История Бога: 4000 лет исканий в иудаизме, христианстве и исламе

Murray, Robert,Symbols of Church and Kingdom, A Study in Early Syriac Tradition (Cambridge, 1975).

Pannikkar, Raimundo,The Trinity and the Religious Experience of Man. A brilliant book, which links Trinitarian theology with other religious traditions.

Pelikan, Jaroslav,The Christian Tradition, A History of the Development of Doctrine, 5 vols. An indispensable series. For this period:

I: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600) (Chicago and London, 1971).

II: The Spirit of the Eastern Tradition (600–1700) (Chicago and London, 1974). For Maximus the Confessor.

III: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600–1300) (Chicago and London, 1978). For Anselm of Canterbury and the Latin understanding of Trinity and Christology.

Prestige, G. L.,God in Patristic Thought (London, 1952). Particularly helpful on the technical Greek terms.

Williams, Rowan,

Arius, Heresy and Tradition (London, 1987).

Пророк Мухаммад и ислам

Andrae, Tor,Mohammed, the Man and his Faith (trans. Theophil Menzel, London, 1936). Some of this is outdated, but there are useful insights.

Armstrong, Karen,Muhammad, a Biography of the Prophet (London, 1991, and San Francisco, 1992).

Gimaret, Daniel,Les Noms Divins en Islam: Exégèse Lexicographique et Thé ologique (Paris, 1988).

Hodgson, Marshall G. S.,The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilisation, 3 vols. (Chicago and London, 1974).

Far more than a history of Islam: Hodgson sets the development of the tradition in a universal context. Essential reading.

Jafri, H. M.,Origins and Early Development of Shia Islam

(London, 1981).

Lings, Martin,Muhammad, His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (London, 1983).

Khan, Muhammad Zafrulla,Islam, Its Meaning for Modern Man (London, 1962).

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. An inspiring Iranian scholar. Highly recommended.

Ideals and Realities of Islam (London, 1971).

Islamic Spirituality, 2 vols. I: Foundation (London and New York, 1987).

II: Manifestations(London and New York, 1991).

Rahman, Fazlur,

Islam (Chicago, 1979). Perhaps the best one-volume study.

Rodinson, Maxime,Mohammad (trans. Anne Carter, London, 1971). A secularist interpretation by a Marxist scholar.

Ruthven, Malise,Islam and the World (London, 1984).

Von Grunebaum, G. E.,Classical Islam, A History (600–1258) (trans. Katherine Watson, London, 1970).

Watt, W. Montgomery. Useful books by a prolific author:

Muhammad at Mecca (Oxford, 1953).

Muhammad at Medina (Oxford, 1956).

Islam and the Integration of Society (London, 1961).

Muhammad’s Mecca: History and the Quran (Edinburgh, 1988).

Wensinck, A. J.,

The Muslim Creed, Its Genesis and Historical Development (Cambridge, 1932). A fascinating work of scholarship.

Фалсафа, калам и богословие в Средневековье

Al-Farabi,Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (trans. and introduced by Muhsin Mahdi, Glencoe, III., 1962). An excellent presentation of the Faylasufs’ position.

Corbin, Henri,Histoire de la philosophie islamique(Paris, 1964).

Fakhry, Majid,A History of Islamic Philosophy (New York and London, 1970). A scholarly and readable account to the present day which includes theological developments.

Gilson, Etienne,The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy (London, 1936).

Guttmann, Julius,Philosophies of Judaism; The History of Jewish Philosophy from Biblical Times to Franz Rosenzweig (London and New York, 1964). Essential reading.