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Susanna L. Blumenthal, Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. 400. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-674-04893-5)

Hussein Agrama (Questioning Secularism, 2012), but the insights developed in the latter’s critical extension of Asad’s thought—which could have helped to further develop some of Hussin’s own lines of argument in this book—are, unfortunately, not substantially developed. In one case in which there is direct engagement with Agrama’s work, it is actually conflated with that of Asad in Hussin’s in-text misattribution of a large block quotation on pp. 197–98 (cf. 301, n.20). This is, unfortunately, just one example of issues with missing references/incomplete bibliographic citations and repetitions that should have been addressed during the editorial process. These quibbles should not, however, distract one from appreciating the important contributions that Hussin’s work makes toward a more broadly contextualized historical analysis of the modern politics of Islamic law. I would recommend this book highly to legal historians, as well as historians of colonialism, and anyone interested in modern dynamics of Islam and Muslim politics.