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An Imam in Paris
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A touchstone for thinking about the tangled relations between Islam and modernity ... the most amazing and entertaining curiosity.' Matthew J. Reisz, Jewish Quarterly 'An Imam in Paris lets us share the responses of a highly intelligent scholar ... Daniel L. Newman is to be congratulated on making the first translation into English of this remarkable book, and on supporting the text with a first-class introduction and with footnotes that are as full as one could wish. A first-class introduction ... remarkable.' TLS '[A] fine translation ... extensively and meticulously notated.' The International History Review

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Daniel L. Newman holds the Chair of Arabic Studies at the University of Durham. His publications include The Sultan's Feast: A Fifteenth-Century Egyptian Cookbook, The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages, and Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader (with Ronak Husni), all by Saqi Books.

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'A touchstone for thinking about the tangled relations between Islam and modernity ... the most amazing and entertaining curiosity.' Jewish Quarterly; 'An Imam in Paris lets us share the responses of a highly intelligent scholar ... Daniel L. Newman is to be congratulated on making the first translation into English of this remarkable book, and on supporting the text with a first-class introduction and with footnotes that are as full as one could wish. A first-class introduction ... remarkable.' Times Literary Supplement; '[A] fine translation ... extensively and meticulously notated.' The International History Review

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