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Malise Ruthven is the author of Islam in the World and Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning, among other books. He recently edited Carving Up the Globe: An Atlas of Diplomacy. (February 2019)
The Otherworldliness of Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
by Robert Irwin
February 7, 2019 issue
God on Our Side
Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North
by William R. Polk
June 28, 2018 issue
The Islamic Road to the Modern World
Christopher de Bellaigue’s ‘The Islamic Enlightenment’ and Wael Abu-‘Uksa’s ‘Freedom in the Arab World’
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times
by Christopher de Bellaigue
Freedom in the Arab World: Concepts and Ideologies in Arabic Thought in the Nineteenth Century
by Wael Abu-‘Uksa
June 22, 2017 issue
The Caliphate: From Grand to Sordid
Caliphate: The History of an Idea
by Hugh Kennedy
Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea
by Shiraz Maher
The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory
by Brian H. Fishman
January 19, 2017 issue
How to Understand ISIS
‘The New Arab Wars’ by Marc Lynch and ‘ISIS: A History’ by Fawaz Gerges
The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East
by Marc Lynch
ISIS: A History
by Fawaz A. Gerges
June 23, 2016 issue
Inside Obedient Islamic Minds
The New Threat: The Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy
by Jason Burke
The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century
by Henri Lauzière
Inside the Brotherhood
by Hazem Kandil
April 7, 2016 issue
Inside the Islamic State
Abdel Bari Atwan’s ‘Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate’
Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate
by Abdel Bari Atwan
July 9, 2015 issue
What Happened to the Arab Spring?
The Second Arab Awakening: And the Battle for Pluralism
by Marwan Muasher
The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising
by Gilbert Achcar, translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian
July 10, 2014 issue
Terror: The Hidden Source
Akbar Ahmed's 'The Thistle and the Drone'
The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
by Akbar Ahmed
October 24, 2013 issue
Will Geography Decide Our Destiny?
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
by Robert D. Kaplan
February 21, 2013 issue
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