Bustan Vol.15, No.1 (August 2024).
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Articles:
- Born Out of Crisis, Revels in Turmoil: Iran’s Islamic Republic at Home and Abroad
Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran's Islamic Republic, by Mehran Kamrava; Reading Revolutionary Iran: The Worldview of the Islamic Republic's Religio-political Elite, by Ze'ev Maghen.
Review by: Ali Parchami
- Reinventing the Wheel: Novel Scholarship on Libya’s Armed Actors, Corruption, and Diplomacy Produced in a Vacuum
Violence and Social Transformation in Libya, by Virginie Collombier and Wolfram Lacher
Review by: Jason Pack
- Iranian Involvement in Syria and Lebanon: From the Establishment of Hizballah to the Intervention in Syria
Safir Qods: Khaterat-e Hossein Sheikh al-Islam [Qods Ambassador: Memoir of Hossein Sheikh al-Islam], by Raziya Haqiqat and Mohammad Hassan Rozi Taleb; Peigham-e Mahiha-e: Sargozasht Namehay-e Sardar-e Shahid Hossein Hamadani [Message of Fishes: Memoir of the Martyr General Hossein Hamadani], by Gol-Ali Babai.
Review by: Shimon Shapira
- Reflections on the Sources of the Contemporary Islamic Revival
Sunni Chauvinism and the Roots of Muslim Modernism, by Teena U. Purohit; Wahhabism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement, by Cole M. Bunzel; Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought: Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge, by Andrew Hammond.
Review by: Itzchak Weismann
- Gilles Kepel: Impish Like Voltaire
Prophète en son pays, by Gilles Kepel; Holocaustes; Israël, Gaza et la guerre contre l’Occident, by Gilles Kepel
Review by: Franck Salameh
Book Reviews:
- Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese "Revolution", by Tine Gade
Review by: Zoltan Pall
- The 1973 Arab-Israeli War, by Galen Jackson, ed
Review by: Zach Levey
- In Search of the River Jordan—A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water, by James Fergusson
Review by: David Katz
- In Memoriam of William W. Harris (1953–2024): Narrating the Syrian Civil War - Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict, by William W. Harris; Syria Betrayed: Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy, by Alex Bellamy
Review by: Joel D. Parker