Author: 
Neil Krishan Aggarwal
Reviewer: 
Carol Winkler

Winkler on Aggarwal, 'The Taliban's Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community'

Neil Krishan Aggarwal. The Taliban's Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xix + 211 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17426-8

Author: 
Andrea Brigaglia, Mauro Nobili, eds.
Reviewer: 
Wendell H. Marsh

Marsh on Brigaglia and Nobili, 'The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa'

Andrea Brigaglia, Mauro Nobili, eds. The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 377 pp. $137.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-054140-3.

Reviewed by Wendell H. Marsh (Rutgers University-Newark) Published on H-IslamInAfrica (December, 2022) Commissioned by Saarah Jappie (Social Science Research Council)

Author: 
Glenn E. Robinson
Reviewer: 
Joseph Stieb

Stieb on Robinson, 'Global Jihad: A Brief History'

Glenn E. Robinson. Global Jihad: A Brief History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. xi + 246 pp. $25.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5036-1410-9; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8047-6047-8; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-6046-1.

Reviewed by Joseph Stieb (Naval War College) Published on H-War (July, 2022) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Author: 
Marda Dunsky
Reviewer: 
Victoria Rue

Rue on Dunsky, 'Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience'

Marda Dunsky. Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. 268 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-268-20035-0.

Reviewed by Victoria Rue (San Jose State University) Published on H-Nationalism (July, 2021) Commissioned by Ignat Ayzenberg

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56486

Author: 
SherAli K. Tareen
Reviewer: 
S. Akbar Zaidi

Zaidi on Tareen, 'Defending Muḥammad in Modernity'

SherAli K. Tareen. Defending Muḥammad in Modernity. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. 506 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-268-10670-6.

Reviewed by S. Akbar Zaidi (Columbia University) Published on H-Asia (April, 2021) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)

Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56091

Author: 
Hans Olsson
Reviewer: 
Valentina Bryndina

Bryndina on Olsson, 'Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-)Belonging, Islam, and Nation'

Hans Olsson. Jesus for Zanzibar: Narratives of Pentecostal (Non-)Belonging, Islam, and Nation. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xvi + 291 pp. $192.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-40681-0; $192.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-90-04-41036-7.

Reviewed by Valentina Bryndina (Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences) Published on H-Africa (December, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)

Author: 
G. W. Bowersock
Reviewer: 
Timothy J. Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald on Bowersock, 'The Crucible of Islam'

G. W. Bowersock. The Crucible of Islam. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. 240 pp. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-05776-0.

Reviewed by Timothy J. Fitzgerald (James Madison University) Published on H-Empire (June, 2019) Commissioned by Gemma Masson (University of Birmingham)

Author: 
Emrah Sahin
Reviewer: 
Andrew Patrick

Patrick on Sahin, 'Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire'

Emrah Sahin. Faithful Encounters: Authorities and American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. 264 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-5462-7.

Reviewed by Andrew Patrick (Tennessee State University) Published on H-Diplo (May, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Sarah C. Davis-Secord
Reviewer: 
Theresa Jäckh

Jäckh on Davis-Secord, 'Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean'

Sarah C. Davis-Secord. Where Three Worlds Met: Sicily in the Early Medieval Mediterranean. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. 316 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-0464-2.

Reviewed by Theresa Jäckh (Universitat Konstanz) Published on H-Italy (May, 2019) Commissioned by Peter Sposato (Indiana University Kokomo)

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53350

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