Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ycol20 Contemporary Levant ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ycol20 Aṣfūriyyeh: a history of madness, modernity, and war in the Middle East by Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2020. US $45.00, ISBN 978026204474 Claire Launchbury To cite this article: Claire Launchbury (2021) Aṣfūriyyeh: a history of madness, modernity, and war in the Middle East, Contemporary Levant, 6:2, 191-194, DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2021.1961457 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2021.1961457 Published online: 17 Sep 2021. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 66 View related articles View Crossmark data