Islam + Islamic history

Book Reviews

• Joel Beinin, Joe Stork: Political Islam**
  Essays from Middle East Report
• Juan R. I. Cole: Comparing Muslim Societies
  Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization
• Michael Cook: Forbidding Wrong in Islam*
  - the history of an injunction
• Ross E. Dunn: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
  A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
• John L. Esposito: Islam*
  The Straight Path
• Noah Feldman: After Jihad
  America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
• Robert Irwin: Islamic Art*
  Art, Architecture and the Literary World
• Cemal Kafadar: Between Two Worlds**
  The Construction of the Ottoman State
• Peter Marsden: The Taliban
  War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
• Peter G. Riddell: Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World
  - theology, exegesis, and religious thinkers
• Malise Ruthven, Azim Nanji: Historical Atlas of Islam
  - disappointing: uneven and in places inaccurate
• Svat Soucek: A History of Inner Asia*
  - from the coming of Islam

See also: Christianity | Israel + Judaism | religion