christianity & islam
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by Dr. Charles Middleburgh

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Reviews 2003
Army of Roses etc

Reviews 2004
A Church at War – Anglicans and Homosexuality by Stephen Bates
Desperately Seeking Paradise –Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim by Ziauddin Sardar
Jihad – The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel
The Crisis of Islam
The Future of Political Islam by Graham E. Fuller
The Jesuits – Missions, Myths and Histories by Jonathan Wright

Reviews 2005
Modern Islamic Political Thought by Hamid Enayat. Foreword by Roy P. Mottahadeh
Pursuing the Dream
Revelations – Personal Responses to the Books of the Bible, with an introduction by Richard Holloway
Semitism – The Whence and Whither. ‘How dear are your Counsels’ by Kenneth Cragg
Wahhabi Islam – From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad by Natana J. Delong-Bas
Women’s Voices – New Perspectives for the Christian-Jewish Dialogue

Reviews 2006
God’s Terrorists – The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad by Charles Allen
Islam and Global Dialogue
Messages to the World
On the Road to Kandahar Travels through Conflict in the Islamic World by Jason Bourke
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

Reviews 2007
Islamic Imperialism A History by Efraim Karsh.Yale University Press 2007
Russia's Islamic Threat by Gordon M. Hahn. Yale University Press 2007
The New Voices of Islam-Reforming Politics and Modernity- A Reader

Reviews 2008
An Introduction to Islam for Jews by Reuven Firestone. Jewish Publication Society 2008.

Reviews 2009
From Fatwa to Jihad – The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy by Kenan Malik. Atlantic Books 2009.
How to Win a Cosmic War – Confronting Radical Islam by Reza Aslan. William Heinemann 2009.

Reviews 2010
Questioning the Veil – Open Letters to Muslim Women by Marnia Lazreg.  Princeton University Press 2009.

Reviews 2011
A Quiet Revolution – The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America by Leila Ahmed. Yale University Press 2011.
Opening the Qur’an: Introducing Islam’s Holy Book by Walter H. Wagner, University of Notre Dame Press 2008.
Undercover Muslim – A Journey into Yemen by Theo Padnos.Bodley Head, 2011.

Reviews 2013
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews 1933-1965 by John Connelly.
The Battle for the Arab Spring:Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the making of a New Era by Lin Noueihed and Alex Warren.Yale University Press 2012.

Reviews 2014
A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora - Princeton University Press 2013
Baghdad: The City in Verse, translated and edited by Reuven Snir - Harvard University Press 2013

The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham. Princeton University Press 2013

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