Among the Infidels
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
by Natalie Zemon Davis
March 23, 2006 issue
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Militant Islam Reaches America
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The Future of Political Islam
by Graham E. Fuller
After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
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