10 best-selling history books like Islam and Blackness by Jonathan A.C. Brown

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Islam and Blackness

By: Jonathan A.C. Brown

3.77

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The most comprehensive examination to date of the claim that Islam, as a system of scripture, law a…

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1. The Road to Mecca

By: None , Muhammad Asad

4.48

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary and beautifully-written autobiography, Asad tells of his initial rejection of… read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • islam
"سر الصحفي الناجح والناضج: أن يكتب بموضوعية عما يراه ويسمعه، ويفكر دون أن يخلط كل ذلك مباشرة بخبراته وآراءه الشخصية والذاتية"

-None, The Road to Mecca

"Batılı geçmişi bulanık, uzak bir düş sanki; büsbütün unutamayacağım kadar reel, ama şimdinin bir parçası olamayacak kadar da realitenin dışında."

-None, The Road to Mecca

"لو احتفظ المسلمون برباطة جأشهم، وقبلوا التقدم كوسائل لا غايات، لن يستعيدوا فقط حريتهم الداخلية، بل ربما ينقلون للمواطن الغربي السر المفقود لحلاوة الحياة"

-None, The Road to Mecca

"It was not the philosophers and the prophets who taught us to believe in life after death; all they did was give form and spiritual content to an instinctive perception as old as man himself."

-None, The Road to Mecca

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2. The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

Centuries after the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity - railroads, electric s… read more

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3. Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Hardcover

Shadows of Selfshows Mistborn's society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, de… read more

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4. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

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  • history

5. The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn, #6)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

With The Alloy of Lawand Shadows of Self, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times… read more

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6. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • history
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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7. Season of Migration to the North

By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies

3.72

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more

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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"

-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."

-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."

-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"

-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

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8. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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9. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

By: Jack Weatherford

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more

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  • history
"The first key to leadership is self-control."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"

-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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10. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

By: Mike Duncan

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • religion
  • history
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12. Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement

By: Cole M. Bunzel

4.28

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State In the mid-eighteen… read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • islam
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13. A Thinking Person’s Guide to Islam

By: Ghazi bin Muhammad

4.43

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The world is at a crossroads today. A tiny minority of Muslims seems to be bent on hijacking the re… read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • islam
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14. The Word: On the Translation of the Bible

By: John Barton

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Bible is held to be both universal and specific, the source of fundamental truths inscribed in … read more

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  • religion
  • history
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15. Islam and Blackness

By: Jonathan A.C. Brown

3.77

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The most comprehensive examination to date of the claim that Islam, as a system of scripture, law a… read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • islam
  • race

6 must-read religion books like Islam and Blackness by Jonathan A.C. Brown

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The Road to Mecca

None , Muhammad Asad

4.48

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement

Cole M. Bunzel

4.28

Transform Your Habits

A Thinking Person’s Guide to Islam

Ghazi bin Muhammad

4.43

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14 Top history books like The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

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Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Adam Zamoyski

4.35

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The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

4.13

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July 1914: Countdown to War

Sean McMeekin

3.68

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