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Book review 106 Book Reviews include a map of each covered country. The general map of the modern Middle East (Vol. 2, p. 149) is not an adequate alternative since it omits North Africa. This is a crucial matter as undergraduate students (at least in the US) generally suffer from geographic illiteracy that hinders their ability to grasp and appreciate the connections between world civilizations. The 309 entries covered in The Islamic World expand over three rather-slim volumes (around 200 pages each). They could have easily been fitted into one volume but publishers have their own logic (or illogic) that goes beyond our simple academic minds. The multi-volume format made the book less user-friendly since the table of contents is placed at the beginning of volume one and the index at the end of volume three. However, each volume begins with a useful ‘‘chronology of the Islamic world’’ and ends with a glossary and a list of short biographical and geographical entries relevant to each volume. The organization and consistency of the information is not among the strongest features of the work. While biographies of key political figures were included in the entries of their respective countries (Nasser in ‘‘Egypt’’, Asad http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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1473-348X
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10.1080/09503110902872498
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106 Book Reviews include a map of each covered country. The general map of the modern Middle East (Vol. 2, p. 149) is not an adequate alternative since it omits North Africa. This is a crucial matter as undergraduate students (at least in the US) generally suffer from geographic illiteracy that hinders their ability to grasp and appreciate the connections between world civilizations. The 309 entries covered in The Islamic World expand over three rather-slim volumes (around 200 pages each). They could have easily been fitted into one volume but publishers have their own logic (or illogic) that goes beyond our simple academic minds. The multi-volume format made the book less user-friendly since the table of contents is placed at the beginning of volume one and the index at the end of volume three. However, each volume begins with a useful ‘‘chronology of the Islamic world’’ and ends with a glossary and a list of short biographical and geographical entries relevant to each volume. The organization and consistency of the information is not among the strongest features of the work. While biographies of key political figures were included in the entries of their respective countries (Nasser in ‘‘Egypt’’, Asad

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Apr 1, 2009

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