Awards

• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2017
• Winner of Outstanding Academic Title 2017

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A timely publication, highly recommended for specialists and non-specialists alike. -- Youssef Choueiri Times Higher Education Supplement 2/12/09 This gem of a book offers a thorough, evocative study... Essential. Choice 7/1/09 A delightful book. -- David Reisman Journal of Islamic Studies Vol 21, No 1 A wide-ranging... welcome addition to a small and growing body of scholarship. -- Brannon Wheeler American Historical Review 4/1/10 Rustomji has filled a real gap in the secondary literature... [ The Garden and the Fire] is one of the best introductions to the Islamic eschatological literature. -- Walid Saleh Journal of the American Academy of Religion 3/1/11

A timely publication, highly recommended for specialists and non-specialists alike. -- Youssef Choueiri, Times Higher Education Supplement This gem of a book offers a thorough, evocative study... Essential. -- Choice

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Nerina Rustomji is assistant professor of history at St. John's University in Queens, New York. She recently received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and an American Council of Overseas Fellowship for work on female companionship in the Islamic afterworld.

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