Like a Bride: The Qur’an and Arabic Prose
Kevin Blankinship Reviews Sarah R. bin Tyeer’s The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose and The Qur’an and Adab edited by Nuha Alshaar
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Reviews
A State of Their Own: Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights
Gil Rubin reviews James Loeffler’s Rooted Cosmopolitans In a 1938 speech in Prague, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder and leader of the right-wing Zionist
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Trump and the Specter of Christian Withdrawal
Jonathan Tran on James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology. The Trump presidency provides a kind of Rorschach test for
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Islam and Black Emancipation
Robert Dannin reviews Patrick D. Bowen’s The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 Twenty-five years ago I undertook similar research, and I felt like
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Bodies on the Margins: A Multitude of Voices
Kevin Timpe Reviews Elizabeth Barnes’ The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability Few of us like to anticipate what it would be like
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Authorship and Ownership: Whose Bible Is It Anyway?
Michael Hundley Reviews Sara Milstein’s Tracking the Master Scribe Despite its antiquity, the Bible remains the object of great public interest and scholarly
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The Painted Book: Illumination Revived
Jakub Koguciuk reviews Jonathan J.G. Alexander’s The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy Study of manuscript illumination in the Renaissance appeared pronounced dead before
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Honey on a Razorblade
Thomas J. Millay Reviews Kevin Hart’s Barefoot Dark One, I sit alone without a light And let the darkness bring me close to
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Before Europe: The Christian West in the Annals of Medieval Islam
Arafat Razzaque reviews Daniel König’s Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe In 1961, nearly two decades before
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A Blur of Wings: The Diaphanous and the Dissonant in Political Poetry
Ciahnan Darrell reviews Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings Myronn Hardy’s Radioactive Starlings is aggressively opaque. Written in a multitude of poetic forms, it draws
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