thought

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15021621/Handbook-of-Islamic-Banking

About Islamic Finance (The most well-written account of Islamic finance I have ever read.)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13337485/islamic-finance-law-economics-and-practice-cambridge-university-press

Book by Sayyid Qutb (I have not read this book yet. Some says this book is a text book for terrolist and the other characterizes Sayyid Qutb as “John Locke of Islam”.)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3295871/Milestones-Special-Edition-Sayyid-Qutb

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Eric Margolis’ book American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World is a book about it’s colonial history. It is also probably talking about current events. If anything, you can look through his archives on lewrockwell.com.