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“... been commissioned, instead of the customary platoon: a rare and high distinction, which Professor Lapidus’s book justifies to a very impressive degree. Its thousand pages are organised in three parts: from the origins to about 1200 AD, the further spread of Islam from the tenth to the 19th centuries, and the two last centuries when nearly all the Muslim ...”

“... books and miniatures. Ahmed takes issue with Hodgson and the scholars who followed him – Ira Lapidus, Chase Robinson, Aziz al Azmeh et al. There is no one ‘Islam’, he says; the word is so ambiguous, governing so many variations in religious practice and such a multitude of societies, as to be useless as a term of historical ...”