History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche. By Ian Almond. London: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 216. Hbk. ISBN 978-0-415-99519-1. $103.00

Writing any kind of history of a certain school of thought is a task which implies recognition of the variety of responses, and also the dynamic nature of responses that is resistant to categorisation. Ian Almond is aware of this need to rethink even the making of the history of thought and brings to the readership a carefully written book under the title History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche. This genealogy of though…