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The Battle Between A Hard And Humane Kind Of Islam
BY AKBAR AHMED SAQI BOOKS, £9.99 A kbar Ahmed is a man of many parts. I have known him as a senior civil servant, an academic, a diplomat and a prolific author. To these must......
A Flashy Thesis
BY SUSAN GUBAR NORTON, £18.99 E arly on, Susan Gubar quotes Karl Barth’s opinion that Judas is “the most important figure in the New Testament apart from Jesus”. Without Judas’s......
Angels Of The Desert
BY JANET SOSKICE L ike Mary Kingsley and later Gertrude Bell, twins Agnes and Margaret Smith were clever, strong-minded women of independent means at a time when women were......