Fall 2019 Journal Roundup

Reconsidering Rag-i Bibi: Authority and audience in the Sasanian East by Evan I. Levine and Daniel Plekhov

On Biographical Dictionaries of Ḥadīṯ Transmitters: Rethinking Development in the Islamic Literature by Muhammad Fawwaz Bin Muhammad Yusoff

A Critical Analysis of Firestone’s Hypothesis Regarding the Qurʾānic Legislation on Holy War by Mohammad Ali Tabataba’i and Maryam Velayati

Qur’anic Perspective on Empowering Humanistic Foreign Language Teaching by Mahrus As’ad, Ahmad Bukhori Muslim and Imam Ghozali Budiharjo

Badīʿ al-Zamān Saʿīd al-Nūrsī’s Methodological Approach in Thematic Qurʾānic Exegesis: the Case of Resurrecting the Body by Abdallah El-Khatib

Analysis on Textual Hadith of Waqf Infrastructure in al-Kutub al-Sittah and Its Applications from the Perspective of Maqasid al-Sunnah by Ishak Suliaman and Mohd Ashrof Zaki Yaakob

Al-Maʿarrī’s Esteem in the Islamic West: A Preliminary Overview by Kevin Blankinship

Religious Architecture as an Instrument for Urban Renewal: Two Religious Complexes from the Saadian Period in Marrakesh by Iñigo Almela

A Tale of Two Port Cities: Ayasuluk (Ephesus) and Balat (Miletus) during the Beyliks Period by Çağla Caner Yüksel

In Search of the Early Islamic Economy by Michael Bonner

Reacting to Muḥammad: Three Early Islamic Poets in the Kitāb al-Aghānī by Pamela Klasova

A Newly Discovered Letter of the Early Arabic Alphabet: A Distinction between Final Jīm and Final Ḥāʾ/Khāʾ and Its Nabataean Origins by Marijn van Putten 

Nourishing the Noble: Breastfeeding and Hero-Making in Medieval Arabic Popular Literature by Rachel Schine

An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-nāma by Austin O’Malley

Conference Report:

Mysticism and Ethics in Islam (American University of Beirut, 2–3 May 2019) by Louise Gallorini

Resisting Islamophobia: Muslims Seeking American Integration Through Spiritual Growth, Community Organizing and Political Activism by Nazreen S. Bacchus

Muslims at the American Vigil by Alisa Perkins

Blackamerican Muslim Scholars and Leaders in New York City by Timothy Patrick Daniels

Forum

Latina Muslim Producers of Online and Literary Countermedia by Yamil Avivi

Tawarruq: Controversial or Acceptable? by Ahmed Mansoor Alkhan and Mohammad Kabir Hassan

Non-Codified Sharīʿah as a State Law Governing Islamic Banking and Finance in Jordan by Mohammad H. Bashayreh

International Maritime Organisation Conventions as Incorporated under Kuwaiti Law by Talal Aladwani

The Role of International Agreements in Organising Tax Imposed on Intellectual Property Rights in Egypt, Palestine, and Jordan by Hasan Falah and Amjad Hassan

Classical Tawarruq: A Potential Alternative to Baiʿ al-ʿĪnah in the Malaysian Banking and Finance Industries by Amir Fazlim Yusoff, Azlin Alisa Ahmad and Nik Abdul Rahim Nik Abdul Ghani

Citizenship as Domination: Settled Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel by Lana Tatour 

Dispossession and Hybridity: The Neoliberal Moroccan City In Mohammad Achaari’s Literary Enterprise by Mohammad Wajdi Ben Hammed

The Hunger Economy: The Military Government In Galilee, Ramle, and Lydda, 1948-1949 by Benny Nuriely

Over the Top and Underground: Graphic Visualizations of Space in Magdy El Shafee’s Metro and Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia by Iman Hamam

Jerry Cans and Shrapnel Collections: Using Graphic Memoirs to Teach about the Lebanese Civil War by Nova Robinson

Mohsin Hamid Engages the World in The Reluctant Fundamentalist: “An Island on an Island,” Worlds in Miniature and “Fiction” in the Making by Mohamed Salah Eddine Madiou

Towards an Egyptian Bildungsroman: The National Intellectual after the 1919 Revolution in Naguib Mahfouz’s Sugar Street by Rania Mahmoud

Time and Waiting: The Fulcrum of Palestinian Identity by Ashutosh Singh

The Ascent of Ishmael: Genealogy, Covenant, and Identity in Early Islam by Mohsen Goudarzi

Ḥadīṯ Scholar and Historiography: Some Reflections on the Sīra Corpora of Ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī’s (d. 354/965) Kitāb al-Ṯiqāt by Muhammad Fawwaz Bin Muhammad Yusoff

Urban Levantine Dialectal Features and the Levantine-Mesopotamian Dialect Continuum in the Light of the Dialect of Damascus by Carmen Berlinches Ramos

Le chant de l’amour et de la mort d’une poétesse de l’Arabie antique by Georgine Ayoub

Les citations probantes du Livre du palmier (Kitāb al-Naḫl) d’Abū Ḥātim al-Siǧistānī (m. 255/869) by Brigitte Foulon

La joute satirique au début de l’époque abbasside (132/750-197/813) : un espace poétique autonome ? by Mathias Hoorelbeke

Le lieu de l’abus : poésie et taḫyīl chez ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī (m. 471/1078) by Loïc Bertrand

China’s ‘Political Re-Education’ Camps of Xinjiang’s Uyghur Muslims by Zainab Raza

Indonesia’s 2019 Elections: A Fractured Democracy? By Ulla Fionna & Francis E. Hutchinson

Talibanization of the Islamic State and the Quest for Retrospective Legitimacy by Afshin Shahi & Amer Mohamad

Afghanistan: Discerning China’s Westward March by Raghav Sharma

The Assyrians in World War One and the 1933 Massacre: New Discoveries in the RSAA Archives by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

Did Ibn Saud’s Militants Cause 400,000 Casualties? Myths and Evidence about the Wahhabi Conquests, 1902–1925 by Jeff Eden

A Real Electoral Duel between the P.J.D. and the P.A.M.? Analysing Constituency-Level Competitiveness in the 2016 Moroccan Elections by Inmaculada Szmolka

Persian ‘Rashti Jokes’: Modern Iran’s Palimpsests of gheyrat-Based Masculinity by Mostafa Abedinifard

Colonial Education and the Shaping of Islamism in Sudan, 1946–1956 by Willow Berridge

Israel’s Citizenship Policy since the 1990s—New Challenges, (Mostly) Old Solutions by Assaf Shapira

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iran–Iraq War: An Unconventional Military’s Survival by Maryam Alemzadeh

Out of Sight, Out of mind: Managing Religious Diversity in Qatar by John Fahy

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Narrating Social Bonds and Boundaries in Contemporary Lebanon by Bruno Lefort

Special Issue: Authoritarianism, Citizenship and Democracy in Turkey

Introduction: Turkey’s Deepening Authoritarianism and the Fall of Electoral Democracy by Zafer Yılmaz & Bryan S. Turner

Civil and Civic Death in the New Authoritarianisms: Punishment of Dissidents Through Juridical Destruction, Ethical Ruin, and Necropolitics in Turkey by Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir & Esra Özyürek

The Genesis of the ‘Exceptional’ Republic: The Permanency of the Political Crisis and the Constitution of Legal Emergency Power in Turkey by Zafer Yılmaz

Now There Is, Now There Is Not: The Disappearing Silent Revolution of AKP as Re-Entrenchment by Kumru Toktamis

The Burden of Sisyphus: A Sociological Inventory of the Kurdish Question in Turkey by Bülent Küçük

The Alevi Question and the Limits of Citizenship in Turkey by Cemil Boyraz

Choosing Second Citizenship in Troubled Times: The Jewish Minority in Turkey by Gabriela Anouck Côrte-Real Pinto & Isabel David

The Potentials and Challenges of Left Populism in Turkey: The Case of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) by Muzaffer Kaya

Paradosis and monotheism: a late antique approach to the meaning of islām in the Quran by Juan Cole

Non-Iranian historical lands in Pahlavi literature by Domenico Agostini

Regenerating Life: The Power of Reproducing People in Desert Turkmenistan by Cara Kerven

Shaping Historical and Cultural Heritage in Uyghur Children: A Case Study on the Book Series Bilqut Balilar Shexs Hëkayiliri by Giulia Cabras

Carried by Migrants– Frictions of Migration and Mobility Patterns in the Conflicting Assemblage of the Russian Private Transport Sector by Tonio Weicker

A cup of coffee in Bishkek: insights into the emerging coffee culture in Kyrgyzstan’s capital by Paulina Simkin & Matthias Schmidt

The capacity to aspire: young persons and gender–age relations in southern Tajikistan and North India by Colette Harris

The Sinicized self: prejudice, epistemology and Uyghur perceptions of their bodies by James McMurray

Soviet boarding schools as a forge of national professionals and intellectuals in Soviet Tajikistan in the 1950s and 1960s by Tuychi Rashidov

The demographic and agricultural development of the Kokand oasis during the Russian Imperial era: nomad immigration and cotton monoculture by Akira Ueda

The role of the ortoq in the Mongol Empire in forming business partnerships by Enerelt Enkhbold

Reflections on the prehistory of the Abdālī Afghans by Sajjad Nejatie

Identity and Regional Conflicts in the Arabian Gulf by Baqer Al-Najjar

Is there a Conflict between Security and Democracy in Morocco? by Ahmed El Morabety

TV Exposure and North Sinai Youth’s Tribal Identity, National Identity, and Risk Perception by Alyaa Anter

Mobilization of Moroccan Women: The Dialectics of Conflict and Empowerment by Al Habib Estati Zeineldin and Saeed Chekak

The Dynamics of Egypt’s “Semi-opposition,” 2004–11 by Mai Mogib Mosad

The Frankfurt School at Egyptian Universities: Critical Observations by Haggag Ali

Fudging the Boundaries between Concept(s) of Race, Class, and Religion: The Two Cases of Donald Trump and Lothrop Stoddard by Mahmoud Haddad

Geoeconomic Leverage of Natural Gas Resources in the Mediterranean: The Case of Israel by Ahmed Mahdi

Special Issue: Shia Muslims in Great Britain

Integration, class and secularism: the marginalization of Shia identities in the UK Iranian diaspora by Reza Gholami, Annabelle Sreberny

Fragmented realities: the ‘sectarianisation’ of space among Iraqi Shias in London by Emanuelle Degli Esposti

A minority within a minority?: the complexity and multilocality of transnational Twelver Shia networks in Britain by Oliver Scharbrodt

Living a piety-led life beyond Muharram: becoming or being a South Asian Shia Muslim in the UK by Sufyan Abid Dogra

Twelver Shia in Edinburgh: marking Muharram, mourning Husayn by Fayaz S. Alibhai

Being a young British Iraqi Shii in London: exploring diasporic cultural and religious identities between Britain and Iraq by Zahra Ali

Prejudice, military intelligence, and neoliberalism: examining the local within archaeology and heritage practices in Jordan by Shatha Abu-Khafajah & Riham Miqdadi

Islam in face-to-face interaction: direct zakat giving in Nablus (Palestine) by Emanuel Schaeublin

The symbolic construction of national identity and belonging in Syrian nationalist songs (from 1970 to 2007) by Rahaf Aldoughli

Prejudice, military intelligence, and neoliberalism: examining the local within archaeology and heritage practices in Jordan by Shatha Abu-Khafajah & Riham Miqdadi

‘A stranger from this homeland’: deportation and the ruin of lives and livelihoods during the Palestine Mandate by Lauren Banko

Islam in face-to-face interaction: direct zakat giving in Nablus (Palestine) by Emanuel Schaeublin

The symbolic construction of national identity and belonging in Syrian nationalist songs (from 1970 to 2007) by Rahaf Aldoughli

Gazzawi as bare life? An auto-ethnography of borders, siege, and statelessness by Abdalhadi Alijla

Essay: 

A surfeit of victims: a time after time by Walid Sadek

Anti-Muslim racism and the racialisation of sexual violence: ‘intersectional stereotyping’ in mass media representations of male Muslim migrants in Germany by Iris Wigger

Gendered identity formation in post-colonial France: the case of French Muslims of Maghrebi origins with a focus on Algeria by Mohammad A. Chaichian & Homa Sadri

Everyday living with Islamophobia by Noreen Mirza

Who are the Aṣḥāb al-Ukhdūd? Q 85:4‒10 in Near Eastern Context by Adam Silverstein

Whence Diyār Bakr? An Inquiry into Early Jazīran Administrative Geography by Hannah-Lena Hagemann

The Uniqueness of the Fāṭimid State by Lev Yaacov

A Jewish Vizier and his Shīʿī Manifesto: Jews, Shīʿīs, and the Politicization of Confessional Identities in Mongol-ruled Iraq and Iran (13th to 14th centuries) by Jonathan Brack

Zur Diplomatik mamlūkischer Verwaltungsdokumente by Daniel Potthast 

Crossing Borders: ʿĀʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya and Her Travels by Th. Emil Homerin

Arab Shiʿism and the Shiʿa of Lebanon: New Approaches to Modern History, Contemporary Politics, and Religion by Rola El-Husseini and Mara A. Leichtman

Education and Reconfiguring Lebanese Shiʿi Muslims into the Nation-State during the French Mandate, 1920-43 by Linda Sayed

The Appeal of Communism among the Lebanese Shiʿa, 1943-75 by Jehan Al-Azzawi

Islamic Ecumenism in the Early Political Thought of Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlallāh by Nabil Hage Ali

The Question of Divorce and the Mandate of the Jurist Over the Unwilling Husband in Lebanese Muslim Shiʿi Jurisprudence: A Legal Reform? by Moulouk Berry

Ḥasan Naṣrallāh’s ʿĀshūrāʾ Speeches: The Thin Line between Ethics and Identity by Bashir Saade

Iran and Hizbullah’s Development Organization in Lebanon: The Case of Jihād al-Bināʾby Eric Lob

Gender between Law, Religion and Myths: The Surroundings of Fiqh

Introduction by Hocine Benkheira

Imperialist Feminism and Islamic Law by Lena Salaymeh

Anāq bt. Ādam, the Islamic Story of the Very First Witch: Gender and the Origins of Evil Magic by Jean-Charles Coulon

Les femmes dans la culture visuelle du Shāhnāma de Firdawsī: entre mythes, imaginaire et pratiques sociales by Anna Caiozzo

L’impossible équité : polygynie et partage des nuits by Mohammed Hocine Benkheira

Le statut matrimonial de la femme dans l’islam médiéval à l’épreuve des documents juridiques by Moez Dridi and Muriel Roiland

From Persecution to (Potential) Emancipation: Female Slaves and Legal Violations in Ottoman Istanbul according to Court Registers (16th–17th Centuries) by Hayri Gökşin Özkoray

Un lieu de recours ambigu : usages féminins de la justice islamique dans les oasis du Grand Touat (Sud algérien) aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles by Ismail Warscheid

« Des perles dans leur coquillage » ? Les femmes et la réinvention du patriarcat dans l’Algérie coloniale (1882–1962) by Augustin Jomier

Reimagining Taqiyya: The “Narrative of the Four Pillars” and Strategies of Secrecy among the Ismāʿīlīs of Central Asia by Daniel Beben

Genres of Desire: The Erotic in Deobandī Islam by Ali Altaf Mian

“Every Sperm Is Sacred”: Palestinian Prisoners, Smuggled Semen, and Derrida’s Prophecy by Mohammed Hamdan

Queering Heterosexual (Intersectarian) Love in Lebanon by Sabiha Allouche

Muscular Muslims: Scouting in Late Colonial Algeria Between Nationalism and Religion by Jakob Krais

Doctors With Borders: Hierarchies of Humanitarians and the Syrian Civil War by Rania Kassab Sweis

The Ottomans During the Global Crises of Cholera and Plague: The View From Iraq and the Gulf by Isacar A. Bolaños

Roundtable:

Understanding Climate Vulnerability in the Middle East and North Africa by Jeannie Sowers

Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East by Michael Mason

Living Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa by Karen Rignall

Women and Crafting the Self in Moniro Ravanipour’s Novels by Saeedeh Shahnahpour

Expressing Selves: A Comparative Study of the Memoirs of Tāj al-Salṭana and Bībī Maryam Bakhtiyārī by Saghar Sadeghian

The Construction of Social Identity by Collective Memory of Iranian Baha’is in Novels: “The Cradle of the Beast” and “Utab’s Memories” by Parvaneh Hosseini Fahraji

Analyzing Mother-Daughter Relationships across Three Generations of Jewish Women in Liora by Farībā Ṣidīqīm by Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Moqaddam

The Fluidity of Iranian-Armenian Identity in Zoya Pirzad’s Things Left Unsaid by Claudia Yaghoobi

Introduction: Saʿdi at Large by Julia Caterina Hartley

Saʿdi-ye Shirāzi and Bono Giamboni in Dialogue: A Comparative Approach to Temperance by Daniela Meneghini

Compilations of the Bustān of Saʿdī in Iran, Central Asia, and Turkey, ca. 1470–1550 by Lamia Balafrej

Between Fantasy and Philosophy: Saʿdi, Translator of Voltaire’s Zadig by Margaux Whiskin

Persian Monshi, Persian Jones: English Translations of Saʿdi’s Golestān from the Late Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries by Pegah Shahbaz

The Dragoman and the Scholar: Two Polish Translations of Saʿdi’s Golestān by Mateusz M. Kłagisz & Renata Rusek-Kowalska

Beyond Orientalism: When Marceline Desbordes-Valmore carried Saʿdi’s Roses to France by Julia Caterina Hartley

The Social and Literary Context of German Translations of Saʿdi’s Golestān by Nina Zandjani

Saʿdi in European Languages and Literatures: An Annotated Bibliography compiled by Julia Caterina Hartley, With assistance from Cameron Cross, Samuel Hodgkin, Joseph Lenkart & Nina Zandjani

A Sogdian Drinking Game at Panjikent by Betty Hensellek

Kush-e Pildandān, the Anti-Hero: Polemics of Power in Late Antique Iran by Saghi Gazerani

The “Metal Army” of Alexander in the War against the Indian King Porus in Three Persian Alexander Books (Tenth‒Fourteenth Centuries) by Nahid Norozi

The Jewish Communities of Central Asia in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods by Albert Kaganovitch

Reading In, Looking Out: Hermeneutics by Implication in an Early Fifteenth-Century Anthology by James White

Ibrāhīm Sulṭān’s Muṣḥaf: The Qurʾān Calligraphed by Ibrāhīm Sulṭān in the Pars Museum by Mohammad Sadeq Mirza-Abolqasemi

The Signing of the Sino-Iranian Treaty of 1920 by Li-Chiao Chen

Islam, the Divine Command Theory, and Religious Fundamentalism by Ferhat Yöney

The Trinity in Qur’anic Idiom: Q 4.171 and the Christian Arabic Presentation of the Trinity as God, his Word, and his Spirit by Mourad Takawi

Refuge in the Bosoms of the Mountains: A Ninth-Century Muslim Appraisal of Monastic Piety by Bradley Bowman

The Cross versus the Crescent: Karl Kumm’s Missiology by Andrew E. Barnes

Between daʿwa and Dialogue: Religious Engagement in Muslim-minority Environments by Itzchak Weismann

Special Issue: Jewish presence in Cyprus from the 1930s to Israel’s establishment

Business and ideology in an era of nation building: Zionist enterprises in Cyprus, 1933–39 by Evangelia Matthopoulou

Escaping Nazi horror: Jewish and Christian refugees in Cyprus by Iakovos D. Michailidis

Why were the Cyprus camps for Jewish detainees not dissolved immediately after the independence of Israel? by Branka Arrivé

The Jewish detainees in the narrations of the Greek-Cypriot Press (1946–49) by Vasiliki Selioti

Global public opinion toward Israel: mapping and assessing the determinants of public attitudes in 45 countries by Raphael BenLevi, Amnon Cavari & Lesley Terris

Revisiting Israel-Taiwan relations by Mor Sobol

Confederation as a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? by Matthew K. Godwin

Yigal Allon’s plan to establish an independent Druze state by Udi Manor

Film regulation and the construction of a nation: two theoretical perspectives by Tamar Ashuri & Mor Hassid-Lavi

The effect of digital variables on perceived employability in an ethnic minority and the hegemonic group by Sabina Lissitsa & Svetlana Chachashvili-Bolotin

I see no problem because there is no problem: denial and silence among Israeli mental health professionals during the first Intifada by Eliezer Witztum & Ruth Malkinson

“Neither here nor there” – Flattening, omission, and silencing, in the constructing of identity of Islamic girls who attend a Jewish school by Smadar Ben-Asher, Naama Sabar Ben-Yehoshua & Aya Elbedour

Rethinking voice and silence by Galia Sabar

The Suppression of the Great Revolt and the Destruction of Everyday Life in Palestine by Charles Anderson

Building to Survive: The Politics of Cement in Mandate Palestine by Nimrod Ben Zeev

Reversing Israel’s Deepening Annexation of Occupied East Jerusalem by The International Crisis Group

Learning and Patronizing the Science of Music among the Elite of Medieval Baghdad by Mohammad Sadegh Ansari

Late Antique Philosophical Terminology in Early Kalām: The Polysemous Greek Term atomon and Its Arabic Equivalent juzʾ lā yatajazzaʾby Elvira Wakelnig

The Notion of gharīb in Arabic Lexica by Ramzi Baalbaki

The Parting of Ways between ʿAlid Shiʿism and Abbasid Shiʿism: An Analysis of the Missives between the Caliph al-Manṣūr and Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya by D.G. Tor

Special Issue: After Saba Mahmood: Examining Sexual Difference, Secularism, and the Study of Religion

Introduction by Andrea R Jain

Self-Critique and Moral Ground: Saba Mahmood’s Contribution to Remaking Secularism and the Study of Religion by Joseph Blankholm

Anti-Gender Ideology and Mahmood’s Critique of the Secular Age by Judith Butler

US Religious History, the Culture Wars, and the Arts of Secularity by Anthony M Petro

The Tour-de-Force Scholarship of Saba Mahmood by Sherine Hafez

Saba Mahmood: Secularization, Practice, and the “Ethical Turn” by Bryan S Turner

Saba Mahmood on Concepts and Their Unequal Careers by Angie Heo

Rearing Gendered Souls: Childhood and the Making of Muslim Manhood in Pre-Modern Islamic Ethics by Zahra Ayubi

A Mongol Mahdi in Medieval Anatolia: Rebellion, Reform, and Divine Right in the Post-Mongol Islamic World (pp. 611-630) by Jonathan Brack

Ibn al-Jawzī and the Cursing of Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya: A Debate on Rebellion and Legitimate Rulership (pp. 631-646) by Han Hsien Liew

Is Ibn Khaldūn “Obsessed” with the Supernatural? (pp. 681-685) by Malik Mufti

Jadal and Qiyās in the Fifth/Eleventh Century: Two Debates between al-Juwaynī and al-Shīrāzī (pp. 923-944) by Sohaira Siddiqui

Oman’s Response to a Rising Iran: A Case of Strategic Hedging by Mohammed Binhuwaidin

What Influence Do Advisory Assemblies Have? A Print Media Analysis of the UAE’s Federal National Council, 2011–15 by Guy Burton

Meanings of Women’s Agency: A Case Study from Qatar on Improving Measurement in Context by Yara Qutteina, Laurie James-Hawkins, Buthaina Al-Khelaifi & Kathryn M. Yount

Perceptions of Women’s Roles between Traditionalism and Modernity in Qatar by Kaltham Al-Ghanim

Exploring the Nexus between Highly-Skilled Migrants, the Kafala System, and Development in the UAE by Martin Hvidt

Heritage Tourism in Kuwait: Prospects for Economic Diversification by Radhika Lakshminarayanan

Special Issue: Adab

Al-Sharīf al-Raḍī and Nahj al-balāghah: Rhetoric, Dispossession, and the Lyric Sensibility by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

The Politics of Literary Value in Early Modernist Arabic Comparative Literary Criticism by Haifa S. Alfaisal

Doing Things with Lists—Enumeration in Arabic Prose by Christian Junge

Entanglements between the Tanzimat and al-Nahḍah: Jurjī Zaydān between Tārīkh ādāb al-lughah al-turkiyyah and Tārīkh ādāb al-lughah al-ʿarabiyyah by C. Ceyhun Arslan

The Jewish Ahl al-Adab of al-Andalus by Jonathan Decter

Le concept d’adab est-il dérivé du mot daʾb ? : retour sur une hypothèse ancienne de Vollers et Nallino by Salah Natij

Factionalism Within the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan by Hawre Hasan Hama

The Democratizer Army Paradox: The Role of the Algerian Army in Impeded Democratization by Furkan Halit Yolcu

The Role and Development of the Ombudsman System in the Maghreb A ‘Measure’ of Democracy? by Francesco Tamburini

Vocabularies of Spatiality in French Colonial Urbanism: Some Covert Rationales of Street Names in Colonial Dakar, West Africa and Saigon, Indochina by Ambe J. Njoh, Esther P. Chie

Concept of Culture Relativism and Women’s Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa by Norah Hashim Msuya

United States’ Security Governance in Nigeria: Implications on Counterterrorism Strategies Against Boko Haram by Victor Chidubem Iwuoha

Negotiated Privilege: Strategic Tax Exemptions Policies for Religious Groups and the Mongol-Yuan Dynasty in 13th-Century China by Wonhee Cho

Caravan Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire: the ʿAqīl Network and the Institutionalization of Overland Trade by Philippe Pétriat

“In that One the Ālif is Missing”: Eunuchs and the Politics of Masculinity in Early Colonial North India by Nicholas Abbott

Special Issue: Israeli Nationality Law

Introduction to the Special Issue on the Israeli Nationality Law by Elia Zureik

Donald Trump’s Punitive Politics and the Question of Palestine: A Gaze into his Psychological Makeup and Business Ethics by Elia Zureik

The Nation State of the Jewish People’s Basic Law: A Threshhold of Elimination? by Ahmad H. Sa’di

The Israeli Nationality Law: A Blueprint for a Twenty-first Century Settler-Colonial State by Ilan Pappe

Israel’s New Constitutional Imagination: The Nation State Law and Beyond by Amal Jamal

Orientalist Speech-acts and Israeli Middle East Studies: Cautions and Criticisms of Edward Said Beyond the Battle of Ideas by Eyal Clyne

Global Palestine: International Solidarity and the Cuban Connection by Robert Austin Henry

Ramon Llulls’s Worldview and Influence on Teaching Arabic in Medieval Universities by Selman Dilek

Navy in Need of Zakat, State in Need of Navy The Matter of Giving Zakat to Aid of Navy in the Ottoman Second Constitutional Era by Hamdi Çilingir

Contemporary Ijtihād, Ethics and Modernity by Mutaz al-Khatib

Custom and Modern Constructions of Sharīʿa: Transnational Juristic Discussions on the Status of ʿUrf by Ayman Shabana

Islamic Human Rights Discourse and Hermeneutics of Continuity by Arnold Yasin Mol

Gender Equality in the Inheritance Debate in Tunisia and the Formation of Non-Authoritarian Reasoning by Sari Hanafi and Azzam Tomeh

A New Document in the Early History of the Qurʾān

Codex Mashhad, an ʿUthmānic Text of the Qurʾān in Ibn Masʿūd’s Arrangement of Sūras by  Morteza Karimi-Nia

Arabe 334a. A Vocalized Kufic Quran in a Non-canonical Hijazi Reading  by Marijn van Putten

Index of the Manuscripts Mentioned in Volumes 1–10 (2010–2019)  by Jan Just Witkam

Emigration of Christians from the Arab Middle East: A New Reading by Yusri Hazran

Azerbaijani National Identity in Iran, 1921–1946: Roots, Development, and Limits by Ramin Ahmadoghlu

The Domestication of Al-Shabaab by Tricia Bacon & Daisy Muibu

A Family in Iran: Women Teachers, Minority Integration, and Family Networks in the Jewish Schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Iran, 1900–1950 by Isabelle S. Headrick

Arab Tribalism and Urban Environments: Alternative Models of Social Organization by Francisco del Río Sánchez

Murad vs. ISIS: Rape as a Weapon of Genocide by Miriam Cooke

Gender, Genre, and Literary Firsts: The Case of Zhor Wanisi and Ahlam Mosteghanemi by Erin Twohig

The Creation of the Femme Fatale in Egyptian Cinema by Carolina Bracco

Anticolonial Colonialism: Aurora Bertrana’s El Marroc Sensual i Fanàtic and the Shortcomings of “Anticolonial” Spanish Republican Feminism in the 1930s by Monica Lindsay-Perez

Gender and Nation Building in Qatar: Qatari Women Negotiate Modernity by Alainna Liloia

Constructing the “Citizen Enemy” – The Impact of the Enemy Property Act of 1968 on India’s Muslims by Sanober Umar

Analysing the Outwardly Developed-Inwardly Backward Paradox Surrounding the Educational Status of Muslims in Kerala, India by Muhammed Haneefa

Transformation of Myanmar Muslim Community: Singapore as a Role-Model by Maulana Akbar Shah, Mohd Abbas Abdul Razak & Mohammed Farid Ali Al-Fijawi

Controlling Message and Messenger: Singapore’s Ongoing Efforts to Bureaucratize Islam by James R. Sullivan

Social Mobility of Uighur Population in Mainland China: A Comparative Perspective by Wei Guo & Isabelle Attané

Unrecognised Muslim Marriage in Ireland: Incidence and Implications by Susan Leahy & Kathryn O’Sullivan

Islamic Garb in Public Employment in Europe and the US—From Integration to Accommodation to Anti-Discrimination by Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi

The Representation of Islam and Muslims in French Print Media Discourse: Le Monde and Le Figaro as Case Studies by Abderrahim Ait Abdeslam

Why “Accommodation” makes the Most Sense for China’s Long-term Xinjiang Strategy by Nicholas Ross Smith

The Politics of Giving: Charity, State, Civil Society and Governance in Contemporary Turkey by Damla Isik

Charity as Politics “Writ Small” in Gulf Petro-Monarchies by Miriam R. Lowi

Zakat and the Umma Imaginary of the 1970s Muslim Students Association by Justine Howe

Fighting for the Faith? Notes on Women and War in Early Islam by Rana Mikati

Religious Invocations on Umayyad Lead Seals: Evidence of an Emergent Islamic Lexicon by Tareq A. Ramadan

Commentary

In search of ‘consensus’: the crisis of party politics in Tunisia by Anne Wolf

Articles

The Greek community in Tunis between 1805 and 1881. Aspects of its demographics and its role in the local economic and political context by Antonios Chaldeos

Regime change and elite behaviour: the case of the 2010–2011 Tunisian uprisings by Bilel Kchouk & Aaida Mamuji

Critical junctures, path dependence and Al-Nahda’s contribution to the Tunisian transition to democracy by Pietro Marzo

Decentralisation in Morocco: a solution to the ‘Arab Spring’? By Annabelle Houdret & Astrid Harnisch

Agriculture, trade, and climate change adaptation: a global CGE analysis for Morocco and Turkey by Ismail Ouraich, Hasan Dudu, Wallace E. Tyner & Erol H. Cakmak

Screening femininity and Amazighness in Narjiss Nejjar’s Dry Eyes by Said Chemlal

Does demographic transition matter for economic growth? Evidence from Egypt by Reham Rizk

The Secret Testimony of the Peel Commission (Part I): Underbelly of Empire by Laila Parsons

U.S. Security Coordination and the “Global War on Terror” by Jeannette Greven

Postwar Nakba: A Microhistory of the Depopulation of Zakariyya, 1950 by Dan Tsahor

Special Document File

The Erasure of the Nakba in Israel’s Archives by Seth Anziska

Essays

Power, Politics, and Community: Resistance Dynamics in the Occupied Golan by Munir Fakher Eldin

The First Intifada (Part II): The Road to Oslo by Khalid Farraj

The Right to Maim and Its Implications for Palestine Studies by Rana Barakat

Special Issue: Advice Literature and Persianate Political Ethics

Introduction: Advice Literature and Persianate Political Ethics by Louise Marlow

From Blessed Lips: the Textualization of Abu Saʿid’s Dicta and Deeds by Austin O’Malley

Élite Folktales: Munes-nāma, Ketāb-e dāstān, and Their Audiences by Nasrin Askari

“When a Lion is Chided by an Ant”: Everyday Saints and the Making of Sufi Kings in ʿAttār’s Elāhi-nāma by Ghazzal Dabiri

“A Marvelous Painting”: the Erotic Dimension of Saʿdi’s Praise Poetry by Domenico Ingenito

In Pursuit of Consonance: Science and Religion in Modern Works of tafsīr by Ayman Shabana

ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Zindānī’s iʿjāz ʿilmī Approach: Embryonic Development in Q. 23:12–14 as a Scientific Miracle by Melanie Guénon

The Hermeneutics of Miracle: Evolution, Eloquence, and the Critique of Scientific Exegesis in the Literary School of tafsīr. Part I: From Muḥammad ʿAbduh to Amīn al-Khūlī by Shuruq Naguib

Creation as Text: The Graphological Trope in Said Nursi’s Risāle-i nūr by Colin Turner

The Shāhīn Affair and the Evolution of uṣūl al-tafsīr by Sohaib Saeed

The Rehabilitation of ʿAlī in Sunnī Ḥadīth and Historiography by Nebil Husayn

The Origin and Power of Music According to the 11th-Century Islamic Philosopher Ibn Sīnā by Roni Granot, Nabil Shair

The ‘Merits of Isfahan’ from Arabic into Persian by Louise Marlow

Notes on the speech of the Afro-Baloch of the southern coast of Iran by Agnes Korn, Maryam Nourzaei

The Language of the Kharg Island by Habib Borjian

Select Monuments to Enemies? ‘Rajput’ Statues in Mughal Capitals by Eugenia Vanina

Languages of Law: Islamic Legal Cosmopolis and its Arabic and Malay Microcosmoi by Mahmood Kooria

Notice. An Unpublished Inscription from the Fort of Ahmadnagar by Pushkar Sohoni, William Kwiatkowski

The Iconography of a Military Elite: Military Figures on an Early Thirteenth-Century Candlestick (Part III) by David Nicolle

Notes on Two Manjanīq Counterweights from Mamluk Shawbak by Andrea Vanni Desideri

Mamluks of Jewish Origin in the Mamluk Sultanate by Koby Yosef

Beirut’s Church of the Savior under the Mamluks by Pierre Moukarzel

An Arabic Marriage Contract and Subsequent Divorce from Mamluk Jerusalem: The Ḥaram al-Sharīf No. 302 by Muhammad N. Abdul-Rahman

Prophetic Resistance to Islam in Ninth-Century Córdoba: Paulus Alvarus and the Indiculus Luminosus by Andrew Sorber

Of Archers and Lions: The Capital of the Islamic Rider in the Cloister of Girona Cathedral by Inés Monteira

Jews and Muslims in the Works of John of Naples by Kirsten Schut

Between Latin Theology and Arabic Kalām: Samson’s Apologeticus contra perfidos (864 CE) and Ḥafṣ b. Albar al-Qūṭī’s Extant Works (fl. Late Ninth/Early Tenth Centuries) by Jason Busic

Reformism, Economic Liberalization and Popular Mobilization in Iran by Tara Povey

Long Live the Neo-traditional Kings? The Gulf Cooperation Council and Legitimation of Monarchical Rule in the Arabian Peninsula by Leonie Holthaus

The Emotional Politics of Representations of Migrant Domestic Work in Lebanon by Priscilla Ringrose & Elisabeth Stubberud

The Oslo People-to-People Program and the Limits of Hegemony by Nadia Naser-Najjab

Iraq’s Sources of Emulation: Scholarly Capital and Competition in Contemporary Shiʿism by Elvire Corboz

Nobody to Talk to: The Persistence of the “No Partner” Mantra in Israeli Discourse by Guy Ziv

Stuck in the Logic of Oslo: Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Raffaella A. Del Sarto

Crisis, State Legitimacy, and Political Participation in a Non-Democracy: How Qatar Withstood the 2017 Blockade by Justin Gengler and Buthaina Al-Khelaifi

Ethno-Religious Belonging in the Syrian Conflict: Between Communitarianism and Sectarianization by Harout Akdedian

Marx’s Arabian Apostles: The Rise and Fall of the Saudi Communist Movement by Mohammed Turki A. Al-Sudairi

Special Issue: Citizenship

Special Issue Introduction by Zahra Babar

Paradoxes of Dual Nationality: Geopolitical Constraints on Multiple Citizenship in the Iranian Diaspora by Amy Malek

Consumer Citizenship: National Identity and Museum Merchandise in Qatar by Suzi Mirgani

Palestinian (Non)Citizenship by Fateh Azzam

Historicizing Race, Ethnicity, and the Crisis of Citizenship in Sudan and South Sudan by Amir Idris

Active and Passive Citizenship in the Arab World by Roel Meijer

Laughing Sectarianism Away: The Possibilities and Limitations of Lebanese Satire by Sophie Chamas

Untranslatability as Resistance: The Case of Levantine Arabic Rap in the Aftermath of the 2011 Uprisings by Fernanda Fischione

The Last Monument Standing: The Politics of Time in the Tunisian Revolution by Joachim Ben Yakoub

eWords for New Worlds: Globalization and the Empowerment of Iranian Women by Zahia Smail Salhi and Vahideh Golzard

Internet Trolling in ‘Networked’ Authoritarianism: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Tweets by Regime Supporters and ‘Ak Trolls’ in July 2016 by Erkan Yildiz and Kevin Smets

The British Empire in India, the Gulf Pearl and the Making of the Middle East by Guillemette Crouzet

Between National Sovereignty and Foreign Capital: The Fate of the French Companies’ Concessions in Turkey after the War of Liberation by Neslişah Leman Başaran Lotz

Young Turk Governance in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War by Erik Jan Zürcher

Turco-British Relations, Cold War and Reshaping the Middle East: Egypt, Greece and Cyprus (1954–1958) by Cemal Yorgancıoğlu and Şevki Kıralp

The Latent Politicization of Alevism: The Affiliation between Alevis and Leftist Politics (1960–1980) by Mehmet Ertan

The Construction and Re-construction of the Civil Religion around the Cult of Atatürk by Birol Çaymaz

Children in War Time: The First Pupils of the Syrian (Schneller) Orphanage in Jerusalem 1860–1863 by Fruma Zachs

Historical Geography of the Palestine Southern Coastal Plain in the Late Ottoman Period – The Ashkelon Region as a Case Study by Avi (Avraham) Sasson

The Destruction of Old Jaffa in 1936 and the Question of the Arab Refugees by Tamir Goren

The Sephardi and Oriental Jews of Haifa and Arab-Jewish Relations in Mandate Palestine by Moshe Naor

Jewish and Christian Sanctity under Israeli Sovereignty: Mount Zion, King David’s Tomb and the Last Supper Room (1948–1967) by Doron Bar

Before the Mughals: Material Culture of Sultanate North India by Finbarr Barry Flood

The Illuminations of Mukhlis ibn ʿAbdallah al-Hindi: Identifying Manuscripts from Late Medieval Konya by Cailah Jackson

“Compassionate Companion, Familiar Friend”: The Turin Safīna (Biblioteca Reale Ms. Or. 101) and Its Significance by Denise-Marie Teece

The “Arabic” Stole of Vatopediou Monastery: Traces of Islamic Material Culture in Late Byzantium by Nikolaos Vryzidis

The Blue-and-White Tiles of the Muradiye in Edirne: Architectural Decoration between Tabriz, Damascus, and Cairo by Patricia Blessing

Intersections Between the Architect’s Cubit, the Science of Surveying, and Social Practices in CaʿFer Efendi’s Seventeenth-Century Book on Ottoman Architecture by Gül Kale

“The Temple of the Incredulous”: Ottoman Sultanic Mosques and the Principle of Legality by Samet Budak

A Forgotten Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Mosque and Its Inscriptions by Bill Hickman

The Heart Case of Abbot Roger de Norton from St. Albans Abbey: An Islamic Object in a Medieval English Context by Barry Knight

“The Illusion of an Authentic Experience”: a Luster Bowl in the Ashmolean Museum by Francesca Leoni, Dana Norris, Kelly Domoney, Moujan Matin and Andrew Shortland

Light on Light by Lenn E. Goodman

The Harp of Translators. An Ancient Jewish Tradition Running Through al‐Andalus in Arabic Nestorian Dress by Juan Pedro Monferrer‐Sala

Creatio ex Philosophia: Kalām as Cultural Evolution and Identity‐Formation Means in the Early Abbasid Era by Najib George Awad

Al‐Kindī’s Qur’ānic Exegeses by Thérèse‐Anne Druart

Aristotle’s Categories in the Islamic Milieu Through the Syriac Tradition by Luis Xavier López‐Farjeat José Alfonso Ganem Gutiérrez

Ibn Rushd in the Ḥanbalī Tradition. Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al‐Jawziyya and the Continuity of Philosophy in Muslim Contexts by Fouad Ben Ahmed

Philosophical Exegesis in Context. Some Views by Ibn Taymiyya by Yahya M. Michot

Ibn Rushd and Aquinas on God’s Causal Omniscience by Stephen Ogden

Averroes and Maimonides on Equivocal Terms in the Qur’ān and the Torah by Terence J. Kleven

Philosophy and the Metaphorical Interpretation of Religious Texts in Averroes, Maimonides, and Aquinas by Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo

Qutb al-Din al-Razi on the Notion of Assent and Its Philosophical Implications by Ömer Türker

Qutb al-Din al-Razi and the Problem of Universals: A Fourteenth-Century Critique of Avicenna’s Theory of Natural Universals by Wahid M. Amin

A New Take on Semantics, Syntax, and the Copula: Note on Qutb al-Din al-Razi al-Tahtani’s Analysis of Atomic Propositions in the Lawami‘ al-asrar by Dustin D. Klinger

The Problem of Existential Import in Metathetic Propositions: Qutb al-Din al-Tahtani contra Fakhr al-Din al-Razi by Yusuf Daşdemir

Was Qutb al-Din al-Razi al-Tahtani a Sunni or a Shi‘i?: An Examination of Bio-bibliographical Sources by Michael A. Rapoport

A Constitutive Work in the Sharh Tradition of Quranic Exegesis: Qutb al-Din al-Razi’s Sharh Mushkilat al-Kashshaf by M. Taha Boyalık

Qutb al-Din al-Razi as a Shafi‘i Scholar and the Edition, Translation and Analysis of His Commentary on the Introduction of al-Hawi al-Saghir by Nail Okuyucu

Avicenna against Mathematical Platonism by Mohammad Saleh Zarepour

Les fragments arabes du Commentaire moyen d’ Averroès à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque by Frédérique Woerther

Gundissalinus on the Angelic Creation of the Human Soul: A Peculiar Example of Philosophical Appropriation by Nicola Polloni

Agency and Effect in the Astrology of Abū Maʿshar of Balkh (Albumasar) by Charles Burnett

Dashtakī (d. 1498) and Dawānī (d. 1502) on the Analysis of Existential Propositions by Khaled El-Rouayheb

Metaphysics, Elemental Transformation, Medicine: A Specimen of Avicenna’s System of Thought in Ms. Escorial by Amos Bertolacci

Leone Caetani en voyage da Oriente a Occidente by Valentina Sagaria Rossi

Il nucleo di manoscritti arabi provenienti da San Martino delle Scale e conservati presso la Biblioteca Centrale della Regione Siciliana by Maria Grazia Sciortino

Sufism and the Muslim Brotherhood: Ḥasan al-Bannā’s wird and the Transformation of Sufi Traditions in Modern Islamic Activism by Sebastian Elsässer

The Kurdish Emirate of Brādōst, 1510-1609 by Mustafa Dehqan and Vural Genç

Bollettino di Islamistica by Roberto Tottoli: Catalogo dei manoscritti islamici conservati nella Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna by Géza Dávid, Zsuzsa Kovács and István Ormos

Islam, Social Justice, and Democracy by Sabri Ciftci

The Politics of Regime Mainstreaming: Knowledge Production and the Institutionalization of Islamic Finance by Nukhet A. Sandal

Symposium: Dialogue on Muslim American Sociopolitical Life

Veiled Politics: Experiences with Discrimination among Muslim Americans by Karam Dana, Nazita Lajevardi, Kassra A.R. Oskooii, Hannah L. Walker

Mosque Involvement and Political Engagement in the United States by Aubrey Westfall

Contesting Islamophobia and Securing Collective Rights: Muslim American Advocacy in the 2016 Elections by Emily Cury

American Muslim Political Participation: Between Diversity and Cohesion by Youssef Chouhoud, Karam Dana, Matt Barreto

Similar Contexts, Different Behaviour: Explaining the Non-Linear Moderation and Immoderation of Islamic Political Parties in Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey by Esen Kirdiş

Feeling the words: Sayyid Qutb’s affective engagement with the Qur’an in Al‐Taswir al‐Fanni fi al‐Qur’an by Lauren E. Osborne

Confusion and Consent: Land Tax (Kharāj) and the Construction of Judicial Authority in the Early Islamic Empire (ca. 12–183 A.H./634–800 C.E.) by Najm al-Din Yousefi

The Hijra in French Salafism: A Quest for Purity Through Religious Migration by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

Population Growth and Inter-Provincial Economic Disparity: Two Major Factors Behind the Underdevelopment of Pakistan by Muhammad Qasim Sodhar

A Sociological Analysis of the Understanding, Application, and Importance of Shari’a in Everyday Living of Young Muslims in Sydney by Jan A. Ali

A Comparative Analysis of China’s Relations with Lebanon and Syria by David Perez-Des Rosiers

Political Islam, Justice and Governance, written by Mbaye Lo by Seth Cantey

Unfinished Conversations with Saba Mahmood: To Charles Hirschkind in Deep Gratitude by Sultan Doughan and Jean-Michel Landry

The Constraints of Choice: Secular Sensibilities, Pious Critique, and an Islamic Ethic of Sisterhood in France by Kirsten Wesselhoeft

The Politics of the Veil in Medieval Christianity: Saba Mahmood and the Practice of Feminist Historiography by Karl Shuve

Distinguishing Companions: Mixed-Confession Education, Assimilation, and Islamic Thought by Timothy Gutmann

Piety, Practice and Habitus: Saba Mahmood’s Dialogue with Aristotle and His Legacy by Bryan S. Turner

Liberal Political Philosophy of Religious Difference after Saba Mahmood by Christoph Baumgartner

Secular Governance and Islamic Law: The Globalization of the Minority Question by Alexandre Caeiro

On the Study of Islam and the Middle East after Saba Mahmood, a Roundtable Conversation with Lisa Wedeen and Schirin Amir-Moazami

European Union funds and the assumed professionalization of Turkish civil society organizations by Özge Zihnioğlu

Constituting financialized subjectivities: cultural political economy of financial literacy in Turkey by Berkay Ayhan

Do industrialization, democracy, and financial openness promote financial development? Evidence from Turkey by Selçuk Akçay

Women’s rights organizations and Turkish state in the post-2011 era: ideological disengagement versus conservative alignment by Berrin Koyuncu & Aylin Özman

Turkey’s attempts to improve its reputation during the making of the post-war Turkish-American rapprochment (1945–1950) by Semih Gökatalay

Defining semi-public space: a case study in the gated communities of Yaşamkent, Ankara by Ayça Ergun & Ceren Kulkul

Portrayal of Turkish–German migratory relations in Turkish films of the 1980s: a call for an alternative reading by Ayça Tunç Cox