Five Best - Understanding Muslims

OpinionJournal - Five Best

Sense of Ummah
These books are essential to understanding Islam.

BY KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE
Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:00 a.m. EST

1. "Islam" by Vartan Gregorian (Brookings, 2003).
2. "Muhammad" by Karen Armstrong (HarperCollins, 1992).
3. "What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis (Oxford, 2002).
4. "The Koran Interpreted" translated by A.J. Arberry (Macmillan, 1955).
5. "Wahhabi Islam" by Natana J. Delong-Bas (Oxford, 2004).