Book reviews and Reading Recommendations

  • Poljarević, E. (2025) Review of Paul E. Lovejoy & N.R. Bezerra, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic. Chapel Hill: UNC Press. Islamic Studies Journal (forthcoming).
  • Poljarević, E. (2018) Review of N. Hashemi & D. Postel (eds), Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East. London: Hurst. Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World, 17 Aug. Milestones
  • Poljarević, E. (2017) Review of A. Mura, The Symbolic Scenarios of Islamism: A Study in Islamic Political Thought. Surrey: Ashgate, 2015. ReOrient, 2(2). DOI: 10.13169/reorient.2.2.0208. ScienceOpen
  • Poljarević, E. (2016) Review of A. Abdel Razek, Islam and the Foundations of Political Power. Edinburgh: EUP, 2013. Religious Studies Review, 42(2). Wiley Online Library
  • Poljarević, E. (2016) Review of S. Sayyid, Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order. London: Hurst, 2014. Religious Studies Review, 42(2). (open version) ResearchGate
  • Poljarević, E. (2016) Review of J.R. Halverson, Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam: The Muslim Brotherhood, Ashʿarism and Political Sunnism. New York: Palgrave, 2010. Religious Studies Review, 42(2). Wiley Online Library
  • Poljarević, E. (2016) Review of M. Mutman, The Politics of Writing Islam: Voicing Difference. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Religious Studies Review, 42(2). Wiley Online Library
  • Poljarević, E. (2016) Review of N. Ghobadzadeh, Religious Secularity: A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State. Oxford: OUP, 2015. Religious Studies Review, 42(2). ResearchGate
  • Poljarević, E. (2014) Review of R. Meijer (ed.), Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 31(3), 126–129. American Journal of Islam and Society
  • Poljarević, E. (2014) ‘The Dark Side of Modernity – By Jeffrey C. Alexander’. Political Studies Review, 12(2), p. 248. Wiley Online Library
  • Poljarević, E. (2014) Review of W.B. Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics and Modernity’s Moral Predicament. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Political Studies Review, 12(2). SAGE Journals
  • Poljarević, E. (2014) ‘Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction – By Aaron W. Hughes’. Comparative Islamic Studies, 8(1–2), 214–219. journal.equinoxpub.com
  • Poljarević, E. (2013) ‘HAMAS: Resistance and Mobilization through Islam’ (review essay of Roy; Milton-Edwards & Farrell; Gunning). Social Movement Studies, 12(4), 477–482. Taylor & Francis Online
  • Poljarević, E. (2011) ‘Ventures into a “New” Paradigm of Social Reality’ (review essay of A. Touraine). Social Movement Studies, 10(2), 199–204. Taylor & Francis Online
  • Poljarević, E. (2008) ‘Exploring the Islamic State’ (review article of N. Feldman, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State). European Political Science, 7(4), 487–493. SpringerLink