Lists of Bests: Silly Drowa's "Best books on Muslims for Westerners" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/6926 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:45:15 GMT en-us 0 50 8 0 0 Islam: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25532 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/25532"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/081296618X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Karen Armstrong</div> Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10255 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10255"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385475772.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geraldine Brooks</div> A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24601 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24601"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805068848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Fromkin</div> Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9937 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9937"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385014856.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43044225_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea</div> My Grandmother's Cactus: Stories by Egyptian Women (Emerging Voices (Quartet)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1454326 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Soul in Exile: Lives of a Palestinian Revolutionary http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1422308 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fawaz Turki</div> Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23346 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23346"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786886307.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malika Oufkir</div> Out of Place: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83808 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83808"><img src="http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679730672.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464897_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward W. Said</div>