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Books Received
It should be noted that acknowledgement of receipt of these books is no guarantee
of review. However, efforts will be made to review them in subsequent issues.

ABDUR RAHIM, V., I am Proud to be a Muslim. Leicester: UK Islamic Academy,

2018, 109pp.

ALAM, Mohammad Manzoor, Perspectives: Selected writings of Dr Mohammad

Manzoor Alam. New Delhi: Institute of Objective Studies, 2018, 440pp.

ALMOND, Philip C., God: A New Biography. London and New York: I.B. Tauris,
2018, 274pp.

ANAS, Abdullah, with Tam Hussain, My Life in Jihad: From Algeria to Afghanistan.
London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2019, 345pp.

ARSAN, Andrew, Lebanon: A Country in Fragments. London: C. Hurst & Co.

Ltd., 2018, 518pp.

AUDA, Jasser (translated and edited by Adil Salahi) A Critique of the Theory of
Abrogation. Markfield: The Islamic Foundation, 2019, 124pp.

AYLISLI, Akram, Farewell, Aylis: A Non-Traditional Novel in Three Works (translated

by Katherine E. Young, edited by Rebecca Ruth Gould). Brighton, USA:
Academic Studies Press, 2018, 316pp.

BALL, Anna and MATTAR, Karim, The Edinburgh Companion to The Postcolonial
Middle East. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2019, 532pp.

BARLAS, Asma, Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of

the Qur’an. (Revised edition) London: Saqi Books, 2019, 333pp.

BASKIN, Gershon, In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine. Nashville, Tennessee:

Vanderbilt University Press, 2017, 286pp.

BAUDEN, Frederic and DEKKICHE, Malika, Mamluk Cairo, A Crossroads for

Embassies: Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics. Leiden: Brill, 2019, 881pp.

BONNEYFOY, Laurent, Yemen and the World: Beyond Insecurity (translated by

Cynthia Schoch). London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2018, 234pp.
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CLAYER, Nathalie, BOUGAREL, Xavier, Europe’s Balkan Muslims: A New History

(translated by Andrew Kirby). London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2017, 285pp.

D’HUBERT, Thibaut and PAPAS, Alexandre, Jami in Regional Contexts: The

Reception of ‘Abd al-Rahman Jami’s Works in the Islamicate World, ca. 9th/15th-
14th/20th Century. Leiden: Brill, 2019, 847pp.

ELLIOTT, Christopher L, High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq

and Afghanistan Wars. London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2017, 303pp.

EZER, Ozlem, Syrian Women Refugees: Personal Accounts of Transition. Jefferson,

North Carolina: McFarland and Company Ltd., 2019, 177pp.

HIJAZI, Abu Tariq, World of Islam: The Chronology of Events of the Last 1430 Years.
Leicester: UK Islamic Academy, 2018, 396pp.

KENNEY, Michael, The Islamic State in Britain: Radicalization and Resilience in

an Activist Network. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
2018, 287pp.

KETTLE, Louise, Learning from the History of British Interventions in the Middle
East. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018, 296pp.

KHALID, Fazlun M., Signs on the Earth: Islam, Modernity and Climate Crisis.
Markfield: Kube Publishing Ltd., 2019, 249pp.

LAWSON, Todd, Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran

Commentary: Tafsir Surat Al-Baqara of Sayyid ‘Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Báb
(1819–1850). Leiden: Brill, 2019, 210pp.

LUDERS, Michael, Blowback: How the West f*cked up the Middle East (and why it
was a bad idea). Tiverton: Old Street Publishing Ltd., 2017, 151pp.

MAHADEVAN, Prem, Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia: Militancy, Politics

and Security. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018, 267pp.

MAWDUDI, Sayyid Abul A‘la, Issues in Islamic Society and State. Markfield: The
Islamic Foundation, 2019, 226pp.

McHUGO, John, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi‘is. London, Saqi Books,
2017, 347pp.

MERAL, Ziya, How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East
and Africa. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 217pp.
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MURPHY, Philip, The Empire’s New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth.
London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2018, 282pp.

NETTON, Ian, Richard, Islam, Christianity and the Realms of the Miraculous.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 292pp.

PINK, Johanna, Muslim Qur’anic Interpretation Today: Media, Genealogies and

Interpretive Communities. Sheffield, Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing Ltd.,
2019, 322pp.

PLATTEAU, Jean-Phillipe, Islam Instrumentalized: Religion, Politics in Historical

Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 528pp.

PRUNCKUN Henry and WHITFORD, Troy, Terrorism and Counterterrorism:

A Comprehensive Introduction to Actors and Actions. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2019, 269pp.

QANDIL, Mohamed Mansi, A Cloudy Day on a Western Shore (translated by

Barbara Romain). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2018, 371pp.

RAGHAVAN, T.C.A, The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations
with Pakistan. London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2019, 347pp.

RIECK, Andreas T., The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority.
London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd, (paperback edition 2018, first published in
hardback 2015), 288pp.

ROBINSON, William I, GRIFFIN, Maryam S, We Will Not Be Silenced: The

Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics. London: Pluto Press, 2017, 222pp.

RUBIN, Jared, Rulers, Religion and Riches: Why the West got rich and the Middle East
Did not. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 273pp.

SALAHI, Adil, (translator and editor) Sahih Muslim: With the Full Commentary
by Imam al-Nawawi. Markfield: The Islamic Foundation and ICMG Australia,
2019, 376pp.

TANNOUS, Jack, The Making of the Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple
Believers. Princeton and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2018, 647pp.

THURSTON, Alexander, Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching and Politics.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 284pp.
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ULRICHSEN, Kristian Coates (ed.), The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian
Gulf. London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2017, 271pp.

VAN ESS, Josef, Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra:
A History of Religious Thought in Early Islam (Volume 4). Leiden: Brill, 2019, 821pp.

VAN NIEUWKERK, Karin, Moving In and Out of Islam. Austin, TX: University
of Texas Press, 2018, 432pp.

VIGNAL, Leïla, The Transnational Middle East: People, Places, Borders. Abingdon
and New York: Routledge, 2017, 288pp.

VOM BRUCK, Gabriele, Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman’s Life Story. London: C.
Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2018, 289pp.

WERHAS, Mario, MIKULČIČ, Božidar, Handschar: 13th SS Mountain Division.

Zagreb: Despot infinitus, 2018, 133pp.

XAVIER, Merin Shobhana, Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American

Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyadeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures. London: Bloomsbury
Academic, 2018, 267pp.

YASMEEN, Samina, Jihad and Dawah: Evolving Narratives of Lashkar-e-Taiba and

Jamat ud Dawah. London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2017, 315pp.

YOUNG, Alden, Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development,

and State Formation. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
2018, 180pp.