Just a heads up, I've been posting now and then to the quasi-Twitteresque site Talk Islam run by my friend Aziz Poonawalla. I also have a sub-weblog where I'll be posting some of my longer form ruminations...but it might be best to just sign up for the RSS so you're notified when I start posting there regularly. I've been reading God's Rule - Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought on & off for weeks now, and I think I'll put up a review over there after I'm done....
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