For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Islam

November 2025 Issue

David Abulafia

Nomadic Knowledge

Crucible of Light: Islam and the Forging of Europe from the 8th to the 21st Century

By Elizabeth Drayson

March 2024 Issue

Lucy Moore

Escape to Mecca

Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan

By Ruby Lal

February 2024 Issue

C P W Gammell

The Prophet & the Pretenders

The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

By Barnaby Rogerson

April 2023 Issue

Malise Ruthven

Original Schism

The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism

By Toby Matthiesen

June 2021 Issue

Sameer Rahim

Fear & Loathing in Alum Rock

Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain

By Ed Husain

December 2019 Issue

Barnaby Crowcroft

Sanctioned by Sharia?

Slavery & Islam

By Jonathan A C Brown

October 2019 Issue

Malise Ruthven

From Cordoba to Kabul

Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization

By Justin Marozzi

David Pryce-Jones

Among the Muslims who Are Not Arabs

Beyond Belief

By V S Naipaul

July 2019 Issue

Eric Ormsby

Straw Men in Mufti

Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750

By Noel Malcolm

June 2019 Issue

Raffaello Pantucci

Fatwas & Fried Chicken

Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton

By Ashraf Hoque

July 2002 Issue

M E Yapp

The Lure of Comfort

What Went Wrong? The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

By Bernard Lewis

July 2018 Issue

Ramita Navai

Faith & Finery

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress

By Elizabeth Bucar

June 2018 Issue

Hugh Kennedy

Zealous Minds

Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North

By William R Polk

November 2017 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Searching for Sufism

Travels in a Dervish Cloak

By Isambard Wilkinson

July 2017 Issue

Mona Siddiqui

Koran & Country

Al-Britannia, My Country: A Journey through Muslim Britain

By James Fergusson

April 2017 Issue

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Handing over the Keys to Paradise

The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End

By Elizabeth Drayson

February 2017 Issue

Eric Ormsby

Righteous Reformations

The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason

By Christopher de Bellaigue

November 2016 Issue

David Patrikarakos

Progression through Regression

Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea

By Shiraz Maher

October 2016 Issue

Jason Burke

Raising the Black Flag

United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists

By Peter Bergen

The Caliphate

By Hugh Kennedy

April 2016 Issue

Robert Irwin

Eastern Promises

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

By Jerry Brotton