Some E-books on Islam from the Internet (Mostly Christian)

Suffice to say that there is something here to offend most everyone. Nevertheless, this is a small sample of the free resources about Islam available on the Internet for download.

Two parallel websites to visit are Answering Islam and Answering Christianity

1. Quran:

Sale and Wherry, Comprehensive Commentary On the Quran:
Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4

Maulana Muhammad Ali, The Holy Quran, 1917 First Edition

Marmaduke William Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran

Edward Sell, Historical Development of the Quran

W. St. Clair Tisdale, Original Sources of the Koran

Maulana Muhammad Ali, Divine Origin of the Holy Quran

2. Traditions:

William Goldsack, Selections from Mohammadan Traditions

Maulana Muhammad Ali, A Manual of Hadith

3. Muhammad:

D.S. Margoliouth, Mohammed and the Rise of Islam

Edward Sell, The Life of Muhammad

James L. Merrick, Life and Religion of Mohammed

W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammed: Prophet and Statesman

W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad at Medina

4. Islamic History:

Robert Payne, The Holy Sword

Arthur Wollaston, The Sword of Islam

5. General Islam:

Maulana Mohammad Ali, Religion of Islam

Ignacz Goldziher, Mohammed and Islam

Edward Sell, The Faith of Islam

L. Bevan Jones, The People of the Mosque

Duncan Black Macdonald, Aspects of Islam

Duncan Black Macdonald, Religious Attitude and Life in Islam

Duncan Black Macdonald, Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Theory

W. St. Clair Tisdale, A Manual of the Leading Mohammadan Objections to Christianity

For Your Textual Critical Geek

It might be your own inner textual critical geek, or someone you like. Long announced, the book finally showed up with a November 2008 release date on Amazon  and CBD during a recent search.

I’m curious to see this because these sort of commentaries are few and far between, usually found in footnotes of technical commentaries or discussed at length in works written by textual critics for textual critics. Something more layman-friendly would be a welcome and useful work.

Still, I wonder exactly what the contents will be. The blurb makes it sound like a combination of two previous Comfort volumes, Encountering the Manuscripts and Early Manuscripts and Modern Translations of the New Testament. It’s the book’s advertised size that puzzles me. At 750-800 pages, that’s many more pages than the previous works above.

Anyway, here’s one to take note of for the future.