"An excellent work on Islamic history, its greatest strengths are: the level of theoretical discussion, the call to a reflection on terminology, the emphasis on post-15th century Islamic history and on geographical regions outside the Arab world."--Roberto Totolli, Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale"Learned, inventive and highly perceptive.... With an astounding energy, the six chapters, plus an overview and a conclusion, stretch boundaries of Muslim subjectivities and possibilities across time and space."--Babak Rahimi, UC San Diego
BRUCE B. LAWRENCE is Marcus Family Humanities Distinguished Professor of Religion Emeritus at Duke University and Adjunct Professor of the Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. His research focuses on contemporary Islam as religious ideology, south Asian Sufism, and Islamicate cosmopolitanism.