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According to Wikipedia, John Obert Voll is an American scholar of Islam and Professor Emeritus of Islamic History at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Biography After graduating from Dartmouth College, Voll earned a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies and a doctorate in history and Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University. Before coming to Georgetown, he spent thirty years teaching Middle Eastern and international history at the University of New Hampshire. He has served as president of both the Middle East Studies Association and the New England Historical Association. Voll has served on the boards of directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Sudan Studies Association, the World History Association, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, and the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs. He has lived in Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Israel, and has conducted research on Islamic movements in Sub-Saharan Africa, East and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.

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Islam and Democracy (1996) (451)
Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period: An Essay in Quantitative History (1981) (241)
Islam, continuity and change in the modern world (1984) (194)
Makers of Contemporary Islam (2001) (155)
Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (review) (2003) (114)
Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring (2015) (76)
Muḥammad Ḥayyā al-Sindī and Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb: an Analysis of an intellectual group in eighteenth-century Madīna (1975) (57)
The Contemporary Islamic Revival: A Critical Survey and Bibliography (1991) (51)
The Sudanese Mahdī: Frontier Fundmentalist (1979) (49)
Eighteenth-century renewal and reform in Islam (1989) (44)
Islam and the West: Muslim Voices of Dialogue (2000) (42)
The Heroic Age in Sinnar (1987) (41)
Islam as a Special World-System * (40)
The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan (1992) (39)
Civil War in the Sudan (1993) (35)
Historical Dictionary of the Sudan (1979) (35)
Islam's Democratic Essence (1994) (35)
The Sudan: Unity And Diversity In A Multicultural State (1985) (34)
The Arab Nation: Nationalism and Class Struggles (1982) (34)
Islam and the Arab awakening (2013) (29)
Sudan : state and society in crisis (1992) (28)
The Muslim Brotherhood and the kings of Jordan, 1945-1993 (1999) (25)
Islam and Democracy: Is Modernization a Barrier? (2007) (25)
'ABDALLAH IBN SALIM AL-BASRI AND 18TH CENTURY HADITH SCHOLARSHIP (2002) (23)
1. Hadith Scholars and Tariqahs: An Ulama Group in the 18th Century Haramayn and their Impact in the Islamic World (1980) (21)
Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law; Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century (2007) (20)
Boko Haram: Religion and Violence in the 21st Century (2015) (18)
Asian Islam in the 21st Century (2007) (18)
Modern History and Politics -- the Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World by Gilles Kepel and Translated by Alan Braley (1995) (17)
The Islamic world : past and present (2004) (16)
Islam as a Community of Discourse and a World-System (2010) (14)
Northern Africa: Islam and Modernization (1975) (13)
A history of the Khatmiyyah Tariqah in the Sudan (1971) (13)
Imperialism, nationalism and missionaries: Lessons from Sudan for the twenty-first century (1997) (12)
Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan: The ‘Khartoum Springs’ of 1964 and 1985 by W. J. Berridge (review) (2015) (12)
Conservative and Traditional Brotherhoods (1992) (11)
RENEWAL AND REFORMATION IN THE MIDTWENTIETH CENTURY: BEDIZZAMAN SAID NURSI AND RELIGION IN THE 1950s (1999) (11)
Neo-Sufism: Reconsidered Again (2008) (11)
Freedom and Othodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age (2005) (10)
The British, The ‘Ulamâ’, and Popular Islam in the Early Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1971) (10)
The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought (2020) (9)
The Europeans in the Sudan, 1834-1878 (1983) (9)
ISLAMIC RENEWAL AND THE ‘FAILURE OF THE WEST’ (2004) (6)
Shari'a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Context (2009) (5)
Shari'a As Discourse: Legal Traditions and the Encounter with Europe (2011) (5)
Two Biographies of Ahmad Ibn Idris Al-Fasi (1760-1837) (1973) (5)
Contemporary Sufism and Current Social Theory (2007) (5)
The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder, by Bassam Tibi. 262 pages, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. $29.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-520-08868-9 (2000) (5)
The Muslim World, A Historical Survey. Part IV, Fasc. 1: Modern Times (1984) (5)
KHURSHID AHMAD: MUSLIM ACTIVIST‐ECONOMIST (1990) (4)
International Journal of Middle East Studies (1992) (4)
Political Islam and the State (2013) (4)
Islam and the West (2003) (4)
Trans-state Muslim Movements and Militant Extremists in an Era of Soft Power (2008) (4)
Effects of Islamic Structures on Modern Islamic Expansion in the Eastern Sudan (1974) (4)
The Sudan: Ethnicity and National Cohesion (1987) (4)
Muslim minority alternatives: implications of Muslim experiences in China and the Soviet Union (1985) (4)
The Sudan after Nimeiry (1986) (3)
Bin Laden and the New Age of Global Terrorism (2001) (3)
REVIVALISM AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN ISLAMIC HISTORY (1986) (3)
Chris Vaughan. Darfur: Colonial Violence, Sultanic Legacies and Local Politics, 1916–1956. (2016) (3)
Political Crisis in Sudan (1990) (3)
Pensée 3: Reconceptualizing the “Regions” in “Area Studies” (2009) (3)
Symposium— Political Islam in the Arab Awakening: Who Are the Major Players? (2012) (3)
Central Asia as a Part of the Modern Islamic World (2018) (2)
The Horn of Africa and Arabia (1990) (2)
Unity of the Nile Valley: Identity and Regional Integration (1976) (2)
Imperialism and Nationalism in the Sudan: A Study in Constitutional and Political Development, 1899-1956 (1989) (2)
ISLAM: ITS FUTURE IN THE SUDAN* (1973) (2)
From Saints and Renewers toMahdis and Proto-Nationalists (2018) (2)
The Islamic Past and the Present Resurgence (1980) (2)
Changing Western Approaches to Islamic Studies (2012) (2)
An Analytical Guide to the Bibliographies on Modern Egypt and the Sudan (1973) (2)
Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age by Muhammad Qasim Zaman (review) (2014) (2)
Islam, Nationalism, and Communism in a Traditional Society: The Case of the Sudan (1980) (1)
Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age, by R. Stephen Humphreys. 297 pages, index. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. $29.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-520-21411-0 (2001) (1)
Islam in a World of Nation-States , by James P. Piscatori. viii + 193 pages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge1986. (1987) (1)
Islam & Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, SudanBy Haggai Erlich (2012) (1)
Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World@@@Contemporary Islam and the Challenge of History (1984) (1)
Muddathir 'Abd Al-Rahim, Imperialism and Nationalism in the Sudan. Oxford Studies in African Affairs (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1969). Pp. xviii+ 275. 63s. (1975) (1)
The Middle East in World History (2011) (1)
On the Nile in 1901 (1971) (1)
Religious Diversity in the United States (2009) (1)
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. By Timur Kuran. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 405. ISBN 978-0-691-14756-7. Hbk. $29.95. (2013) (1)
The End of Civilization is Not So Bad (1993 MESA Presidential Address) (1994) (1)
Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation (review) (2009) (1)
Can There Be an Islamic Democracy ? Review Essay (2015) (1)
Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond AmericaBy Sohail Daulatzai (2014) (1)
Muslim Activism & Social Movement Theory for the 21st Century (2010) (1)
In the Land of the Pharaohs (1969) (1)
:Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, and Authority in Islam (2008) (1)
Palestinian Politics after the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine (review) (2005) (1)
On the Frontiers of Islam. The Sudan under Turco-Egyptian Rule, 1822-1845. (1971) (1)
Islam and Democracy: Rejoinder (1994) (1)
The Waters of the Nile: An Annotated Bibliography@@@Imperial Sudan: The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, 1934-56@@@Sudan: State and Society in Crisis@@@Sudan after Nimeiri (1992) (1)
'Uthman b. Muhammad Fudi's Sanad to al-Bukhari as Presented in Tazyin al-Waraqat (2002) (1)
Review: Democracy: The Rule of Law and IslamDemocracy: The Rule of Law and Islam (2002) (1)
Book Reviews : James Kritzeck and William H. Lewis (eds.), Islam in Africa. New York, Van Nostrand-Reinhold Company, 1969, viii + 339pp. No Price Given (1972) (0)
Twentieth-Century Islam: Eastern World, Nondominant Majorities, and Minorities (2019) (0)
Introduction Pluralism and Religions in Iranian History (2003) (0)
Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe. By Daniel G. König. Oxford University Press. 2015. xiv + 436pp. ₤75.00. (2018) (0)
The Challenge of the Believing Intellectual (2011) (0)
Risto Jukko, Trinity in Unity in Christian–Muslim Relations: The Work of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue , History of Christian–Muslim Relations, Volume 7 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007). Pp. 373. $199.00 cloth. (2009) (0)
The Political Impact of Islam in Sudan: Numayri's Islamization Program. (1984) (0)
As If Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East. By Ehud R. Toledano (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007) 273 pp. $50.00 cloth $24.00 paper (2008) (0)
Islam in Revolution: Fundamentalism in the Arab World. By Dekmejian R. Hrair. (Syracuse University Press, 1985. Pp. xi + 249. $26.00, cloth; $12.95, paper.) (1986) (0)
3. Sufi Brotherhoods: Transcultural /Transstate Networks in the Muslim World (2017) (0)
Juan R. I. Cole, Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's Urabi Movement (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993), 341 pp. Hardcover (1994) (0)
The Anthropology of Islam Reader. Edited by Jens Kreinath. London: Routledge, 2012. 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-78025-4 (pbk.) (2013) (0)
Perspectives and Prospects (2019) (0)
In Memorium (1992) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
Islam and Democracy@@@Muslim Politics (1997) (0)
Conclusion: Culture and Identity (2016) (0)
African Historical Dictionaries in Perspective (1980) (0)
The Middle East and North Africa, 1978-79 (1981) (0)
David A. Korn, Assassination in Khartoum (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993). Pp. 276. (1995) (0)
Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon . By Elizabeth Thompson ( New York , Columbia University Press , 2000 ) 402 pp. $49.50 cloth $17.50 paper (2001) (0)
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970 by Terje Østebø (2022) (0)
Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State by Bryan S. Turner (review) (2013) (0)
Sharīʻa and the Islamic State in 19th Century Sudan: The Mahdī’s Legal Methodology and Doctrine, written by Aharon Layish, 2016 (2018) (0)
muddathir abdel rahim. Imperialism and Nationalism in the Sudan: A Study in Constitutional and Political Development, 1899–1956. (Sudan Studies Series, number 11.) Reprint. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Ithaca or Khartoum University Press, Khartoum. 1986. Pp. xi, 275 (1989) (0)
The Foundations of the Modern Experience: Revival and Reform in the Eighteenth Century (2019) (0)
James Kritzeck and William H. Lewis (eds.), Islam in Africa. New York, Van Nostrand-Reinhold Company, 1969, viii + 339pp. No Price Given (1972) (0)
JOHN HUNWICK, Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa⊂di's Ta⊃rikh al-s―ud―an Down to 1613 and Other Contemporary Documents, Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999). Pp. 477. $141.00 cloth. (2000) (0)
Merchants and Faith: Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean (review) (2005) (0)
A Comparative Study of Contemporary Political Islamic Discourses with Imam Khomeini’s Discourse (2016) (0)
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan (review) (2019) (0)
Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabiʿ, Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996). Pp. 382. (1997) (0)
Twentieth-Century Islam: Dominant Majorities in the Middle East and Africa (2019) (0)
(Guomindang) Party had signiacant military and political advantages over the Communists at the end of World War II. Thus, as Westad puts it, despite the Communists’ rapid victory and the Guomindang’s stun- (2005) (0)
Truths and Lies in the Middle East: Memoirs of a Veteran Journalist, 1952–2012 by Eric Rouleau (review) (2020) (0)
Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985). Pp. 229. (1987) (0)
The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World. By Cyrus Schayegh. Harvard University Press. 2017. x + 486pp. £35.95. (2020) (0)
B.G. Martin. Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-century Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. xi + 267 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, glossary, index. $19.95 (1978) (0)
A Culture of Sufism: Naqshbandis in the Otto man World, 1450-1700 (2008) (0)
Katongole Emmanuel M .. A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination. Scranton, Pa.: The University of Scranton Press, 2005. xix + 264 pp. Bibliography. Index. $25.00. Paper. (2007) (0)
Book Reviews : Juan R. I. Cole, Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's Urabi Movement (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993), 341 pp. Hardcover (1994) (0)
PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND SCIENCE: The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (2007) (0)
Mahmūd Muhammad Taha (2011) (0)
Reform and modernism in the middle twentieth century (2010) (0)
A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan (review) (2012) (0)
RMS volume 20 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (1986) (0)
As If Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East (review) (2008) (0)
The Islamic Dimension: Community and History (2019) (0)
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan (review) (2019) (0)
The Emergence of Modern Shiʿism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran By Zachery M. Heern (2017) (0)
The life and political activism of the Tunisian opposition leader and activist in exile (2010) (0)
Modern Politics -- the Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy and Translated by Carol Volk (1995) (0)
Fazlur Rahman. Islam and Modernity: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. 172 pages, index. $15.00 (1983) (0)
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood: Religion, Identity, and Politics by Khalil al-Anani (review) (2017) (0)
Muslimism in Turkey and Beyond: Religion in the Modern World, written by Neslihan Cevik (2016) (0)
Lost Nationalism: Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan (2016) (0)
U. Freitag and W. G. Clarence-Smith, ed., Hadrami Traders, Scholars, and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s–1960s (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997). Pp. 402. (1999) (0)
Metin Heper and Raphael Israeli, eds., Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East (London: Croom Helm, 1984). Pp. 131. (1988) (0)
Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. A Concise History of the Middle East . Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1979. 410 pp., bibliography, glossary, index. Paper. (1980) (0)
Haggai Erlich. Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia: Islam, Christianity, and Politics Entwined. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner. 2007. Pp. xi, 249. $49.95 (2008) (0)
C. Three Essays (1990) (0)
Women in the Middle East, Past and Present (review) (2008) (0)
Islam and the Arab Awakening by Tariq Ramadan (review) (2013) (0)
Reconciliation in the Sudan (1981) (0)
Adab: Journal of the Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum (1975) (0)
A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination (review) (2007) (0)
Islamic History: A New Interpretation. 2: A.D. 750-1055 (A.H. 132-338) (1977) (0)
Reviews of Books (1980) (0)
Lebanon's Impossible Options (1973) (0)
Reviews of books (1989) (0)
Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (review) (2001) (0)
Anouar Majid. Freedom and Othodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 270. Cloth $49.50, paper $19.95 (2005) (0)
Reviews of Books:Freedom and Othodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age Anouar Majid (2005) (0)
Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State. By Bryan S. Turner (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xxvii plus 344 pp.) (2013) (0)
The Resurgence of Islam: The Spirit of the New Century (2019) (0)
Jacob M. Landau, The Politics of Pan-Islam: Ideology and Organization (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990). Pp. 446. (1992) (0)
The Middle East in world history since 1750 (2015) (0)
Islam, Democracy, and Turkey’s Secular State (2016) (0)
European Domination and Islamic Response (2019) (0)
Islam, Revival, and Reform (2022) (0)
Anders Bjørkelo, Prelude to the Mahdiyya: Peasants and Traders in the Shendi Region, 1821–1885 (African Studies Series 62) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Pp. 207. (1991) (0)
Philosophy, Religion, and Science: Islam and the Arab Revolutions: The Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy, by Usaama al-Azami (book review) (2023) (0)
Islam and Revolution in the Middle East@@@Eighteenth-Century Renewal and Reform in Islam (1990) (0)
Scholars in Networks: ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and His Travels (2016) (0)
Carlo Caldarola, ed., Religions and Societies: Asia and the Middle East, Religion and Society vol. 22 (Berlin: Mouton Publishers, 1982). Pp. 696. (1985) (0)
Haggai Erlich.Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia: Islam, Christianity, and Politics Entwined.:Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia: Islam, Christianity, and Politics Entwined (2008) (0)
Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood: Da‘wa, Discourse, and Political Communication by Noha Mellor (review) (2018) (0)
Patterns of Modernity. Volume II: Beyond the West. Edited by S. N. Eisenstadt. New York: New York University Press, 1987. vii, 223 pp. $30.00. Distributed by Columbia University Press. (1990) (0)
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Islamic Law and Society in the Sudan (London: Frank Cass, 1987). Pp. 336. (1989) (0)
The New Political Islam: Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice (2018) (0)
Scott Kugle. Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, and Authority in Islam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 305. $49.95. (2008) (0)
Review: The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism versus Liberal Nationalism, by Mansoor Moaddel (2021) (0)

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