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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Many Voyages ofFateh Al-Khayr: Unfurling the Gulf in the Age of Oceanic History17
Bankrupt: Financial Life in Late Mandate Palestine16
Public Tears: Populism and the Politics of Emotion in AKP's Turkey12
The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization, Diplomacy, and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran12
One-Humped History: The Camel as Historical Actor in the Late Ottoman Empire8
Beyond sectarianism: Intermarriage and social difference in Lebanon7
“Concrete Soldiers”: T-walls and Coercive Landscaping in Iraq5
Tribalism in the Middle East: A Useful Prism for Understanding the Region5
The Great Depression and the Making of Turkish-Syrian Border, 1921–19394
Of Nuclear Rials and Golden Shoes: Scaling Commodities and Currencies across Sanctions on Iran4
Barbaric Women: Race and the Colonization of Gender in Interwar Egypt4
The Uneven Age of Speed: Caravans, Technology, and Mobility in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Middle East4
To Stand by the Ruins of a Revolutionary City4
“Revolution is the Equality of Children and Adults”: Yaşar Kemal Interviews Street Children, 19754
Not All Who Ascend Remain: Afro-Asian Jewish Returnees from Israel3
Tribes and Tribalism in the Modern Middle East: Introduction3
“Produce and Consume” in the Islamic Republic: The 1990s Myth of the Winner in the Iranian Public Sphere and Its Impact on Workers3
The Agricultural Settlement of the Arabah and the Political Ecology of Zionism3
The AKP-Era Higher Education Strategies for Establishing Hegemony over Turkish Universities3
Contestations of Imperial Citizenship: Student Protest and Organizing in Qatar's Education City3
Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey3
The Vagaries of the In-Between: Labor Citizenship in the Persian Gulf3
Law and Moral Regulation in Modern Egypt:Ḥisbafrom Tradition to Modernity3
Neoliberal Expansion and Aesthetic Innovation: The Egyptian Independent Music Scene Ten Years After3
The Evolution of Tunisian Salafism after the Revolution: FromLa Maddhabiyyato Salafi-Malikism3
Crowning the “Sun of the Aryans”: Mohammad Reza Shah's Coronation and Monarchical Spectacle in Pahlavi Iran3
Conversion, Identity, and Memory in Iranian-Jewish Historiography: The Jews of Mashhad3
“The Boy Who Wasn't Really Killed”: Israeli State Violence in the Age of the Smartphone Witness2
Building Spectatorial Solidarity against the “War on Terror” Media-Military Gaze2
Threats to Academic Freedom are Global, and So Must Be Its Defense2
Democratic Backsliding and Universities: Between Control and Resilience2
Environmental Crises at the End of Safavid History: The Collapse of Iran's Early Modern Imperial Ecology, 1666–17222
Turbulent from the Start: Revisiting Military Politics in Pre-Baʿth Syria2
The “Second Egypt”: Cretan Refugees, Agricultural Development, and Frontier Expansion in Ottoman Cyrenaica, 1897–19042
The Limits of Belonging in Saudi Arabia2
The Other Legacy of Qasim Amin: The View from 19082
New Arab Maids: Female Domestic Work, “New Arab Women,” and National Memory in British Mandate Palestine2
Time and its Miscounting: Methodological Challenges in the Study of Citizenship Boundaries2
Living through Thick Concepts in Revolutionary Egypt2
Betraying Behita: Superstition and the Paralysis of Blackness in Out el Kouloub's Zanouba2
Reconsidering Local versus Central: Empire, Notables, and Employment in Ottoman Albania and Kurdistan, 1835–18782
Displaced Scholars as a Contribution to Academic Diversity2
Telegraphy, Typography, and the Alphabet: The Origins of Alphabet Revolutions in the Russo-Ottoman Space2
Observations on the Egyptian Independent Music Scene and Political Dynamics in a Post-Revolutionary Context2
A Prolonged Abrogation? The Capitulations, the 1917 Law of Family Rights, and the Ottoman Quest for Sovereignty during World War 12
The Economics of Creative Expression1
Who Cares about Jellyfish? An Environmental Legacy of the Suez Canal Begins to Surface1
More than Beast: Muhammad's She-Mule Duldul and Her Role in Early Islamic History1
Al-Fann Midan (2 April 2011–9 August 2014), or The Last Graffiti on the Wall of the Revolution1
Industrialization and Academy in Contemporary Turkey1
Iran's “Self-Deprecating Modernity”: Toward Decolonizing Collective Self-Critique1
Counting Kisses at the Movies: The Screen Kiss and the Cinematic Experience in Egypt1
Women and Crime: Exploring the Role of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Constructions of Female Criminality1
“I Have Ambition”: Muhammad Ramadan's Proletarian Masculinities in Postrevolution Egyptian Cinema1
Interest, Usury, and the Transition from “Muslim” to “Islamic” Banks, 1908–19581
Decolonizing Tribal “Genealogies” in the Middle East and North Africa1
New Arab Maids: Female Domestic Work, “New Arab Women,” and National Memory in British Mandate Palestine – Corrigendum1
Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq. Sara Pursley (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 320. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97808047931791
The Gravel on Our Beds1
Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia. Pascal Menoret (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 246. $24.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503612464 – Corrigendum1
“Illegitimate Children”: The Tunisian New Left and the Student Question, 1963–19751
Between Dependent and Independent: The Contemporary Music Scene in Egypt1
Gender, Governance and Islam. Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali, & Kathryn Spellman Poots (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Pp. 240. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 97814744554281
How Do You Write about the Cultural Scene When You're Inside it?1
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260–1500. Hannah Barker (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Pp. 328. $79.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780812251
Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 248. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036117401
Our Voices Persist1
Nostalgia of a Frustrated Ottoman Subject: Reading Osman Agha of Timișoara's Memoirs as Self-Narrative1
A Talk That Never Really Happened in Time1
When Upper Egypt Spoke: Dramatized Rebellion1
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter1
The Politics of Tribal Perseverance1
Tribal Priorities1
Smugglers, Migrants, and Refugees: The Iran–Iraq Border, 1925–19751
Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City1
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: 97890043631201
“The Kurds Have Not Made Love Their Aim”: Love, Sexuality, Gender, and Drag in Ehmedê Xanî's Mem û Zîn1
Lost in Paradise: On the “Coloniality” of English Literary Studies in Iran1
Missions, Minorities, and the Motherland: Xenophobic Narratives of an Ottoman Christian “Stab in the Back”1
I Am Serious!1
Imperial Cartography and National Mapping in Afghanistan1
Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia1
Sidon against Beirut: Space, Control, and the Limits of Sectarianism within the Jewish Community of Modern Lebanon1
The Idea of Islamic Media: The Qur'an and the Decolonization of Mass Communication1
Decentering Egyptian Historiography: Provincializing Geographies, Methodologies, and Sources1
The Construction of “Native” Jews in Late Mandate Palestine: An Ongoing Nahda as a Political Project1
Provincializing America: Race, Neoliberalism, and Sovereignty in the War on Iraq1
Hojaji's Gaze: Civilizational Aspirations and the Reclamation of Space in Contemporary Iran1
Combating the Double Erasure: Can a Jew (Kalimi) be an Iranian in the Islamic Republic?1
Digital De-Citizenship: The Rise of the Digital Denizen in Bahrain1
The Politics of Tribalization in Syria1
Of Fistulas, Sutures, and Silences1
Making “Tribes” in the Late Ottoman Empire1
Between Church and State: The Challenges of Reforming the Church Courts and Family Law in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem1
The Absurd Injunction to Not Belong and the Bidūn in Kuwait1
Confessionalism, Centralism, Armenians, and Ottoman Imperial Governance in the 18th and 19th Centuries1
Usurpers of Technology: Train Robbery and Theft in Egypt, 1876–19041
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: 97814780103191
Possessed or Insane? Diagnostic Puzzles in Contemporary Egypt1
A Jar of Shaykhs’ Teeth: Medicine, Politics, and the Fragments of History in Kuwait0
War on the Desert: The Militarization of the Sinai and its Greater Syrian Sacrificial Frontier during World War I0
Conspiracy in Modern Egyptian Literature. Benjamin Koerber (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Pp. 247. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97814744558310
In Pursuit of Laicized Urban Administration: The Muhtar System in Istanbul and Ottoman Attitudes toward Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Nineteenth Century0
Social Housing in the Middle East: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity. Kivanc Kilinç and Mohammad Gharipour, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019). Pp. 330. $85.00
The Making of the Modern Mediterranean: Views from the South. Judith E. Tucker (ed.) (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019). Pp. 214. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97805203046040
Iran's Troubled Modernity: Debating Ahmad Fardid's Legacy. Ali Mirsepassi, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Pp. 371. $125.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811084763930
The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad. Tamir Sorek (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 264. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036127300
The Ottoman “Wild West”: The Balkan Frontier in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Nikolay Antov, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Pp. 333. $105.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811071826390
Reflections on North African History: Abdallah Laroui and his History of the Maghrib0
Between Mezhep and Minority: Twelver Shiʿism in the Turkish Public Sphere0
Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Question of Multiculturalism in Iranian Studies0
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Afterword: Reassessing Arabic in South Asia0
The Ethno-Necrocratic State: Mamillah and the Afterlives of Ethnocracy in Israel0
Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World. Fatemah Alzubairi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 284. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811084769280
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media Marc Owen Jones (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022). Pp. 272. $40.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97801976366330
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation Rebecca C. Johnson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $47.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97815017530600
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
Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology. Katharina Galor, (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017). Pp. 269. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97805202952540
Introduction: Arabic as a South Asian Language0
Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria Joshua Cole (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019). Pp. 317. $37.95 cloth. ISBN: 97815017394460
Competing to Protect: Repatriation and Legal Protection of Syrians in Istanbul under Allied Occupation (1918–1923)0
Privatization and the Changing Landscape of Iranian Theater0
Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism Guillemette Crouzet (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022). Pp. 304. $39.95 paper, $130.00 cloth. IS0
Representations of Muslim Women after 9/11 and the Enduring Entanglements of “Writing Against”0
The Multifarious Lives of the Sixth ‘Abbasid Caliph Muhammad al-Amin: Collective Memory Construction, Queer Spaces, and Historical Television Drama in Egypt and Syria0
National Symbols in Modern Iran: Identity, Ethnicity, and Collective Memory. Menahem Merhavy, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019). Pp. 258. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156366630
Navigating “Sensitive” States: How Surveillance Practices Affect Research Development between the United States and Iran0
Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın0
Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music. Farzaneh Hemmasi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020). Pp. 264. $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780083610
A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts. Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani (Leiden: Brill, 2022). Pp. 396. $299.00 hardback. ISBN: 97890042774720
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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
Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories0
ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East. Joelle M. Abi-Rached (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020). Pp. 309. $45.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802620447453440
Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia – CORRIGENDUM0
Introduction0
The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past: History and Memory in Iraq Studies0
Creating the Desired Citizen: Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey. Ihsan Yilmaz (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 328. $99.99 cloth. ISBN: 97811088325570
Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story. Gabriele Vom Bruck (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018). Pp. 289. $49.95 cloth. ISBN: 97801909172890
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 – CORRIGENDUM0
As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark Avner Wishnitzer (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 376. £29.99 hardback. ISBN: 97811088321440
In Transit: Lives and Afterlives in the Suez Canal: An Introduction0
The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of Vulnerability. Charis Olszok (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 308. $100.00 hardcover, $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97814744574530
Beyond the “War on Terror”: Mobilities and Regimes of Inequality; An Epistemological and Ethical Reflection0
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi and the Historical Erasure of Kurds – ERRATUM0
Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran. Lior B. Sternfeld (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 208. $24.00. cloth. ISBN: 97815036061420
“Why Is America Interested in Islam in Turkey?”: Fieldwork and Problems of Gaining Trust in a Low-Trust Society0
Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran. Nazanin Shahrokni (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). Pp. 176. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. ISBN: 97805203042840
Promoting Democracy: The Force of Political Settlements in Uncertain Times. Manal A. Jamal (New York: New York University Press, 2019). Pp. 318. $99.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97814798784510
Dignity in the Time of Precarity0
Cyprus Under British Colonial Rule: Culture, Politics, and the Movement Toward Union with Greece, 1878–1954. Christos P. Ioannides (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019). Pp. 320. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 970
A History of the ʿAlawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic. Stefan Winter, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016). Pp. 328. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97806911738940
Effective Citizenship, Civil Action, and Prospects for Post-Conflict Justice in Yemen0
Women, Writing and the Iraqi Baʿthist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968–2003 Hawraa Al-Hassan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Pp. 258. $125.00 cloth. IS0
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity. Manata Hashemi (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2020). Pp. 256. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97814798819490
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Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy David M. Freidenreich (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022). Pp. 314. $29.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97805203447160
Axis of Hope: Iranian Women's Rights Activism Across Borders. Catherine Z. Sameh, (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2019). Pp. 187. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802957463020
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran. Niloofar Haeri (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 224. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036142460
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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
Efendilik: Civility, Urbanity, and Homohistoricism in Contentious Istanbul0
Iran's Experiment with Parliamentary Governance: The Second Majles, 1909–1911 Mangol Bayat (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020). Pp. 505. $45.00 paper. ISBN: 97808156368610
Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria Anneka Lenssen (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). Pp. 283. $65.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97805203432450
Revolution: Structure and Meaning in World History. Said Amir Arjomand, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 400. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802260268480
Internal Colonialism in Iran: Gender and Resistance against the Islamic Regime0
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Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey. Ayşe Parla, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 256. $90.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036094330
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Noura Erakat, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp 352. $22.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036135770
Female Culpability for Fornication in Ottoman Law and Everyday Life0
The Politics of Memory in Contemporary Baghdad: A Comparative Neighborhood Study0
The Emotional Universe of Insecure Scholars in the Early Modern Ottoman Hierarchy of Learning0
Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey Eray Çaylı (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2022). Pp. 264. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156375160
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Eshiretan in Kurdistan0
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
The Partisans of Peace in Lebanon and Syria: How Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1950s Revitalized the Arab Left0
ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan: Legend or Liability? Heather N. Keaney (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 159. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860769770
Slavery and Islam. Jonathan A. C. Brown, (London: One World, 2019). Pp. 430. $40.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860763590
Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making Rachel M. Scott (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021). Pp. 282. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 97815017539920
Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, c.700–c.1500. ed. Catherine Holmes, Jonathan Shepard, Jo Van Steenbergen, Björn Weiler (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,0
Possessed or Insane? Diagnostic Puzzles in Contemporary Egypt – ERRATUM0
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Serial Murder and Honor: Rereading the Story of an Ottoman Murderess0
Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire Malte Fuhrmann (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 477. $103.00 hardback, $44.99 paper. ISBN: 97810
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
Post-Tishreen Online Feminism: Continuity, Rupture, Departure0
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: 97815036146590
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
When and Where Is Iran? Fragments of Ethnographic Work in Iran0
How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia. Nathaniel Greenberg (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Pp. 276. $39.95 paper. ISBN: 978147440
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
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: 97814985946220
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
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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic. Fatemeh Shams (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp. 400. $85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97801988588290
Orders and Disorders of Marriage, Church, and Empire in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Armenia0
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism. Mana Kia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 312. $35.95 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036119550
Social Histories of Iran: Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East. Stephanie Cronin (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 309. $99.99 cloth, $29.99 paper. ISBN: 97811081202890
Asyut in Modern Times: The Problem of Invisibility0
The Dream Diary of an Ottoman Governor: Kulakzade Mahmud Pasha's Düşnama0
Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California. Sarah Gualtieri (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Pp. 206. $80.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036061730
Citizenship and Belonging in the Arabian Peninsula0
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
War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought. Murad Idris, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 329. $49.95 cloth. ISBN: 97801906580140
The Left Wing Turn to Human Rights in Tunisia0
Argentina in the Global Middle East. Lily Pearl Balloffet (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 248. $90.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781503611740 – Corrigendum0
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Decolonizing Displacement Research: Betweener Autoethnography as a Method of Resistance0
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
Modern Things on Trial: Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865– 1935. Leor Halevi (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019). Pp. 384. $75.00 cloth. ISBN: 97802311886610
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: 9781500
Nahda-izing India: The Urdu-Hindi Debate and its Arabic Alternative, c. 1860s–19470
On the Heels of 1967: Chahine, Cinema, and Emotional Response(s) to the Defeat0
Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp0
Jin, Jiyan, Azadi and the Historical Erasure of Kurds0
Political Sociality in the Narrowing of Time: Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani and the Late Ottoman Najafi Revival0
Al-Ghazali and his Interpreters: The Case of the Emperor Aurangzeb0
Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan. Sima Shakhsari (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020). Pp. 312. $27.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780066570
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter – ERRATUM0
Dynamics of Disruption: Ethnographic Practice in Contemporary Turkey0
Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family and Society. Zahra Ayubi, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019). Pp. 368. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97802311913330
Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 442. $105.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811084263430
The Quest for Democracy: Liberalism in the Modern Arab World Line Khatib (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 288. $34.99 paperback. ISBN: 97811087109780
The Libyan War and Student Pan-Islamism: The Edinburgh Declaration of 19110
Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt. Samah Selim (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Pp. 243. $84.99 cloth. ISBN: 97830302036100
Migrating Minority: Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective0
Politics of Vengeance in Iranian Diaspora Communities0
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
Crime, Gender, Sexuality: Female Villains in Late Ottoman Crime Fiction0
Abbasid Politics and Performative Panegyric: The Poetry of ʿAli ibn Jabala0
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands. Helen Pfeifer (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022). Pp. 320. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN: 97806911952300
The Form of Remembrance: Prison Writing and the Memory of the Ba‘th in Dreaming of Baghdad and I‘jaam0
Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony. Jill Jarvis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 288. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97814780119650
Anti-Christ in Egypt: Sexual Danger, Race, and Crime in a Narrative of Imperial Crisis0
The Last Nahdawi: Taha Hussein and Institution Building in Egypt Hussam R. Ahmed (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 312. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036153420
Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure. Hatim El-Hibri (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Pp. 272. $99.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. ISBN: 97814780107770
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa Christopher Silver (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 320. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036316870
Escape from Zanzibar: Refugees, Documents, and the Indian Ocean Shipping Regime0
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