BOOKS: New York Times Book Review's Islam issue
This Sunday's NYT Book Review is an all-Islam issue - reviews, essays and more dealing with Islam. From the editor's note:
Islam, one of mankind’s great religions, numbers 1.3 billion adherents around the world, with major communities not only in Cairo, Baghdad, Istanbul, Jakarta and Tehran, but also in London, Paris, Berlin, New York and Washington. Yet most Americans know very little about Muslims, which often means they know very little about their own neighbors. Even public officials with responsibility for our national security — powerful congressmen, top F.B.I. agents — betray an ignorance of the most basic facts about Islam, like the difference between Sunnis and Shiites.
Since 9/11, publishers have been rushing to fill this knowledge gap, and the time seems right to highlight their efforts. This special issue is by no means comprehensive (any more than a single issue of the Book Review could be comprehensive about Christianity or Judaism). It is, instead, a sampler of what is now available. It offers reviews and essays by scholars, critics and journalists of varying points of view discussing many of the most important facets of an impossibly huge subject, from history and literature to theology and politics.
Below you will find the e-mail alert that goes out in advance, with links to each individual review. You can also see the entire issue online here. Post your comments below.
Books Update
The New York Times
Friday, January 4, 2008
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'The Suicide of Reason'
By LEE HARRIS
Reviewed by AYAAN HIRSI ALI
Arguing that the West's "fanaticism of reason" is no match
for the fanaticism of radical Islam.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Ali-t.html ?8bu&emc=bu ..................
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Reading the Koran
By TARIQ RAMADAN
The Book of all Muslims, Tariq Ramadan writes, can be
understood on many levels.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Ramadan-t .html?8bu&emc=bu ..................
'The Adventures of Amir Hamza'
By GHALIB LAKHNAVI and ABDULLAH BILGRAMI
Reviewed by WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
The 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey' of medieval Persia is presented
in a hefty new English translation.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Dalrymple-t .html?8bu&emc=bu ..................
'Arguing the Just War in Islam'
By JOHN KELSAY
Reviewed by IRSHAD MANJI
A professor of religion traces the thinking behind Islamic
holy war.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Manji-t.html ?8bu&emc=bu ..................
'The Great Arab Conquests'
By HUGH KENNEDY
Reviewed by MAX RODENBECK
How Muslims redrew the map of ancient civilization.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Rodenbeck-t .html?8bu&emc=bu ..................
'American Crescent'
By HASSAN QAZWINI
Reviewed by RASHID KHALIDI
From his mosque in Michigan, a cleric argues that Muslims
can be integrated into national life.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Khalidi-t .html?8bu&emc=bu ..................
'Jihad and Jew-Hatred'
By MATTHIAS KÜNTZEL
Reviewed by JEFFREY GOLDBERG
A German scholar argues that Muslim anti-Semitism can be
traced to a project of the Nazi Party.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Goldberg-t .html?8bu&emc=bu ..................
Essay
The Clash
By FOUAD AJAMI
I doubted Samuel Huntington when he predicted a struggle
between Islam and the West. My mistake.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Ajami-t.html ?8bu&emc=bu ..................
'God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to
1215'
By DAVID LEVERING LEWIS
Reviewed by ERIC ORMSBY
David Levering Lewis's history of Arab rule in Spain
focuses on its ethic of mutuality.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Ormsby-t.html ?8bu&emc=bu ..................
'Peace Be Upon You'
By ZACHARY KARABELL
Reviewed by JASON GOODWIN
Muslim rulers, Zachary Karabell says, did not force
conversion upon their subjects.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Goodwin-t .html?8bu&emc=bu ..................
'Napoleon's Egypt'
By JUAN COLE
Reviewed by TOM REISS
A historian takes a new look at Napoleon's invasion of
Egypt.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Reiss-t.html ?8bu&emc=bu ..................
Essay
Beyond the Burka
By LORRAINE ADAMS
Muslim women's voices are being heard as never before. But
which ones?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Adams-t.html ?8bu&emc=bu ..................
'Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy'
By PETER GOTTSCHALK and GABRIEL GREENBERG
Reviewed by SHIBLEY TELHAMI
A look at American media since 9/11 makes the case that
Muslims have been unjustly demonized.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Telhami-t .html?8bu&emc=bu ..................
Caught in the Ayatollah's Web
Review by SARAH WILDMAN
Memoirs by Marina Nemat and Zarah Ghahramani, two women who
survived political prison in Iran 20 years apart.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Wildman-t .html?8bu&emc=bu - Books Features -
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Essay
Arabic Lessons
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Learning Arabic has meant moments of elation alternating
with grim, soul-churning despair.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Worth-t.html ?8bu&emc=bu - In the News -
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George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at
82
By MARGALIT FOX
George MacDonald Fraser's popular novels about the
arch-rogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he
swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through signal
events of the 19th century.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03fraser.html?8bu&emc =bu - New in Stores -
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'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto'
By MICHAEL POLLAN
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN
Rebutting the proposition that food can be reduced to its
nutritional components without the loss of something
essential.Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/books/03masl.html?8bu&emc =bu First Chapter
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/books/chapters/1st-chapter -in-defense-of-food.html - Best Sellers -
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send feedback; I enjoy hearing your opinions and will do my
best to respond.Blake Wilson
blake@nytimes.com
Books producer
The New York Times
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