Muslims

Tahseen Shams. Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. xii + 247 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-1069-9.

Reviewed by Ashvina Patel (Southern Methodist University) Published on H-Diplo (February, 2022) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Danielle Ross. Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 288 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04571-3.

Reviewed by Agnes Kefeli (Arizona State University) Published on H-Russia (March, 2021) Commissioned by Eva M. Stolberg (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Kelly A. Hammond. China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 314 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-5965-7.

Reviewed by Seok-Won Lee (Rhodes College) Published on H-War (March, 2021) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

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Judith Surkis. Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xv + 335 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3949-1; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-3950-7. 

Julia Anne Stephens. Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiii + 220 pp. $28.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-62628-3.

Reviewed by David Gilmartin (North Carolina State University) Published on H-Asia (May, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)

Christophe Picard. Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. 416 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-66046-5.

Reviewed by Stefan Kamola (Eastern Connecticut State University) Published on H-Asia (August, 2019) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)

Nikolay Antov. The Ottoman "Wild West": The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 342 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18263-9.

Reviewed by Nathan Michalewicz (George Mason University) Published on H-War (December, 2020) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Air University)

Christophe Picard. Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. 416 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-66046-5.

Reviewed by Ann Zimo (University of New Hampshire) Published on H-Medieval (July, 2019) Commissioned by Irene Jacobs

Scott Steven Reese. Imperial Muslims: Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. ix + 212 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7486-9765-6.

Reviewed by Nurfadzilah Yahaya (National University of Singapore) Published on H-IslamInAfrica (January, 2019) Commissioned by Saarah Jappie (University of the Witwatersrand)

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 Matthew King (University of Minnesota) Published on H-War (January, 2016) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey