In November, Verso Books will publish Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden, edited and introduced by Bruce Lawrence, a Duke University Professor of Religion (and a self-described “defrocked medievalist” and “Abrahamic pluralist”) and newly translated from the Arabic by James Howarth. The 224-page collection will reproduce the “various statements issued under bin Laden’s name since 1994.” As the book’s description in the Verso catalogue (unavailable online) notes, “Over the last ten years, bin Laden has issued a series of carefully tailored public statements, from interviews with Western and Arabic journalists to faxes and video recordings. These texts supply evidence crucial to an understanding of the bizarre mix of Quranic scholarship.” It goes on to say that the book “forms part of a growing discourse that seeks to demythologize the terrorist network.”