Books & Editions
Critical engagement with new and notable works in Islamic studies, Arabic literature, and adjacent fields.
Review
ed. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥamadānī (Dār al-Minhāj, 2024)
A long-awaited edition that gathers four Maghribī manuscripts, recovering passages absent from the printed vulgate.
Reviewed by Tofael Nuruddin
Review
Salwa El-Awa, Cambridge UP, 2024
A welcome corrective to the assumption that the Qurʾān resists literary description, though some methodological commitments deserve scrutiny.
Reviewed by Faatima Uddin
Review
Khalid el-Rouayheb, Brill, 2023
Detailed prosopography of the late Ottoman ʿulamāʾ that quietly dismantles the ‘decline’ paradigm without ever invoking it.
Reviewed by Syed Ahaz bin Atif