Professor Esposito is the author of over two-dozen works, many of which concern Islam. Islam: The Straight Path is an important work that is in its fourth edition. He is editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, and author or co-author of several other important studies: The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, Islam and Democracy (with John Voll), Islam, Gender, and Social Change (with Yvonne Haddad), Islam in Asia, and Voices of Resurgent Islam. Professor Esposito?s lecture inaugurates the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at The School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University.