Paul M. Cobb. The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 360 pp. $31.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-935811-3.
Reviewed by Ann Zimo (Albright Institute) Published on H-Mideast-Medieval (March, 2016) Commissioned by Christine D. Baker
New Insight on Muslim Views of the Crusades: Review of Cobb's "Race for Paradise"
Stephennie Mulder. Shrines of the 'Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi'is and the Architecture of Coexistence. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. 320 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7486-4579-4.
Reviewed by Megan Boomer (University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Mideast-Medieval (February, 2016) Commissioned by Christine D. Baker
Kenneth Garden. The First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and His Revival of the Religious Sciences. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 256 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-998962-1.
Reviewed by Sam Houston (Department of Religion - Florida State University) Published on H-Mideast-Medieval (August, 2015) Commissioned by Christine D. Baker
Al-Ghazālī the Ascetic Orthodox Sufi or the Philosophically Inclined Revivalist? A Reassessment
