OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Welt des Islams 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Historiography of Falsafa in Post-Qajar Iran: Its History and Classification	5
Ahmed El Shamsy, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics. How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition	2
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Rudolph Peters	2
Ron Shaham, Rethinking Islamic Legal Modernism. The Teaching of Yusuf al-Qaradawi	1
Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh (eds.), Sufism East and West. Mystical Islam and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Modern World	1
The Transformation of Islamic Property and Evidentiary Law in Colonial-era Morocco: The Case of Shufʿa as Préemption	1
Daughters of the Revolution: Negotiating Filial Piety in Post-2011 Egypt	0
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The Making of Martyrdom in Modern Twelver Shīʿism: From Protesters and Revolutionaries to Shrine Defenders, written by Adel Hashemi	0
Non-Muslims’ Rights in the Jurisprudential Approach of a Contemporary Shīʿī cleric: Ayatollah Yūsef Ṣāneʿī’s View	0
Arab Liberal Thought in the Modern Age, written by Meir Hatina	0
Bernd Lemke & Phersed Rosbeiani (eds.), Unternehmen Mammut. Ein Kommandoeinsatz der Wehrmacht im Nordirak 1943	0
Natana J. DeLong-Bas (ed.), Islam, Revival, & Reform. Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-First Century: Essays Inspired by John O. Voll	0
Kirmānī Shaykhism and the ijtihād. A Study of Abū al-Qāsim Khān Ibrāhīmī’s Ijtihād wa taqlīd, written by Denis Hermann Le shaykhisme à la période Qajare. Histoire sociale et doctrinale d’une École chi	0
Emad Hamdeh, Salafism and Traditionalism. Scholarly Authority in Modern Islam	0
The making of Islamic reform (iṣlāḥ) in Colonial Algeria (1882–1938): Ibadi scholars, French officials and the conceptual foundations of modern Islamic studies	0
An unsere Leserinnen und Leser	0
Becoming Turāth: the Islamic Tradition in the Modern Period	0
Vjeran Kursar, Kornelija Jurin Starčević, Nenad Moačanin (Hrsg.), Evliya Çelebī in the Borderlands: New Insights and Novel Approaches to the Seyhatname <Western Balkans and Iran Sections>	0
Reconciling Islam with Indonesian Nationalism: Acceptance of the Arab Middle Eastern Influence During the Dutch Colonial Period	0
The Premodern History of “Civilisation” in Arabic: Rifāʿa al-Ṭahṭāwī and his Medieval Sources	0
Ahmet T. Kuru, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment. A Global and Historical Comparison	0
Monotheism of the Divine Names and Attributes as a Defining Criterion of Salafism	0
Liberal Islamic Theology in Conservative Russia: Taufik Ibragim’s “Qurʾānic Humanism”	0

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Voyage en Haute-Egypte. Prêtres, coptes et catholiques	0
Egdūnas Račius, Islam in Post-Communist Eastern Europe. Between Churchification and Securitization	0
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In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East, written by Aaron Rock-Singer	0
Shivan Mahendrarajah, The Sufi Saint of Jam: History, Religion and Politics of a Sunni Shrine in Shi‘i Iran	0
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, L’Islam d’Afrique: Au-delà du djihad	0
Negotiating Freedom: Mostašār od-Doule’s Yek kalame and the Iranian Constitutional Experience	0
The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam. Vol. 2: Heirs of the Prophet: Authority and Power, edited by Rachida Chih, David Jordan and Stefan Reichmuth	0
Rosie Bsheer, Archive Wars. The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia	0
Madawi Al-Rasheed, The Son King. Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia	0
Conceptualizing Near Eastern Modernity: Religion, Politics, and Civilization	0
From Imminent Threat to Metaphor: Gog and Magog in Modern Sunnī Sources	0
Gulnaz Sibgatullina, Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia	0
Muslim Modernism in Turkish: Assessing the Thought of Late Ottoman Intellectual Mehmed Akif	0
Philosophie in der islamischen Welt. Band 4/1: 19. und 20. Jahrhundert: Arabischer Sprachraum, edited by Anke von Kügelgen Philosophie in der islamischen Welt. Band 4/2: 19. und 20. Jahrhundert: Türke	0
Facing the Franks Again: The Crusades in Arab Social and Political Thought (1914–48)	0
Josef van Ess 1934–2021	0
Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba’thist State. Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, written by Hawraa Al-Hassan	0
Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur’anic Commentaries, written by Hadia Mubarak	0
An Extraordinary Portrait of a Forgotten Orientalist	0
The Politics of Religious Non-Interference: Islamic Legal Reform in Colonial India	0
Companions of the Prophet as Anti-Colonial Fighters: The Political Evolution of ʿAlī Tales in Siberia and the Kazakh Steppe	0
Competing Visions of Morality in Politics: A New Perspective on the Ideological Currents of the Late Ottoman Empire	0
Lessening Anti-Jewish Hate Speech in Service of the Egyptian Regime: State Media under Mubārak, Re-Examined	0
Religion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia, written by Geoffrey Nash	0
Dejan Aždajić, The Shaping Shaikh. The Role of the Shaikh in Lived Islam among Sufis in Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
Islamic Law, Oil Wealth, and the Modern State in the Gulf: The Scope of the Sharia in Twentieth-Century Qatar	0
The Business of Publishing in the Early Beirut Nahḍa: Khalīl al-Khūrī, Partnerships, and the Literary Committee	0
Spiritual Legacy, Sufi Identity, and Mystical Knowledge in Taṣliya formulae	0
Christian Lange, Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions	0
Mission Impossible: Karl Neufeld’s Holy War Propaganda Trip to Medina (1915)	0
Culture of Daʿwa: Islamic Preaching in the Modern World, edited by Itzchak Weismann and Jamal Malik	0
A Trust from the Ancestors: Islamic Ethics and Local Tradition in a Syncretistic Ritual in East-Central Sulawesi	0
Recep Dogan, Political Islamists in Turkey and the Gülen Movement	0
The Ālūsī Family between Baghdad and Istanbul: Imperial Connections and the Development of Salafi Commitments	0
Mark Soileau, Humanist Mystics. Nationalism and the Commemoration of Saints in Turkey	0
Die Welt des Islams	0
Ein Beitrag Martin Hartmanns: „Japan und der Islam“	0
Feud, Law, and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Northern Albania	0
A Sense of Justice: Coloniality and the Islamic Legal Tradition	0
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age, edited by Robert Rozehnal	0
Die „Schule“ Ḥasan al-Bannās. Erziehung und Ideologiebildung bei der Muslimbruderschaft in der arabischen Welt, 1950–2013, written by Sebastian Elsässer Der Architekt des Islamismus. Hasan al-Banna un	0
Genocide as Patriotic Work Ethic: A Critical Reading of Mustafa Reşat’s Memoirs	0
Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril, edited by Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke	0
Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics, written by Walaa Quisay	0
The Modern Subject Sensing its Agency: Khalīl al-Khūrī’s Aesthetics of “Truth Mingled with Passion”	0
Nature’s Rage and Nation-Building: The 1927 Earthquake in Palestine	0
Framing Nonviolent Islamism: Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, the Ukrainian State and the 2014 Annexation of Crimea	0
Anna Bigelow (ed.), Islam through Objects	0
Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Representing Islam. Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation. Bloomington	0

Women and Gender in the Qur’an, written by Celene Ibrahim	0
Justyna Nedza, Takfīr im militanten Salaﬁsmus. Der Staat als Feind	0
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Petitioning the Waqf Cases: Conflict over the Abū Madyan Waqf, Old City of Jerusalem, at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century	0
Naqshbandīs and the Muslim Brotherhood: Diaspora and the Rise of the Political Islam in Modern Turkey	0
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Islam: Applying the Šarīʿa in Saudi Arabia	0
Diagnosing the State: Medical Metaphors in Ottoman Political Writing	0
Europe’s Seminal Proto-Fascist? Historically Approaching Ziya Gökalp, Mentor of Turkish Nationalism	0
Seyed Ali Sadr, Offenbarung, Exegese und Ratio. ʻAllāma Saiyid Muḥammad Ḥusain Ṭabāṭabāʼī und sein Korankommentar al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān	0
Murat Akan, The Politics of Secularism. Religion, Diversity, and Institutional Change in France and Turkey	0
“Meine Stimme auf der Suche nach ihrem Weg” – Eine Rekonstruktion des Personalismus M. A. Lahbabis aus der Erfahrung von Gefangenschaft und Exil	0
Werner Ende (1937–2024)	0
“Heutiger Nachbar – gestriger Untertan”. Impressionen osmanischer und türkischer Südosteuropa-Reisender (1890–1940), written by Leyla von Mende	0
Hans-Georg Ebert, Islamisches Familien- und Erbrecht der arabischen Länder. Herausforderungen und Reformen	0
Emmanuel Sivan (1937–2024)	0
“Divide According to Sharīʿa”: The Islamic Inheritance System in the Russian Empire	0
Teaching Women to Write: Weaponizing Ḥadīth Against Colonialism	0
Hammams à Sanaa. Culture, Architecture, Histoire et Société, edited by Michel Tuchscherer and Nabil Boutros (photography)	0
Johannes Rosenbaum, Die islamische Ehe in Südasien. Zeitgenössische Diskurse zwischen Recht, Ethik und Etikette	0
François Georgeon, Au pays du raki. Le vin et l’alcool de l’Empire ottoman à la Turquie d’Erdoğan (XIVe–XXIe siècle)	0
Asma Hilali, The Sanaa Palimpsest. The Transmission of the Qurʾan in the First Centuries AH	0
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Das vorislamische Erbe Irans. Zwischen islamischer Tradition und Reform und Modernisierung, written by Katja Föllmer	0
Pluralism in Islamic Contexts – Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges, edited by Mohammed Hashas	0
Peri Bearman, A History of the Encyclopaedia of Islam	0
Linda Herrera, Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles	0
Yann Richard, Iran. A Social and Political History since the Qajars	0
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī’s Treatise on Wiping over Socks and the Rise of a Distinct Salafi Method	0
Die Tübinger Orientalistik in den Jahren vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg	0
Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, edited by Tijana Krstić and Derin TerzioğluOttoman Sunnism: New Perspectives, edited by Vefa Erginbaş	0
The Evolution of the Hebronite Regionalism 1929–48	0
Tripolitanien und Bengasi um 1900. Wissen, Vermittlung und politische Kommunikation, written by Henning Sievert	0
Could Women Own Agricultural Land? Rethinking the Relationship of Islamic Law and Contextual Reality (Wāqiʿ)	0
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Cyrille Aillet, L’ibadisme dans les sociétés de l’Islam médiéval. Modèles et interactions	0
Three, Now Forgotten, Nineteenth-Century Leiden Scholars	0
Drei pseudepigraphische Prophetenschutzbriefe aus dem Jemen	0
Greek Orthodox Communities, Religious Festivals, and National Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire	0
Buṭrus al-Bustānī: Between Secularism and Christianity	0
From a Position of Privilege: Descendants of the Prophet Muḥammad in Ottoman Syria as Stakeholders in Nineteenth-century Reform Processes	0
Smile of the Crescent: Constructing a Future Identity Out of Historical Ambiguity in İstiklal Marşi (with Translation)	0
Victor J. Willi, The Fourth Ordeal. A History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1968–2018	0
Birgit Schäbler, Moderne Muslime. Ernest Renan und die Geschichte der ersten Islamdebatte 1883	0
Nimet Seker, Der Koran als Rede und Text. Hermeneutik sunnitischer Koranexegeten zwischen Textkohärenz und Offenbarungskontext	0
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo in Karamanlidika: In the Footsteps of Teodor Kasap	0
Fazliddin Muhammadiev’s Journey to the “Other World”: The History of a Cold War Ḥajjnāma	0
Aaron Rock-Singer, Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival	0
Johannes Bork, Zum Konstrukt von dār al-islām und dār al-ḥarb. Die zeitgenössische Rezeption eines Konzepts des klassischen islamischen Rechts	0
With Effort (jahd) to Error (jahl): Two New Approaches to the Interpretation of Jihād in West Africa	0
Simon O’Meara, The Kaʿba Orientations: Readings in Islam’s Ancient House	0
Handling Theology in Footnotes: Salafī Editors on Ḥadīth Commentaries from the Middle Period	0
Tracing the Nationalisation of Millet in the Late Ottoman Period: A Conceptual History Approach	0
The Obscure Appellate: The Egyptian Islamic Supreme Court, 1898–1955	0
SherAli Tareen, Defending Muḥammad in Modernity	0
Sufism in Post-Soviet Russia: Searching for Enchantment and a Paradigm Shift	0
A Library in One Volume – The Notebook of the Nineteenth-Century Ismāʿīlī Scholar Sayyidī Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Hamdānī from Surat	0
Dorrit van Dalen, Gum Arabic. The Golden Tears of the Acacia Tree	0
Theocratic Secularism. Religion and Government in Shīʿī Thought, written by Naser Ghobadzadeh	0
Debating Diya: Indirect Rule and the Transformation of Islamic Law in British Colonial Northern Nigeria	0
Charity in Saudi Arabia. Civil Society under Authoritarianism, written by Nora Derbal	0
Writing Sacred Histories in Late Ottoman Egypt: Zaynab Fawwāz and Qadriyya Kāmil’s Descriptions of Early Islam	0
Toward the Seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca: The Writings and Ideology of Juhaymān al-ʿUtaybī and the Ikhwān	0
A Celebrity from the Sky: ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ ʿAbd al-Ṣamad’s Journey to National and International Fame in ʿAbd al-Nāṣir’s and al-Sādāt’s Egypt	0
“And Every Language that Has Been Voiced Became a Millet”: A Genealogy of the late Ottoman Millet	0