Critical Review: Shelia S. Blair & Johnathan M. Bloom, The Mirage of Islamic Art: Reflections on the Study of an Unwieldy Field, The Art Bulletin 85/1 (2003) 152-84. DOI: 10.2307/3177331 To mark the 2011 Centennial of the College Art Association, the CAA Centennial Task Force asked the Art Bulletin editorial board to create an online anthology, consisting of the “greatest hits” of the journal, and the article that forms the subject of this review was …
Review: E. HUSAIN, The House of Islam: A Global History. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2018. 307 pages and 11 pages of index. ISBN: 9781408872277 In the publishers’ note to the book entitled, “The House of Islam: A Global History” it records, “Ed Husain is the author of The Islamist, a memoir of his time inside radical Islamism. Having rejected extremism, he now advises governments and political leaders on Islam. He is a senior fellow at Civitas, …