Islam in Inter-War Europe. Ed. Nathalie Clayer and Eric Germain. London: Hurst, 2008. P. 348. Hbk. ISBN 978-1-85065-8788. £45.

Not everyone will expect to be enthralled by a book that has as its rousing finale a chapter on a spat about misspelt Turkish in a provincial school examination in 1929. However, those looking for solid scholarship to map the terra incognita of Islam in Europe between the two world wars could not find a handier volume. And by the time one gets to the final chapter, it should be clear that …