Aisha's Cushion: Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam

Abstract

co-religionists in Africa. The book closes with a conclusion and is accompanied by an extensive forty-page bibliography and a comprehensive index. It is impossible to do justice to this finely-argued and richly-evidenced book in such a short review. Although the book’s specific arguments will no doubt provoke continued debate and further research, its overall thesis that Roman cultural identity was paradigmatic throughout the period is highly convincing and will hopefully inform studies of “long” late antiquity elsewhere in the post-Roman West.