[CFA] THIRD ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT BOOK REVIEW COLLOQUIUM ON ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES at GMU OCTOBER 11, 2019 The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and The Maydan,…
M. Qasim Zaman. Islam in Pakistan: A History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018 | 432 pages. $39.50 hardcover | Reviewed by Mahan Mirza This book is not meant to be read. It is meant to be…
Irfan A. Omar and Michael K. Duffey (eds.). Peacemaking and the Challenge of Violence in World Religions (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015).254 pages. $32.95 paperback. | Reviewed by Chris Gooding. Peacemaking and the Challenge of Violence…
[Book review] Yoav Di-Capua, No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre & Decolonization. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. 336 pages.$35.00. Reviewed by Harald Viersen Published as a monograph, Yoav Di Capua’s study of the stormy…
Scott S. Reese. Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). 212 pages. $105.00 hardcover. Scott Reese’s Imperial Muslims provides a detailed history of Aden under British…
Irfan Ahmad. Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017). 270 pages. $29.95 paperback. Reviewed by Irfan A. Omar, Marquette University. …
Jocelyne Cesari, What is Political Islam? (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers 2018), 232 pages. Hardcover: $65.00 | Reviewed by Shreya Parikh The discontentment generated by Islamic parties in various countries in the aftermath of the…
Stephen F. Dale, The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015). 400 pp, $31.00. In his book, The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the…
Arjana, Sophia Rose. Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices. London: Oneworld Academic, 2017. 228 pages, $24.99 | Reviewed by Kenny Schmitt. Sophia Rose Arjana, in her new book Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern…
Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East. (NY: Basic Books 2016) 512. Pages. Hardcover, $23.00 Reviewed by David Kelly In his book, Eugene Rogan argues that now is…