Publications

Saqer Almarri

"Nonbinary Sexual and Gender Identities in the Community: The Khuntha as an Isolated Being in the Mosque." In The Religious Body Imagined, eds. Pamela D. Winfield, Mina Garcia and Katherine C. Zubko. Equinox Publishing, 2024.

Noura Al Obeidli

"Unmasking Patriarchy: Emirati Women's Battle in the Newsroom." In Gulf Women’s Lives: Voice, Space, Place, eds. E. Buscemi, S. Alshammari, I. Kaposi. University of Exeter Press, 2024.

“Voiceless Social Negotiators: The Case of Emirati Women Journalists.” Women in the GCC: Negotiating Leadership, Power, and Change Workshop. The 23th Annual Gulf Research Meeting (2023). Gulf Research Centre, Cambridge, UK.

"Identity Crisis: My Escape Plan to the Journey Within." In My Voice: Inspiring Stories of Hope, Courage and Fearlessness Volume V, edited by N. Gupta and S. Sarkar. Global Influencers Publishing House, 2022.

“Emirati Women Journalists: Bargaining With Patriarchy In Search Of Equality.” The 20th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media (2022). Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens, Greece.

Lisa Anderson

“’They Defeated Us All’: International Interests, Local Politics, and Contested Sovereignty in Libya.” The Middle East Journal 71, no. 2 (2017): 229-247.

“International Universities in the Arab World: What is Their Place?” International Higher Education 88 (2017): 2-3.

Marilyn Booth

The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan by ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī. NYU Press, 2023.

“Women and the Emergence of the Arabic Novel.” In The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions, ed. Wa’il Hassan. Oxford University Press, 2017.

“‘Go directly home with decorum’: Conduct Books for Egypt’s Young, ca. 1912.” In Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought, eds. Joseph E. Lowry and Shawkat M. Toorawa, 393-415. Brill, 2017.

“Liberal Thought and the ‘Problem’ of Women: 1890s Cairo.” In Arabic Thought Beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahdah, eds. Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss, 187-213. Princeton University Press, 2016.

Andrew Bush

Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan. Stanford University Press, 2020.

An offer of pleasure: Islam, poetry, and the ethics of religious difference in a Kurdish home.” American Ethnologist 44, no. 3 (2017): 516-527.

“How ‘God Becomes a Lover’ Sufi Poetry and the Finitude of Desire in Kurdistan." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 12, no. 1 (2016): 68-87.

“The Politics of Poetry.” In A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East, ed. Soraya Altorki, 188-204. Wiley, 2015.

Yousef Casewit

The Mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

With Böwering, Gerhard. A Qurʾān Commentary by Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141). Brill, 2015.

“A Muslim Scholar of the Bible: Prooftexts from Genesis and Matthew in the Qur'an Commentary of Ibn Barrajān of Seville (d. 536/1141).” Journal of Qur'anic Studies 18, no. 1 (2016): 1-48.

Caner Dagli

“Wisdom in pieces.” Renovatio (Fall 2017).

Eli Dollarhide

With Jennifer Swerida and Reilly Jensen. "Settlement and Chronology in the early Bronze Age of Southeastern Arabia." Paléorient 47, no. 2 (2021): 75-96.

With Harrower, M. J., Nathan, S., Dumitru, I.A., Lehner, J.W., Paulsen, P., Wiig, F., et al., “From the Paleolithic to the Islamic Era in Wilayah Yanqul: The Archaeological Water Histories of Oman (ArWHO) Project Survey 2011-2018.” Journal of Oman Studies 22 (2021): 1-21.

With J. Swerida and C. Cable. "Survey and Settlement: Preliminary Results of The Bat Archaeological Project's 2019 Field Season." Journal of Oman Studies 21 (2020): 82-101.

"Revealing the local: A look inwards at the archaeology of Southeastern Arabia." In Confronting Early Urbanism's Unseen Dynamics, edited by A. Green, P. Crabtree, and S. Patel. Cambridge University Press (*in prep)

Esmat Elhalaby

“Empire and Arab Indology.” Modern Intellectual History 19, no. 4 (2022): 1081-1105.

Allen Fromherz

(ed.), The Gulf in World History: Arabia at the Global Crossroads. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Qatar: A modern history (2nd edition). Georgetown University Press, 2017.

The Near West: Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

From Muscat to Zanzibar: Sayyid Said bin Sultan’s Cosmopolitan Empire. Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, 2016.

“ISIS vs. History.” The American Interest 11, no. 4 (2015).

Giuliano Garavini

The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 2019.

With Basosi, Duccio and Massimiliano Trentin, eds. Counter-shock: The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s. I.B. Tauris, 2018.

With Bini, Elisabetta and Federico Romero, eds. Oil shock: The 1973 crisis and its economic legacy. I.B. Tauris, 2016.

With Beltran, Alain and Éric Bussière, eds. L'Europe et la question énergétique. Les années 1960/1980. Peter Lang B, 2016.

"H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-14 on Garavini. The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century," in H-Diplo (H-Net, 2020).

“From Boumedienomics to Reaganomics: Algeria, OPEC, and the International Struggle for Economic Equality.” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 6, no. 1 (2015): 79-92.

“Western Europe and the Long Energy Crisis of the 1970s.” In Europe in a Globalizing World: Global Challenges and European Responses in the ‘long’ 1970s, ed. Claudia Hiepel, 147-164. Nomos, 2014.

Huma Gupta

With Suheyla Takesh. “Prelapsarian landscapes and post-diluvian politics in mid-century Iraqi art.” Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World 15 (2021): 67-83.

"Environmental Protection and Education as Resistance to Injustice in Palestine: An Interview with Mazin Qumsiyet." Jadaliyya, August 17, 2020.

“Ecological Imaginaries of Water & Climate Change in Dubai.” Status, August 12, 2020.

(tr.), “Iraq and the Arab World on the Edge of the Abyss: A Conversation with Kurdish Iraqi Journalist and Environmental Affairs Researcher, Khalid Suleiman,” by Osama Esber." Jadaliyya, June 23, 2020.

"Cement, War, and Toxicity: The Materialities of Displacement in Iraq." Jadaliyya, June 8, 2020.

With Sara Farhan. "The Campaign to Eradicate Smallpox in Monarchic Iraq." Jadaliyya, April 22, 2020.

"Green Sukuk: The Future of Islamic Financing for Climate Change Adaptation.” Jadaliyya, April 19, 2020.

Yannis Hadjinicolaou

Visual Engagements: Image Practices and Falconry. De Gruyter, 2020.

Thinking Bodies – Shaping Hands: Handeling in Art and Theory of the Late Rembrandtists. Brill, 2019.

With Herman Roodenburg. “Falconry as Image of Power in the Early Modern Low Countries: Towards a Political Iconography.” In Falconry in the Mediterranean Context During the Pre-Modern Era, eds. Charles Burnett and Baudouin Van Den Abeele. Geneva: Droz, 2021.

"Kinetic Symbol: Falconry as Image Vehicle in the United Arab Emirates." In All Things Arabia, eds. Ileana Baird and Hülya Yağcıoğlu, 127-142. Brill, 2020.

"J. F. Willumsen and El Greco. Collecting, Theory and Practice." In Echo Room. Thorvaldsen, Willumsen, Jorn and Their Collections (exhibition catalogue), ed. Anne Gregersen, 160-183. Hatje Cantz, 2018.

"Synagonismus." In 23 Manifeste zu Bildakt und Verkörperung, eds. Marion Lauschke and Pablo Schneider, 149-57. De Gruyter, 2018.

"Contradictory Liveliness. Painting as Process in the Work of Arent de Gelder and Christopher Paudiß." In Spur der Arbeit. Oberfläche und Werkprozess, eds. Magdalena Bushart and Henrike Haug, 81-94. Böhlau Verlag, 2018.

"‘Die Neue Sachlichkeit Rembrandts.’ Aby Warburg's Claudius Civilis." Journal of Art Historiography 19 (2018): 1-19.

"Il Nuovo Louvre di Jean Nouvel ad Abu Dhabi.” L'Indice dei Libri del Mese 9 (2018): 37.

“‘Ich zog mir einen Falken.’ Das ikonische Nachleben der Falknerei.” Pegasus. Berliner Beiträge zum Nachleben der Antike, Heft 18/19 (2018): 163-193.

“Blotches as Symbolic Articulation.” In Symbolic Articulation. Image, Word and Body between Action and Schema, ed. Sabine Marienberg, 173-204. De Gruyter, 2017.

“Macht wie die des Königs. Zur politischen Ikonographie der Falknerei.” In Hunting Without Weapons: On the Pursuit of Images, ed. Maurice Saß, 87-106. De Gruyter, 2017.

Neelima Jeychandran

“Marginalized Narratives: Memory Work at African Shrines in Kochi, India.” In Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting, eds. Maria Theresia Starzmann and John R. Roby, 111-130. University of Florida Press, 2016.

“Exhibiting Fraught Histories of Migrations: Museums in Elmina, Ghana.” In Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives, ed. Amy Levin, 87-104. Routledge, 2016.

“Specter of War, Spectacle of Peace: The Lowering of Flags Ceremony at the Wagah and Hussainiwala Border Outposts.” In Choreographies of 21st Century Wars, eds. Gay Morris and Jens Richard Giersdorf, 181-202. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Peter Kitlas

"“Our Sultan Must Preserve His Religion, Just as You Preserve Your Own”: Al-Ghazzāl and the Re-Forging of Islamic Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century Morocco." Journal of Early Modern History (published online ahead of print 2022).

Marwa Koheji

"Thermal Comfort and (Im)possible Futures: The Story of Air-conditioning in Bahrain." In Sweating Assets: On Climate Conditioning and Ecology. Manama: Bahrain's Authority for Culture and Antiquities, 2023.

"Architects in the Gulf are Imagining Life After Air-conditioning." New Lines Magazine, June 8, 2023.

Marcel Kurpershoek

(ed. & tr.), Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert. Khalaf Abū Zwayyid, ʿAdwān al-Hirbīd and ʿAjlān ibn Rmāl. New York University Press, 2024.

(ed. & tr.), Love, Death, Fame. Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral Tradition. Al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir. New York University Press, 2022.

(ed. & tr.), Arabian Romantic. Poems on Bedouin Life and Love. ʿAbdallāh ibn Sbayyil. New York: New York University Press, 2018.

(ed. & tr.), Arabian Satire. Poetry from 18th Century Najd. Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir. New York: New York University Press, 2017.

"Muhiq al-Ghannami, Man with Tresses." Al-Majallah al-Arabiyyah 544 (2022): 129.

“Free and/or Noble? The Hunting Falcon and Class in Arabian Nabaṭi Poetry.” In Falconry in the Mediterranean Context During the Pre-Modern Era, eds. Charles Burnett and Baudouin Van Den Abeele. Geneva: Droz, 2021.

Review of Tamplin, W.: Poet of Jordan. The Political Poetry of Muḥammad Fanatil al-Hajaya. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes WZKM 110 (2020).

"Burckhardt's Quest for Bedouin Purity. Arabic Antecedents and European Followers." In Johann Ludwig Burckhardt – Sheikh Ibrahim. Discoveries in the Orient around 1800, eds. L. Burckhardt, L. Burkart, J. Loop, and R. Stucky. Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2019.

With Claude Lorenz. “Two Manuscripts of Bedouin Poetry in Strasbourg National and University Library and the Travels of Charles Huber in Arabia.” La Revue de la BNU 17 (2018): 100-111.

“Politics and the Art of Eulogy in Najdi Nabaṭi Poetry: Ḥmēdān al-Shwēʿir’s (al-Shuwayʿir) Apologies to Ibn Muʿammar and Ibn Sbayyil’s Ode on Ibn Rashīd.” Quaderni Di Studi Arabi 13 (2018): 87-102.

“Praying Mantis in the Desert. The Najdi Poet Ibn Subayyil Consumed with Love for the Bedouin.” Arabian Humanities 5 (2015): 1-49.

Anneka Lenssen

"On Skin and Abstraction." In Ramsès Younan The Share of Sand (French edition), ed. Sonia Younan. Zamân Books, 2022.

Defne Tozkoparan, "Halep Sürrealizmi," in e-skop, 6 May 2022. Turkish translation of “Points of Connection: Aleppo,” an essay by Anneka Lenssen for Surrealism Beyond Borders (exhibition catalog). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021, 106-109.

Review of: What Is ‘Islamic’ Art? Between Religion and Perception, Wendy M. K. Shaw (2019). International Journal of Islamic Architecture 11, no. 2 (2022): 444-446.

Jan Loop

With J. Kraye, eds. Scholarship between Europe and the Levant. Brill, 2020.

With Leonhard Burckhardt, Lucas Burkart, and Rolf Stucky, eds. Johann Ludwig Burckhardt – Sheikh Ibrahim. Entdeckungen im Orient um 1800 / Discoveries in the Orient around 1800. Christoph Merian Verlag, 2019.

With Alastair Hamilton, and Charles Burnett, eds. The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe. Brill, 2017.

(ed.), The Qur'an in Western Europe, special issue of Journal of Qur'anic Studies 20, no. 3 (2018).

“Johan Jacob Reiske.” In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Vol. 14: Central and Eastern Europe (1700-1800), eds. David Thomas and John Chesworth, 192-209. Brill, 2020.

"A Polyglot Traveller in the Republic of Letters". In Scholarship between Europe and the Levant, eds. Jan Loop and Jill Kraye, 1-6. Brill, 2020.

“Maskerade in der Wüste. Sheikh Ibrahims Reisemethode im Kontext seiner Zeit.” In Johann Ludwig Burckhardt – Sheikh Ibrahim. Entdeckungen im Orient um 1800, eds. L. Burckhardt, L. Burkart, J. Loop and R. Stucky, 82-102. Christoph Merian Verlag, 2019.

“Language of Paradise: Protestant Oriental Scholarship and the Discovery of Arabic Poetry.” In Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe: An Episode in the History of the Humanities, eds. Nicholas Hardy and Dmitri Levitin. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford University Press, 2019.

“Islam and the European Enlightenment.” In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Vol. 13: Western Europe (1700-1800), eds. David Thomas and John Chesworth, 16-34. Brill, 2019.

“Introduction: The Qur'an in Europe – The European Qur'an.” Journal of Qur'anic Studies 20, no. 3 (2018): 1-20.

With Bevilacqua, Alexander. “The Qur'an in Comparison and the Birth of 'scriptures." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 20, no. 3 (2018): 149-174.

“Johann Heinrich Hottinger.” In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Vol. 9: Western and Southern Europe (1600-1700), eds. David Thomas and John Chesworth, 906-914. Brill, 2017.

Michael Christopher Low

Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, translation into Turkish. Istanbul: Telemak Kitap, 2022.

Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, translation into Arabic. Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers, 2022.

Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

With Can, Lâle, Kent F. Schull, and Robert Zens, eds. The Subjects of Ottoman International Law. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.

Matthew MacLean

“Suburbanization, National Space and Place, and the Geography of Heritage in the United Arab Emirates.” Journal of Arabian Studies 7, no. 2 (2018): 157-178.

Christian Mauder

In the Sultan’s Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) (2 vols). Brill, 2021.

(ed.), The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Courts of the Middle and Early Modern Periods, special issue of Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 11, no. 1 (2023).

"The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Courts of the Middle and Early Modern Periods." Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 11, no. 1 (2022): 1-23.

"Does a Mamluk Sultan Hold Religious Authority? Quranic Exegesis and ḥadīṯ Scholarship in Late Mamluk Courtly maǧālis." Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 11, no. 1 (2022): 80-111.

"Childless Rule and the Sultan's Son: Muhammad ibn al-Ghawrī and the Mamluk System of Succession in Early 16th Century Egypt." In Norm, Normabweichung und Praxis des Herrschaftsübergangs in transkultureller Perspektive, ed. Tilmann Trausch. Bonn University Press, 2019.

"A Severed Head, a Poetry Slam, and a Shi'ī Visiting al-Shāfi'i's Tomb - Symbolic and Literary Communication in Mamluk-Safavid Diplomatic Encounters." In Proceedings of the First German-Japanese Mamlukology Workshop, ed. Stephan Conermann. Bonn University Press (forthcoming).

Anne-Marie McManus

“Scale in the Balance: Reading with the IPAF (The Arabic Booker).” International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, no. 2 (2016): 217-241.

“Translating with One Eye: Muhammad Berrada's Muhammad Mandur and the Theorization of Arabic Criticism and Ali Badr's Papa Sartre.” Expressions maghrébines 15, no. 1 (2016): 133-152.

With Femke AWJ Van Esch. “Collaborative leadership in EMU governance: a matter of cognitive proximity.” West European Politics 43, no. 5 (2020): 117-1140.

With Abdulkadir, Rahma. “The Politics of Women Empowerment: Female Leaders in the UAE." Hawwa: Journal of Women in the Middle East and the Islamic World 18, no. 1 (2020): 8-30.

With Femke AWJ Van Esch. “The contested nature of political leadership in the European Union: conceptual and methodological cross-fertilization." West European Politics 43, no. 5 (2020): 1051-1071.

With Abdulkadir, Rahma. “Between Leadership and Kinship: Women Empowerment in the GCC Countries." In Corruption and Informal Practices in the Middle East and North Africa, eds. Ina Kubbe and Aiysha Varraich, 188-206. Routledge, 2019.

“Setting Europe’s agenda: the Commission presidents and political leadership.” Journal of European Integration 39, no. 2 (2017): 129-142.

“Between Potential, Performance and Prospect: Revisiting the Political Leadership of the EU Commission President.” Politics and Governance 4, no. 2 (2016): 68-79.

Caitlyn Olson

"Beyond the Avicennian Turn: The Creeds of Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d. 895/1490)." Studia Islamica 115, no. 1 (2020): 101-140.

Laila Prager

With Michael Prager, and Guido Sprenger, eds. Parts and Wholes: Essays on Social Morphology, Cosmology, and Exchange in Honour of J.D.M. Platenkamp. LIT Verlag, 2016.

(ed.), Female Leadership, Political Representation, and Women's Activism in the Gulf Region, special issue of Hawwa 18, no. 1 (2020).

“Introduction.” Hawwa 18, no. 1 (2020): 1-7.

“Emirati Women Leaders in the Cultural Sector: From ‘State Feminism’ to Empowerment?” Hawwa 18, no. 1 (2020): 51-74.

With Hofmann, Daniela. “Gesamtausgabe: Bestattungskulturen im Wandel.” Ethnoscripts 19, no. 1 (2017).

“The Miracle of Rebirth: Stigmata, Transmigration and the Remembrance of Former Lives in Alawi Religion.” In Muslim Bodies: Body, Sexuality, and Medicine in Muslim Societies, eds. Susanne Kurz, Claudia Preckel & Stefan Reichmuth, 281-310. LIT Verlag, 2016.

“From Linearity to Cognation: The Transformation of Alawi Kinship Terminologies (Southeast Turkey).” In Parts and Wholes: Essays on Social Morphology, Cosmology, and Exchange in Honour of J.D.M Platenkamp, eds. Laila Prager, Michael Prager & Guido Sprenger, 145-163. LIT Verlag, 2016.

Mohammed Rustom

Inrushes of the Heart: The Mystical Theology of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt. State University of New York Press, 2023.

(ed. & tr.), The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism. ʿAyn al-Quḍāt. New York University Press, 2022.

With Bilal Orfali and Atif Khalil, eds. Mysticism and Ethics in Islam. American University of Beirut Press, 2021.

(tr.), Al‐Ghazali on Condemnation of Pride and Self‐Admiration. Islamic Texts Society, 2018.

“Quranic Eschatology.” In The Routledge Companion to the Quran, eds. Maria Dakake, Daniel Madigan, and George Archer. Routledge, 2024.

“Theo-Fānī: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt and the Fire of Love.” In Mysticism and Ethics in Islam, eds. Bilal Orfali, Atif Khalil, and Mohammed Rustom. American University of Beirut Press, 2021.

“Aqida (Creed).” In Curriculum Renewal for Islamic Education: Critical Perspectives on Teaching Islam in Primary and Secondary Schools, eds. N.A. Memon, Alhashmi, M. Alhashmi, and M. Abdalla, 51-62. Routledge, 2021.

“La crise de coeur.” Translated by Samir Abada. Le miroir d’Isis 29 (2021): 85-91.

“Je li Ibn Arebijeva ontologija panteistička?” Translated by Haris Dubravac. Živa baština 17, no. 6 (2020): 72-79.

“Quranic Eschatology.” In The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an, eds. Maria Dakake, Daniel Madigan, and George Archer, 69-79. Routledge, 2021.“On Listening: Hearing God’s Voice in the Face of Suffering.” Sacred Web 45 (2020): 36-43.

“Islam and the Density of Man.” Sacred Web 46 (Winter 2020).

“Some Pointers and Reminders in Islamic Studies.” American Journal of Islam and Society 37, no. 1–2 (2020): 177-84.

“ʿAyn al-Quḍāt on Chivalry.” Journal of Islamic Ethics 4, no. 1–2 (2020): 25-37.

“Devil’s Advocate: ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Defence of Iblis in Context.” Studia Islamica 115, no. 1 (2020): 65-100.

“Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī’s Seal of Absolute walāya: A Shīʿī Response to Ibn ʿArabī.” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 31, no. 4 (2020): 407-423.

“ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Qur’anic Vision: From Black Words to White Parchment.” In Routledge Handbook on Sufism, ed. Lloyd Ridgeon. Routledge, 2020.

“Storytelling as Philosophical Pedagogy: The Case of Suhrawardī.” In Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change, ed. Sebastian Günther, 404-416. Brill, 2020.

With Ogunnaike, Oludamini. "Islam in English." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36, no. 2 (2019): 102-111.

"ʿAyn al-Quḍāt between Divine Jealousy and Political Intrigue." Journal of Sufi Studies 7, no. 1-2 (2018): 47-73.

"Notes on the Semantic Range of “Deliverance” in the Quran." Journal of American Oriental Society 138, no. 2 (2018): 361-367.

"What is Tafsīr al-Qur'ān bi'l-Qur'ān?" Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 17, no. 1 (2018): 1-10.

“The End of Islamic Philosophy.” Sacred Web 40 (2017): 131-167.

With Faruque, Muhammad U. "Rajab ʿAlī Tabrīzī’s Refutation of Ṣadrian Metaphysics." In Philosophy and the Intellectual Life in Shīʿah Islam, eds. Sajjad Rizvi and Syaid Ahmad, 184-207. The Shiʿah Institute, 2017.

Walid Saleh

“The Preacher of the Meccan Qur’an: Deuteronomic History and Confessionalism in Muhammad’s Early Preaching.” Journal of Qur’anic Studies 20, no. 2 (2018): 74-111.

Burak Sayim

“Communist anti-militarism in France and anti-colonial wars in Morocco and Syria.” Twentieth Century Communism 2023, no. 24 (2023): 17‑42.

“Of Transits and Transitions: Moscow-Bound Travels of Foreign Communists as a Transformative Experience, 1919-1939.” Revolutionary Russia 36, no. 1 (2023): 100-120.

“Transregional by Design: The Early Communist Press in the Middle East and Global Revolutionary Networks.” Journal of Global History (2022): 1-20.

“A Communist Center in Thessaloniki at the Junction of Mediterranean and Post-Ottoman Spaces.” Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies 9, no. 2 (2022): 31-41.

Rachel Schine

“Translating Race in the Islamic Studies Classroom.” Al-ʿUṣūr al-wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists 30 (2022): 320-383.

“Race and Blackness in Premodern Arabic Literature.” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Ayman Shihadeh

With Jan Thiele, eds. Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ashʿarism East and West. Brill, 2020.

“Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and Ghūrid Self-Fashioning.” Afghanistan 5, no. 2 (2022): 253-292.

“Psychology and Ethical Epistemology: An Ashʿarī Debate with Muʿtazilī Ethical Realism, 11th-12th C.” Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 21, no. 2 (2021): 81-102.

“Mereology in Kalām: A New Reading of the Proof from Accidents for Creation.” Oriens: Journal of Philosophy, Theology and Science in Islamic Societies 48, no. 1 (2020): 5-39. Open Access.

With Jan Thiele. "Introduction". In Philosophical Theology in Islam, eds. Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele, 1-11. Brill, 2020.

“Al-Rāzī’s Earliest Kalām Work: Eastern Ashʿarism in the Twelfth Century.” In Philosophical Theology in Islam, eds. Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele, 36-70. Brill, 2020.

Dale Stahl

“The British Invasion and Occupation of Ottoman Iraq.” The Arab Studies Journal 24, no. 2 (2016): 206-211.

“Such was Noah’s Flood’: Disaster and the ‘Invention’ of Iraq.” Environmental History 20, no. 1 (2015): 164-189.

Leila Tayeb

With Adam Benkato and Zmina Zarrugh, eds. Lamma: A Journal of Libyan Studies 2 (2023).

"To Follow Bousaadiya: Mobility and Memory in Libyan Cultural Politics." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 16, no. 3 (2023): 313-336.

“Roundtable: Methods and Sources for a New Generation of Libyan Studies.” Lamma: A Journal of Libyan Studies 2 (2023).

“Knowing Libya: Ethnography.” Lamma: A Journal of Libyan Studies 2 (2023).

“Digital Intimacy and Violence in Contemporary Libya.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa, eds. Loubna H. Skalli and Nahed Eltantawy. Springer International Publishing, 2023.

“What is Whiteness in North Africa?” Lateral 10, no. 1 (Spring 2021).

Anne-Lise Tropato

With Oliver Grimm and Karl Heinz-Gerzman, eds. Raptor on the fist: falconry and related imagery throughout the millennia on a global scale. Wachholtz, 2020.

“Foreword: Why should we look at images of raptors on the fist?” In Raptor on the fist, edited by Karl-Heinz Gersmann, Oliver Grimm, Anne-Lise Tropato. Wachholtz, 2020.

“Falconry as Digital Cultural Heritage. Some theoretical and technical implications on building a virtual collection of artistic representations of falconry.” In Raptor on the fist, edited by Karl-Heinz Gersmann, Oliver Grimm, Anne-Lise Tropato. Wachholtz, 2020.

“Man, Death and Hawks: Images of an encounter (Christian occident, 13th -15th century).” In Raptor on the fist, edited by Karl-Heinz Gersmann, Oliver Grimm, Anne-Lise Tropato. Wachholtz, 2020.

“« ie coniure les amateurs de l’Histoire… ». Correspondance inédite de Gaspard de Monconys, collectionneur Lyonnais, et de François Duchesne, Historiographe du Roi.” Curiositas, October 18, 2020.

Shuang Wen

"From Manchuria to Egypt: Soybean’s Global Migration and Transformation in the 20th Century." Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 13, no. 2 (2019): 176-194.

Luke Yarbrough

(ed. & tr.), The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt. ‘Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi. Library of Arabic Literature, NYU Press, 2016.

“The Madrasa and the non-Muslims of thirteenth-century Egypt: A reassessment.” In Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century, eds. E. Baumgarten, R. Karras, K. Mesler, 93-112. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.

“Did 'Umar b. 'Abd ai-'Azlz enact a religious criterion for state employment?” In Christians and Others in the Umayyad State, eds. A. Borrut and F. Donner, 173-206. The Oriental Institute, 2016.

“’A rather small genre’: Arabic Works Against Non-Muslim State Officials." Der Islam 93, no. 1 (2016): 139-169.

Nadia Yaqub

Gaza on Screen. Duke University Press, 2023.

“Catastrophe and Post-Catastrophe in the films of Kamal Aljafari.” In Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa, ed. Viola Shafik. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2022.

“The City in Early Arab Alternative Cinema.” Telos 197 (2021): 57-78.

John Zaleski

"Universal Salvation in Christian and Islamic Thought: The Arabic Reception of Isaac of Nineveh." Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 5, no. 1 (2022): 71-94.

"On Condemnation of Pride and Self-Admiration. Kitāb dhamm al-kibr wa’l-ʿujb. Book XXIX of The Revival of the Religious Sciences. Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, written by Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and translation with introduction and notes by Mohammed Rustom." Journal of Sufi Studies 11, no. 1 (2022): 141-144.

“The Treasures of God: Abū Sa‘īd al-Kharrāz and the Ethics of Wealth in Early Sufism.” In Mysticism and Ethics in Islam, eds. Bilal Orfali, Atif Khalil, and Mohammed Rustom, 53-71. American University of Beirut Press, 2021.

“Sufi Asceticism and the Sunna of the Prophet in al-Junayd’s Adab al-Muftaqir ilā Allāh.” Journal of Islamic Studies 32, no. 1 (2021): 1-26.

"Who is the Man on the Camel?: Historical Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible and Christian-Muslim Debate." Medieval Encounters 26, no. 1 (2020): 49-80.

“‘The Nous is the Head of the Soul’: Remaking Origen’s and Evagrius’s Anthropology for the Church of the East.” In Origeniana Duodecima, ed. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony et al, 789-804. Peeters, 2019.

William Zimmerle

"Frankincense and its Arabian Burner." In All Things Arabia, eds. Ileana Baird and Hülya Yağcıoğlu, 23-42. Brill, 2020.

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