Review

Book review: Occupation by Omar I. Ismail

'Occupation' by Omar I. Ismail is a political novel that comments on the ongoing war in Afghanistan since the US invasion in 2001. In...

Review: ‘The Terrorist in Search of Humanity’

According to Devji the modern terrorist is not concerned with national states, which is why Al-Qaeda often recasts the geography of Islam, replacing political...

Review: ‘Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires’

This book presents an account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its own laws, and ratify a constitution after the fall...

Review: ‘Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Afghan Islamists who changed the world’

This book is an examination of the rise of Gulbuddin Hekmetyar and his party Hisbe Islami Afghanistan. The Hisbe emerged in 1976 through the...

Review of ‘Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist’

The book on Bruce Wannell could be equally entitled Scholar, Spy and Sufi as I will discuss below. Bruce Wannell is described as the...

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