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NONFICTION

FINGERPRINTS OF GOD

by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

A commendable, witty attempt to ground spirituality in established fact that will provide deeper understanding to people of... Full review >

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NONFICTION

THE REVENGE OF GOD

by Gilles Kepel

Belongs alongside Martin Marty and R. Scott Appleby's The Glory and the Power (1992) as a notable study of orthodoxy and its... Full review >

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HISTORY

THE CRISIS OF ISLAM

by Bernard Lewis

Expanded from Lewis’s prizewinning New Yorker commentary following 9/11: an illuminating brief overview of Islam today. Full review >

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CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES

ISLAM IN THE MODERN WORLD

by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Scholarly appendices (e.g., traditional texts used in the Persian madrasas) give an idea of the erudite, wide-ranging... Full review >

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NONFICTION

MILITANT ISLAM REACHES AMERICA

by Daniel Pipes

Highly controversial, at times inflammatory—but worthy of attention and debate in a time of crisis. Full review >

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NONFICTION

THE EVOLUTION OF GOD

by Robert Wright

Offers little new scholarship, but the in-depth approach yields original insights. Full review >

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