"The study throws new light on this character's intentions, ambitions, and limitations ... it offers a re-evaluation of his life that integrates the various facets and stages of his career, resulting in ' a more conventional, more conservative, more human figure' of the man." Zahia Smail Salhi in: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2019), 684-685 (https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2019.1627049)
"Woerner-Powell ist eines der unverzichtbaren Referenzwerke, wenn es darum geht, etwas über Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza iri zu schreiben." Rüdiger Lohlker in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 108 (2018), 459-460
"Undoubtedly the most accomplished biography of Abd al-Qadir to date." Ulrich Brandenburg in: Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 76 (2022), 171-174