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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.
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.
AUDA, Jasser (translated and edited by Adil Salahi) A Critique of the Theory of
Abrogation. Markfield: The Islamic Foundation, 2019, 124pp.
BALL, Anna and MATTAR, Karim, The Edinburgh Companion to The Postcolonial
Middle East. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2019, 532pp.
HIJAZI, Abu Tariq, World of Islam: The Chronology of Events of the Last 1430 Years.
Leicester: UK Islamic Academy, 2018, 396pp.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.