Reinhard Schulze, A Modern History of the Islamic World (New York University Press, 2002)
Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Muslim Politics (Princeton University Press, 2004)
Olivier Roy, Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (C.Hurst, 2004)
Akbar Ahmed, The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam (Brookings Institution Press, 2013)
Fawaz A. Gerges, ISIS: A History (Princeton University Press, 2016).
*A more detailed reading list will be supplied prior to the start of the programme
**Course content, faculty and dates may be subject to change without prior notice