Book Reports

Feb 3
Menocal, Maria Rose, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain 2002.

Feb 10
Goffman, Dan, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe, 2002.

Feb 17
Said, Edward, Orientalism.  1978 and subsequent editions. 
Said, The Edward Said Reader.  2000.

Feb 17
Landau, Jacob, The Politics of Pan-Islam: Ideology and Organization.  Clarendon Press, 1990.

Feb 24
Peters, Rudolph. Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam. Princeton 1996.

Mar 2
Meeker, Michael, A Nation of Empire. The Ottoman legacy of Turkish Modernity. 2002

Mar 2
Cole, Juan, Sacred Space And Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam, 2002.

Mar 16
Metcalf, Barbara, Islamic Revival in British India: The Deobandi Movement, 1860-1890.

Mar 23
Khalid, Adeeb, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform.

Mar 23
Roy, Olivier, The New Central Asia: the Creation of Nations, 2000

Mar 30
Sennott, Charles, The Body and the Blood: the Middle East’s Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace.  2002.

Ap 6
Wickham, Carrie Rosefsky, Mobilizing Islam. Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt.  Columbia, 2002.

Ap 6
Fandy, Mamoun, Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent, 1999. 

Ap 13
Kinzer, Stephen, All the Shah’s Men: an American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.  2003.

Ap 13
Brumberg, Daniel, Reinventing Khomeini: the Struggle for Reform in Iran.  Chicago, 2002. 

Ap 20
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck ed, Muslims in the West.  From Sojourners to Citizens.  Oxford, 2002.

Ap 20
Haddad, ed, Daughters of Abraham.... 2002

Ap 20
Metcalf, Barbara, ed, Making Muslim Space in Europe and North America.  1996.

Ap 20
Kane, Ousmane, Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria. A Study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition. Brill, 2003.