Spring 2017 Journal Roundup

Identity and Otherness: Maghribi Images in the Historiography about Alfonso XI of Castile (1311–1350) by Miguel Ángel Manzano Rodríguez

La semantique politique du jeu de couleurs merinide: pureté et clarté, blancheur et verdeur (xiiie–xve siècles) by Serge Gubert

Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Continuity and Change of the Lex Rhodia‘s Jettison Principles in Roman and Medieval Mediterranean Rulings by Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz

The Last and Most Developed Naṣrid Palace in the Alhambra: The Alijares and Its Country Estate (Fourteenth Century) by Luis José García-Pulido

The Islamic Secular by Sherman A. Jackson

The Islamic Secular: Comments by Mohammad Fadel

The Islamic Secular: Comments by Humeira Iqtidar

Response to Professor Fadel and Professor Iqtidar by Sherman A. Jackson

Facts, Values, and Institutions: Notes on Contemporary Islamic Legal Debate by Alexandre Caeiro

Kuwait’s Administrative Risk-based Model for the Prevention of Money Laundering: Costs and Benefits of Compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Standards by Asim Jusic

The Radical Application of the Islamist Concept of Takfir by Mohamed Badar, Masaki Nagata, and Tiphanie Tueni

The Caliphate State in Theory and Practice by Bawar Bammarny

Indexation of Mahr (Dower): A Precursor of the Law of Inflation in Iran by M.A. Ansari-pour

Making Ordinary: Recuperating the Everyday in Post-2005 Beirut Novels by Ghenwa Hayek

Arab Students, American Jewish Insecurities, and the End of Pro-Arab Politics in Mainstream America, 1952-1973 by Geoffrey P. Levin

Special Section: The State in Lebanon

Section Introduction: In Search of the Lebanese State by Jamil Mouawad and Hannes Baumann

Wayn al-Dawla?: Locating the Lebanese State in Social Theory by Jamil Mouawad and Hannes Baumann

The Gemmayzeh Incident of 1949: Conflict over Physical and Symbolic Space in Beirut by Dylan Baun

On Deference and Benevolence: The Politics of Parking in Beirut by Samar Kanafani

Artistic Fallout from the July 2006 War: Momentum, Mediation, and Mediatization by Syrine Hout

Arabic Performance Poetry: A New Mode of Resistance by Muhammad Agami Hassan Muhammad

Hideous Hydropolitics in Darraj’s A Curious Land by Yousef Awad and Tareq Zuhair

Special Issue on Political Parties in the Middle East: Historical Trajectories and Future Prospects

Introduction to Political Parties in the Middle East: Historical Trajectories and Future Prospects by Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, and Lauren Banko

Political Parties in MENA: Their Functions and Development by Raymond A. Hinnebusch

Protesting Gender Discrimination from Within: Women’s Political Representation on Behalf of Islamic Parties by Mona Tajali

‘We wander in your footsteps’—Reciprocity and Contractility in Lebanese Personality-Centred Parties by Christian Thuselt

The Party, the Gama’a and the Tanzim: The Organizational Dynamics of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Post-2011 Failure by Marie Vannetzel

Party and Governance in the Arab Republics by Joseph Sassoon

Political Parties and Women’s Rights in Turkey by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat

The Historical Emergence and Transformation of the Moroccan Political Party Field by Khalil Dahbi

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine during the First Intifada: From Opportunity to Marginalization (1987–1990) by Francesco Saverio Leopardi

Security Sector Reform, Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration of Militias: The Challenges for State Building in Libya by Youssef Mohammad Sawani

Limiting Violent Spillover in Civil Wars: The Paradoxes of Lebanese Sunni Jihadism, 2011–17 by Tine Gade

The Pedagogy of Inquiry and Deliberation in Higher Education in the Arab Region by Kamal Abouchedid

Open Public Data (OPD) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Challenges and Prospects by Stuti Saxena

Evolution of Moroccan Defence Diplomacy by Ahmed El Morabety

Oil Production and Abrupt Institutional Change: The Multi-Cyclic Hubbert Model and the Case of Iraq by Omar A. M. El Joumayle

Qatari-US Military Relations: Context, Evolution and Prospects by Brahim Saidy

The Islamic Conservative Turn in Malaysia: Impact and Future Trajectories by Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman

Intimate Strangers: Perspectives on Female Converts to Islam in Britain by Dorothea A. Ramahi and Yasir Suleiman

Two Cultures, One Identity: Formulations of Australian Isma’ili Muslim Identity by Karim Mitha, Shelina Adatia, and Rusi Jaspal

Migration and Contemporary Muslim Space in Moscow. Contextualizing North Caucasian Loud Dhikr and the Religious Practices of Central Asian Folk Mullas by Dmitriy A. Oparin

Investigating Preferences for Patriarchal Values Among Muslim University Students in Southern Thailand by Mahsoom Sateemae, Tarik Abdel-Monem, and Suhaimee Sateemae

Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region

Being, Doing and Knowing in the Field: Reflections on Ethnographic Practice in the Arab Region by Samar Kanafani and Zina Sawaf

Ethnography in Movement: Bounding the Field Between the Compound and the Trailer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Zina Sawaf

‘The Violence We Live In’: Reading and Experiencing Violence in the Field by Lamia Moghnieh

Sensory Reverberations: Rethinking the Temporal and Experiential Boundaries of War Ethnography by Muzna Al-Masri

Special Issue on Utopias

Introduction: The Coast of Utopia by Boyd Tonkin

The Gardens of Paradise by Bruce Wannell

Findhorn by Hassan Mahamdallie

By Oneself, Together by Marco Lauri

Escape to Andalucia by Medina Whiteman

Islamic Utopianism by Nazry Bahrawi

Searching for Khilafatopia by Sadek Hamid

Unravelling Utopia by Yasmin Khan

The Never-Ending Journey by Colin Tudge

Cancer: Key to Utopia by Naomi Foyle

The First Iconoclasm in Islam: A New History of the Edict of Yazīd II (AH 104/AD 723) by Christian C. Sahner

Two Arabic Deeds of House Lease Agreement on Papyrus by Khaled Younes

The Development of Sūq al-Qaṭṭānīn Quarter, Jerusalem by Tawfiq Da-adli and Hervé Barbé

Erdbeben in arabischen Gedichten der Ayyūbiden-und Mamlūkenzeit by Ewald Wagner

Tracing a Gypsy Mixed Language through Medieval and Early Modern Arabic and Persian Literature by Kristina Richardson

From One Thousand and One Nights to Safavid Iran: A Persian Tawaddud by Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson

ʿAli Qoli Jebādār et l’enregistrement du réel dans les peintures dites farangi sāzi by Negar Habibi

Le temps d’une vie. Une « famille de textes » autour d’Abū Šāma entre VIIe/XIIIe et IXe/XVe siècle by Muriel Roiland and Jacqueline Sublet

Reading tarājim with Bourdieu: Prosopographical Traces of Historical Change in the South Asian Migration to the Late Medieval Hijaz by Christopher D. Bahl

Sadik Jalal Al-Azm November 7, 1934 (Damascus) – December 11, 2016 (Berlin) by Stefan Wild

New Trends in Islamic Legal Theory: Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa as a New Source of Law? By Felicitas Opwis

A Perverted Balance: Modern Salafism between Reform and Jihād* by Itzchak Weismann

The Emergence of the Ṣadrian Paradigm: A Historical Account of the Reception of Mullā Ṣadrā’s School of Thought in Later Islamic Philosophy by Mahdi Golparvar-Roozbahani

Sociosexual Roles in Ottoman Pulp Fiction by David Selim Sayers

The Twilight of Ottoman Sufism: Antiquity, Immorality, and Nation in Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s Nur Baba by M. Brett Wilson

Ghostly Labor: Ethnic Classism in the Levantine Prism of Jacqueline Kahanoff’s Jacob’s Ladder by Amr Kamal

Safavids Before Empire: Two 15th-Century Armenian Perspectives by Thomas A. Carlson

The Safavid Threat and Juristic Authority in the Ottoman Empire During the 16th Century by Abdurrahman Atçıl

A Unique Drachm Coin of Shapur I by Muhammet Yücel

Elamite Karintaš and Avestan Kvirinta: Notes on the Early History of Kerend by D. T. Potts

Ṭūsī Reloaded: Ismāʿīlī Paths of Sufi Wayfaring and Sufi Paths of Ismāʿīlī Apophaticism by Aydogan Kars

A Theory of Reduplication: Eightfold Meters in Classical Persian Poetry by Amr Taher Ahmed

One Thousand Years of Islamic Education in Najaf: Myth and History of the Shiʿi Ḥawza by Zackery M. Heern

My Enemy’s Enemy: Consequences of the CIA Operation against Abulqasim Lahuti, 1953–54 by Masha Kirasirova

Issue on Islam and Russian Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions

Nationalism and Religion in the Discourse of Russia’s ‘Critical Experts of Islam’ by Kristina Kovalskaya

Daniil Sysoev: Mission and Martyrdom by Gulnaz Sibgatullina

The Language of Moderate Salafism in Eastern Tatarstan by Alfrid K. Bustanov

Jihad as Passionarity: Said Buriatskii and Lev Gumilev by Danis Garaev

Between Salafism and Eurasianism: Geidar Dzhemal and the Global Islamic Revolution in Russia by Gulnaz Sibgatullina and Michael Kemper

The Rise and Decline of ‘Optional Control’ in the IDF by Eitan Shamir

‘Spokesman-Ship Is a Weapon’: Israeli Army News Management During the October 1973 War by Giora Goodman

The Erosion of US‒Israeli Relations During Obama’s Second Term by Robert O. Freedman

A Ruling Party in the Making: Mapai in the 1948 War by Avi Bareli

Politics Vs. Trade: A Realist View on Turkish‒Israeli Economic Relations by Cenap Çakmak and Murat Ustaoğlu

Israel Is Too Expensive for Us? Political Consumerism, Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Case of the Cottage Cheese Boycott by Omri Shamir

Banking and Philanthropy in Pre-State Jewish Palestine: Particularist Sephardic Philanthropy Disguised as Support for the General Zionist Cause by Riki Galia

‘Digital Soap Opera’ Online Radio Listening Patterns and the Digital Divide by Mira Moshe, Tal Laor, and Shimon Friedkin

The Palestinian Authority: The Dangerous Transition from Failing Entity to Failing State by Kobi Michael

The Holocaust Paradox: Holocaust Denial and Its Use in the Arab World by Nitza Davidovitch and Nissim Dana

Cultural Change in a Kibbutz Factory as an Outcome of the Privatization Process: An Israeli Case Study by Yaffa Moskovich and Yuval Achouch

Special Issue: Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping: The Challenge of Change in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping: The Challenge of Change in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict by Sapir Handelman

The Limits of Political-elite Diplomacy: Leaders, People and Social Conflicts by Sapir Handelman and Jyoti Chowdhury

Contractualism: A Contractarian Approach to Peace and Conflict Studies by Sapir Handelman

Cultural Factors in Peace-Making: The Israeli-Palestinian Context by Frederic S. Pearson

Vulnerability and Reconciliation: Managing Vulnerability as Part of Peacemaking by Miri Rozmarin

Building a Reality of Peace and Reconciliation Through School Textbooks: Lessons for the Israeli–Palestinian Case by Sara Zamir

Moving Away from Partition: The Federal Road to Peace by Gideon Elazar

Two States – One Lesson: Dealing with Terrorism ‒ A Comparative Study by Efrat Silber

State-Business Relations and Clientelism in Qatar by Mehran Kamrava

Business and Economic Reform Policies in Kuwait: The Case of the Capital Market Authority by Anastasia Nosova

ʿAbd Allāh Al Saʿūd and Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha: The Theatre of Victory, the Prophet’s Treasures, and the Visiting Whig, Cairo 1818 by Michael James Crawford and William Henry Dyke Facey

When Guns Are Not Enough: Britain’s Response to Nationalism in Bahrain, 1958–63 by Rowena Abdul Razak

Special Section: New Perspectives on UAE Foreign Policy

Introduction: New Perspectives on UAE Foreign Policy by Karen E. Young

The UAE as a Nexus State by Christian Henderson

The UAE as an Emerging Actor in the Western Balkans: The Case of Strategic Investment in Serbia by Will Bartlett , James Ker-Lindsay, Kristian Alexander, and Tena Prelec

A New Politics of GCC Economic Statecraft: The Case of UAE Aid and Financial Intervention in Egypt by Karen E. Young

No, a Woman Did Not “Edit the Qurʾān”: Towards a Methodologically Coherent Approach to a Tradition Portraying a Woman and Written Quranic Materials by Aisha Geissinger

Nurture over Nature: Habitus from al-Fārābī through Ibn Khaldūn to ʿAbduh by Erez Naaman

Two Pharmacological Texts on Whey by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī (d. 925) by Aileen Das and Pauline Koetschet

The Local History of Kababir in Haifa: Constructing a Narrative of Uniqueness by Na’ama Ben Ze’ev

The Use of Charity as a Means of Political Legitimation in Umayyad al-Andalus by Ana María Carballeira Debasa

Two ‘Ḥijāzī’ Fragments of the Qurʾan and Their Variants, or: When Did the Shawādhdh Become Shādhdh? By Yasin Dutton

Arabic Manuscripts of the Western Sahara. Trying to Frame an African Literary Tradition by Britta Frede

An Illuminated Manuscript of Early Fourteenth-Century Konya? Anīs al-Qulūb (MS Ayasofya 2984, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, Istanbul) by Cailah Jackson

The Hippocratism of ’Alī ibn Riḍwān: Autodidacticism and the Creation of a Medical Isnād by Aileen R. Das

The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ on Religious Diversity by Janne Mattila

Power vs. Authority: al-Juwaynī’s Intervention in Pragmatic Political Thought by Sohaira Siddiqui

Military Consequences of Cultural Perceptions: The Spanish Army in Morocco, 1912–1927 by Geoffrey Jensen

Cost of Ruling: An Examination of Political Business Cycle, Governmental Accountability, and Alternation in Power in Ghana’s Democracy by George K. Keteku

“An Agonizing Death”: 1980s U.S. Policy on Iraqi Chemical Weapons During the Iran-Iraq War by David M. Walker

The Battle Over Sovereignty: Stamps, Post, and the Creation of a New Palestinian Socio-Political Order, 1994–2000 by Ido Zelkovitz

Authoritarianism, Jihadist Ideology, and Renewal of the Religious Discourse in Egypt by Bosmat Yefet

Section on Fear and Discrimination

“Heave Half a Brick at Him”: Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Muslim Converts in Late Victorian Liverpool by Brent Singleton

Legal Representations of Muslim Slaves by American Courts and Legislative Bodies: 1650–1861 by Mustafa Amin Farooq

Section on Navigating Identity Politics

Changing Identities: A Case Study of Western Muslim Converts Whose Conversion Revised Their Relationship to Their National Identity by Tarek Younis and Ghayda Hassan

Non-Muslim Australians’ Knowledge of Islam: Identifying and Rectifying Knowledge Deficiencies by Kate O’Donnell, Rachel Davis, and Jacqui Ewart

Section on Minorities in Profile

Sino-Muslim Relations: The Han, the Hui, and the Uyghurs by Jörg Friedrichs

State Repression and Religious Conflict: The Perils of the State Clampdown on the Shi’a Minority in Nigeria by Hakeem Onapajo

Education and Employment among Muslims in Indian Jammu and Kashmir by Fayaz Ahmad Bhat and P.K. Mathur

Revision in the Manuscript Age: New Evidence of Early Versions of Ibn Ḥajar’s Fatḥ al-bārī by Joel Blecher

The History and Distribution of ṭāb: A Survey of Petra’s Gaming Boards by Alex de Voogt, Ahmad B. A. Hassanat, and Mahmoud B. Alhasanat

Special Issue on Medias in Morocco

The Authoritarian Trap in State/Media Structures in Morocco’s Political Transition by Bouziane Zaid

Under Watchful Eyes: Internet Surveillance and Citizen Media in Morocco, the Case of Mamfakinch by Samia Errazzouki

The Media in Morocco: A Highly Political Economy, the Case of the Paper and On-Line Press since the Early 1990s by Abdelfettah Benchenna, Driss Ksikes, and Dominique Marchetti

Radio and Political Change: Listening in Contemporary Morocco by Ali Sonay

The Representation of Women in Moroccan Television Talk Shows by Kenza Oumlil

An Insight into the Sudanese NSR Regime Foreign Policy Decision-Making (1989–1999) by Mohammed Hussein Sharfi

Developing a Palestinian Resistance Economy through Agricultural Labor by
 Rayya El Zein

Enacting Imperial Control: Midwifery Regulation in Mandate Palestine by 
Elizabeth Brownson

Interview

Khalida Jarrar: The Israeli Occupation Must End

Essay

Neither Two States nor One: The Palestine Question in the Age of Trump by Seth Anziska

Document File

Strategic Survey for Israel, 2016–2017 with 
introduction by Ahmad Samih Khalidi

Emotion in the Qur’an: An Overview by Karen Bauer

Proving God’s Existence? A Reassessment of al-Rāzī’s Arguments for the Existence of the Creator by Hannah C. Erlwein

Text-Critical Approaches to Sura Structure: Combining Synchronicity with Diachronicity in Sūrat al-Baqara. Part Two by Marianna Klar

Al-Afrād (Word Choice) in Uri Rubin’s Hebrew Translation of the Qur’an by Aḥmed Haykal

Special Issue on Religion and Masculinities in Africa

Introduction: Religion and Masculinities in Africa by Dorothea Schulz and Marloes Janson

Patriarchal Masculinity in Recent Swahili-language Muslim Sermons by Felicitas Becker

Male Wives and Female Husbands by Marloes Janson

Competing Assertions of Muslim Masculinity in Contemporary Mali by Dorothea E. Schulz and Souleymane Diallo

Masculinities, New Forms of Religion, and the Production of Social Order in Kaduna City, Nigeria by Colette Harris

‘The Pillars of State:’ Some Notes on the Qarachu Begs and the Kešikten in the Īl-Khānate (1256-1335) by Michael Hope

A Theoretical Component of Political Inegalitarianism in Perso-Islamicate Thought by Alireza Shomali

The Saudi State as an Identity Racketeer by Ben Rich and Ben MacQueen

Authority-Holders (wulat al-umur) in Contemporary Islamic Politics and Governance: The Case of Saudi Arabia by Muhammad Al Atawneh

The Tunisian Revolution and Governance of Religion by Teije Hidde Donker and Kasper Ly Netterstrøm

The Violent Rise of Palestine’s Lost Generation by Dag Tuastad

American Policy and Proliferation of Media as Causes of a New Type of Coup after the Cold War? Evidence from Turkey by Ömer Aslan and Hakan Kiyici

The Use of Chemical Weapons by Arab States by Chris Quillen

Hizbullah’s Moral Justification of Its Military Intervention in the Syrian Civil War by Zafer Kızılkaya

“They Defeated Us All”: International Interests, Local Politics, and Contested Sovereignty in Libya by Lisa Anderson

The 2015 Israeli General Election: The Triumph of Jewish Skepticism, the Emergence of Arab Faith by Doron Navot, Aviad Rubin, and As’ad Ghanem

Modeling Medieval World Literature by Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Translation in the Pre-Modern World by Karla Mallette

Archive of Errors: Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, Literature, and the World by Rebecca Carol Johnson

Multilateral Reception: Three Lessons from the Arab Hamlet Tradition by Margaret Litvin

The Arab Oedipus: Ancient Categories, Modern Fiction by Philip F. Kennedy

Locating Algerian Literature in World Literature by Madeleine Dobie

Whitewashing Arabic for Global Consumption: Translating Race in The Story of Zahra by Ghenwa Hayek

Ghosts and Doubles: Pamuk’s Editors and Translators by Paulo Lemos Horta

Rethinking Russian Pan-Slavism in the Ottoman Balkans: N.P. Ignatiev and the Slavic Benevolent Committee (1856–77) by Aslı Yiǧit Gülseven

‘Raising a Moral Generation’: The Republican People’s Party and Religious Instruction in Turkey, 1946–1949 by Tuba Ünlü Bilgiç & Bestami S. Bilgiç

Sheikh Wahbah Al-Zuhaili on International Relations: The Discourse of a Prominent Islamist Scholar (1932–2015) by Sami E. Baroudi and Vahid Behmardi

Reading a Bureaucratic Career Backwards: How Did Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha Become the Inspector-General of Rumelia? By Sena Hatip Dinçyürek

Oil and Intra-State Conflict in Iraq and Syria: Sub-State Actors and Challenges for Turkey’s Energy Security by Pinar Ipek

An Analytical and Comparative Study of Male and Female Images in Qajar Dynasty Paintings During the Reign of Fath-Ali Shah (1797–1834) by Zahra Fanaei, Bahar Rahimzadeh, and S. Ali Mojabi

Women, Writing and Politics in Sonallah Ibrahim’s That Smell and Notes from Prison by Waed Athamneh

Religious Voluntarism, Political Individualism, and the Secular: Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Encounters in the Middle East by Aimee E. Barbeau

Local Demands and State Policies: General Councils (Meclis-I Umumi) in the Edirne and Ankara Provinces (1867–1872) by Yonca Köksal

Non-Muslim Citizens as Foreigners Within: How Ecnebi Became Yabancı from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic by Olivier Bouquet

Special Issue on Hindu-Muslim Relations

Towards an Islamic Theology of Hindu-Muslim Relations by Dheen Mohamed

Vaiṣṇava Perceptions of Muslims by Joseph T. O’Connell

Comparative Study of Hinduism and Islam: Gīlānī’s Approach by Muhammad Modassir Ali

Vaiṣnava-Muslim Dialogue in the United States: A Model by Anuttama Dasa and Sanaullah Kirmani

Here Before Me is My Very Own God: Reflections on an Alternative Approach to Hindu-Muslim Dialogue by Vineet Chandler

Mutual Learning in Lived Religiosity: A Case of Hindus and Muslims in the Indian Subcontinent by Mohammad Talib and Sayantani Mitra

Calling God on the Wrong Number: Hindu-Muslim Relations in PK (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) by Rachel Dwyer

Qawwālī in America: Making Space by Hussein Rashid

Beyond Curry and Caliphs: How Advocacy in Education Has Shaped Hindu-Muslim Relations in the United States by Murali Balaji and Henry Millstein

Hindu and Islamic Economics: On the Need for a New Economic Paradigm by Waleed El-Ansary

Comparative Religion: Its Failures and Its Challenges. An Exploratory Essay by Sushil Mittal

Upholding God’s Essence: Ibn Taymiyya on the Createdness of the Spirit by Mohamed A. Moustafa

Arithmetical Algebra in the Islamic History of Mathematics and Its Peak in the 9th/15th Century: Ibn al-Hāʾim’s al-Mumtiʿ by Elif Baga

An Early Attempt at Unifying the Universe: Suhrawardī’s Concept of Miqdār by İshak Arslan

Special Issue: Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms

The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Introduction by Peter E. Pormann and Kamran I. Karimullah

Subjectivity in Translation: Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq’s Ninth-Century Interpretation of Galen’s “Ego” in His Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms by Elaine van Dalen

A Reconsideration of the Authorship of the Syriac Hippocratic Aphorisms: The Creation of the Syro-Arabic Bilingual Manuscript of the Aphorisms in the Tradition of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s Arabic Translation by Taro Mimura

Avicenna and Galen, Philosophy and Medicine: Contextualising Discussions of Medical Experience in Medieval Islamic Physicians and Philosophers by Kamran I. Karimullah

Womb Heat versus Sperm Heat: Hippocrates against Galen and Ibn Sīnā in Ibn al-Nafīs’s Commentaries by Nahyan Fancy

Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms, vi.11: A Medieval Medical Debate on Phrenitis by Nicola Carpentieri and Taro Mimura

The Disguises of the Mind: Recent Palestinian Memoirs by Terri DeYoung

Roundtable

What is the Future of the Survey Course? by James L. Gelvin

The Middle East Survey Course: Challenges and Opportunities by Ziad Abu-Rish

The Middle East Survey Course: Some Problems and Some Solutions by Kate Elizabeth Creasey

Correcting for the Problems of the Survey Course by Sarah Shields

Making the Foreign Past Real: Teaching and Assessing Middle Eastern History in Australia by Richard Pennell

Teaching the Digital Natives by Laila Hussein Moustafa

Teaching with Film and Photography in Introductory Middle East Courses by Nadia Yaqub

Multivocality in Shia Seminary by Abbas Mehregan

Hair: Practices and Symbolism in Traditional Muslim Societies by Hadas Hirsch

Navigating the Cultural Divide: Islam, Gender, and the Integration of Somali Immigrants by Nahla al-Huraibi

Soldiers on an Ottoman Island: The Janissaries of Crete, Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries by Antonis Anastasopoulos and Yannis Spyropoulos

John D. Cooper and His Demonstration of a Curtiss Flying Boat in Istanbul, 1914: The First American Aircraft Sold to Turkey by Gary Leiser

Land, Tax and Power in the Ottoman Provinces: The Malikane-Mukataa of Esma Sultan in Alasonya (c.1780–1825) by Fatma Öncel

Mid-Nineteenth Century New England Women in Evangelical Foreign Missions: Seraphina Haynes Everett, A Missionary Wife in The Ottoman Mission Field by Melike Tokay-Ünal

Exploring the Level of Party System Institutionalization and Party System Type in Turkey: A Convergence with Established or New Democracies? By Berna Öney and Torsten J. Selck

The New Antinomies of the Islamic Movement in Post-Gezi Turkey: Islamism vs. Muslimism by Halil Ibrahim Yenigun

Fethullah Gülen’s Understanding of Women’s Rights in Islam: A Critical Reappraisal by Tore Fougner

Rethinking the Justice and Development Party’s ‘Alevi Openings’ by Ceren Lord

How to Run the Show? The Differential Effects of Negative Campaigning by Emre Toros

Legislative Agenda Setting by a Delegative Democracy: Omnibus Bills in the Turkish Parliamentary System by Yasushi Hazama and Şeref Iba

An Empirical Analysis of the Change in Turkish Foreign Policy Under the AKP Government by Aylin Aydın Çakır and Gül Arıkan Akdağ

Spatial Analysis of Contemporary Turkish Elections: A Comprehensive Approach by Ilhan Can Ozen and Kerem Ozan Kalkan