Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has edited The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology (Oxford University Press, 2016), which provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the latest scholarship on the development of Islamic Theology. The work offers a variegated picture of the current state of the field, suggests new directions for future research, and features a compelling case study focused on specific theological issues that have developed through the dilemmatic interactions between the different theological schools and thinkers.