Submissions from 2020
Contagion in the Corpus: The Black Death and Where to Find It, Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Destroying Churches by Performing Knowledge: Ibn al-Rifʿa’s Kitāb al-nafā’is fī adillat hadm al-kanā’is (700/1301) and the Social Negotiation of Legal Authority, Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Al-Maktaba al-Shamila: A Short History, Peter Verkinderen
Submissions from 2019
40 Years On: Reflections on the Iranian Revolution
Gender Politics and the Women's Movement, Sevgi Adak
Islamic Law and Gender Equality in the Balance: Inheritance Law Reform in Tunisia, Roberta Aluffi
Introduction, Shahzad Bashir
Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry, Shahzad Bashir
Afterword: Parting the self, Shahzad Bashir, Matthias Engmann, Martin Mulsow, and Riccarda Suitner
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture Visualisation, Data Mining, Communication, Claire Clivaz, David Hamidovic, and Sarah Savant
Islamic Law and Gender Equality in the Balance: Inheritance Law Reform in Tunisia, Dörthe Engelcke
Patronage and Clientelism, Stephen Lyon
Challenging the landed elite in contemporary Pakistani politics, Stephen M. Lyon
Political kinship in Pakistan: Descent, marriage and government stability, Stephen M. Lyon
Cultural models of nature and divinity in a rain-fed farming village of Punjab, Pakistan, Stephen Lyon and Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal
On ‘Secularim’ as a Buzzword and a Strategy in Contemporary Iran: A Critique*, Yasuyuki Matsunaga
Differences Because of Differences: Some Thoughts about ʿImād ad-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī’s Talqīḥ al-afhām fī mujmal ṭabaqāt al-islām,, Lorenz Nigst
Druze Reincarnation through Fiction: Anīs Yaḥyā’s novel Jasad kāna lī as a Source for Literary Anthropology, Lorenz Nigst
Entering a Gigantic Maze: The Ambivalent Presence of Previous-Life Memories in Druze Discourse, Lorenz Nigst
Islam and popular culture, Jonas Otterbeck
Religion and popular music: Artists, fans, and cultures, Jonas Otterbeck
Music version versus vocals-only: Islamic pop music, aesthetics, and ethics, Jonas Otterbeck and JF Skjelbo
Law Enforcement in Egyptian TV series., Gianluca Parolin
A short note on the Masdhayi Fiyohi traditional knife of the Maldives, Stephane Pradines
Book review "The Swahili World", Stephane Pradines
Islamic Archaeology in the Comoros: The Swahili and the Rock Crystal Trade with the Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates, Stephane Pradines
Project Identity: The Discursive Formation of Pamiri Identity in the Age of the Internet, Aslisho Qurboniev
The Writing of Munāẓarāt in Times of Turmoil: Disputations in Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya, Aslisho Qurboniev
Traditions of Learning in Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya (296-362/909-973): Networks, Practices, and Institutions, Aslisho Qurboniev
On Commentaries, Digressions, Transtextualities, and Rabbit Holes, Gowaart Van Den Bossche
The Past, Panegyric, and the Performance of Penmanship: Sultanic Biography and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria, Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Some preliminary thoughts on the readiness to engage with Islamic intestate succession by Middle Eastern legislatures, Nadjma YAssari
Submissions from 2018
Everlasting doubt: Uncertainty in Islamic representations of the past, Shahzad Bashir
Naqshband's lives: Sufi hagiography between manuscripts and genre, Shahzad Bashir
The mediation of hair: Ṣūfī, Ḥurūfī, and poetic usages in persian texts, Shahzad Bashir
Islamic Calligraphy (Book Review), Walid Ghali
Conflict and Security, Stephen Lyon
Digitizing the textual heritage of the premodern islamicate world: Principles and plans, Matthew Thomas Miller, Maxim G. Romanov, and Sarah Bowen Savant
Tell me something I don't know! : The place and politics of digital methods in the (Islamicate) humanities, Matthew Thomas Miller and Sarah Bowen Savant
Beautiful (Pop) Sounds, Jonas Otterbeck
Khabeer, Su'ad Abdul, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States. New York: New York University Press, 2016., Jonas Otterbeck
Review of Orlando Crowcroft, Rock in a Hard Place: Music and Mayhem in the Middle East, Jonas Otterbeck
‘I am Satan!’ black metal, Islam and blasphemy in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, Jonas Otterbeck, Douglas Mattsson, and Orlando Pastene
Informal Community Courts and Formal Law Enforcement: The Ismaili CAB in the Chitral District of Pakistan, Gianluca Parolin and Syed Gohar Ali Shah
Book review A Material Culture. Consumption and materiality on the Coast of Precolonial East Africa, Stephane Pradines
Book review Castles of North-west Greece: From the Early Byzantine Period to the Eve of the First World War, Stephane Pradines
Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives, Stephane Pradines
Redrawing the boundaries: excavating Cairo’s Islamic walls, Stephane Pradines
Sufi in war: Persian influence on African weaponry in 19th century Mahdist Sudan, Stephane Pradines and MM Khorasani
Mirza Salih Shirazi and his Safarnāmeh as a Case Study for a Legal-Governance Translation into Persian, Hassan Rezael
The history of Iranian cities through their books: What Ms. Köprülü 01589 tells us about 8th/14th century Shiraz, Sarah Bowen Savant and Majid Montazer Mahdi
THE GREEK MUFTI SYSTEM IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: REFORM IN THE TRIANGLE OF THRACE, ATHENS AND STRASBOURG, Yüksel Sezgin
Rents, accumulation and conflict in Malaysia, Jeff Tan
Sharia Law in Europe: A Greek case before the ECtHR that may bring changes, Konstantinos Tsitselikis
Narrative Construction, Ideal Rule, and Emotional Discourse in the Biographies of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn and Louis IX by Bahāʾ al-Dīn b. Shaddād and Jean Sire de Joinville, Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Research Trip to Cairo, Gowaart Van Den Bossche
The Maghrebi Vizier and the Haughty Copt: Historiography, Polemics and Narrative in a Mamluk‑Period Anecdote, Gowaart Van Den Bossche
Marriage and Social Boundaries among British Pakistanis, Philip Wood
The idea of freedom in the writings of non-Chalcedonian Christians in the fifth and sixth centuries, Philip Wood
Submissions from 2017
Constitution Making in a Revolution: the Case of Libya, Andrew Arato
The intertwining of history and heritage in Islamic contexts, Shahzad Bashir
Disappearing Lifestyles? Dialects and Traditions of the Rural North, Centre and South of Jordan, Alex Bellem
Online environments and the future of social science research, Michael Fischer, Stephen M. Lyon, and David Zeitlyn
The Knowledge Quarter: The British Library's New Initiative of Partnership, Walid Ghali
The Sanaa Palimpsest: the transmission of the Qur'an in the first centuries (Book Review), Walid Ghali
Constitution Making in Post Gaddafi Libya, Suliman Ibrahim
The Genesis of Biopolitics and Modern Arabic Medical Discourse in Early Modern Egypt, 1805–1882, Kamran I. Karimullah
Important new developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Benjamin Kiessling, Matthew Thomas Miller, Maxim G. Romanov, and Sarah Bowen Savant
Researching music censorship, Annemette Kirkegaard, Helmi Järviluoma, Jan Sverre Knudsen, and Jonas Otterbeck
Categories and cultural models of nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan, Stephen M. Lyon and Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal
Moments of Hegemony: Historical Roots of Authoritarian Capitalism and Education Policy: The Case of Hungary, Attila Melegh
Being One and Two and Druze: Problems of Belonging in the Remembrance of Previous Lives, Lorenz Nigst
How to Engage with Governance Issues in Libya?, Jan Michiel Otto
L’océan indien a brassé les idées et les peuples, Stephane Pradines
Swahili past in peril: new Archaeology in East Africa, Stephane Pradines
The medieval mosques of Nora: islamic architecture in Ethiopia, Stephane Pradines
Un entrepôt de commerce médiéval sur la côte du hadramawt (Yémen, ca. 980–1180), Stephane Pradines
Ethics, Authority and Individualism in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt, Junaid Quadri
Ethics, Authority and Individualism in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt, Junaid Quadri
The Russian Draft Constitution for Syria: Considerations on Governance in the Region, Leif Stenberg
Constantine in the chronicle of seert, Philip Wood
Early Islam in British higher education, Philip Wood
Peter Webb, imagining the Arabs: Arab identity and the rise of Islam, Philip Wood
Submissions from 2016
Governance in the Constitutions of Iran: A Comparative Perspective, Said Amir Arjomand
Islam and the politics of temporality: The case of ISIS, Shahzad Bashir
The state of manuscript digitization projects in some Egyptian libraries and their challenges, Walid Ghali
Uṣūl al-Tafsīr: the Sciences and Methodology of the Quran, Walid Ghali
Governance and the Constitution in Palestine: From the Books to Action, and Back, Asem Khalil
Review of Jürgen Waseem Frembgen. 2014. The Closed Valley: With Fierce Friends in the Pakistani Himalyas. OUP: Karachi., Stephen Lyon
Review of Piliavsky, A. ed., 2014. Patronage as Politics in South Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., Stephen Lyon
Ties that bind: Marital networks and politics in Punjab, Pakistan, Stephen Lyon and Muhammad Aurang Zeb Mughal
Eine Wirklichkeit unter anderen: Zur Sicht südtunesischer Rechtsgelehrter auf Glaube und Heiligkeit, Lorenz Nigst
Review of Andreas Johansson, Pragmatic Muslim Politics. The Case of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, Jonas Otterbeck
Constitutional Design in Islamic Countries: Comparative Notes on Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia, Ergun Özbudun
Fostering active network management through SMEs’ practises, Gareth Powells, Ellis P. Judson, Stephen M. Lyon, Robin Wardle, Klara A. Capova, and Harriet Bulkeley
A Late Military Use of the Sphero-conical in the 19th Century Sudan, Stephane Pradines
Dembéni (Mayotte). Dembéni Tsararano, Stephane Pradines
Irone Be (Dembeni, Mayotte) Rapport de mission 2015, Stephane Pradines
Portuguese fortresses in East Africa, Stephane Pradines