| Sumario: | The main focus of *No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism* is the racialized and ideological dimensions of terrorism discourse and policing in the United States, explored through the figure of Assata Shakur and the genealogy of law enforcement practices. Atiya Husain traces the historical roots of racialized policing from nineteenth-century anthropometry and the concept of the "average man" to contemporary uses of "wanted" posters and the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, highlighting how racial and religious identities—particularly Blackness and Islam—are constructed and contested within these frameworks. The book critically examines the complexities of Muslim racialization, Black liberation politics, and the limits of antiracist discourse, while also engaging with broader geopolitical issues such as the US-backed genocide in Gaza. Husain ultimately calls for a political project that reimagines the figure of "man" beyond racialized and religious categories, emphasizing the ongoing entanglement of race, religion, and state power in shaping knowledge and repression.
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