By RACHEL M. SCOTT

Review of The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, by Andrew F. March

By EMILY WHALEN

Review of Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo, by Seth Anziska and Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance, by Tareq Baconi

By ANTHONY TSONTAKIS

Review of Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual, by James Toth

By DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE

Review of A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State, by Orit Rozin, translated by Haim Watzman

By DIANA MUIR APPELBAUM

Review of exhibits Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds (through Nov. 27) and Sicily: Culture and Conquest (through Aug. 14)

By DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE

Review of THE FALL OF THE OTTOMANS: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan and A LAND OF ACHING HEARTS: The Middle East in the Great War, by Leila Tarazi Fawaz

By DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE

Review of THE ARAB UPRISINGS EXPLAINED: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East, edited by Marc Lynch and THE ARAB UPRISINGS: What Everyone Needs To Know, by James L. Gelvin

By AZIZ HUQ

Review of TEMPTATIONS OF POWER: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East, by Shadi Hamid and THE RISE OF THE ISLAMIC STATE: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution, by Patrick Cockburn