From the March 2003 Issue Priests And Mullahs The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation By Richard Fletcher LR
From the June 2003 Issue Was It Every Right? The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror By Bernard Lewis Infidels: The Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, 638-2002 By Andrew Wheatcroft LR
From the August 2003 Issue Wise Words What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live By A C Grayling LR
From the September 2003 Issue Anatomy of a Terrorist Al-Qaeda: Casting A Shadow Of Terror By Jason Burke LR
From the November 2003 Issue In The Steppes of Curzon The New Great Game: Blood and Oil In Central Asia By Lutz Kleveman LR
From the December 2003 Issue The BBC Tribe at War The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad By John Simpson LR
From the April 2004 Issue No Two Sides to Genocide The Burning Tigris: A History of the Armenian Genocide By Peter Balakian LR
From the May 2004 Issue Conquest In Double Time The Iraq War By John Keegan In The Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq By Rick Atkinson LR
From the June 2004 Issue A Historian Read by Both Sides From Babel To Dragomans: Interpreting The Middle East By Bernard Lewis LR
From the August 2004 Issue Revolution And Reform In The Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran By Christopher de Bellaigue LR
From the December 2004 Issue Mummies In The Closet The Court of the Caliphs: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty By Hugh Kennedy LR
From the July 2010 Issue Backgammon Vs the Sword Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah’s Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan By Nicholas Jubber LR
From the October 2009 Issue A Tale of Two Peoples The Persians: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Iran By Homa Katouzian Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King who Became an Iranian Legend By David Blow LR
From the April 2009 Issue The Decline and Fall of the Peacock Throne The Life and Times of the Shah By Gholam Reza Afkhami LR
From the February 2009 Issue The Caliphate Strikes Back Khomeini’s Ghost: Iran since 1979 By Con Coughlin LR
From the December 2008 Issue Over A Barrel Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present By Mark Weston LR
From the November 2007 Issue Khayyamania A Book of Verse: The Biography of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam By Garry Garrard The Art of Omar Khayyam: Illustrating FitzGerald’s Rubaiayat By William H Martin and Sandra Mason LR
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