American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences:
Jonathan Brown
Orkhan Mir-Kasimov London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2015. 590 pages. The study of Islamic intellectual history, while existing in pockets of scholarship before, has increasingly become a dominant aspect of the study of Islam. We have moved from some piecemeal approaches to the classical period to a more carefully nuanced and thick understanding of the middle period, that critical time from the wane of the Abbasids to the rise of the Gunpowder ...