Muhammad and the caliphate : political history of the Islamic empire up to the Mongol conquest / Fred M. Donner -- Fruit of the tree of knowledge : the relationship between faith and practice in Islam / Vincent J. Cornell -- Law and society : the interplay of revelation and reason in the Shariah / Mohammad Hashim Kamali -- Science, medicine, and technology : the making of a scientific culture / Ahmad Dallal -- Art and architecture : themes and variations / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom -- Philosophy and theology : from the eighth century C.E. to the present / Majid Fakhry -- Islam and Christendom : historical, cultural, and religious interaction from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries / Jane I. Smith -- Sultanates and gunpowder empires : the Middle East / Ira M. Lapidus -- The eastward journey of Muslim kingship : Islam in South and Southeast Asia / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Central Asia and China : transnationalization, Islamization, and ethnicization / Dru C. Gladney -- Islam in Africa to 1800 : merchants, chiefs, and saints / Nehemia Levtzion -- Foundations for renewal and reform : Islamic movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / John Obert Voll -- European colonialism and the emergence of modern Muslim states / S.V.R. Nasr -- The globalization of Islam : the return of Muslims to the West / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Contemporary Islam : reformation or revolution? / John L. Esposito.