Winter 2016 Journal Roundup

Religions, Lifeways, Same Difference: Defining Dīn in the US, the Middle East, and South Asia by Jibreel Delgado

The Faqih as Engineer: A Critical Assessment of Fiqh’s Epistemological Status by Ali Paya

Islamic Law and Political Ideology: Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Renewed Interpretation of Islamic Prayer Laws by Nesya Shemer

The Politics of the Two Qiblahs and the Emergence of an Alternative Islamic Monotheism by Eltigani Abdelgadir Hamid

Intellectual Property and Development in the Arab World: A Development Agenda for Libyan Intellectual Property System by Ezieddin Elmahjub

An Arab Court of Human Rights: The Dream Desired by Salem Alshehri

Petroleum Arbitration Agreement in Iraq: A Tortoise and Hare Race by Sinan al-Bidery

Contemporary Attempts to Harmonize Usury with Islamic Law: A Study of Al-Sanhūrī’s Civil Codes by Najmaldeen K. Kareem Zanki

L’évolution du droit positif libanais sur la question de l’arbitrage en matière administrative by Rita Waked Jaber

Historiophobia or the Enslavement of History: The Role of the 1948 Ethnic Cleansing in the Contemporary Peace Process by Ilan Pappe

Arab American Writers, the Mahjar Press, and the Palestine Issue by Edmund Ghareeb and Jenab Tutunji

Commemoration of Naseer H. Aruri by Jamal Aruri

Naseer Aruri and the Politics of Hope by Fouad Moughrabi

Iran Days in Egypt: Mosaddeq’s Visit to Cairo in 1951 by Lior Sternfield

(De)constructing Nationalist Imagery: Jordanian Cinema in Times of Crisis by George Potter

The De Rossetti Affair: Legal Pluralism and Levantine Identity at the Crossroads of Empires by Elizabeth H. Shlala

How Angel Gabriel Became Our Brother of the Hereafter (On the Question of Ismaili Influence on Alevism) by Erdal Gezik

Arabian Travellers, 1800–1950: An Analytical Bibliography by Benjamin Reilly

The Islamic Realism of Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi (1926–) and Sayyid Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935–2010) by Sami E. Baroudi

Sufi Apologia in the Guise of Biography: The Case of Abū Nu‛aym al-Iṣfahānī’s Ḥilyat al-awliyā’ wa-ṭabaqāt al-aṣfiyā’ by Meis al-Kaisi

Special Issue: The Fragments Imagine the Nation? Minorities in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

The Fragments Imagine the Nation? Minorities in the Modern Middle East and North Africa by Jordi Tejel Gorgas and Benjamin Thomas White

Princes, Pashas and Patriots: The Kurdish Intelligentsia, the Ottoman Empire and the National Question (1908–1914) by Djene Rhys Bajalan

A New Language of Equality: Jews and the State in Nineteenth-Century Morocco by Jessica M. Marglin

The Language of the Nation: The Rise of Arabic among Jews and Christians (1900–1950) by Heleen Murre-van den Berg

Linguistic Diversity and Ideologies among the Catholic Minority in Mandate Palestine. Fear of Confusion or a Powerful Tool? By Karene Sanchez Summerer

Identity, Politics and Nation: Algerian Nationalism and the ‘Berberist Crisis’ of 1949 by Marisa Fois

The Two Language Problem: Sélim Abou, Lebanon and the Ethnolinguistic Nation by Elizabeth J. Marcus

Deconstructing Minorities/Majorities in Parliamentary Gulf States (Kuwait and Bahrain by Claire Beaugrand

Living Happily Ever After: Fraternal Polyandry, Taxes and “The House” in Early Islamic Bactria by Arezou Azad

Khargāh: An Inquiry into the Spread of the “Turkish” Trellis Tent within the ʿAbbāsid World up to the Saljūq Conquest (Mid second/eighth–early fifth/eleventh centuries) by David Durand-Guedy

Father, Brother, and Father-in-law as III-w Nouns in Semitic by Aren Wilson-Wright

Da‘sh and the Question of American Responsibility: ‘Whoever Got Us into This Mess Has to Get Us Out!’ by Khair el-Din Haseeb

Saudi Regime Resilience after the 2011 Arab Popular Uprisings by Madawi al-Rasheed

Iraq from Occupation to the Risk of Disintegration by Sa’ad Naji Jawad

The Future of Reform in Oman by Basma Mubarak Said

Arab Gulf Lobbying in the United States: What Makes Them Win and What Makes Them Lose and Why? By Dania Koleilat Khatib

Lack of Foreign Aid Effectiveness in Developing Countries between a Hammer and an Anvil by Moosa Elayah

An Account of the 2008 Syrian–Israeli Negotiations in Turkey by Milad Alodet Allah

The Arabs and the Confrontation with Israel: A Contribution to Crystallizing the Interim Goal and Determining Strategy by Walid Salem

Identity and Muslim Leadership: The Case of Australian Muslim Leaders by Hadi Sohrabi

The Hidden Olympians: The Role of Huffaz in the English Muslim Community by Bill Gent

Manufacturing Halal in Malaysia by Johan Fischer

Is Gender the Barrier to Democracy? Women, Islamism, and the “Arab Spring” by Rola al-Husseini

Sufism, Spirituality and Consumerism: The Case Study of the Nimatullahiya and Naqshbandiya Sufi Orders in Australia by Milad Milani and Adam Possamai

Religion at the Cemetery: Islamic Burials in the Netherlands and Belgium by Khadija Kadrouch Outmany

Special Issue: Extremism

Postnormal Blues by Ziauddin Sardar and Samia Rahman

Top Ten Jihadi Janes by Shanon Shah

ISIS by Anne Alexander

Statues of Identity by Elma Berisha

Sikh Extremism by Sunny Hundal

The New Atheists by Andrew Brown

Section on Rhetorics and Political Ideals

There and Back Again: Rhetorics of Al-Andalus in Modern Syrian Popular Culture by Jonathan H. Shannon

Freedom, Justice, and the Power of Adab by Ellen McLarney

Tahar Haddad after Bourguiba and Bin ʿali: A Reformist between Secularists and Islamists by Julian Weideman

Section on Liminal Becomings

From Revolutionaries to Muslims: Liminal Becomings across Palestinian Generations in Denmark by Anja Kublitz

Troubling the Political: Women in the Jordanian Day-Waged Labor Movement by Sara Ababneh

Vehicle Writings in an Iranian Context: The Interplay of Habitus and Field by Mostafa Hasrati, Brian Street, and Saba Habibi

Razi on Reason and Political Authority: A Study in Medieval Persian Political Thought by Alizera Shomali

The Unstable People of a Tumultuous Land: Persia through the Eyes and Feet of Hajji Baba of Isfahan by Amir Ahmadi Arian

The Persian Presence in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry: A Taxonomy by Reza Taher-Kermani

From Tobacco Revolt to Youth Rebellion: A Social History of the Cigarette in Iran by Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

Charity as a Means of Zoroastrian Self-Preservation by Rashna Writer

Compound Verb Processing in Second Language Speakers of Persian by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi

Special issue: Blasphemy

Apostasy and Blasphemy: A Clash of Freedoms – Speech and Religion by Virginie Andre and John L. Esposito

Articles of Faith: Freedom of Expression and Religious Freedom in Contemporary Multiculture by Anshuman A. Mondal

Echoes of the Danish Cartoon Crisis 10 Years Later: Identity, Injury and Intelligibility from Copenhagen to Paris and Texas by Jennifer Elisa Veninga

Blasphemy and Protection of the Faith: Legal Perspectives from the Middle Ages by John Tolan

Freedom of Expression, Laïcité and Islam in France: The Tension between Two Different (Universal) Perspectives by Francesco Alicino

Pragmatic Dogma: Understanding the Ideological Continuities in Iran’s Response to the Charlie Hebdo Attacks by James Barry

The Experience of Minorities under Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws by Qaiser Julius

In the Name of Culture and Religion: The Political Function of Blasphemy in Islamic States by Elham Manea

The Appellation Ṣāḥib Sunna in Classical Islam: How Sunnism Came To Be by John A. Nawas

(Q. 12:2) We have sent it down as an Arabic Qurʾān: Praying behind the Lisper by Shady Hekmat Nasser

The Ambivalent Position of the Landlord: A Dispute over Ownership of an Iranian Village in the 19th Century by Naofumi Abe

The Late Ottoman Ulema’s Constitutionalism by Susan Gunasti

Contesting Violence in Radical Islam: Sayyid Imām al-Sharīf’s Ethical Perception by Meir Hatina

Sixty-Two Years of National Insurance in Israel by Abraham Doron

Rethinking Reverence for Stalinism in the Kibbutz Movement by Reuven Shapira

Making War, Thinking History: David Ben-Gurion, Analogical Reasoning and the Suez Crisis by Ilai Z. Saltzman

Military Power and Foreign Policy Inaction: Israel, 1967‒1973 by Moshe Gat

Arab Army Vs. A Jewish Kibbutz: The Battle for Mishmar Ha’emek, April 1948 by Amiram Ezov

Lip-Service to Service: The Knesset Debates over Civic National Service in Israel, 1977–2007 by Etta Bick

State‒Diaspora Relations and Bureaucratic Politics: The Lavon and Pollard Affairs by Yitzhak Mualem

Developing Jaffa’s Port, 1920‒1936 by Tamir Goren

University, Community, Identity: Ben-Gurion University and the City Of Beersheba – A Political Cultural Analysis by Yitzhak Dahan

The Palestinian/Arab Strategy to Take Over Campuses in the West – Preliminary Findings by Ron Schleifer

Identity of Immigrants – Between Majority Perceptions and Self-Definition by Sibylle Heilbrunn, Anastasia Gorodzeisky, and Anya Glikman

Additional Reading Marks in Kufic Manuscripts by Mark Muehlhaeusler

The Philosophical Worship of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā by Janne Mattila

Special Issue: The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Cultural Production in Morocco

Creativity as a Political Choice by Mohammad Achaari

The Aesthetics and Politics of ‘Reading Together’ Moroccan Novels in Arabic and French by Karima Laachir

Ihbat: Disillusionment and the Arab Spring in Morocco by Taieb Belghazi and Abdelhay Moudden

The Legacy of Dissent: Mohamed Khair-Eddine and the Ongoing Cultural Diversity Debate in Morocco by Larbi Touaf

Flower Freak: How Things Fall Apart in Mohamed Choukri’s Short Stories by Abdellatif Akbib

Playing the ‘Berber’: The Performance of Amazigh Identities in Contemporary Morocco by Cleo Jay

In Their Front Yard: Deconstructing Masculinities in Bahaa Trabelsi’s Novels by Soumia Boutkhil

Women, Madness, Myth and Film: Exploring Moroccan Psychological Trauma and Postmemory in Pegase (Mohamed Mouftakir, 2010) by Valerie K. Orlando

Mapping Moroccan Neoliberalism: Melodrama and Realist Aesthetics in the Films of Hakim Noury by Jamal Bahmad

The Politics of Taqlidi Rap: Reimagining Moroccanness in the Era of Global Flows by Christina Moreno Almeida

Defining Moroccanness: The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Moroccan Fashion Design by M. Angela Jansen

Special Issue: Magrebi Artistic and Literary Expressions in the 21^st century

The Deterritorialised Self in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Rima Abunasser

How Art Assuages History: Nostalgia in Judeo-Tunisian Literature by Debbie Barnard

Investigating the Enforced Disappearances of Algeria’s ‘Dark Decade’: Omar D’s and Kamel Khélif’s Commemorative Art Projects by Jennifer Howell

Art Journals in Morocco: New Ways of Seeing and Saying by Mary Vogl

Bordering Nowhere: Migration and the Politics of Placelessness in Contemporary Art of the Maghrebi Diaspora by Nancy N. A. Demerdash

The Fictionalisation of History in Maïssa Bey’s Entendez-vous dans les montagnes … by Nevine El Nossery

Folk Poetry, Local Knowledge, and Resistance in Tunisia by Laura Rice and Karim Hamdy

Between Francophonie and World Literature in French: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Evolving Authority by Mary Anne Lewis

Trending Classic: The Cultural Register of Moroccan Malhun Poetry by Melanie Magidow

Persevering through Colonial Transition: Nazareth’s Palestinian Residents after 1948 by Leena Dallasheh

Language Matters: Talking about Palestine by Julie Peteet

Perceptions of Palestine: The View from Large Linguistic Datasets by Terry Regier

Palestinian Economic Development: Paradigm Shifts since the First Intifada by Leila Farsakh

Special Feature on Palestinian Well-Being: Suffering, Resilience, and Political Liberation

The Great Refusal by Paul Gaston Aaron and Thomas W. Hill

Whither the “Children of the Stone”? An Entire Life under Occupation by Brian K. Barber, Clea McNeely, Chenoa Allen, Rita Giacaman, Cairo Arafat, Mahmoud Daher, Eyad El Sarraj, Mohammed Abu Mallouh, and Robert F. Belli

The Pathological Optimist: One Man’s Vision for Palestinian Well-Being by Paul Gaston Aaron

A Muslim Scholar of the Bible: Prooftexts from Genesis and Matthew in the Qur’an Commentary of Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141) by Yousef Casewit

Universalised versus Particularised Conceptualisations of Islam in Translations of the Qur’an by Nora S. Eggen

A Structural Analysis of Sūrat Maryam, Verses 1–58 by Leyla Ozqur Alhassen

Ḥukm bi-mā anzala’llāh: The Forgotten Prehistory of an Islamist Slogan by Mark S. Wagner

Special Issue: The Mongols and Post-Mongol Asia: Studies in Honor of David O. Morgan

Part I: Pre-Mongol Period

Political Metaphors and Concepts in the Writings of an Eleventh-Century Sunni Scholar, Abū al-Ma‛ālī al-Juwaynī (419 – 478/1028 – 1085) by Ovamir Anjum

Al-Afḍal the Son of Saladin and His Reputation by Gerald Hawting

The Long-Term Geopolitics of the Pre-Modern Middle East by Michael Cook

Part II: The Mongol World

The Ethos of State and Society in the Early Mongol Empire: Chinggis Khan to Güyük by Paul D. Buell and Judith Kolbas

The Testimony of the Russian ‘Archbishop’ Peter Concerning the Mongols (1244/5): Precious Intelligence or Timely Disinformation? By Peter Jackson

The Islamisation of Hülegü: Imaginary Conversion in the Ilkhanate by Michal Biran

Commercial Queens: Mongolian Khatuns and the Silk Road by Timothy May

The Queen of the Chaghatayids: Orghīna Khātūn and the Rule of Central Asia by Bruno De Nicola

Marriage, Family and Politics: The Ilkhanid-Oirat Connection by Anne F. Broadbridge

If the Cap Fits: Going Mongol in Thirteenth Century Syria by Angus Stewart

A Murder in Medieval Yazd by Isabel A.M. Miller

The Preconditions to Becoming a Judge (Yarġuči) in Mongol Iran by István Vásáry

Part III: The Sources

The Edinburgh Biruni Manuscript: A Mirror of Its Time? By Robert Hillenbrand

Rashīd al-Dīn and the Shāhnāmeh by Charles Melville

Architecture as a Source for Local History in the Mongol Period: The Example of Warāmīn by Sheila Blair

Remarks on Some European Names in the Syriac life of Mār Yaḇalāhā by François De Blois

Intellectual Jousting and the Chinggisid Wisdom Bazaars by George Lane

Mīrkhwānd and Persian Historiography by Ali M. Ansari

Part IV: Beyond the Empire

Echoes of the Eurasian Steppe in the Daily Culture of Mamluk Military Society by Reuben Amitai

Scripting Mamlūk Cities: Insider’s Look. Explorations into Landscape Narratives by Nimrod Luz

The Empire of Tamerlane as an Adaptation of the Mongol Empire: An Answer to David Morgan, “The Empire of Tamerlane: An Unsuccessful Re-Run of the Mongol State?” by Beatrice F. Manz

Post-Mongol States and Early Modern Chronology in Iran and China by Pamela Kyle Crossley and Gene R. Garthwaite

‘More than Ordinary Labour’: Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) and the Translation of Turkish Documents under the Later Stuarts by Colin Heywood

Gobineau, the Would-Be Orientalist by Robert Irwin

Wittek and Köprülü by Rudi Paul Lindner

The Najaf Ḥawzah Curriculum by Roy P. Mottahedeh

Saints of the Indus: The Rise of Islam in South Asia’s Borderlands by Andre Wink

Philosophy and Shiʿism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? By Olivier Leaman

The Study of Shiʿi Islam in Western Academia by Liyakat Takim

Right to Offense, Right to Shiaphobia: A Rhetorical Analysis of Yasir Qadhi’s Framings of Offense by Shereen Yousuf

Struggling with Political Limitation: Shaykh al‑Mufīd’s Approach to Shiʿi Juristic Authority by Ali Ahmad Rasekh

Temporality, Peace Initiatives and Palestinian-Israeli Politics by Sean F. McMahon

Signs of Visual Resistance in Palestine: Unsettling the Settler-Colonial Matrix by Jaafar Alloul

Assessing Palestinian Economic Exchange across the Green Line by Guy Burton

Islamic Secularism and the Question of Freedom in Iran by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Popular Testimonial Literature by American Cultural Conservatives of Arab or Muslim Descent: Narrating the Self, Translating (an)Other by Adam Yaghi

Revisiting Western Strategies against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria by Till F. Paasche and Michael M. Gunter

Game Changers: Kurdish Women in Peace and War by Ofra Bengio

Saddam’s Use of Violence against Civilians during the Iran-Iraq War by Egle Murauskaite

Cementing a State of Belligerency: The 1949 Armistice Negotiations between Israel and Syria by Hilde Henriksen Waage and Petter Stenberg

George Brown and British Policy in the Middle East following the 1967 War by Arieh J. Kochavi

From German Philology to Local Usability: The Emergence of ‘Practical’ Arabic in the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa’ 1913–48 by Yonatan Mendel

Acknowledging the Suffering Caused by State-Mandated Sexual Violence and Crimes: An Assessment of the Iraqi High Tribunal by Katherine Ranharter and Gareth Stansfield

Female Cousins and Wounded Masculinity: Kurdish Nationalist Discourse in the Post-Ottoman Middle East by Ahmet Serdar Akturk

The Nation and Its Sermons: Islam, Kemalism and the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Turkey by Doğan Gürpinar & Ceren Kenar

Separatism, Coexistence and the Landscape: Jews and Palestinian-Arabs in Mandatory Haifa by Anat Kidron

A Letter from Iraq: The Writing of Iraqi Correspondents in al-ʿAlam al-ʾIsraʾili and Israʾil by Guy Bracha

From Kanun-ı Kadim (Ancient Law) to Umumun Kuvveti (Force of People): Historical Context of the Ottoman Constitutionalism by Erdem Sönmez

The Wadi al-Hawarith Affair (Emek Hefer): Disputed Land and the Struggle for Ownership: 1929–33 by Muhammad Suwaed

Bringing the British back in: Sephardim, Ashkenazi Anti-Zionist Orthodox and the Policy of Jewish Unity by Tim Sontheimer

Negotiating the Caliphate: British Responses to Pan-Islamic Appeals, 1914–1924 by Conor Meleady

The Feminist Movement during the AKP Era in Turkey: Challenges and Opportunities by Melinda Negrón-Gonzales

Between Anti-Westernism and Development: Political Islam and Environmentalism by A. Kadir Yildirim

‘We’, ‘They’ and the ‘Human’ in the Middle: Foreign Interventions for ‘Humanitarian Reasons’ during the Nineteenth Century in Turkish Historiography by Leonidas Karakatsanis

Negotiating Power and Authority in the Desert: The Arab Bedouin and the Limits of the Ottoman State in Hijaz, 1840–1908 by M. Talha Çiçek

The Interplay between Formal and Informal Institutions in Turkey: The Case of the Fethullah Gülen Community by Filiz Başkan-Canyaş and F. Orkunt Canyaş

Nakhchyvan, the Armenian arguments and the Allied Powers in 1919 by Kamala Imranli-Lowe

Britain and the Abdication of Reza Shah by Shaul Bakhash

Of Diet and Profit: On the Question of Subsistence Crises in Nineteenth-Century Iran by Ranin Kazemi

Ahmed İhsan and the ‘Wealth of the Sciences’ by Syed Tanvir Wasti

Special Issue: Overcoming Sectarian Faultlines after the Arab Uprisings: Sources, Symptoms and Solutions

Searching for Sectarianism in the Arab Spring: Colonial Conspiracy or Indigenous Instinct? by Mark Farha

From Communitarianism to Sectarianism: The Trajectory of Factionalism in the Arab Middle East by Hassan Mneimneh

The Hashemite-Umayyad Divide and Its Impact on the Future of Islam by Yahya Hakim

Sources of the Sunni Revival: Nizam u-Mulk & the Nizamiyya: An 11th Century Response to Sectarianism by Abdel Rahman Azzam

Sectarianism and the Arab Spring: The Case of the Kuwaiti Shiʿa by Hamad H. Alboshi

Why Does Iran Need Hizbullah? by Shahram Akbarzadeh

Making Sense of Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Clashing Identities and Interests by Birol Baskan

Nationalism and Institutionalized Sectarianism in Egypt by Emman El-Badawy

The Class Oriented Rationale: Uncovering the Sources of the Syrian Civil War by Badr Eddin Rahimah

The Double Movement & Post-Arab Spring Consociationalism by Imad Salamey

Wagering on Sectarianism: The Political Economy of Extremism by Ibrahim Warde

Islam Section

Disability in the Islamic Tradition by Mohammed Ghaly

Mullā Ṣadrā and the Project of Transcendent Philosophy by Muhammad U. Faruque

Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī and the Study of Muslim Commentaries from the Later Islamic Middle Period by Matthew B. Ingalls

A Survey of Ismaili Studies Part 1: Early Ismailism and Fatimid Ismailism by Khalil Andani

Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophical Arguments for the Necessity of the Imamate by Sayeh Meisami

Kids, You Make the Choice: Religious and Secular Socialization among Marginal Affiliates and Nonreligious Individuals by Joel Thiessen

Early-Modern Irreligion and Theological Analogy: A Response to Gavin Hyman’s A Short History of Atheism by Daniel Linford

Special section on Turkey’s 2015 Parliamentary Elections

2015 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey: Demise and Revival of AKP’s Single-Party Rule by Mehmet Bardakçi

The Future of Erdoğan and the AKP by Birol A. Yeşilada

The Conundrum of Coalition Politics in Turkey by Ersin Kalaycioğlu

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the 2015 Elections by Ioannis N. Grigoriadis

An Assessment on the Behavioral Foundations of Electoral Decisions in the 2015 Turkish General Elections by Cengiz Erisen

Turkish Foreign Policy at the Nexus of Changing International and Regional Dynamics by H. Tarık Oğuzlu

The AKP’s Proposal for a “Turkish Type of Presidentialism” In Comparative Context by Şule Özsoy Boyunsuz

Is It Ripe Yet? Resolving Turkey’s 30 Years of Conflict with the PKK by Mustafa Coşar Ünal

Rational Political Parties and Electoral Games: The AKP’s Strategic Move for the Kurdish Vote in Turkey by Gül Arikan Akdağ

Inter-Societal Security Trilemma in Turkey: Understanding the Failure of the 2009 Kurdish Opening by Tuncay Kardaş and Ali Balci

Electoral Manipulation In March 30, 2014 Turkish Local Elections by Cenk Aygül