Fall 2018 Journal Roundup

Contextualizing Mes Aynak by Deborah Klimburg-Salter

A Prolegomenon to the Study of Pottery Stamps from Mes Aynak by Judith A. Lerner

The Shaykh al-Islam in Medieval Khurasan by Shivan Mahendrarajah

Khandut Revisited: Monuments, Shrines, and Newly Discovered Rock Art in Wakhan District by John Mock

The Restored Mausoleum of Abu’l-Walid in Herat: Challenges in Heritage Restoration in Afghanistan by Abdul Wasay Najimi 

Dating Hadith Textual Transposition by Means of Sanad-cum-matn Analysis by Mohammad Said Mitwally Ar-Rahawan

Grammatical Issues Integrated with Quranic Exegesis and Their Impact on Meaning: A Critical Study of the Commentary on Sūrat al-Nisāʾ by Yehudit Dror

The Application of Simons’ “Levers of Control” in the Quran and Sunna by Mohd Abd Wahab Fatoni bin Mohd Balwi, Ahmad Sufian bin Che Abdullah, and Asmuliadi Lubis

The Misinterpretation of Hadith Texts by Extremist Groups to Justify Their Terrorist Acts: An Analysis by bin Ahmad Shah Faisal

“Wuqūf al-Tarāqub” in the Holy Qur’an and Its Impact on the Indication of Meaning: Al-Baqarah Chapter as a Case Study by Ahmad Abdullah Abu al-Haj Thabet, Abdulelah Hazea, and M.Y. Zulkifli M. Yusof 

Special Issue: Voices of Conflict and Collaboration in the Medieval Mediterranean

Introduction

Introduction by Michael Lower and Uri Zvi Shachar

Articles

Muslim Crusaders: Guzmán el Bueno and the Limits of Secular History by Hussein Fancy

Affiliation and Ideology at the End of the Almohad Caliphate by Abigail Krasner Balbale

A Christian Shīʿī, and Other Curious Confreres: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr of Córdoba on Getting Along with Unbelievers by Luke Yarbrough

Baybars, Naval Power and Mamlūk Psychological Warfare against the Franks by Ann E. Zimo

What Was Crusader about the Crusader States? By Christopher MacEvitt 

The Origin of the Isnād and al-Mukhtār b. Abī ‘Ubayd’s Revolt in Kūfa (66-7/685-7) by Pavel Pavlovitch

A Fragment of a Forgotten Dictionary: Essai on Dating Parisinus arabicus 4235 of BnF by Mustapha Jaouhari

The Andalusians Ḥušūd during the Umayyad Emirate (756-929): An Ambiguous Term Used for the Gathering of Troops by Josep Suñé Arce

Red According to Ibn Sīdah’s Kitāb al-Mujaṣṣaṣ. A Contribution to Arabic Lexicography by Dolores Serrano-Niza

Discussing al-Bāqillānī’s Theology in the Maghrib: ‘Abd al-Jalīl b. Abī Bakr al-Dībājī al-Raba‘ī’s al-Tasdīd fī sharḥ al-Tamhīd by Hassan Ansari and Jan Thiele

Coins from the Seaside. An Emiral Silver Coin Hoard from a Harbour Settlement on the Cerro da Vila (Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal) by Stefan Heidemann, Thomas Schierl, and Felix Teichner 

Special Issue: Islamic Banking and Finance 2018

Adopting al-Hikr Long Term Lease Financing for Waqf and State Lands in Malaysia to Provide Affordable Public Housing by Adam Abdullah and Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera

Issues Facing Islamic Microfinance and Their Possible Solutions: Empirical Evidence from Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia by Salina Kassim and Rusni Hassan

Rental Yield as an Alternative to Interest Rate in Pricing Musyarakah Mutanaqisah Home Financing – The Case for Malaysia by Nur Harena Redzuan, Salina Kassim, and Adam Abdullah

Shari’ah Governance Practices in Credit Cooperatives in Malaysia by Rusni Hassan, Rose Ruziana Samad, and Zurina Shafii

Efficiency Measurement of Islamic and Conventional Banks in Saudi Arabia: An Empirical and Comparative Analysis by Muhammad Nauman Khan, Md Fouad Amin, Imran Khokhar, Mehboob Ul Hassan, and Khaliq Ahmad

A Review of Shariah Principle Applied for Takaful Benefits Protection Scheme and Its Application by Malaysian Deposit Insurance Cooperation (PIDM) by Azman Mohd. Noor and Muhamad Nasir Haron

Does the Mutuality Concept Uphold in the Practices of Takaful Industry? By Asmadi Mohamed Naim, Mohamad Yazid Isa, and Ahmad Khilmy Abdul Rahim

Assessing the Performance of Islamic Banking in Brunei Darussalam: Evidence from 2011-2016 by Muhamad Abduh

The Use of Floating Charge as an Islamic Collateral Instrument: A Shariah Compatibility Analysis by Engku Rabiah Adawiyah Engku Ali, Aiman@Nariman Mohd. Sulaiman, and Muhamad Nasir Haron

Enhancing the House Price Index Model in Malaysia towards a Maqasid Shariah Perspective: An Empirical Investigation by Rosylin Mohd Yusof, Norazlina Abd. Wahab, and Nik Nor Amalina Nik Mohd Sukrri

Zakat on Legal Entities (Shakhsiyyah I’tibariyyah): A Shari’ah Analysis by Aznan Hasan

Do Muslim Directors Influence Firm Performance? Empirical Evidence from Malaysia by Razali Haron

Islamic Finance Regulations in Malaysia: A Macro Maqasidic Approach by Younes Soualhi and Said Bouhraouia

Comparative Shari’ah Governance Framework in Selected Muslim Countries by Irum Saba

Financial Reporting Dimensions of Intangibles in the Context of Islamic Finance by Syed Musa Alhabshi, Sharifah Khadijah Syed Agil, and Mezbah Uddin Ahmed 

Mecca and Macoraba by Ian D. Morris

Thematic Dossier: Formulating the Caliphate in the Islamic West: Umayyads, Ḥammūdids, and Almohads (Guest edited by Maribel Fierro and Patrice Cressier)

Introduction by Maribel Fierro and Patrice Cressier

Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih by Isabel Toral-Niehoff

Facing the Mahdī’s True Belief: Abū ʿAmr al-Salālijī’s Ashʿarite Creed and the Almohads’ Claim to Religious Authority by Jan Thiele

The Jihād of the Caliphs and the First Battles of Islam: Memory, Legitimization and Holy War, from Cordoba to Tinmal by Javier Albarrán

Preparing the Almohad Caliphate: The Almoravids by Pascal Buresi

The Ḥammūdid Caliphate: A New Look Through the Lens of Numismatics by Almudena Ariza Armada 

Aristotelian Dialectic, Medieval Jadal, and Medieval Scholastic Disputation by Mohammad Syifa Amin Widigdo

Islam and Support for Gender Inequality among Women in Turkey by John Bartkowski, Gabriel Acevedo, Gulcimen Karakeci, and Favor Campbell 

In Search of the Sharīʿah by Mohammad Omar Farooq and Nedal El-Ghattis

Le processus constituant tunisien: quels enseignements pour les pays de la région? by Nidhal Mekki

The Political Economy and Underdevelopment of the Muslim World: A Juridico-Philosophical Perspective by Muhammed Shahid Ebrahim and Mustapha Sheikh

Litigation or Arbitration for Resolving Islamic Banking Disputes by Farouq Saber Al-Shibli

Capital Punishment for Apostasy in Islam by Man Baker

Standard Terms Contracts: The Approaches of Qatari Civil Law and UNIDROIT Principles 2016. A Comparative Study by Nisreen Mahasneh

Combatting Money Laundering: A Study under Emirati and International Law by Mohammad Amin Alkrisheh and Zeyad Mohammad Jaffal

Constitutionality of Article VII of the New York Convention of 1958 under Egyptian and Jordanian Law by Lafi Daradkeh

Intellectual Property Rights for Innovations on the Internet: The Islamic Law Requisites by Abdullahi Saliu Ishola, Isa Olawale Solahudeen, and Ibrahim Akangbe

The Impact of Slight Fraud on the Contract: An Analytical Study of Article 189 of the UAE Civil Code by Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq 

Epicures and Experts: The Drinking Water Controversy in British Colonial Cairo by Shehab Ismail

From Mandate Borders to the Diaspora: Rashaya’s Transnational Suffering and the Making of Lebanon in 1925 by Reem Bailony

De-Exceptionalizing the Field: Anthropological Reflections on Migration, Labor, and Identity in Dubai by Neha Vora and Ahmed Kanna

The Ecology of Migration: Remittances in World War I Mount Lebanon by Graham Auman Pitts

Writing Shame in Asad’s Syria by Judith Naeff

Review Essays

Empire and Capitalism in the Western Indian Ocean by Hollian Wint

Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire by Matthew S. Hopper

Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea by Johan Mathew

Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean ​by Thomas F. McDow 

To Paint and Die in Arabic: Code-Switching in Rabih Alameddine’s Koolaids: The Art of War by Syrine Hout

Violent Intersectionalities and Experiences of Marked Arabness in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home by Lynn Darwich and Sirene Harb

Shakespeare in the Arab Jordanian Consciousness: Shylock in the Poetry of ʿArār (Mustafa Wahbi Al-Tal) by Hussein A. Alhawamdeh and Ismail Suliman Almazaidah 

Perched on the Shoulders of Giants? Looking at the Almohad Empire in the Hafsid Chronicles by Sébastien Garnier

The Islamic Treatises against Imitation (Tašabbuh): A Bibliographical History by Youshaa Patel

The Manda Family: A Dynasty of Isfahani Scholars by Pavel Pavlovitch

Une œuvre inconnue de Wakīʿ b. al-Ǧarrāḥ (m. 197/812 ?) et sa transmission en Égypte au IIIe/IXe siècle by Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem 

The Rohingya Crisis: Why the World Must Act Decisively by Syed Badrul Ahsan

Malaysia’s 14th General Elections: Drivers and Agents of Change by Francis E. Hutchinson

The Political System in Iraqi Kurdistan: Party Rivalries and Future Perspectives by Farhad Hassan Abdullah

The Changing Nature of the Pakistan Factor in India-Gulf Relations: An Indian Perspective by Md. Muddassir Quamar 

Adultery Laws in Islam and Stoning in the Modern World by Souha Korbatieh

The Role of the Qur’ānic Principle of Wasaṭiyyah in Guiding Islamic Movements by Nabil Yasien Mohammad

A Brief Review of Classical and Modern Tafsir Trends and Role of Modern Tafasir in Contemporary Islamic Thought by Amer Zulfiqar Ali

Serving Islam Peacefully during the Aggression and Said Nursi’s Kalamisation of Positive Action for Social Harmony by Salih Yucel

Jesus as God’s Word: A Comparative Study in Islamic and Christian Theologies by Grant Kynaston 

Editors’ Introduction by Salih Yucel

Locating Settler Colonialism in the Myths of Burke and Wills: Aboriginal and Islamic People’s Involvement in Reimagining Successful Exploration of Inland Australia by Peta Lee Jeffries

The Early History of Micro and Meso Dialogue between Muslims and Non-Muslims in Australia by David Ian Sneddon

Revulsion and Reflection: The Coloured and White Muslim in Australia’s Print Media from the Late 19th to the Early 20th Century by Katy Nebhan

Tasawwuf ‘Usturaliya: Prolegomena to a History of Sufism in Australia by Abu Bakr Sirajuddin Cook

Anzac Muslims: An Untold Story by Dzavid Haveric

The Muslim Student Associations (MSAS) and the Formation of the Australian Ummah by Mahsheed Ansari

Mahomet Allum: Australia’s Leading Herbalist-Benefactor? By Daud Abdul-Fattah Batchelor

Sayyid İbrahim Dellal: An Analysis of Untold Stories of a ‘Living History’ by Salih Yucel 

Special Issue: The Kurdish Case in the Middle East and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Preface by Charountaki Marianna

Articles

State and Non-state Interactions in International Relations: An Alternative Theoretical Outlook by Marianna Charountaki

The A.K. Party and the Kurds since 2014: A Discourse of Terror by Natalie Martin

Contextualizing the Kurdish National Project: The Failed Iraqi Nation-State Thesis by Ofra Bengio

The Paradox of the Iraqi Kurdish Referendum on Independence: Contradictions and Hopes for Economic Prosperity by Fahrettin Sumer and Jay Joseph

The Reappearance of Kurdish Muslims in Turkey: The Articulation of Religious Identity in a National Narrative by Omer Tekdemir

The Impact of the English Loanwords in the Central Kurdish Dialect on Media Discourse by Dashne Sedeeq

Gurani: Practical Language or Kurdish Literary Idiom? By Behrooz Chaman Ara and Cyrus Amiri

The Quality of Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Dawood Sulaiman Atrushi and Steve Woodfield 

Intimate Politics: Strategies and Practices of Female Mukhtars in Turkey by Senem Yildirim, Burcu Ucaray-Mangitli, and Hakki Tas

Farming the Desert: Agriculture in the Oil Frontier, the Case of the United Arab Emirates, 1940s to 1990s by Sabrina Joseph

Religious Commitment or a Textualist-Traditionalist Understanding of Islam? The Impact of Religious Orientations upon Social Tolerance in Turkey by Ebru Altınoğlu

Land and Settlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin: Official (Ad hoc) Steering Committees, 1948–1980 by Havatzelet Yahel and Ruth Kark

Muting the Trumpets of Sabotage: Saudi Arabia, the US and the Quest to Securitize Iran by Simon Mabon

Turkish Islamism, Conservatism and Human Rights before and after Gezi: The Case of Mazlumder by Fabio Vicini

Ottoman Commercial Tribunals: Closer than Enemies, Farther than Friends by Ahmet Izmirlioglu

The Origins of Communist Unity: Anti-colonialism and Revolution in Iran’s Tri-continental Moment by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

‘When You Find Yourself Keep Moving’: Adapting to Change in A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by William Kingsbury

The Kurdish Question in Iran and Its Effects on Iran-Turkey Relations by Bayram Sinkaya 

The Changing Landscape of (Political) Islam in Azerbaijan: Its Contextual Underpinnings and Future Prospects by Murad Ismayilov 

Modern Education and Literary Traditions: A Comparative View on the Development of Modern Uyghur and Tibetan Literature by Michal Zelcer-Lavid 

Policies and Politics Surrounding Islamic Studies Programs in Higher Education Institutions in the United States: The Perfect Storm in the War against Terrorism, Extremism, and Islamophobia by Hiba Khodr

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Conception of Citizenship Rights in Egypt by Khalil Al-Anani

The Authoritarian Spectrum through the Prism of Individualism/Collectivism: Lessons for Political Socialization in Moroccan Society by Ben Ahmed Hougua, El Amine Rachid, and Siyouri Hind

The Tunisian Revolution and the Role of Regional Development Disparities in Its Outbreak by Riadh Béchir

The Experience of New Public Management and New Public Governance in Selected Arab Countries by Ahmed M. E. Mansour

Relations between Qatar and Saudi Arabia after the Arab Spring by Abdul Rezak Bilgin

UAE–UK Relations in the Context of Brexit: An Insight into the Opportunities and Challenges by Mohammed Hussein Sharfi 

Arab Peoples: From the Dynamics of Failure to Self-Destruction by Georges Corm

Palestinian Protests: Jerusalem’s Shifting Fortunes by Dana El Kurd

Effects of Iraq’s Parliamentary Gender Quota on Women’s Political Mobilization and Legitimacy Post-2003 by Huda Al-Tamimi

The Trap of Neoliberalism for GCC Countries: Salvaging an Economy or Drowning a Community? By Abdullah Al-Beraidi

The Modernization of the Hawza? Lebanon as a Case Study by Ali Kassem

China’s Military Diplomacy towards Arab Countries in Africa’s Peace and Security: The Case of Djibouti by Hend Elmahly and Degang Sun

“Clash of Civilizations” at Twenty-Five: Reappraising Huntington’s Legacy: View from the Arab World by Ahmed M. Abozaid 

Reaching Out in a Climate of Negativity: Perceptions and Persistence among Muslim Sources Engaging with News Media by Michael B. Munnik

The Quest for Sharia in Indonesia: The Mobilization Strategy of the Forum of Islamic Society by Fahlesa Munabari

Islamic Inheritance in Australia and Family Provision Law: Are Sharia Wills Valid? By Malcolm Voyce

“I Am Satan!” Black Metal, Islam and Blasphemy in Turkey and Saudi Arabia by Jonas Otterbeck, Douglas Mattsson, and Orlando Pastene

The Construction of Authority and Authenticity in Islamic Discourse(s): Contrasting and Historicizing Contemporary Narratives from English Sunni Narratives by L. Cochrane and M. Adams 

Winner of the 2018 CBRL Prize for Best Paper

Remapping the Holy Land from the Margins: How a Jordanian Evangelical Church Juggles the ‘Local’ and the ‘Global’ in the Syrian Refugee Response by Ann-Christin Wagner

Articles

Relation of Protection: Law, Religion and Gender in the Processing of a Lebanese Asylum Seeker by Jack Davies

The Black Saturday Massacre of 1975: The Discomfort of Assembling the Lebanese Civil War Narrative by May Tamimova

Shifting Narratives of the Police in Egyptian Cinema Before and After the January 2011 Revolution by Dalia Said Mostafa 

Defining Islamic Modernity through Creative Writing: A Case Study of Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong by Pratiwi Retnaningdyah 

“The Owner of the Sky, God of Israel” in a New Jewish Ḥimyaritic Inscription Dating from the Fifth Century CE by Christian Julien Robin and Sarah Rijziger

“The Year According to the Reckoning of the Believers”: Papyrus Louvre inv. J. David-Weill 20 and the Origins of the hijrī Era by Mehdy Shaddel

Comparing Qurʾānic Suras with Pre-800 Documents by Andreas Kaplony

The Arab Conquest of Bukhārā: Reconsidering Qutayba b. Muslim’s Campaigns 87‒90 H/706‒709 CE by Sören Stark

The al-Wāḍiḥ Tafsīr: Further Evidence for Author Identification, Relationship with Tafsīr al-Kalbī, and Literary Analysis by Nosrat Nilsaz

Andalusische Philosophie nach Ibn Rušd: Intellektuelle Traditionen in al-Qurṭubīs antichristlicher Polemik by  Daniel Potthast

Iḫtiyār ad-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Ġafras. Ein Rūm-seldschukischer Usurpator aus byzantinischem Adel im Jahr 588/1192 by Stefan Heidemann and Claudia Sode

Aqquyunlu Turkmen Rulers Facing the Ruins of Takht-i Jamshīd by Georg Leube

La pratique de la ziyāra par procuration dans la Syrie médiévale à partir de trois documents inédits by Jean-Michel Mouton and Janine Sourdel-Thomine

Georg Pilder’s Arabisches Lexicon of 1772 – The Oldest Known Comprehensive Arabic-German Dictionary Rediscovered by Christian Mauder

The “German Fountain” in Istanbul: Object of Transfer in the Age of Historicism and Diplomacy by Lorenz Korn 

Egyptian Cultural Expansionism: Taha Hussein Confronts the French in North Africa (1950-1952) by Hussam R. Ahmed

Saudi Primary Education and the Formation of Modern Wahhabism by Nadav Samin

Constructing a Textual Tradition: Salafī Commentaries on al-ʿAqīda al-ṭaḥāwiyya by Wasim Shiliwala 

CIRS Special Issue: Family in the Arabian Peninsula

Guest-Editors’ Introduction by Elizabeth Wanucha and Zahra Babar

Family in the Arabian Peninsula: An Analytical Framework by Elizabeth Wanucha

Tribalism and Family Affairs in the Arabian Peninsula by Sebastian Maisel

The Omani-Zanzibari Family: Between Politics and Pedigree in an Empire on the Rim by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

Explaining Marriage Payments: Mahr among Omanis by Jihan Safar

Social Stratification in Qatari Society: Family, Marriage, and Khalījī Culture by Islam Hassan

Cross-National Marriage in Qatar by Sanaa Taha Alharahsheh and Faras Khalid Almeer

The State of Sexuality: Formation and Regulation of Sexual Norms in the Persian Gulf by Haya Al-Noaimi

War Families and the Iraq Wars by Laura Sjoberg

“The War Took Us Backwards”: Yemeni Families and Dialectical Patriarchal Reordering by Sophia Pandya

Family Law in the GCC and the Best Interests of the Child: The Multiple Meanings of a Vague Legal Concept by Lena-Maria Möller

The Role and Impact of Arab Fathers by Natasha Ridge, Soohyun Jeon, Soha Shami and Brian Jaewon Chung 

What Do Polemics Do? Religion, Citizenship, and Secularism in South Indian Islam by Nandagopal R. Menon 

Law

Technopolitics of a Concessionary Contract: How International Law Was Transformed by Its Encounter with Anglo-Iranian Oil by Katayoun Shafiee

A Prehistory of the Modern Legal Profession in Egypt, 1840s–1870s by Omar Youssef Cheta

Politics of Care

A Politics of Care: Local Nurses in Mandate Palestine by Julia R. Shatz

Nursing Transgressions, Exploring Difference: North Africans in French Medical Spaces during World War I by Chris Rominger

Religious Authority in Crisis

At the Tipping Point? Al-Azhar’s Growing Crisis of Moral Authority by Masooda Bano

The Hunchakian Revolutionary Party and the Assassination Attempts against Patriarch Khoren Ashekian and Maksudzade Simon Bey in 1894 by Varak Ketsemanian

Minoritization and Pluralism in the Modern Middle East Roundtable

Introduction by Alda Benjamen

History Rhymes? Late Ottoman Millets and Post-Ottoman Minorities in the Middle East by Heather J. Sharkey

Three Syrian Intellectuals, a French Jewish Officer, and the Question of Late Ottoman Pluralism by Orit Bashkin

Defining Minorities: Mission Impossible? The Case of Hashemite Iraq by Aline Schlaepfer

Armenians in Lebanon: Becoming Local in the Levant by Tsolin Nalbantian

Decolonization and Cultural Production among Palestinian Citizens of Israel by Maha Nassar

Assyrians between the State and the Iraqi Opposition: Minoritization and Pluralism in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by Alda Benjamen

Review Article

Pop Culture Roundup by Joel Gordon 

The Indian Style and the Ottoman Literary Canon by Walter Feldman

The Translatability of Hāfiẓian Love Ghazals by Michael Craig Hillmann

Horses Changing Riders: The Prehistory of Two Allegories of Mystical Union in Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā Suhrawardī and Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī by Urs Gösken

Pirzad’s Diasporic Transnational Subjects in “A Day Before Easter” by Claudia Yaghoobi

Poe’s World in Hidāyat’s The Blind Owl by Rouhollah Zarei 

Citations of ʿAttār and the Kanz al-Haqāyeq in ʿAli Akbar Khatāyi’s Book of China: A Sufi Path of Bureaucracy by Kaveh Louis Hemmat

Whatever Happened to The Little Black Fish? By Kaveh Bassiri

The Life of the Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Reza Banakar and Keyvan Ziaee

Heritage Learners’ versus Second Language Learners’ Source of Errors in Advanced-Level Writing: Case of a Persian Media Course by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi 

Articles

Khargāh and Other Terms for Tents in Firdawsī’s Shāh-nāmah by David Durand-Guédy

Hafez’s “Shirāzi Turk”: A Geopoetical Approach by Domenico Ingenito

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s Autocracy: Governmental Constraints, 1960s–1970s by Cyrus Schayegh

Renegade Cosmopolitans: Iranian Architects, Professional Power, and the State by Shawhin Roudbari

Primary Sources, Archival Notes

Editorial Note by Ali Gheissari

Merchants to the Golden City: The Persian Farmān of King Chandrawizaya Rājā and the Elephant and Ivory Trade in the Indian Ocean, a View from 1728 by Arash Khazeni

A Persian Account of the Religious Customs of the Magh (Arakanese) from Early Colonial Bengal by Thibaut d’Hubert

Film Review Essay

Gifts and Kinship: Women as Men’s Signs in ʿArus-e Ātash by Mostafa Sadeghi Kahmini and Nima Behroozi Moghadam 

Special Issue: The Study of Islam between University Theology and Lived Religion

The Study of Islam between University Theology and Lived Religion: Introductory Reflections by Ingvild Flaskerud and Oddbjørn Leirvik

Qur’anic Studies between University Theology and the Humanities: A Field Worth Cultivating? By Thomas Hoffmann

From Handmaiden of Theology to Handmaiden of Area Studies: Philological Approaches to Arabic-Islamic Studies in Norway by Nora S. Eggen

Accurate Knowledge: Implications of ‘Lived Islamic Theology’ for the Academic Study of Islamic Disciplines by Ulrika Mårtensson and Eli-Anne Vongraven Eriksen

‘Street Theology’: Vernacular Theology and Muslim Youth in Norway by Ingvild Flaskerud

Interreligious University Theologies, Christian/Islamic by Oddbjørn Leirvik 

Changing of the Guards: Politico-Religious Authority and Islamic Education in Mogadishu, Somalia by Ahmed Sh. Ibrahim

Scripting Black African Muslim Presence in South African Islam: A Quest for Self-understanding beyond the Moment of Conversion by Tahir Fuzile Sitoto

Muwālāt and Apostasy in the Early Sokoto Caliphate by Kota Kariya

“Caring for the People”: ZuriaFM – An Islamic Radio Station in Asante, Ghana by Benedikt Pontzen

Foundational Scholars of Islam in Africa: An Interview with Professor Louis Brenner by Joseph Hill

An Inventory of Arabic Manuscripts from Dalla, Central Mali (1800–1980s) by Hienin Ali Diakite 

Un registre carcéral de la Fusṭāṭ abbasside by Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem

“Whoever Imitates a People Becomes One of Them”: A Hadith and Its Interpreters by Youshaa Patel

Money in Classical Islam: Legal Theory and Economic Practice by Norbert Oberauer 

The Oslo Peace Process: Interview with Joel Singer by Raphael Cohen-Almagor

The Six Day War: The War That No One Wanted by Yossi Goldstein

The Short- and Long-Term Effects of the Six Day War on the Israeli Economy by Ben-Zion Zilberfarb

Israel’s Intelligence Services and the Media: Four Decades of a Complex Tango by Clila Magen

Revisiting Moscow’s Support for the Establishment of Israel by Xiao Yu and Zeng Ji

Social Pluralism on the Air: Internet Radio in Israel by Tal Laor

Traditional Patron or Modern Supporter of Culture and the Arts? The Corporate Philanthropy Practices of an Israeli Family Business by Riki Galia

Understanding Public Support for Social Protest: Testing Collective Action Frames, Cognitive Liberation and Political Opportunity in the Israeli 2011 Summer Protest by Eran Zaidise, Shosh Shahrabani, Assaf Gal, and Uri Benzion

From Functional to Mythical: The Construction of a Symbolic Narrative on the Ruins of Ussishkin Arena by Orr Levental and Yair Galily

‘The Yarkon Is Always Green’: The Ecological Problems of the Yarkon River by Eran Eldar

The Advertising Industry as a Dynamic Environment: The Israeli Case by Osnat Roth-Cohen and Yehiel Limor 

Special Issue: ‘Mahapach!’ – The Israeli 1977 Political Upheaval – Implications and Aftermath

Introduction

‘Mahapach!’: The Israeli 1977 Political Upheaval – Implications and Aftermath by Udi Lebel, Moshe Fuksman-Sha’al, and Eithan Orkibi

Articles

Aftershocks of the 1977 ‘Mahapach’ (Upheaval) and Their Effect on Religious Politics in Israel by Nissim Leon

The Impact of Political Upheaval on a Party’s Ideational Position: The Mafdal and the 1977 Upheaval by Aharon (Roni) Kampinsky

Menachem Begin’s Attitude to Religion and the 1977 ‘Political Upheaval’ by Eliezer Don-Yehiya

The Herut Movement’s Socio-economic Philosophy and Its Implementation after the 1977 Political Upheaval by Moshe Fuksman-Sha’al

Israel’s 1977 Upheaval and the Supreme Court by Menachem Mautner

The Israeli Academic Elite and the 1977 Upheaval: From Political Criticism to Counter-Hegemonic Identity by Eithan Orkibi and Uri Cohen

Likud’s Rise to Power and the ‘Democracy in Danger’ Fearmongering Campaign: Rhetoric vs. Facts by Asher Cohen

Historical Perspective on the Ideological Dimension of the 1977 Political Turnover in Israel by Giora Goldberg 

Special Issue: Policing, Imprisonment, and Securitization in Palestine

Editorial: De-Fetishizing Law and Order by Roberto Mazza and Alex Winder, Guest Editors

Articles

Reading Obama’s Policing Task Force Report in Jerusalem: History, Accountability, and the New Geo-Governance in U.S. and Israeli Policing by Casey LaFrance

Simulating the Contact Zone: Corporate Mediations of (Less-Lethal) Violence in Israel, Palestine, and Beyond by Shimrit Lee

The Tegart Police Fortresses in British Mandate Palestine: A Reconsideration of Their Strategic Location and Purpose by Richard Cahill

Bridging Imperial, National, and Local Historiographies: Britons, Arabs, and Jews in the Mandate Palestine Police by Yoav Alon

Dynamics of Prison Resistance: Hunger Strikes by Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Prisons by Malaka Mohammed Shwaikh

Policing the Intimate: Israel’s Anti-Miscegenation Movement by Sarah Ihmoud

Securing the Occupation in East Jerusalem: Divisions in Israeli Policy by Shir Hever

Diaries and Biographies

The Books in My Life: A Memoir: Part 3 by Tarif Khalidi

The Taufiq Canaan Memoirs: Part 2 by Taufiq Canaan 

Epistemology or Ideology? Toward a Relational Perspective on Islamic Knowledge in Africa by Rüdiger Seesemann 

Political Freedom as an Islamic Value by David Decosimo 

Written in Wax: Quranic Recitational Phonography by Jan Just Witkam

The Gawhar Shād Waqf Deed: Public Works and the Commonweal by Shivan Mahendrarajah 

Special Section

Introduction by Bernard Haykel

“We Know Nothing About Yemen!” Ottoman Imperial Governance in Southwest Arabia and the Politics of Knowledge Production, 1871–1914 by Thomas Kuehn

Contract or Treaty? The Daʿʿan Agreement of 1911 and the Limits on Imam Yahya’s Authority by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu

The Salafī Imāmate: Moral Reform and Anti-Imperialism in the Mutawakkilite Kingdom by John M. Willis

Submerged History: Fragments for a Biographic Narrative of 1948 by Gabriele Vom Bruck

The Collapse of the Imamate and Foreign Intervention by Jesse Ferris

Articles

Fishing in the Persian/Arabian Gulf: The Merits of Mediocrity by Noah Haiduc-Dale

Soldiers of Arabia: Explaining Compulsory Military Service in the Gulf by Zoltan Barany

Ethnographing Gender Roles and Power in Intercultural Communication in Qatar by Irene Theodoropoulou and Iglal Ahmed 

CIRS Special Issue: The “Resource Curse” in the Persian Gulf

Oil and Institutional Stasis in the Persian Gulf by Mehran Kamrava

Imperial Origins of the Oil Curse by Desha Girod and Meir R. Walters

Rentierism’s Siblings: On the Linkages between Rents, Neopatrimonialism, and Entrepreneurial State Capitalism in the Persian Gulf Monarchies by Matthew Gray

Reformers and the Rentier State: Re-Evaluating the Co-Optation Mechanism in Rentier State Theory by Jessie Moritz

Cursed No More? The Resource Curse, Gender, and Labor Nationalization Policies in the GCC by Gail J. Buttorff, Nawra Al Lawati, and Bozena C. Welborne

The Impact of Oil Rents on Military Spending in the GCC Region: Does Corruption Matter? By Mohammad Reza Farzanegan 

Agriculture in the Northern Highlands of Yemen: From Subsistence to Cash Cropping by Daniel Martin Varisco

Bidūn Poets and Kuwaiti Literary History by Tareq Alrabei

Old Media, New Narratives: Repurposing Inconvenient Artifacts for the National Museum of Qatar by Jocelyn Sage Mitchell and Scott Curtis

“An Apple of Discord”: The Island of Al-Zorah, 1843–1945 by Michael Quentin Morton

The Persian Gulf, 1919–39: Changes, Challenges, and Transitions by Chelsi Mueller

Selective Recognition as an Imperial Instrument: Britain and the Trucial States, 1820–1952 by Niklas A. Haller

2017 AGAPS Graduate Paper Prize Winner

The Twitter Campaign to End the Male Guardianship System in Saudi Arabia by Huda Alsahi

Theological Echoes of Literary Controversies: Reading Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī’s Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān in Light of the Debate over Badīʿ Style by Rachel Friedman

Iṣbahānī’s Invitation to Madness: Introduction to the Majnūn Laylā Story by Kirsten Beck

Claiming Modernity in Mandate Palestine: A Journey across the Mountains in the Strongholds of the Rebels by Pasquale Macaluso 

Anti-Terrorism Laws in the Maghreb Countries: The Mirror of a Democratic Transition That Never Was by Francesco Tamburini

The Spillover Effect of the Syrian Crisis on the Peace Process in Turkey by Rahman Dag 

Special Issue: Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights, and Law across the Early Modern/Modern Divide

Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights, and Law across the Early Modern/Modern Divide-Introduction by Faisal Chaudhry

The Theory and Practice of Property in Premodern South Asia: Disparities and Convergences by Timothy Lubin

Property and Social Relations in Mughal India: Litigations and Disputes at the Qazi’s Court in Urban Localities, 17th-18th Centuries by Farhat Hasan

Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556-1818 by Sudev Sheth

Property and Its Rule (in Late Indo-Islamicate and Early Colonial) South Asia: What’s in a Name? by Faisal Chaudhry

Sovereignty, Property and Land Development: The East India Company in Madras by Bhavani Raman

The Problem of Property: Local Histories and Political-Economic Categories in British India by Upal Chakrabarti

Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal by Debjani Bhattacharyya 

The Nakba and Oral History by Rosemary Sayigh

Spaces of Truth: Palestinian Refugee Women Reframe Concerns of Jerusalem and Resist Judaisation by Laura Khoury

The Israel Lobby, Islamophobia and Judeophobia in Contemporary Europe and Beyond: Myths and Realities by Haim Bresheeth

On the ‘New Anti-Semitism’ and Its Political and Religious Consequences by Lawrence Davidson

The ‘New Antisemitism’, the Left and Palestine: The ‘Anti-Imperialism of Fools’ or an Invention of Imperial Reason? By Paul Kelemen 

Politics-Social Morality Relation in Turkey and the Youth by Abdurrahman Babacan

The Ottoman Empire by the End of the First World War: A Study on the Ottoman Economy with the Ottoman Newspapers by Avni Önder Hanedar

An Attempt to Legitimize “Poetry” in the Preface of Meşâ‘irü’ş-Şu‘arâ by Rumeysa Bayram

Within the Opposing Frames of Religion and Modernization: The 1979 Iranian Revolution by Hüdayi Sayın and Ahmet Çırakoğlu

Village Stakeholders Participation Values Education: An Action Research by Halil Ekşi, Muhammet Aykuthan Ulusoy, and Mehmet Toprak 

Remembrance: Andrew Rippin (1950–2016) by Michael E. Pregill

Lot and His Offer: 2016 IQSA Presidential Address by Farid Esack

Response to Farid Esack’s 2016 Presidential Address by Shari L. Lowin

Cognate and Paronomastic Curse Retorts in the Qurʾān: Speech Genres and the Investigation of Qurʾānic Language by Devin J. Stewart

Destabilizing Gender, Reproducing Maternity: Mary in the Qurʾān by Kecia Ali

Law, Structure, and Meaning in Sūrat Al-Baqarah by Joseph E. Lowry

Ring Composition in Sūrat Yūsuf (Q 12) by Jawad Anwar Qureshi

Review Essay: Positivism, Revisionism, and Agnosticism in the Study of Late Antiquity and the Qurʾān by Michael E. Pregill 

نحو قراءة منظومية أخلاقية للفقه: الإجهاض نموذجًا by  معتز الخطيب

دور العلماء والمؤرخين في نقل النظريات السياسية الساسانية إلى الهند في عصر سلطنةدهلي: كتاب “فتاوى جهانداري” نموذجًا by صاحب عالم الأعظمي الندوي

Political Legitimacy, Democracy and Islamic Law: The Place of Self‐Government in Islamic Political Thought by Mohammad Fadel

Marriage in Islamic Interpretive Tradition: Revisiting the Legal and the Ethical by Mulki Al-Sharmani

Islamic Psychology: Towards a 21st Century Definition and Conceptual Framework by Carrie York Al-Karam 

Special Issue: The History of Books and Collections through Manuscript Notes

Preface by Boris Liebrenz

Unusual Readers in Early Modern Istanbul by Elif Sezer Aydınlı

Creating a Cultural Repertoire Based on Texts by Christopher D. Bahl

The Reconstruction of the Circulation of Muḥammad al-Hindī’s Ǧumal al-falsafa Using Manuscript Notes by Jawdath Jabbour

Scattered Manuscripts by Akram Khabibullaev

The Lives and Afterlives of the Library of the Maronite Physician Ḥannā al-Ṭabīb (c. 1702–1775) from Aleppo by Feras Krimsti

A Medieval Muslim Scholar’s Legacy by Boris Liebrenz

Ibadis on (and in) the Margins by Paul M. Love

La diffusion d’un ouvrage de logique arabe de la fin du XVII e siècle by Teymour Morel

In the Ḥakīm’s Own Hand by Deborah Schlein

Mamlūk Poetry, Ottoman Readers, and an Enlightenment Collector by James White

Tracing Ibn Ṭūlūn’s Autograph Corpus, with Emphasis on the 19th–20th Centuries by Torsten Wollina

A Manuscript of the Last Sultan of al-Andalus and the Fate of the Royal Library of the Nasrid Sultans at the Alhambra by Josef Ženka 

Discussion over Theological and Political Foundations of Caliphate in Islam by Recep Dogan

Actuality and Visualization in the Dramatic Description of Eternal Bliss by Eiman Mohammed Saeed Saleh Tunsi

Reflection on the Epistemic Foundations of Good Ending (GE) and the Strategies to Reach It in the Holy Qur’an Based on Verses 19-24 of Sura Raad by A. A. Zakavi and R. Marzband

A Study of Relationship between Sharī‘ah and Ḥaqīqah with Special Reference to Shaykh Ibrāhīm Inyās by Sikiru Atanda Adenigba

The Role of Hisbah in Promoting Ethical Values among the Muslim Ummah in the Classical Period of Islam by Tambari Abbas Bashar and Ahmad Maigari Dutsin Ma 

Special Issue: Commemorating the Life and Work of Professor Bernard Lewis

The Three Wars of Bernard Lewis by Martin Kramer

The Orientalism Debate: On Recognizing the Otherness of the Other by Asher Susser

The Dawn of Arab Printing: A View from the Fringe by Ami Ayalon

Bernard Lewis and the Writing of Real History by Robert Irwin

The Jews of the Medieval Islamic West: Acculturation and Its Limitations by Norman A. Stillman

Maimonides against the Mutakallimun: The Question of “Intellectual Admissibility” by Eric Ormsby 

Half-hearted Devolution: A View of Kenya’s Water Governance from Siaya County, Kenya by Ornit Avidar

Glorification of the Past as a Political Tool: Ottoman History in Contemporary Turkish Politics by Umut Uzer

Resisting and Redefining State Violence: The Gendered Politics of Transitional Justice in Tunisia by Hind Ahmed Zaki

A Historical Inquiry into Early Kurdish-Israeli Contacts: The Antecedents of an Alliance by Scott Abramson 

Special Issue: Generations

Preface

Generations by Frances S. Hasso

Articles

Pieces of Us: The Intimate as Imperial Archive by Munira Khayyat, Yasmine Khayyat, and Rola Khayyat

Redefining Paternal Filiation through DNA Testing: Law and the Children of Unmarried Mothers in the Maghreb by Delfina Serrano-Ruano

Muftis in the Matrix: Comparing Online English- and Arabic-Language Fatwas about Emergency Contraception by L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster

Review Essays

Feminisms in Tension at the “Feminism in Crisis?” Conference by Ghiwa Sayegh and Yasmin Shafei

Getting to the Party on Time: Revolution, Gender, and Sexuality as Global Historical Problematics by Wilson Chacko Jacob

Global IVF, Infertility, and Emergency Contraception in the Middle East and North Africa by Ellen J. Amster 

Cultural Crossroads

Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus: Meeting Points in Adjara and Tatarstan by Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk

The Kurds and the “Others”: Kurdish Politics as an Inclusive, Multi-Ethnic Vehicle in Turkey by William Gourlay

Lifting the Arms Embargo

A War Seen from the Hill: U.S. Helsinki Commission and the War in Bosnia 1992–1995 by Hamza Karčić

Islam in America

Imam WD Mohammed, the Patron Saint of American Islam: Personality, Intellectual Teachings and Reformation by Muhammad Fraser-Rahim

The African Scene

Media Influences on the Perceptions of the Usage of Hijab in Nigeria’s Public Institutions and Surrounding Controversy in the Lagos-Ibadan Axis by Fatima Abubakre

The Historical Development of the Tijaniyyah Ṣūfī Order in Ilorin, Nigeria and Challenges for Survival by Abdur-Razzaq Mustapha Balogun Solagberu

Educating a Minority

Access of Muslims to Education in Uttar Pradesh, India by Mashkoor Ahmad 

The Politics of Philanthropy by Amy Singer

Zakat as Practical Theodicy: Precarity and the Critique of Gender in Muslim India by Danielle Widmann Abraham

Behind the Data: Examining Why US Muslims Give Less to Religious Institutions and Causes by Rafia Khader and Shariq Siddiqui 

Charitable Activities of the Muslim Brotherhood by Jonathan CM Benthall

A Comparison of Nonprofits’ Application of Project Management Practices by Khaldoun AbouAssi and Nadeen Makhlouf

Advantages of Syrian Diaspora Aid to Refugees in Middle Eastern States of the Global South by Shawn Teresa Flanigan 

Halal Dating and Norwegian Youth Culture by Marianne Bøe

Comment on the Report of the Siddiqui Review Panel, 2018 by Ralph Grillo

Establishing Islam in Britain by Brendan McNamara

A Frame for Turkey’s Foreign Policy via the Diyanet in the Balkans by Ahmet Erdi Öztürk and İştar Gözaydın

The Making of the Good British Muslim by Friedrich Püttmann 

The Hero Dons a Talismanic Shirt for Battle: Magical Objects Aiding the Warrior in a Turkish Epic Romance by Helga Anetshofer 

Special Issue: Gender and Transnational Histories of Libya

Commentary

The Trojan Horse: The Madkhali Movement in North Africa by George Joffé

Introduction

Gender and Transnational Histories of Libya by Barbara Spadaro and Katrina Yeaw

Articles

Centre and Periphery: Variations in Gendered Space among Libyan Jews in the Late Ottoman Period by Rachel Simon

Finding Women and Gender in the Sources: Toward a Historical Anthropology of Ottoman Tripoli by Nora Lafi

Gender, Violence and Resistance under Italian Rule in Cyrenaica, 1923–1934 by Katrina Yeaw

Remembering the ‘Italian’ Jewish Homes of Libya: Gender and Transcultural Memory (1967–2013) by Barbara Spadaro

Our Star: Amazigh Music and the Production of Intimacy in 2011 Libya by Leila Tayeb

Challenging the Algerian Master Narrative in Samir Toumi’s L’Effacement (2016): A Counter-narrative for a Mujahidin Haunting by Valérie K. Orlando

Challenges and Opportunities Facing Successful Women in Morocco by Maia Hallward and Cortney Stewart 

Special Issue: 1948 and Its Shadows

Introduction

1948 and Its Shadows by Beshara Doumani and Alex Winder

Articles

A Primer for a New Terrain: Palestinian Schooling in Jordan, 1950 by Mezna Qato

“Nothing to Lose but Our Tents”: The Camp, the Revolution, the Novel by Nasser Abourahme

Toward a Palestinian History of Ruins: Interwar Gaza by Dotan Halevy

Analysis

Enshrining Discrimination: Israel’s Nation-State Law by Nadia Ben-Youssef and Sandra Samaan Tamari

Reports

The Bab al-Rahmah Cemetery: Israeli Encroachment Continues Unabated by Nazmi Jubeh

Palestinian Offices in the United States: Microcosms of the Palestinian Experience by Michael R. Fischbach

Commentary

Conflating Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism: France in the Crosshairs by Dominique Vidal 

Armenians, Diplomats, and Commercial Agents of Shah ʿAbbās: The European Journey of Khvāja Safar (c. 1609–14) by José Cutillas Ferrer

Reading ʿAttār’s Elāhināma as Sufi Practical Ethics: Between Genre, Reception, and Muslim and Christian Audiences by Ghazzal Dabiri

The Black Death in Iran, according to Iranian Historical Accounts from the Fourteenth through Fifteenth Centuries by Ahmad Fazlinejad and Farajollah Ahmadi

A Persian Origin of the Arabic Aristotle? The Debate on the Circumstantial Evidence of the Manteq Revisited by Erik Hermans

Ferdynand Goetel’s Iranian Experience: A Non-Colonial European Account of Mashhad by Magdalena Rodziewicz 

Special Issue: The Qur’an in Western Europe

Introduction: The Qur’an in Europe—the European Qur’an by Jan Loop

The Byzantine Panoplia Tradition and Greek Qur’an Translation in the Latin West by Christian Høgel

Inspicientes—et non inspicientes—eius legem: Thirteenth-Century Dominicans, the Qur’an, and Islam by Thomas E. Burman

The Perennial Importance of Mary’s Virginity and Jesus’ Divinity: Qur’anic Quotations in Iberian Polemics after the Conquest of Granada (1492) by Mercedes García-Arenal, Katarzyna K. Starczewska, and Ryan Szpiech

Two Hungarian Jesuits and the Qur’an: Understanding, Misunderstanding, and Polemic by Paul Shore

Bulghaith al-Darawi and Barthélemy d’Herbelot: Readers of the Qur’an in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany by Pier Mattia Tommasino

Sleeping in the Cave: Zechendorff’s 1632 Latin Translation of the Qur’an by Reinhold F. Glei

The Qur’an of Johann Zechendorff: Features and Sources of the Arabic Text of Sūrat al-Kahf (Q. 18) by Roberto Tottoli

The Qur’an in Comparison, and the Birth of ‘Scriptures’ by Alexander Bevilacqua and Jan Loop

After Marracci: The Reception of Ludovico Marracci’s Edition of The Qur’an in Northern Europe from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries by Alastair Hamilton

The Philological Uncanny: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Readings of the Qur’an by Susannah Heschel 

The Elephant and the Sovereign: India circa 1000 CE by Ali Anooshahr

The Non-issue of Coinage: The Monetary Policies of the Post-Bahmani Sultanates by Pushkar Sohoni

Dionisio Capulong and the Elite in Early Spanish Manila (c. 1570–1620) by John N. Crossley

Islam in Champa and the Making of Factitious History by Stephen G. Haw 

Wisdom in Controversy: Paradox and the Paradoxical in Sayings of Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī (d. 234/848 or 261/875) by Annabel Keeler

The Ring Analogy according to al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and Its Implications for Understanding walāya in Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam by Aiyub Palmer

ʿAyn al-Quḍāt between Divine Jealousy and Political Intrigue by Mohammed Rustom

Companionship, Human Perfection, and Divine Union in Thirteenth-Century Persian Sufism by Aydogan Kars

Sufi Qurʾān Commentaries, Genealogy and Originality: Universal Mercy as a Case Study by Pieter Coppens

Journey in Sufism: Literal or Metaphorical? by Mansure Rahmani, Ahad Faramarz Gharamaleki, and Hassan Arif

Sufis and Coffee Consumption: Religio-Legal and Historical Aspects of a Controversy in the Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Periods by Hatim Mahamid and Chaim Nissim

Weighing Knowledge: Humanity, Modernity, and Ṣafī ʿAlī Shāh’s Mīzān al-maʿrifah by Robert Landau Ames 

Special Issue: Representations of Women in the Mamluk Period

Introduction: Representations of Women in the Mamluk Period by Antonella Ghersetti

Between Function and Fiction: The Representation of Women in al-Ibshīhī’s Mustaṭraf by Mirella Cassarino

The Representation of Slave Girls in a Physiognomic Text of the Fourteenth Century by Antonella Ghersetti

Women and Men in al-Suyūṭī’s Guides to Sex and Marriage by Pernilla Myrne

Medieval Arabic Islam and the Culture of Gender: Feminine Voices in al-Suyūṭī’s Literature on Sex and Marriage by Daniela Rodica Firanescu

The Woman as a Construct: Reconsidering Men’s Image of Women in the Arabic-Islamic World: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Cairo by Paulina B. Lewicka

Between Venice and Alexandria: Trade and the Movement of Precious Metals in the Early Mamluk Period by David Jacoby 

Special Issue: Interfaith Dialogue and Disputation in the Medieval Mediterranean

Introduction

Interfaith Dialogue and Disputation in the Medieval Mediterranean by Brian A. Catlos and Alex J. Novikoff

Articles

Peter the Venerable on the Talmud, the Jews, and Islam by Irven Resnick

The Disciples as Companions: Ibn Taymiyya’s and Ibn al-Qayyim’s Evaluation of the Transmission of the Bible by Younus Y. Mirza

Predestination and Free Will in Mudejar Polemics: The Kitāb al-Mujādala maʿa-l-Yahūd wa-l-Naṣārā [The Book Called the Disputation with the Jews and the Christians] and Its Historical and Intellectual Background by Mònica Colominas Aparicio

Theology from the Margins: Sīdī Riḍwān al-Januwī and His Community of Outsiders by Manuela Ceballos

“You are the Heretics!” Dialogue and Disputation between the Greek East and the Latin West after 1204 by Jeff Brubaker

Sites of Controversy: Jews Debating Philosophy between Iberia and Occitania in the Fourteenth Century by Tamar Ron Marvin

Dialogue and Toleration in Juan Luis Vives’s De Veritate Fidei Christianae: Vives on Muhammad and Islam by Kaarlo Johannes Havu

Drama as Disputation in Mantua by Erith Jaffe-Berg 

Special Issue: The Occupation at 50: EU-Israel/Palestine Relations since 1967

Introduction: The Occupation at 50: EU-Israel/Palestine Relations since 1967 by Anders Persson

Articles

Theorizing Normative Power in European Union-Israeli/Palestinian Relations: Focus of This Special Issue by Ian Manners

How, When and Why Did the Way the EU Speaks About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Change? By Anders Persson

The EU and 50 Years of Occupation: Resistant to or Complicit with Normalization? By Daniela Huber

The Limits of Securitized Peace: The EU’s Sponsorship of Palestinian Authoritarianism by Alaa Tartir

Political Legitimacy and Celebrity Politicians: Tony Blair as Middle East Envoy 2007–2015 by Michelle Pace and Annika Bergman Rosamond

Euroscepticism as an Instrument of Foreign Policy by Sharon Pardo and Neve Gordon 

Iran and Russia in the Middle East: Toward a Regional Alliance? By Clément Therme

Saudi Arabia and Israel: From Secret to Public Engagement, 1948–2018 by Elie Podeh

Can Saudi Arabia Move beyond “Production with Rentier Characteristics”? Human Capital Development in the Transitional Oil Economy by Makio Yamada

Israel Turns to the Sea by Yael Teff-Seker, Ehud Eiran, and Aviad Rubin

Speaking with the “Voice of Syria”: Producing the Arab World’s First Personality Cult by Kevin W. Martin 

Visualizing the Painful Past: Reel Reconciliation Institutions by Taieb Belghazi and Abelhay Moudden

Land in Revolt: Eco-criticism and the Roots of Resistance by Rachel Webb Jekanowski

The Effect of Tweeting on Journalists’ Reporting Practices in Kuwait by Ali A. Dashti, Salah M. al-Fadhli, M.S. Son, and H.I. Hamdy

Challenging Panopticism through Representations: Burj al-Murr by Melissa Plourde Khoury

Marketing Views of Modernity, Evangelism and Print Specialization in the American Mission Press Catalogs (1884–1896) by Hala Auji 

Embodying the Beloved: Embodiment, (Homo)eroticism, and the Straightening of Desire in the Hagiographic Tradition of Fakhr al-Dīn ʿIrāqī by Matthew Thomas Miller

Rethinking the Eurocentric Gaze in Narratives of Urban Modernity: The Shaykh, the Flâneur, and the Orientalist in Takhlīṣ al-Ibrīz and ʿAlam al-Dīn by Mona El-Sherif

Whose War Is It Anyway? Multilingual Games as Political Encoding in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game by Syrine Hout

Is Perfect “Passing” Possible? Nationalism and Gender in the Writings of Sayed Kashua by Dana Olmert

Prolegomenon to the Story of Bosnian Mevlevi Literature in Arabic, Persian and Turkish by Slobodan Ilić 

An Enchanted Ring and a Dung Beetle: Contaminated Borders in Hassan Blasim’s Nightmarish Narratives by Khaled Al-Masri

Salīm Barakāt’s Poetry as Linguistic Conquest: “ … The Shot That Kills You, May You Recover” by Huda Fakhreddine

She Is No Desdemona: A Syrian Woman in Samar Attar’s Shakespearean Subversions by Hussein A. Alhawamdeh

The Reading Processes of a Scottish Ottomanist: E. J. W. Gibb and His Young Ottoman Sources by Nagihan Gür

Expiatory Humor in a Pre-Islamic Poem by ʿIlbāʾ b. Arqam by Ali Ahmad Hussein

Portrait of a Poet

Mullā ˁAbbūd Al-Karkhī (1861–1946), Vernacular Poet of Early Twentieth Century Baghdad by Clive Holes

Bread and Justice in Qajar Iran: The Moral Economy, the Free Market and the Hungry Poor by Stephanie Cronin

From Salary to Resistance: Mobility, Employment, and Violence in Dibra, 1792–1826 by Uǧur Bayraktar

The Social History of Fez Jews in the Gold-thread Craft between the Middle Ages and the French Colonialist Period (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries) by Shai Srougo

The ʿAssāf Family of Miʿilya: An Example of a Greek Catholic Family in the Western Upper Galilee, Eighteenth–Twenty-first Centuries by Rabei G. Khamisy

Exile, Resistance and Deportation: Circassian Opposition to the Kemalists in the South Marmara in 1922–1923 by Caner Yelbaşı

The Arithmetic of Rights: Zionist Intellectuals Imagining the Arab Minority May–July 1938 by Nimrod Lin

Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Arab–Israeli Conflict after the Six-Day War: Cooperation and Competition by Arieh J. Kochavi

Full Effort to Avoid Peace: The Failure of the First Rogers Plan by Yehuda U. Blanga

The Mojahedin-e Khalq versus the Islamic Republic of Iran: From War to Propaganda and the War on Propaganda and Diplomacy by Ronen A. Cohen

Song and Rebellion in the Syrian Uprising by Joel D. Parker 

The Agdal of Marrakesh (12th to 20th Centuries): An Agricultural Space for Caliphs and Sultans. Part II: Hydraulics, Architecture, and Agriculture by Julio Navarro, Fidel Garrido, and Íñigo Almela

A Tale of Two Mosques: Marrakesh’s Masjid al-Jamiʿ al-Kutubiyya by Abbey Stockstill

Jahanpanah’s Jamiʿ Masjid (Circa 1343): A Reassessment by Yves Porter and Richard Castinel

Shah Abuʾl-Maʿali , Mir Sayyid ʿAli, and the Sayyids of Tirmiz: Three Portraits Challenge Akbari Historiography by Laura E. Parodi

An Illustrated Genealogy between the Ottomans and the Safavids by Melis Taner

Mosque-Building on the Ottoman-Venetian Frontier, circa 1550–1650: The Phenomenon of Square-Tower Minarets Revisited by Maximilian Hartmuth

Immigrant Narratives: The Ottoman Sultans’ Portraits in Elisabeth Leitner’s Family Photo Album, circa 1862–72 by Nebahat Avcıoğlu

History Regained: A Modern Artist in Baghdad Encounters a Lost Tradition of Painting by Saleem Al-Bahloly

Two Rare Early Abbasid Paint-Decorated Ceramic Bowls from el-Khirba/Nes Ziyyona, Israel by Itamar Taxel, Ayala Lester and Uzi ʿAd

The Shahi ʿIdgah of 1312 at Rapri (Uttar Pradesh): A Landmark in Indian Glazed Tiles by Yves Porter

A Preliminary Study of a Nineteenth-Century Persian Manuscript on Porcelain Manufacture in the Sipahsalar Library, Tehran by Mehran Matin and Moujan Matin

An Unknown Collection of Preliminary Drawings and Extra Illustrations Prepared for The Arabian Antiquities of Spain by James Cavanah Murphy in the Gennadius Library, Athens by Lynda S. Mulvin 

Special Issue: Muslim Endowments in Asia: Waqf, Charity and Circulations

Introduction

Muslim Endowments in Asia: Waqf, Charity and Circulations by Amelia Fauzia, Till Mostowlansky, and Nurfadzilah Yahaya

Articles

From Forgiveness to Foreclosure: Waqf, Debt, and the Remaking the Ḥanafī Legal Subject in Late Ottoman Mount Lebanon by Nada Moumtaz

Hiding and Revealing Islamic Pious Endowments in Turn‐of‐the‐Century Xinjiang by Eric Schluessel

Territoriality in Motion: Waqf and Hyderabad State by Eric Lewis Beverley

Hindu Bakaph? Charitable Development and Trust Sovereignty in ‘Neoliberal’ India by Carter Hawthorne Higgins

Waqf Making and Commercial Cemeteries: Religious Circulation and Commodification of the Economy of Giving by Amelia Fauzia

Replace Stasis with Motion to Fathom the Persistence of Waqf: The Complex Histories and Legacies of a Muslim Institution by Amy Singer 

Osmanlı İlim Dünyasında İşrâkî Bir Zümreden Söz Etmek Mümkün mü? Osmanlı Ulemasının İşrâkîlik Tasavvuru Üzerine Bir Tahlil by Mustakim Arıcı

Zihnî Varlık Tartışmalarının Klasik Sonrası Dönemde Alımlanışı: Bilginin Mahiyeti ve Kategorisi Bağlamında Bir İnceleme by Murat Kaş

İslam Mantık Geleneğinde Tanım Teorisi Eleştirilerine Bir Giriş: Tam Tanım, Kendisiyle Tanım Mıdır? By Mehmet Özturan

XVIII. Yüzyıl Osmanlı’sında Tasavvufî Bilgiyi Tartışmak: Saçaklızâde ile Alemî Arasındaki Ledünnî İlim ve İlham Tartışmasına Dair Bir İnceleme by Mehmet Gel 

On the Emergence of Maragha Avicennism by Robert Wisnovsky

Le statut « scientifique » de l’ éthique d’ après le Commentaire moyen d’ Averroès à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque d’ Aristote by Frédérique Woerther

De l’ avarice comme genre de vie: une contribution à la lecture de Kitāb al-Buḫalāʾ d’ al-Ğāḥiẓ by Salah Natij

Babylonian and Indian Wisdoms in Islamicate Culture by Y. Tzvi Langermann 

Special Issue: Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in the Constitutions of the Middle Eastern and North African Countries

Introduction by Serena Tolino

Gender Equality in the Egyptian Constitution: From 1923 to 2014 by Serena Tolino

Women in Law, Women in Literature: Gender Equality in Turkish Constitutional Experience by Tina Maraucci

The Role of Women in Tunisia from Bourguiba to the Promulgation of New Constitution by Leila El Houssi

The Move towards Gender Equality and Political Participation in Jordan by Schirin Fathi

The Struggle of the Women’s Movements in Neo-patriarchal Libya by Souadou Lagdaf and Yahia H. Zoubir

Speaking Secular, Acting Sectarian. Lebanese Women’s Rights beyond the Constitution by Rosita Di Peri

Gender in the Iranian Constitution by Katajun Amirpur 

Ricordo di Giacomo Emilio Carretto (13-1-1939—10-1-2015) by Michele Bernardini and Marie Bossaert

Una questione di famiglia: la ṭarīqah al-sanūsiyyah tra Aḥmad al-Šarīf e Muḥammad Idrīs (Libia, 1914-1918): Memorie, Interpretazioni, Documenti by Federico Cresti

Les sources de Victor Hugo par rapport à la Perse by Hélia Tavakoli

Bollettino di Islamistica by Roberto Tottoli

Le Crociate nella produzione storiografica araba contemporanea by Roberto Celestre 

Will Americans Vote for Muslims? Cultural Outgroup Antipathy, Candidate Religion, and U.S. Voting Behavior by Kerem Ozan Kalkan, Geoffrey C. Layman, John C. Green 

Can Islam Transform Liberalism? By Lucas Swaine

Maajid Nawaz, Irshad Manji, and the Call for a Muslim Reformation by Anouar El Younssi

Politics and Islamic Revivalism in Bangladesh: The Role of the State and Non-State/Non-Political Actors by Md Nazrul Islam and Md Saidul Islam 

Special Issue: Symbolism and Politics

Introduction

Introduction: Symbolism and Politics by Graeme Gill and Luis F. Angosto-Ferrandez

Articles

Corpses That Speak: Revolutionary Violence and Political Communication in Indonesia by Robbie Peters

Niyazov’s Ideology and Its Symbolism: The Cult of the Leader, Nationalism and Its Suppression of Critical Thinking by Yelena Nikolayevna Zabortseva

Plotters and Martyrs: The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Constituting of Political Actors in the 15 July Coup Event by Christopher Houston 

Articles

Self Addressed Speech: The Soul Speaking to Itself by Eva Brann

Of Cannons and Canons: The Promise and Perils of Postcolonial Education by Oludamini Ogunnaike

Essays

“Using the Brain You Gave Me”: Augustine of Hippo on Language by Garry Wills

Can We All Treat Blasphemy as Taboo? By Andrew F. March

The Listening of the Soul by Zaid Shakir 

Special Focus: Reflections on the Geopolitics of Refugees and Displaced Persons

Syrian Refugees in Turkey and the Politics of Postconflict Reconciliation by Kristin Fabbe and Tolga Sınmazdemir

The Effect of Refugee Integration on Migrant Labor in Jordan by Allison Spencer Hartnett

Who Endorses Amnesty? An Original Survey from Morocco’s Casablanca Region Assessing Citizen Support for Regularizing Clandestine Migrants by Matt Buehler and Kyung Joon Han

Becoming a Refugee: Reflections on Self-Understandings of Displacement from the Syrian Case by Wendy Pearlman

Research: Bridging Boundaries

Walking in the Periphery: Activist Art and Urban Resistance to Neoliberalism in Istanbul by Ipek Türeli and Meltem Al

Documenting 100 Years of Displacement Among Syrian-Armenians: An Interview with Anoush Baghdassarian Conducted by Lauren Broidy by Anoush Baghdassarian and Lauren Broidy

Curator’s Corner

Middle East North Africa (MENA) Refugee Crisis: Digital Resources in Review by Sarah Rhodes

Pedagogical Perspectives

Team-teaching as Feminist Praxis at a Small Liberal Arts College by Rachel Goshgarian and Neha Vora

Review Essay

Understanding 50 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land by Leila Farsakh 

Special Issue: Unregistered Muslim Marriages: Regulations and Contestations

Introductions

Contextualizing Muslim Religious-Only Marriages by the Editors

Articles

Secular Rule and Islamic Ethics by Annelies Moors, Martijn de Koning, and Vanessa Vroon-Najem

Contesting the Boundaries between Civil and Religious Marriage by Anja Bredal

Religious-Only Marriages in the UK by Rehana Parveen

Unregistered Marriages of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia by Eva F Nisa

Marriage Registration among Palestinians and Syrians in Jordan by Dina Zbeidy

Beyond Non-Registration: Women Opting for Cohabitation in Tunis by Iris Kolman 

Identity, Community and Belonging in GCC States: Reflections on the Foreigner by Miriam R. Lowi

China’s Favored Muslims? The Complex Relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the Hui Ethnic Group by Erik Durneika 

Mīr Dāmād (m. 1041/1631), philosophe et mujtahid: Autorité spirituelle et autorité juridique en Iran safavide shīʿite by Mathieu Terrier

Between Science and Religion: Spiritism in the Ottoman Empire (1850s-1910s) by Özgür Türesay

Présentation by Augustin Jomier

Neuf ans d’études shīʿites (2009-2017). Bilan et perspectives by Mathieu Terrier

Recent Scholarship in the Field of kalām by Jan Thiele

L’Islam saharien précolonial: portrait d’un champ de recherche by Ismail Warscheid 

Getting to Know the Enemy: Hospitaller Malta’s Intelligence Network in the Early Seventeenth Century by Ivan Grech

Fundamentals of Ottoman-Safavid Peacetime Relations, 1639–1722 by Selim Güngörürler

Desperation, Hopelessness, and Suicide: An Initial Consideration of Self-Murder by Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Crimean Society by Fırat Yaşa 

Medicine in Practice: European Influences on the Ottoman Medical Habitat by Ebru Boyar

The Voskopoja Guild of Tailors’ Credit Lending Operations and Risk Management (1716–27) by Konstantinos Giakoumis

Because They Are Genghis Khan’s Descendants: The Involvement of the Giray Dynasty in Tax Farming and Allocations of Timars in Eighteenth-Century Serfice by Dimitrios K. Lamprakis 

Special Issue: Repression and Resistance: Fragments of Kurdish Politics in Turkey under the AKP Regime

Introduction

Repression and Resistance – Fragments of Kurdish Politics in Turkey under the AKP Regime by Kumru F. Toktamis and Isabel David

Articles

The Limits of an ‘Open Mind’: State Violence, Turkification, and Complicity in the Turkish–Kurdish Conflict by Beja Protner

A Peace That Wasn’t: Friends, Foes, and Contentious Re-Entrenchment of Kurdish Politics in Turkey by Kumru F. Toktamis

The Moderation of Turkey’s Kurdish Left: The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) by Ödül Celep

Reconciliation and Intergroup Forgiveness: The Case of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey by Gülseli Baysu and Canan Coşkan

The Effects of Kobane in the Reconfiguration of the Popular Geopolitical Codes of Turkey’s Kurdish Movement by Alejandro Ciordia

An Unsuitable Theorist? Murray Bookchin and the PKK by Umair Muhammad

Artistic Expression in Times of Peace and War: The Case of Turkey’s Kurds from 2009 to the Present by Duygu Atlas