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The Historian is a journal that publishes contemporary and relevant historical scholarship. The Historian also publishes extensive book reviews covering a wide array of recently published scholarly manuscripts.

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Martyrdom in Islam.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Martyrdom in Islam. By David Cook. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 206. $75.00.) The role of martyrdom in Islam has taken center stage in recent years due to the burgeoning terrorist tactic of "self-designated martyrdoms," often referred to as "suicide...

Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. By M. W. Daly. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xix, 368. $22.99.) The appearance of the Darfur crisis in news reports around the world has acted as a catalyst for a number of studies trying to explain the...

Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present. By Michael B. Oren. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. Pp. xxi, 737. $29.95.) Israeli scholar Michael B. Oren has a Ph.D. in history and is a fellow at the Shalem Institute in Jerusalem, a conservative...

Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World. By Adam J. Silverstein. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 214. $95.00.) Who would want to read a book on postal systems in the premodern Islamic world? Anyone who has heretofore taken postal systems for granted on...

A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen.(Book review)
June 22, 2009... A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen. By Shelagh Weir. (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2007. Pp. xi, xv, 390. $50.00.) This author's detailed ethnography describes the political and legal life of the small tribes of the Rezih region in northwest Yemen over...

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