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  • NONFICTION

    THE CASE FOR GOD

    SEPT. 25, 2009

  • NONFICTION

    FINGERPRINTS OF GOD

    MAY 14, 2009

NONFICTION

FINGERPRINTS OF GOD

by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

A commendable, witty attempt to ground spirituality in established fact that will provide deeper understanding to people of... Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    KING'S CROSS

    FEB. 22, 2011

  • NONFICTION

    THE REVENGE OF GOD

    JAN. 31, 1994

NONFICTION

THE REVENGE OF GOD

by Gilles Kepel

Belongs alongside Martin Marty and R. Scott Appleby's The Glory and the Power (1992) as a notable study of orthodoxy and its... Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    THE CRISIS OF ISLAM

    APRIL 1, 2003

HISTORY

THE CRISIS OF ISLAM

by Bernard Lewis

Expanded from Lewis’s prizewinning New Yorker commentary following 9/11: an illuminating brief overview of Islam today. Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    ISLAM IN THE MODERN WORLD

    FEB. 1, 2011

CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES

ISLAM IN THE MODERN WORLD

by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Scholarly appendices (e.g., traditional texts used in the Persian madrasas) give an idea of the erudite, wide-ranging... Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    MILITANT ISLAM REACHES AMERICA

    SEPT. 1, 2002

NONFICTION

MILITANT ISLAM REACHES AMERICA

by Daniel Pipes

Highly controversial, at times inflammatory—but worthy of attention and debate in a time of crisis. Full review >

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  • NONFICTION

    AMERICAN GRACE

    OCT. 5, 2010

  • NONFICTION

    THE EVOLUTION OF GOD

    JUNE 8, 2009

NONFICTION

THE EVOLUTION OF GOD

by Robert Wright

Offers little new scholarship, but the in-depth approach yields original insights. Full review >

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