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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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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
Making “Tribes” in the Late Ottoman Empire12
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: 97815036146598
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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 – CORRIGENDUM6
Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia. Pascal Menoret (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 246. $24.00 paper. ISBN: 9781503612464 – Corrigendum6
Internal Colonialism in Iran: Gender and Resistance against the Islamic Regime5
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: 9781505
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, 1916–19474
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter4
Fighting the Minor Evils: Slavery and the Diverse Lives of Abolitionism in the Ottoman Empire4
Recovering Palestinian Lives: Qudsiyya Khurshid from Mandate Palestine to Postwar Pennsylvania4
Israel, Annexation, and Sovereignty: Within the Green Line and Across It4
Migrating Minority: Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective4
Decolonizing Tribal “Genealogies” in the Middle East and North Africa3
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Navigating “Sensitive” States: How Surveillance Practices Affect Research Development between the United States and Iran3
A Tale of a “Gypsy” Couple: Contested Ottoman Identity, Property Rights and the State3
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
Introduction: Arabic as a South Asian Language3
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A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter – ERRATUM2
Afterword: Reassessing Arabic in South Asia2
My Egypt Archive. Alan Mikhail (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022). Pp. 184. $26.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. ISBN 97803002609912
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
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The Banality of Disruption: Diagnosing Order2
Making an Arab-Muslim Elite in Paris: The Pan-Maghrib Student Movement of the 1930s2
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In Pursuit of Laicized Urban Administration: The Muhtar System in Istanbul and Ottoman Attitudes toward Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Nineteenth Century2
Crime, Gender, Sexuality: Female Villains in Late Ottoman Crime Fiction2
Decolonizing Displacement Research: Betweener Autoethnography as a Method of Resistance2
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: In Search of the Missing Armenians of Turkish/Ottoman Art Historiography with a Decolonizing Eye2
Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism. Aria Fani (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2024). Pp. 264. $55.00 paper. ISBN: 97814773288112
The 200-Million Student Classroom: Teaching Islamicate History, One Video Game at a Time?1
Gnawa Mirror: Race, Music, and the “Imperialism of Categories”1
When the Revolutions Aligned: Soviet Documentary Films of the Aswan High Dam1
Arabic Exile Literature in Europe: Defamiliarizing Forced Migration Johanna Sellman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 280. $110.00 hardback. ISBN: 97813995001281
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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
Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. Ronak K. Kapadia (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019) Pp. 352. $28.95 paper. ISBN 97814780040111
Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai. Todd Reisz (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 416. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036098841
The Legacy of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq1
Who Is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms. Maryam Wasif Khan (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021). Pp. 257. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 97808232901301
Boom Cairo: Egypt in Disaster, 17871
Quagmire in Civil War. Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 340. $32.99 paper. ISBN: 97811087082651
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: 97814773245471
The House of Baha’u’llah and the Struggle for Religious Visibility in Mandatory Iraq1
Environmental Crises at the End of Safavid History: The Collapse of Iran's Early Modern Imperial Ecology, 1666–17221
Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City – CORRIGENDUM1
Missions, Minorities, and the Motherland: Xenophobic Narratives of an Ottoman Christian “Stab in the Back”1
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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
The Multiple Registers of Arabic in the Daudi Bohra Daʿwa and South Asian Public Life, c. 1880–19201
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
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
Introduction: Activism, Scholarship, and Shaping History1
(Mis)translating the Life Stories of the “Heroes of the Year 2022: Women of Iran”1
Managing Uncertain Times in Turkey: Refugee Healthcare Research during a Global Pandemic1
Masculinity in Contention: Performance, Language, and Gender in the Lebanese Army during the Civil War1
Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy. Robert Vitalis (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 240. $24.00 cloth. ISBN: 97815036009041
The Rebel and the Imām in Early Islam: Explorations in Muslim Historiography. Najam Haider, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Pp. 304. $99.00 cloth. ISBN: 97811391992231
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 Politics of Stardom, Entertainment and Industry: New Studies in Egyptian Cinema History1
The Growth of Arabic Biographical Writing in South Asia from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century1
The Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World. Ussama Makdisi (Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 2019). Pp. 312. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780520258841
The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad. Thomas Hegghammer (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 719. $34.99 cloth. ISBN: 97805217659541
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
Fighting the Invasion from the Suez Canal: Coastal Environmentalism and Locating the Lionfish in Lebanon1
The Mechanical Atatürk: Cybernetics and State Violence in the Second Turkish Republic1
Confessionalism, Centralism, Armenians, and Ottoman Imperial Governance in the 18th and 19th Centuries1
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
Tribes and Tribalism in the Modern Middle East: Introduction0
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
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
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
Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation. Mona El-Ghobashy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). Pp. 392. $90.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036017650
Latin American and Arab Literature: Transcontinental Exchanges Tahia Abdel Nasser (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 224. $103.05 hardcover. ISBN: 97813995071270
Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia. Pascal Menoret (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 246. $24.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036124640
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
The Partisans of Peace in Lebanon and Syria: How Anti-Nuclear Activism in the 1950s Revitalized the Arab Left0
Writing Histories of Capital in the Shadow of War0
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
Woman, Life, Freedom, and the Question of Multiculturalism in Iranian Studies0
Looking at Suez Canal Infrastructures: Water, Plants, and the Urban Drainage, Sewage, and Bathroom Systems0
Change Visible from a Distance: Digital Analysis of theFetvas of OttomanŞeyhülislams in the Early Modern Era0
Nahda-izing India: The Urdu-Hindi Debate and its Arabic Alternative, c. 1860s–19470
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance. Louis Brehony (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2023). Pp. 340. $59.95 cloth. ISBN: 97816490330480
Watermelon Democracy: Egypt's Turbulent Transition. Joshua Stacher (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020). Pp. 257. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 97808156368780
Radio Tehran and the 19 August 1953 Coup: A New Perspective0
From Dictatorship Syndrome to False Truths: The Political Evolution of Alaa al-Aswany0
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
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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
Possessed or Insane? Diagnostic Puzzles in Contemporary Egypt – ERRATUM0
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
Erasure at Home, Erasure in the World: Armenian History in Turkey (and Beyond) and Non-Discourses on Modern Political Conflict0
Musical Intimacy, Model Citizenship, and Sufism in the Life of Niyazi Sayın0
The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877–1923. Jeremy Salt (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2019). Pp. 432. $40.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781607817040
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords and Activists. Wazhmah Osman (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020). Pp. 272. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780252043550
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
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
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
Hitching a Ride: Cholera, the Canal, and Quarantine0
A Man for All Seasons: Mosaddeq's Image and Legacy in Contemporary Iran0
War on the Desert: The Militarization of the Sinai and its Greater Syrian Sacrificial Frontier during World War I – CORRIGENDUM0
A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Ulrike Freitag (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020). Pp. 407. $44.99 paper. ISBN: 97811087462050
Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism. Samuel Hodgkin (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024). Pp. 310. £85.00 cloth. ISBN: 97810094116390
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
Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives. Laila Shereen Sakr (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023). Pp. 194. $85.00 cloth, $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036358830
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
Tribal Justice and State Law in Iraq0
Counting Kisses at the Movies: The Screen Kiss and the Cinematic Experience in Egypt0
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
Not All Who Ascend Remain: Afro-Asian Jewish Returnees from Israel0
From Fallen Women to Citizen Mothers: Gendered Carcerality in Pahlavi Iran0
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
Degrees of Dignity: Arab Higher Education in the Global Era Elizabeth Buckner (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022). Pp. 264. $40.95 paper. ISBN: 97814875289590
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
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 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
Experimental Visions of Modern Morocco: Expertise, Popularization, and Everyday Technologies in the Work of ʿAbd al-Salam al-Diyuri0
Female Culpability for Fornication in Ottoman Law and Everyday Life0
Palestinian Football and the Struggle for Identity0
Israel/Palestine: Border Representations in Literature and Film. Drew Paul, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.) Pp. 224. $100. Cloth. ISBN: 97814744561280
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
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
Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State Dawn Chatty (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2021). Pp. 289. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 97801975777760
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
Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution. Zaid Al-Ali (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 331. $35.99 paperback, $130.00 hardback. ISBN: 97811084297020
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary. Hamid Keshmirshekan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Pp. 320. $110.00 hardback. ISBN0
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
Unearthing Rabiʿa's Grave: Placemaking, Shrines, and Contested Traditions in Balkh, Afghanistan0
Out of the Native Pigeonhole: Westernness, Knowledge Production, and Symbolic Capital0
Politics of Vengeance in Iranian Diaspora Communities0
Political Sociality in the Narrowing of Time: Hibat al-Din al-Shahrastani and the Late Ottoman Najafi Revival0
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
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus. Marc David Baer (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). Pp. 312. $95.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97802311967100
Tarantino in the Ottoman Empire: Glorious Viziers, Pulp Fiction, and Scrambled Narratives0
Contested Legitimacies: Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt Jannis Grimm (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022). Pp. 352. €153.00 cloth. ISBN: 97894637226500
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Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948. Nadim Bawalsa (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022). Pp. 296. $28.00 paper, $90.00 hardcover. ISBN: 97815036322640
A Ghoul at the Gates: Natural Gas Energy and the Environment in Pahlavi Iran, 1960–19790
The Existential Threat of Academic Bias: The Institutionalization of Anti-Assyrian Rhetoric0
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Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Amanda Phillips (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021). Pp. 360. $65.00 cloth. ISBN: 97805203035910
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
“The Boy Who Wasn't Really Killed”: Israeli State Violence in the Age of the Smartphone Witness0
Beyond the “War on Terror”: Mobilities and Regimes of Inequality; An Epistemological and Ethical Reflection0
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: 9780812250
The “One Carceral State”: Mass Incarceration and Carceral Citizenship in Palestine/Israel0
Arc of the Journeyman: Afghan Migrants in England. Nichola Khan (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Pp. 293. $108.00 cloth, $27.00 paper. ISBN: 97815179096280
Oil and the US Decision to Overthrow Mosaddeq0
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
Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology. William Carruthers (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). Pp. 336. $62.95 cloth. ISBN: 97815017664420
Women and Crime: Exploring the Role of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Constructions of Female Criminality0
Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt0
Ottomans in the Caucasian Highlands: Recruitment of the Circassians and the Ottoman Mission in Anapa, 1812–18280
The AKP-Era Higher Education Strategies for Establishing Hegemony over Turkish Universities0
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
The Logic of Cooperation in Autocracies: Political Opposition in the Third Yemeni Republic. Jens Heibach (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2024). Pp. 312. $95.00 hardcover, $39.95 paper. ISBN:0
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
ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan: Legend or Liability? Heather N. Keaney (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 159. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 97817860769770
Vocal Arrangements: Technology, Aurality, and Authority in Qur'anic Recording0
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Algorithmic State Violence: Automated Surveillance and Palestinian Dispossession in Hebron's Old City0
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
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 Portrait of an Alla Franca Shaykh: Sufism, Modernity, and Class in Turkey0
Revolutionary Politics of the Normal0
The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity. Darryl Li (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 364. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 97808047923700
A Social History of Modern Tehran: Space, Power, and the City Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. The Global Middle East Series (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 488. $120 cloth. ISBN: 9781000
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
Global Reflections on Mohammad Mosaddeq0
Who Cares about Jellyfish? An Environmental Legacy of the Suez Canal Begins to Surface0
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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
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
Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space Alda Benjamen (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022). Pp. 258. $99.99 hardback. ISBN: 9781088387950
Uneasy Neighbors: The Making of Sectarian Difference and Alevi Precarity in Urban Turkey0
An Unhappy Happy Port: Fin-de-siècle Port Said and Its Connections and Disconnections of Water and Iron0
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
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
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
State and Religion in Iraq: The Sufi Insurgency of the Former Baʿth Regime in Historical Context0
Changing Capitalist Structures and Settler-Colonial Land Purchases in Northern Palestine, 1897–19220
The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India Alexander Jabbari (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pp. 260. $110.00 hardcover. ISBN: 978100930
Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian: Eulogist for a Falling Homeland. William Granara (London: Oneworld Academic, 2021). Pp. 175. $30.00 cloth. ISBN: 978-17860784690
Hijra from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Middle East Routes of Muslim Displacement0
The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past: History and Memory in Iraq Studies0
Serial Murder and Honor: Rereading the Story of an Ottoman Murderess0
A Tale of Three Brothers: Ezra, Meʾir, and Hayyawi Sawdaʾi and the History of an Iraqi Jewish Cinema Business0
The Archives of Saddam Hussein's Baʿth Party and the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting the Baʿthist Era in Iraq0
Ambivalence to Things Armenian in Middle Eastern Studies and the War on Artsakh in 20200
Disentangling the “War on Terror”: Present Pasts and Possible Futures0
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
Escape from Zanzibar: Refugees, Documents, and the Indian Ocean Shipping Regime0
Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia. Zainab Saleh (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020). Pp. 280. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 97815036141160
Seeking Protection and Reconciliation: A Pashtun Legal Custom in Recorded Tribal Histories0
The Politics of Tribal Perseverance0
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
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
Crude Knowledge: Petro-Periodicals and Resource Sovereignty0
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
Shariʿa and Governance in Ottoman Egypt: The Waqf Controversy in the Mid-Sixteenth Century0
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
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“Why Is America Interested in Islam in Turkey?”: Fieldwork and Problems of Gaining Trust in a Low-Trust Society0
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
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
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
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry. Farshad Sonboldel (New York: Bloomsbury, 2024). Pp. 255. $108.00 hardback. ISBN: 97987651035930
Mukaddesatçılık: A Cold War Ideology of Muslim Turkish Ressentiment0
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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
Navigating the Dynamics of Private Security in Turkey: Reflections from a Field in Flux0
Of Nuclear Rials and Golden Shoes: Scaling Commodities and Currencies across Sanctions on Iran0
To the Nation, Belong the Archives: The Search for Manuscripts and Archival Documents in Postcolonial Morocco0
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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
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
Sacralizing the Nation: The Adoption of Takfīr in Mandate Palestine, 1929–350
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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
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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: 9780804793179 – Corrigendum0
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Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions. Liora Hendelman-Baavur (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Pp. 340. $120.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781108498740
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The Agricultural Settlement of the Arabah and the Political Ecology of Zionism0
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