From the July 2019 Issue Straw Men in Mufti Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750 By Noel Malcolm LR
From the February 2017 Issue Righteous Reformations The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason By Christopher de Bellaigue
From the August 2016 Issue A Silk Road of the Mind Nearer the Heart’s Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat – A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald By Robert D Richardson
From the May 2016 Issue Eastern Reflections Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene By Hamid Dabashi LR
From the December 2014 Issue Jinn Fizz Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange: The First English Translation of a Medieval Arab Fantasy Collection By Malcolm C Lyons (trans) & introduced by Robert Irwin LR
From the May 2011 Issue Late Bloom The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life By Harold Bloom LR
From the August 2014 Issue Studying the Sharia Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy By Jonathan A C Brown LR
From the December 2011 Issue Stories Told in Bed Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights By Marina Warner Visions of the Jinn: Illustrators of the Arabian Nights By Robert Irwin LR
From the December 2012 Issue The Imaged Word Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam By Jamal J Elias LR
From the August 2013 Issue Found in Translation The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the ‘People of the Book' in the Language of Islam By Sidney H Griffith LR
From the November 2013 Issue Making a Prophet The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad By Lesley Hazleton
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