International Journal of Middle East Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Middle East Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Pluralism in the Iraqi Novel After 2003: Literature and the Recovery of National Identity. Ronen Zeidel (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020). Pp. 209. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 978149859462212
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War: Shay Hazkani (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 352. $90.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN: 978150361465912
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The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War Kyle J. Anderson (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781477324547 – CORRIGENDUM7
Internal Colonialism in Iran: Gender and Resistance against the Islamic Regime6
Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression Amahl Bishara (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 376. $90.00 hardcover, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9781506
Fighting the Minor Evils: Slavery and the Diverse Lives of Abolitionism in the Ottoman Empire5
The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures. C. Ceyhun Arslan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Pp. 248. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 97813995258245
“The Field of Endless Intrigue”: The Contest for North Iranian Oil, 1916–19475
Recovering Palestinian Lives: Qudsiyya Khurshid from Mandate Palestine to Postwar Pennsylvania5
Israel, Annexation, and Sovereignty: Within the Green Line and Across It5
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter4
Migrating Minority: Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective4
Introduction: Arabic as a South Asian Language4
Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime. Anne Wolf (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023). Pp. 272. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 97801928685033
A Tale of a “Gypsy” Couple: Contested Ottoman Identity, Property Rights and the State3
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Navigating “Sensitive” States: How Surveillance Practices Affect Research Development between the United States and Iran3
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The Banality of Disruption: Diagnosing Order2
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: In Search of the Missing Armenians of Turkish/Ottoman Art Historiography with a Decolonizing Eye2
Ottoman Shipping in the Indian Ocean, circa 1650–19002
Decolonizing Displacement Research: Betweener Autoethnography as a Method of Resistance2
Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism. Aria Fani (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2024). Pp. 264. $55.00 paper. ISBN: 97814773288112
Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean Edited by Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022). Pp. 285. $75.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97802532
Afterword: Reassessing Arabic in South Asia2
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter – ERRATUM2
Crime, Gender, Sexuality: Female Villains in Late Ottoman Crime Fiction2
My Egypt Archive. Alan Mikhail (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022). Pp. 184. $26.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. ISBN 97803002609912
In Pursuit of Laicized Urban Administration: The Muhtar System in Istanbul and Ottoman Attitudes toward Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Nineteenth Century2
Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran Hussein Banai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 230. $99.99 cloth, $44.99 paper. ISBN: 97811088175091
The Multiple Registers of Arabic in the Daudi Bohra Daʿwa and South Asian Public Life, c. 1880–19201
The Politics of Stardom, Entertainment and Industry: New Studies in Egyptian Cinema History1
Unsettled Grounds: Earthquakes between Metaphor and Materiality in Tahir Wattar’s al-Zilzal (1974)1
Boom Cairo: Egypt in Disaster, 17871
Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai. Todd Reisz (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 416. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036098841
Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression Kevin Mazur (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 306. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper. ISBN: 97811088241701
Introduction: Activism, Scholarship, and Shaping History1
The Growth of Arabic Biographical Writing in South Asia from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century1
Missions, Minorities, and the Motherland: Xenophobic Narratives of an Ottoman Christian “Stab in the Back”1
Arabic Exile Literature in Europe: Defamiliarizing Forced Migration Johanna Sellman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 280. $110.00 hardback. ISBN: 97813995001281
When the Revolutions Aligned: Soviet Documentary Films of the Aswan High Dam1
Colonizing Mars in the Arabian Desert1
Confessionalism, Centralism, Armenians, and Ottoman Imperial Governance in the 18th and 19th Centuries1
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The Art of Resistance in Islam: The Performance of Politics among Shia Women in the Middle East and Beyond. Yafa Shanneik (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 270. $99.99 cloth. ISBN1
(Mis)translating the Life Stories of the “Heroes of the Year 2022: Women of Iran”1
Who Is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms. Maryam Wasif Khan (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021). Pp. 257. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97808232901301
Fighting the Invasion from the Suez Canal: Coastal Environmentalism and Locating the Lionfish in Lebanon1
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Managing Uncertain Times in Turkey: Refugee Healthcare Research during a Global Pandemic1
Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire. Candace Lukasik (New York: New York University Press, 2025). Pp. 294. $89.00 cloth, $32.00 paper. ISBN: 97814798332211
Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City – CORRIGENDUM1
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The Mechanical Atatürk: Cybernetics and State Violence in the Second Turkish Republic1
Martyrdom, Mysticism and Dissent: The Poetry of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988). Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021). Pp. 313. $91.99 hardcover. ISBN: 978311071
Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey Marlene Schäfers (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). Pp. 240. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97802268230581
Islamic Knowledge and the Making of Modern Egypt. Hilary Kalmbach (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 269. $99.99 cloth. ISBN: 97811084234721
The Legacy of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq1
Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization. On Barak (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). Pp. 322. $34.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97805203107281
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry. Farshad Sonboldel (New York: Bloomsbury, 2024). Pp. 255. $108.00 hardback. ISBN: 97987651035930
Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran Seema Golestaneh (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023). Pp. 256. $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper. ISBN 97814780195340
Iran's Quiet Revolution: The Downfall of the Pahlavi State Ali Mirsepassi (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 242. $99.99 hardcover, $29.99 paper. ISBN: 97811087253230
Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire. Penny Sinanoglou (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019). Pp. 256. $40.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802266657880
The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon. Gustabo Barbosa (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2022). Pp. 360. $80.00 hardcover, $39.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156372330
Ambivalence to Things Armenian in Middle Eastern Studies and the War on Artsakh in 20200
Reading Marie al-Khazen's Photographs: Gender, Photography, Mandate Lebanon. Yasmine Nachabe Taan (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021). Pp. 185, 53 illustrations. $28.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817883148000
L'Algérie des oulémas: Une histoire de l'Algérie contemporaine (1931-1991) Charlotte Courreye (Paris: Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020). Pp. 536. €43.00 paper. ISBN: 97910351053340
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Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Pp. 272. $30.00 paper0
Not All Who Ascend Remain: Afro-Asian Jewish Returnees from Israel0
Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology. William Carruthers (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). Pp. 336. $62.95 cloth. ISBN: 97815017664420
Egypt's Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics Carl Rommel (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021). Pp. 294. $55.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97814773231750
Soviet Nationalities Policies and Post-Ottoman State Formation: A Scholarly Agenda0
Crude Knowledge: Petro-Periodicals and Resource Sovereignty0
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Female Culpability for Fornication in Ottoman Law and Everyday Life0
Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives Mejdulene Bernard Shomali (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023). 224 pp. $25.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780192750
Egyptian Fan Culture and the Afterlife of ʿAbd al-Halim Hafiz0
A Man for All Seasons: Mosaddeq's Image and Legacy in Contemporary Iran0
Sacralizing the Nation: The Adoption of Takfīr in Mandate Palestine, 1929–350
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Syria, 1915–1918 Khatchig Mouradian (Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2021). Pp. 262. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 978161180
Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature. Lara Harb (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 298. $99.99 cloth, $29.99 paperback, $80.00 e-book. ISBN: 978110840
To the Nation, Belong the Archives: The Search for Manuscripts and Archival Documents in Postcolonial Morocco0
On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus. Leah Feldman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018). Pp. 176. $63.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97815017265070
Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850–1948. Awad Halabi (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2022). Pp. 279. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814773263120
Changing Capitalist Structures and Settler-Colonial Land Purchases in Northern Palestine, 1897–19220
The Art of Defiance: Dissident Culture and Militant Resistance in 1970s Iran Peyman Vahabzadeh (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 439. £85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814744922250
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From Fallen Women to Citizen Mothers: Gendered Carcerality in Pahlavi Iran0
The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice. Huda J. Fakhreddine (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $105.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814744749620
Contested Legitimacies: Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt Jannis Grimm (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022). Pp. 352. €153.00 cloth. ISBN: 97894637226500
The Archives of Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party and the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting the Baʿthist Era in Iraq0
Palestinian Football and the Struggle for Identity0
Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East Hilary Falb Kalisman (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022). Pp. 288. $90.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 9780690
The Accidental Palace: The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul Deniz Türker (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023). Pp. 272. $114.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780271093910
Politics of Vengeance in Iranian Diaspora Communities0
Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His Masterpiece. Carter Vaughn Findley (Leiden: Brill, 2019) Pp. 410. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 9789004363120 – Corrigendum0
The Development of the “Beloved’s Male Camel Section” in Pre-Umayyad and Umayyad Arabic Poetry0
Global Reflections on Mohammad Mosaddeq0
Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland. William Granara (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 175. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 978-17860784690
Experimental Visions of Modern Morocco: Expertise, Popularization, and Everyday Technologies in the Work of ʿAbd al-Salam al-Diyuri0
Refracted: Mohammad Mosaddeq and Iranian National Identity0
Russian Media Correspondents in Syria: War Stories in an Oriental Fantasyland0
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad. Hamid Dabashi (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 344. $110.00 hardcover, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97814744792880
What's in a Name? To Call or Not To Call the Revolutionary Guards a Terrorist Organization0
Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib. Ramzi Rouighi (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Pp. 261. $79.96 cloth. ISBN: 97808122513020
Television and Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists Wazhmah Osman (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020). Pp. 288. $110.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN: 970
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt0
The Future is Feminist: Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria. Sara Rahnama (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). Pp. 252. $51.95 cloth, $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97815017813460
Markets of Civilizations: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria Muriam Haleh Davis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). Pp 288. $99.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780185060
Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution—Production and Circulation in Iran and the World. Laetitia Nanquette (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 301. $105.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781470
The Regency of Tunis, 1535–1666: Genesis of an Ottoman Province in the Maghreb. Leïla Temime Blili, translated by Margaux Fitoussi and Anna Boots (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2021). Pp.0
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Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine-Israel . Zaha Hassan & H.A. Hellyer, editors ( London: Oneworld Publications, 2024). Pp. 326. $45.00 paper. ISBN:0
Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture. Cynthia J. Becker (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Pp. 275. $120.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 978151790930
Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile. Talar Chahinian (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2023). Pp. 296. $80.00 hardcover; $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156380250
The Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey0
Radio Tehran and the 19 August 1953 Coup: A New Perspective0
M’addibs and Migrant Laborers: Migration from Ottoman Trablus al-Gharb to Djerba, Tunisia in the Early 20th Century0
Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality Iain S. Lustick (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Pp. 232. $27.50 hardcover. ISBN: 97808122519510
Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State Dawn Chatty (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp. 289. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 97801975777760
On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus Eric Calderwood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023). Pp. 345. $45.00 cloth. ISBN: 97806749803650
Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories0
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank. Kareem Rabie (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 275. $99.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. 0
The “Poetic Chaos” of Gardens and Genres in Colonial Tbilisi0
Erasure at Home, Erasure in the World: Armenian History in Turkey (and Beyond) and Non-Discourses on Modern Political Conflict0
Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950 Kirsten L. Scheid (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2023). Pp. 374. $85.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97802530642330
Counting Kisses at the Movies: The Screen Kiss and the Cinematic Experience in Egypt0
Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran–Iraq War. Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021). Pp. 477. $90.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156371030
Political Sociality in the Narrowing of Time: Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani and the Late Ottoman Najafi Revival0
Looking at Suez Canal Infrastructures: Water, Plants, and the Urban Drainage, Sewage, and Bathroom Systems0
In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East. Aaron Rock-Singer (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022). Pp. 278. $95.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. ISBN: 978052030
Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt Andrew Simon (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 304. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036314410
War on the Desert: The Militarization of the Sinai and its Greater Syrian Sacrificial Frontier during World War I – CORRIGENDUM0
The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination Rebecca Ruth Gould. Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 3120
Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey. Sarah-Neel Smith (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022). Pp. 216. $50.00 cloth. ISBN: 97805203834180
The Abbasid Caliphate: A History. Tayeb El-Hibri (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 360. $89.99 cloth, $29.99 paper, $24.00 e-book. ISBN: 97811071832470
From Dictatorship Syndrome to False Truths: The Political Evolution of Alaa al-Aswany0
Elemental Borders: Countermapping the Geophysical Maghrib0
After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition. Elizabeth R. Nugent (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020). Pp. 268. $95.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97806912030580
Serial Murder and Honor: Rereading the Story of an Ottoman Murderess0
The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran: The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 1953–1968 Ali Rahnema (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 528. $45.00 hardback. ISBN: 97808615414230
Ibn ʿAsakir of Damascus: Champion of Sunni Islam in the Time of the Crusades Suleiman A. Mourad (Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2021). Pp. 160. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97808615404710
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Of Kings and Clowns: Leadership in Contemporary Egyptian Theatre since 1967. Tiran Manucharyan ( London: Routledge, 2024). Pp. 288. $144.00 hardback, $43.99 ebook. ISBN: 97810323609280
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam. Evren Savcı (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 248. $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780103190
State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth Century Egypt Maha A. Ghalwash (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2023). Pp. 328. $69.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97816490327750
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The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America Rhoda Kanaaneh (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2023). Pp. 216. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 97814773267250
Oil and the US Decision to Overthrow Mosaddeq0
Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry. Levi Thompson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 231. $99.99 hardcover. ISBN: 97810091644740
A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World Mayssoun Sukarieh (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). Pp. 186. $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97815017710950
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance. Louis Brehony (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2023). Pp. 340. $59.95 cloth. ISBN: 97816490330480
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The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past: History and Memory in Iraq Studies0
Social Media and the Politics of Ironic Belonging in Dubai0
Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges Tahia Abdel Nasser (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 224. $103.05 hardcover. ISBN: 97813995071270
State and Religion in Iraq: The Sufi Insurgency of the Former Baʿth Regime in Historical Context0
States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan José Ciro Martínez (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 368. $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 97815036313280
Tunisia's Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s Amy Aisen Kallander (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 280. £75.00 hardback. ISBN: 97811088450450
Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State. Jonathan Laurence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021). Pp. 606. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97806911721250
Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Question of Multiculturalism in Iranian Studies0
The Muslim Brothers in Society: Everyday Politics, Social Action, and Islamism in Mubarak's Egypt. Marie Vannetzel (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2021). Pp. 328. $49.95 cloth. ISBN: 90
Palestinian Citizens in Israel: A History through Fiction, 1948–2010 Manar H. Makhoul (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Pp. 228. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9781474459280 - Being There, Being Her0
Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence Brahim El Guabli (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023). Pp. 288. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97815315014570
Introduction: Thinking Ecocritical and Indigenous Terrains0
Out of the Native Pigeonhole: Westernness, Knowledge Production, and Symbolic Capital0
“Why Is America Interested in Islam in Turkey?”: Fieldwork and Problems of Gaining Trust in a Low-Trust Society0
Hijra from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Middle East Routes of Muslim Displacement0
Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights. R. Shareah Taleghani (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021). Pp. 270. $80.00 cloth. ISBN: 97808156370660
Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution. Zaid Al-Ali (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 331. $35.99 paperback, $130.00 hardback. ISBN: 97811084297020
Unearthing Rabiʿa's Grave: Placemaking, Shrines, and Contested Traditions in Balkh, Afghanistan0
The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam. Alain George (London: Gingko, 2021). Pp. 264, 150 color plates. $85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97819099424550
Life After the Harem: Female Palace Slaves, Patronage, and the Imperial Ottoman Court. Betül İpşirli Argıt (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 293. $99.99 cloth. ISBN: 97811084883650
Sufi Warrior Saints: Stories of Sufi Jihad from Muslim Hagiography Harry S. Neale (London: I. B. Tauris, 2022). Pp. 182. $100.91 hardcover, $39.85 paper. ISBN: 97807556433700
Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space Alda Benjamen (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 258. $99.99 hardback. ISBN: 9781088387950
The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism. Austin O’Malley (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Pp. 304. $125.00 hardcover, $24.95 paper. ISBN: 90
“A Nation in Turmoil, A Field in Crisis: The Upshots of Woman, Life, Freedom”0
ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan: Legend or Liability? Heather N. Keaney (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 159. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860769770
Change Visible from a Distance: Digital Analysis of theFetvas of OttomanŞeyhülislams in the Early Modern Era0
Hitching a Ride: Cholera, the Canal, and Quarantine0
Watermelon Democracy: Egypt's Turbulent Transition. Joshua Stacher (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020). Pp. 257. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156368780
Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism. Aaron G. Jakes (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 376. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036126170
Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers. Sumita Pahwa (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2023). Pp. 296. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156382470
Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey0
Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism. Samuel Hodgkin (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. 310. £85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97810094116390
An Unhappy Happy Port: Fin-de-siècle Port Said and Its Connections and Disconnections of Water and Iron0
Beyond the “War on Terror”: Mobilities and Regimes of Inequality; An Epistemological and Ethical Reflection0
We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World Mark LeVine (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022). Pp. 352. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 97805203507620
“The Kurds Have Not Made Love Their Aim”: Love, Sexuality, Gender, and Drag in Ehmedê Xanî's Mem û Zîn0
Navigating the Dynamics of Private Security in Turkey: Reflections from a Field in Flux0
Shariʿa and Governance in Ottoman Egypt: The Waqf Controversy in the Mid-Sixteenth Century0
The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability Anna Ziajka Stanton (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023). Pp. 240. $32.00 paper. ISBN: 97815315032220
Revolutionary Politics of the Normal0
Possessed or Insane? Diagnostic Puzzles in Contemporary Egypt – ERRATUM0
The Existential Threat of Academic Bias: The Institutionalization of Anti-Assyrian Rhetoric0
Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope. Michael Sorkin and Deen Sharp (eds.) (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2021). Pp. 348. $70.00 cloth. ISBN: 97816490307190
Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia – CORRIGENDUM0
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Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics before Modernity Marion Holmes Katz (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022). Pp. 320. $140.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97802312068910
Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 256. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036147100
More than Beast: Muhammad's She-Mule Duldul and Her Role in Early Islamic History0
The “One Carceral State”: Mass Incarceration and Carceral Citizenship in Palestine/Israel0
Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 248. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781503611740 – Corrigendum0
Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire. Lâle Can (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 272. $85.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036101700
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