SPREAD OF ISLAM IN THE WEST A Select Annotated Bibliography DISSERTATION Sabmitted in partial fulfilment of the requiremenu for the award of the degree of maittx of Hibrarp anb Snformatton ^titmt 1995-% BY MOHD, SALMAN MAJID Roll No. 95 LSM • 17 Enrol. No. V - 3449 Under the Supervision of MR. S. HASAN ZAMARRUD (READER) DEPARTMENT OP LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE ALIOARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY AUOARH (INDIAI 1996 •n L;Q. ' -t« 'C DS2880 CONTENTS Page No. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i-ii AIMS AND SCOPE iii-vii PART ONE INTRODUCTION 1-90 LIST OF PERIODICALS SCANNED 91-92 PART TWO BIBLIOGRAPHY 93-242 PART THREE INDEX 243-259 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to place on record my everlasting gratitudes to Almighty Allah, the most merciful, the most benevolent, who provided me all the strength and guidance for the timely compelition of this dissertation. I wish to express my sincere and heartiest gratitudes to my teacher and supervisor Mr. S. Hasan Zamarrud, Reader, Department of Library & Information Science, A.M.U. who devoted his precious time and encouraged me to bring out this bibliography in the present form. I am highly thankful to him for his helpful suggestions and comments in checking the original work. I am also grateful to Hr.Shabahat Husain, Chairman, Department of Library & Information Science, A.M.U. and Mr. S.M.K.Q.Zaidi, Reader, Department of Library & Information Science, A.M.U. who inspired me and gave me valuable guidance and cooperation whenever needed throughout the study period. I am also thankful to all the Heads of different Departments and Institutes who allowed me to use the resources available in their respective Departments and Institutes. I am very much indebted to Mr. A.R. Kidwai, Reader, Department of English, A.M.U. for his kind help and guidance in collecting the material on my topic. In fact, without his help it was not possible for me to 11 search out the material. I am highly obliged to Mr. Naved Khan and Mr. Ajmal Ghory, who provided me with the sufficient matter in accomplishing the dissertation. My special thanks are due to my colleagues Mr. Rashld, Mr. Saleem Adil Zargar, Mr. M. Ajmal Ansari and Mr. M. Junaid for their necessary help and support as well as the material. I would like to thank some of the friends Mr. Dilshad, Mr. Mansoor Khan and Mr. Misba-ul-Islam, who guided me properly and put my morale high. I am greatly indebted to all those writers and publishers whose works I have consulted for making the study an authoritative one. MOHD. SALMAN MAJID Ill INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY AIMS AND SCOPE In recent times, Islam is spreading all over the world particularly in the West. Much has been written in distinct periodicals. Several new Muslims have also expressed their views before and after embracing Islam. Everybody intends to read and know about the spread of Islam in the West. The present study contains in the form of annotated bibliography, resembles together some of the significant literature dealing with the spread of Islam in the West. Although the bibliography is selective in nature but exhaustive and an attempt has been made to cover all important aspects of the subject. I am confident that the bibliography will be useful to all those who have some interest in the subject of the spread of Islam in the West. The bibliography is divided in to three parts: Part one deals with the description of the work. Part two is the main part consisting of an annotated list of 202 articles on the subject. Part three, however, deals with the combined author and title index. LIBRARIES VISITED The primary sources were consulted in the followina IV 1. American Center Library, New Delhi. 2. Maulana Azad Library, A.M.U. 3. British Council Library, New Delhi. 4. Indian Institute of Islamic Studies Library, New Delhi. 5. Inspite of Islamic Studies Library, A.M.U. 6. The Muslim Association for the Advancement of Science, Ahmed Nagar, Aligarh. METHODOLOGY The procedure followed in preparing the bibliography was follows: i. The secondary source 'Index India' was consulted in Maulana Azad Library and 'Periodica Islamica' was consulted in Ahmed Nagar Library for finding the location, ii. The relevant bibliographical details work noted on 7"x5" cards following ISI standards, iii. On completion of the abstracts, subject headings were assigned, iv. The subject headings are arranged in an alphabetical sequence (letter - by - letter). V. In the end, combined author and title index, providing reference to various entries by their respective numbers is also given, vi. Alphabetical list of periodicals with their frequency and place of publications is also given. V SUBJECT HEADINGS Attempt has been made to give co-extensive subject headings as much as possible and allowed by natural language, if more than one entry comes under the same subject headings, these are arranged alphabetically by author(s) name(s). STANDARD FOLLO?«ID The Indian standard recommanded for bibliographical references (IS:2381 - 1963) has been followed. In certain cases where the said standard became unhelpful, I have preferred my own judgement. ARRANGEMENT The entries in this bibliography are arrange strictly alphabetically among the subject headings. If more than one entry comes under the same subject headings, they are arranged alphetically by author(s) name(s). The items of the bibliographical references for each entry of the periodical articles are arranged as follows: i. Serial number ii. Name of the author(s) iii. A fullstop (.) iv. Title of the article including sub-title, if any V. A fullstop (.) vi. Title of the periodical (underlined) VI vii. A fullstop (.) viii. Volume number ix. A comma (,) X. Issue number xi. Semi-colon (;) xii. Year xiii. A comma (,) xiv. Month XV. A Comma (,) xvi. Date, if any xvii. Semi-Colon (;) xviii. Inclusive pages of the article xix. A fullstop (.) SPECIMEN ENTRY IRVING (TB). Spain under Muslim Rule. Muslim World League Journal. 22, 4; 1994, September; 33-8. EXPLANATION This article entitled * Spain Under Muslim Rule' written by T.B. Irving has been taken from issue number 4 of the 22nd volume of Muslim World League Journal, published in the month of September of the 1994. The article is given from page number 3 3 to 38. Vll ABSTRACT The entries in bibliography contain abstracts giving the essential information about the articles documented. I have given indicative abstracts as well as informative abstract. After searching the literature, entries were recorded on 7"x5" cards. INDEX Bibliography contains author and title index combined. Index guides to the specific entry or entries in the bibliogrpahy. P^RT - ORE INTAODUaiON 1 INTRODUCTION THE MEANING OF ISLAM Islam is an Arabic and connotes submission, surrender and obedience. As a religion, Islam stands for complete submission and obedience to Allah. Every one can see that we live in an orderly universe, where everything is assigned a place in a grand scheme. The moon, the stars and the heavenly bodies are knit together in a magnificent system. They follow unalterable laws and make not even the slightest deviation from their ordained courses. Similarly, everything in the world, from the minute whirling electron to the mighty nebulae, invariably follows its own laws. Matter, energy and life - all obey their laws and grow and change and live and die in accordance with those laws. Even in the human world the laws of nature are paramount. Man's birth, growth and life are all regulated by a set of biological laws. he derives sustenance from nature in accordance with an unalterable law. All the organs of his body, from the smallest tissues to the heart and the brain, are governed by the laws prescribed for them. In short ours is a law-governed universe and everything in it is following the course that has been ordained for it. Every religion of the world has been named either after its founder or after the community or nation in L which it was born. For instance, Christianity takes its name from its prophet jesus Christ; Buddhism from its founder, Gautama Buddha; Zoroastrianism from its founder Zoroaster; and Judaism, the religion of the Hews, from the name of the tribe Judah (of the country of Judea) where it originated. The same is true of all other religions except Islam, which enjoys the unique distinction of having no such association with any particular person or people or country. Nor is it the product of any human mind. it is a universal religion and its objective is to create and cultivate in man the quality and attitude of Islam. Islam, in fact, is an attributive title. Anyone who possesses this attribute, whatever race, community, country or group he belongs to, is a Muslim. According to the Qur'an (the Holy Book of the Muslims), among every people and in all ages there have been good and righteous people who possessed this attribute - and all of them were and are Muslims. This is the Islamic world view, and its concept of men and women and their destiny. Islam is not a religion in the Western understanding of the word. It is an once a faith and a way of life, a religion and a social order, a doctrine and a code of conduct, a set of values and principles and a social movement to realize them in history. :i The uniqueness of Islamic culture lies in its values and principles. When Muslims, after an illustrious historical career, became ob ivious of this fact and became obsessed with the manifestations of their culture, as against its sources, they could not even fully protect the house they had built.