The Arabic book by Pedersen, Johannes 1883-1977

Table of Contents: “…Writing and books in Arabia before Islam -- The Qur'an and Arabic literature -- Composition and transmission of books -- Scribes and booksellers -- Writing materials -- Arabic script; calligraphers -- Book painting -- Bookbinding -- Libraries -- Printed books…”

Islamic civilization in thirty lives the first 1,000 years by Robinson, Chase F.

Table of Contents: “…Arib courtesan of caliphs (890) -- 9.al-Hallaj the Truth (922) -- 10.al-Tabari traditionalist rationalist (923) -- 11.Abu Bakr al-Razi free-thinking physician (925 or 935) -- 12.Ibn Indian intrepid envoy (fl. tenth century) -- 13.Ibn Muqla vizier, scribe, calligrapher? (940) -- 14.Mahmud of Ghazna conqueror and patron (1030) -- 15.al-Biruni cataloguer of nature and culture (c. 1050) -- pt. 3 A Provisional Synthesis 1050--1250 -- 16.Ibn Hazm polemicist, polymath (1064) -- 17.Karima al-Marwaziyya hadith scholar (1070) -- 18.al-Ghazali `Renewer' of Islam (1111) -- 19.Abu al-Qasim Ramisht merchant millionaire (c. 1150) -- 20.al-Idrisi cosmopolitan cartographer (1165) -- 21.Saladin anti-Crusader hero (1193) -- 22.Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Aristotelian monotheist (1198) -- pt. 4 Disruption & Integration 1250--1525 -- 23.Rumi Sufi `poet' (1273) -- 24.Rashid al-Din physician, courtier and global historian (1318) -- 25.al-Hilli paragon of Shi'ism ascendant (1325) -- 26.Ibn Taymiyya stubborn reactionary (1328) -- 27.Timur sheep-rustler, world-conqueror (1405) -- 28.Ibn Khaldun social theorist and historian (1406) -- 29.Mehmed II conqueror and renaissance man (1481) -- 30.Shah Isma'il esoteric charismatic (1524).…”

The perfumed palace Islam's journey from Mecca to Peking by Aldrich, M. A, Nikol, Lukas