Charlie Gammell

The Prophet & the Pretenders

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

By Barnaby Rogerson

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April 2023 Issue

Malise Ruthven

Original Schism

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

By Toby Matthiesen

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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

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November 2017 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Searching for Sufism

Travels in a Dervish Cloak

By Isambard Wilkinson

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July 2017 Issue

Mona Siddiqui

Koran & Country

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

By James Fergusson

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February 2017 Issue

Eric Ormsby

Righteous Reformations

The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason

By Christopher de Bellaigue

July 1982 Issue

Doris Lessing

Sufic Searches

Seeker After Truth

By Idries Shah

A Book of Wisdom and Lies

By Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani

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March 2003 Issue

Hazhir Teimourian

Priests And Mullahs

The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation

By Richard Fletcher

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October 2014 Issue

Malise Ruthven

There Be Vipers

Mecca: The Sacred City

By Ziauddin Sardar

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April 2011 Issue

Malise Ruthven

Rebel with A Cause

Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

By John Calvert

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February 2011 Issue

Jason Burke

In the Line of Fire

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline Between Christianity and Islam

By Eliza Griswold

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May 2009 Issue

John Cornwell

A Dig at Ditchkins

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

By Terry Eagleton

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February 2009 Issue

Hazhir Teimourian

The Caliphate Strikes Back

Khomeini’s Ghost: Iran since 1979

By Con Coughlin

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December 2008 Issue

Hazhir Teimourian

Over A Barrel

Prophets and Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present

By Mark Weston

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July 2008 Issue

Michael Burleigh

War Without End?

Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

By Ahmed Rashid

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July 2008 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

This Is What Bombs Do

Into the Darkness: An Account of 7/7

By Peter Zimonjic

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September 2008 Issue

Anton La Guardia

1979 and All That

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

By Lawrence Freedman

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April 2008 Issue

Tom Holland

To Be Frank…

God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570–1215

By David Levering Lewis

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December 2007 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Where It All Began

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising

By Yaroslav Trofimov

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April 2007 Issue

Michael Burleigh

The Long War

Warrant for Terror: The Fatwas of Radical Islam and the Duty of Jihad

By Shmuel Bar

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