The New York Review of Books

Pakistan in Peril

February 12, 2009

Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

The Egyptian Connection

October 23, 2008

The Lindisfarne Gospels: Society, Spirituality and the Scribe by Michelle P. Brown

Ritual and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the Dream of the Rood Tradition by Éamonn Ó Carragáin

Word and Image: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art by William J. Diebold

India: The Place of Sex

June 26, 2008

Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India catalog of the 2007 exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, edited by Vidya Dehejia

The Book of Love: The Story of the Kamasutra by James McConnachie

Kamasutra: A New, Complete English Translation of the Sanskrit Text by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar

Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in Its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White

Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful

May 1, 2008

The Arts of Kashmir Catalog by Pratapaditya Pal

A New Deal in Pakistan

April 3, 2008

The Most Magnificent Muslims

November 22, 2007

Goa and the Great Mughal edited by Jorge Flores and Nuno Vassallo e Silva

Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World by Ruby Lal

The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra by Ebba Koch, with drawings byRichard André Barraud

‘The Scandal of Empire’

August 16, 2007

The Venetian Treasure Hunt

July 19, 2007

Venice and the Islamic World,828–1797 Catalog of the exhibition edited by Stefano Carboni

The Question of Empire

July 19, 2007

Plain Tales from British India

April 26, 2007

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour

The Case for India

February 23, 2006

The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen

Inside the Madrasas

December 1, 2005

Islamic Education and Conflict: Understanding the Madrassahs of Pakistan by Saleem H. Ali

Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah by Olivier Roy

The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West by Gilles Kepel, translated from the French by Pascale Ghazaleh

Understanding Terror Networks by Marc Sageman

Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality and Modernity by Faisal Devji

Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India by Yoginder Sikand

India: The War Over History

April 7, 2005

Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India by James W. Laine

Ganesha: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings by Paul Courtright

Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 by Romila Thapar

Beyond Nationalist Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History by Sumit Sarkar

A History of India, Volume 2 by Percival Spear

Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia edited by David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence

The Myth of the Holy Cow by Dwijendra Narayan Jha

History in the New NCERT Textbooks: A Report and Index of Errors by Irfan Habib, Suvira Jaiswal, and Aditya Mukherjee

The Truth About Muslims

November 4, 2004

The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation by Richard Fletcher

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis

In the Lands of the Christians: Arab Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century edited and translated by Nabil Matar

Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery by Nabil Matar

Islam in Britain, 1558–1685 by Nabil Matar

‘Murder in Karachi’: An Exchange

February 12, 2004

Murder in Karachi

December 4, 2003

A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl by Mariane Pearl, with Sarah Crichton

Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated from the French by James X. Mitchell

Disappearing Christians

September 25, 2003

The Body and the Blood: The Middle East’s Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace by Charles M. Sennott