Syed Farid Alatas
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) was a scholar, most unique in the Islamic world. He is considered one of the most significant thinkers of the pre-modern Muslim world.
Reviewed by: Soheb Niazi
Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella
This is an anthology put together by the London and Sussex based Filippo-Caroline Osella team of anthropologists both having a keen research interest in South Asia.
Reviewed by: Tahir Mahmood
John R. Bowen
John R. Bowen’s A New Anthropology of Islam addresses an ontological problem in sociology and social anthropology, one that pertains to the relationship between culture and tradition.
Reviewed by: Tanweer Fazal
Carla Bellamy
The volume under review, a fine-tuned and reworked doctoral thesis, is a critical narrative of the interpretation of everyday and ritual life of a Muslim shrine known as Hussain Tekri. Carla Bellamy took a plunge into this rather adventurous journey with passion driven by irrepressible intellectual curiosity.
Reviewed by: Mujibur Rehman
Iqbal Singh Sevea
This book is definitely a much-needed contribution to the study of the political philosophy of Allama Iqbal the poet. Iqbal Singh Sevea expends significant intellectual energy on the analysis of Iqbal’s well-known antipathy to the ideology of nationalism and the nation-state.
Reviewed by: Amir Ali
Kavita Saraswathi Datla
This book makes a major contribution to the literature on Indian nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s.
Reviewed by: Usha Sanyal