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The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader: Islam beyond Borders. By Bruce B. Lawrence, edited by Ali Altaf Mian (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). xiv + 465 pp. Price PB £24.99. EAN 978–1478011293. The Muslim World in Modern South Asia: Power, Authority, Knowledge. By Francis Robinson (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2021). xix + 397 pp. Price HB $95.00. EAN 978–1438483016. Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years. By Garrett A. Davidson (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2021. Islamic History and Civilization, 160). xii + 333 pp. Price HB €121.00. EAN 978–9004386914. Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order: Egyptian and Islamic Law: Selected Essays. By Rudolph Peters (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2021. Studies in Islamic Law and Society, 51). xxi + 704 pp. Price HB €249.00. EAN 978–9004412514. Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims. By Mirjam Lücking (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. Southeast Asia Program Publications). ix + 261 pp. Price PB £22.99. EAN 978–1501753121. Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change. Edited by Sebastian Günther (Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2 vols., 2021. Islamic History and Civilization, 172). xxxv + 1138 pp. Price HB 2 vols. £258.00. EAN 978–9004413207. Arc of the Journeyman: Afghan Migrants in England. By Nichola Khan (Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. Muslim International). 293 pp. Price PB £20.99. EAN 978–1517909628. The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia. By Charles Hirschkind (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021). vii + 206 pp. Price PB $27.50. EAN 978–0226746951. Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago. By Philip Bowring (London and New York: Bloomsbury [I.B. Tauris], 2020). xviii + 317 pp. Price PB £17.99. EAN 978–1350162341. Islamic Sermons and Public Piety in Bangladesh: The Poetics of Popular Preaching. By Max Stille (London and New York: Bloomsbury [I.B. Tauris], 2020. Library of Islamic South Asia). x + 282 pp. Price HB $115.00. EAN 978–1838606008. The Prophet’s Heir: The Life of Ali Ibn Abi Talib. By Hassan Abbas (New Haven, NJ and London: Yale University Press, 2021). xvi + 239 pp. Price HB £20.00. EAN 978–0300229455. Sufism and the Scriptures: Metaphysics and Sacred History in the Thought of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī. By Fitzroy Morrisey (London and New York: Bloomsbury [I.B. Tauris], 2021). vi + 244 pp. Price HB $115.00. EAN 978–0755618316. The Maghrib in the Mashriq: Knowledge, Travel and Identity. Edited by Maribel Fierro and Mayte Penelas (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East, 40). xiv + 560 pp. Price HB €. EAN 978–3110712698. Salafism and Traditionalism: Scholarly Authority in Modern Islam. By Emad Hamdeh (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). x + 229 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1108485357. Prophets, Viziers and Philosophers: Wisdom and Authority in Early Arabic Literature. Edited by Emily J. Cottrell (Eelde: Barkhuis, 2020. Ancient Narrative Supplement, 28). xxii + 399 pp. Price HB €105.00. EAN 978–9493194199. Persian Historiography across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals. By Sholeh A. Quinn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). x + 252 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1108842211. England Re-Oriented: How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857. By Humberto Garcia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Critical Perspectives on Empire). xi + 354 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1108495646. Words of Experience: Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst. Edited by Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst and Brannon Wheeler (Sheffield, UK and Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2021. Comparative Islamic Studies). viii + 299 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1781799109. The Abbasid Caliphate: A History. By Tayeb EL-Hibri (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). xxviii + 330 pp. Price PB £22.99. EAN 978–1316634394. Ahmad ibn Tulun: Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868–884. By Matthew S. Gordon (London: Oneworld Publications [Oneworld Academic], 2021. Makers of the Muslim World). xv + 159 pp. Price HB £25.00. EAN 978–1851688098. Affirming the Imamate: Early Fatimid Teachings in the Islamic West. An Arabic critical edition and English translation of works attributed to Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Shiʿi and his brother Abu’l-ʿAbbas. Edited by Wilferd Madelung and Paul E. Walker (London: Bloomsbury [I.B. Tauris] in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2021. Ismaili Texts and Translations). 248 pp. Price PB £17.99. EAN 978–0755637317. Command and Creation: A Shiʿi Cosmological Treatise: A Persian edition and English translation of Muhammad al-Shahrastānī’s Majlis-i maktūb. Edited and translated by Daryoush Mohammad Poor (London: Bloomsbury [I.B. Tauris] in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2021. Ismaili Texts and Translations). 240 pp. Price PB £17.99. EAN 978–0755602971. The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule. By Audrey Truschke (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021). xxiv + 351 pp. Price PB $35.00. EAN 978– 0231197052. Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires. Edited by Charles Melville (London: Bloomsbury [I.B. Tauris], 2021. The Idea of Iran, 10). xvii + 472 pp. Price PB £24.99. EAN 978–0755633784. Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science CA. 750–1750. By Elaheh Kheirandish (London: Bloomsbury [I.B. Tauris], 2021. Library of Middle East History). xiii + 275 pp. Price HB £81.00. EAN 978–1780768335. Indonesian Pluralities: Islam, Citizenship, and Democracy. Edited by Robert W. Hefner and Zainal Abidin Bagir (Singapore: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Contending Modernities). viii + 268 pp. Price PB $40.00. EAN 978–0268108625. Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging. Edited by Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). xii + 359 pp. Price PB £22.99. EAN 978–1478010784. Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making. By Rachel M. Scott (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). xi + 268 pp. Price HB $19.95. EAN 978–1501753978. Author notes Due to challenges raised by the covid-19 pandemic, volume 33 onwards will largely be publishing reviews of books published in 2020 or later. © The Author(s) (2021). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. All rights reserved. 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