OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Arabic Literature 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What Is Moroccan Literature? History of an Object in Motion	2
The Polemics of Iltizām: Al-Ādāb’s Early Arguments for Commitment	1
The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy	1
Arabic Poetry in the Twenty-First Century: Translation and Multilingualism	1
Re-membering Syria’s Traumatic Past: Gender, Poetics, and Loss in Manhal al-Sarrāj’s As a River Should	1
Repurposing Romantic Drama in Late-Nineteenth-Century Egypt: Najīb al-Ḥaddād’s Arabizations of Victor Hugo	1
Something as Essential as Life Itself	1
Country of Words: Palestinian Literature in the Digital Age of the Refugee	1
Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East, written by Karim Mattar	1
Interrogating the Sacred: Radical Religious Revisionism, Agnosticism and Atheism in the Modern Arab World	1
Generations of Dissent: Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa, written by Alexa Firat and R. Shareah Taleghani	0
Arabic Disclosures: The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas, written by Muhsin J. al-Musawi	0
Ghassān Kanafānī’s Children: Agency and Contingency	0
Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation, written by Fadi A. Bardawil	0
The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability, written by Anna Ziajka Stanton	0
Approaches to the Study of Pre-modern Arabic Anthologies, edited by Bilal Orfali and Nadia Maria El Cheikh	0
Satanwebs and the Torch Bearer: Reading Samīr Naqqāsh’s Unreadable Vernacular Novel	0
Is Oration Literature?	0
Back matter	0
A Contrarian Muʿtazilite Theologian/Poet’s Guide to Fine Poetry: Al-Nāshiʾ al-Akbar (d. 293/906) and How to Write Inimitable Poems	0
Mutual Adversaries, Fellow Dissidents	0
A Man of Our Times: Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣbahānī’s Pioneering Vision of Male Love	0
On Freedom-Loving Roosters and Beloved Goats: Animals, Humans, and Iraqi Narrative Prose 1948–1954	0
Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, written by Michael Christopher Low	0
Popular Fiction, Translation and the Nahda in Egypt, written by Samah Selim	0

Arab American Women: Representations and Refusal, edited by Michael W. Suleiman, Suad Joseph, and Louise Cainkar	0
The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb, written by Hoda El Shakry	0
The Poetry of Arab Women from the Pre-Islamic Age to Andalusia, written by Wessam Elmeligi	0
The Way We See It: Poetic-Visual Reciprocity in Egyptian Street Art Since 2011	0
The Shahrazād of Sablakh Speaks in Many Tongues	0
The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice, written by Huda J. Fakhreddine	0
The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry, written by Muhsin Al-Musawi	0
Models of Desire in Graeco-Arabic Philosophy: From Plotinus to Ibn Ṭufayl, written by Bethany Somma	0
Hold Fast the Reins and Be Guided: Embodied Expressions of Taqwā in Prophetic Hadith and Orations of ʿ⁠⁠Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib	0
Power, Narrative, and Magical Realism in Hudā Ḥamad’s Sindrīllāt Masqaṭ	0
Front matter	0
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation, edited by Sameh Hanna, Hanem El-Farahaty, and Abdel-Wahab Khalifa The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism, and Gender, edited by Luise von Flotow	0
In Good Faith: Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain, written by Claire M. Gilbert	0
Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction, written by Yasmine Ramadan	0
The Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī: Authorship, Texts, and Contexts, written by Bilal W. Orfali and Maurice A. Pomerantz	0
Global 1968 in Egypt: Raḍwā ʿĀshūr’s Farag and the Disarticulation of Area Studies	0
Adab as a Way of Life: Towards an Ethical Turn in History	0
After Nostalgia: Revisiting Palestine’s Poetics of al-Andalus	0
The Rise of the Arabic Book, written by Beatrice Gruendler	0
Arabic Shadow Theatre 1300–1900. A Handbook, written by Li Guo	0
Prolegomenon for a Theory of the Palestinian American Novel	0
Beyond Frankenstein: the Politics of the Gothic in Iraqi Fiction	0
Zaynab Fawwāz’s Feminist Locutions	0
Back matter	0
War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon, written by Yasmine Khayyat	0
The Writer Sweating at His Desk: Labor and Literature in Fatḥī Ghānim’s al-Jabal	0
Byzantine Adab and Falsafah in 11th Century Antioch	0
Portrait of an Eighth-Century Gentleman: Khālid ibn Ṣafwān in History and Literature, written by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila	0
The Emergence of Modern Prose Narrative in Iraq: Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Sayyid and the Search for Form	0
Back matter	0
A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam, written by Bauer, Thomas	0
It’s All Just Poetry: Writing ʿUmar ibn Abī Rabīʿah’s Life	0
Impostures: Fifty Rogue’s Tales Translated Fifty Ways, written by Al-Ḥarīrī and translated by Michael Cooperson	0
All the World is Awry: Al-Maʿ⁠arrī and the Luzūmiyyāt, Revisited, written by R. Kevin Lacey	0
Ageing in the Modern Arabic Novel, written by Samira Aghacy	0
Transmission and Transit in Contemporary Arabic Literature: Naql and Its Limits	0
Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet, written by Ziad Elmarsafy	0
An Outline of a Plagiarism Controversy from the Abbasid Era: Al-Sarī l-Raffāʾ vs. the Khālidī Brothers	0
Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East, written by Karim Mattar	0
From Diyārāt to Ziyārāt	0
Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond, edited by Jane Hiddleston, Khalid Lyamlahy	0
Arabic Disclosures: The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas, written by Muhsin J. al-Musawi	0
Islamic Historiography as Polemic Literature: Deconstructing Biographies of Medieval Jewish Converts	0
The Riḥlahs and Road Trips of Modern Iraqi Literature: Ṣafāʾ Khulūṣī’s Abū Nuwās fī Amrīkā	0
Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature, written by Abu-Remaileh, Refqa	0
A Missing Link in a Thousand and One Nights Scholarship: A Narrative Grammar for the Frame Tale?	0
The Traditional Qaṣīdah and Kitāb al-Zahrah by Ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣfahānī	0
Factoring Asymmetry into the Equation: On Juxtaposing Palestinian and Israeli Literatures	0
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation, written by Rebecca C. Johnson	0
Front matter	0

Prophetic Translation: The Making of Modern Egyptian Literature, written by Maya Kesrouany	0
The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz’s Children of the Alley, written by Mohamed Shoair	0
I Will Tell You My History: Rewriting to Revolt in the Process of al-Tārīkh al-badīl (Allohistory)	0
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus, written by Dwight Reynolds	0
Dying for Palestine: Metonymy, Metaphor, and/or Solidarity	0
The Racecourse of Literature: An-Nawāǧī and His Contemporaries, edited by Alev Masarwa & Hakan Özkan	0
Palestine, Futurity, and the Rithāʾ: A Poetics of Speculation and Proleptic Mourning	0
Al-Balāghah’s Legacy in Modern Secular Journalism	0
“The Intellect is the Essence of the Human”: The Arabic Poem of the Intellect (Qaṣīdat al-ʿAql) by the Indian Fatimid-Ṭayyibī Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq Sayyidna Taher Saifuddin (1888–1965)	0
The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives, edited by Nizar F. Hermes and Gretchen Head	0
Selection from Resistance Literature in Occupied Palestine, 1948–1966 by Ghassān Kanafānī	0
Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa: Literature, Film, and National Discourse, edited by Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno	0
Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World, written by Nouri Gana	0
Usage of al-shayb wa-l-shabāb in Ibn Ḥamdīs’s ḥāʾiyyah ‘Ṭaraqat wa-l-laylu’	0
Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic: Hall of Mirrors, written by Nadia Bou Ali	0
Following the Pipeline	0
Arabic Narrative in American Voices: Edgar Allan Poe and John Barth	0
Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda, written by Peter Hill	0
Shādhil Ṭāqah’s Elegy for Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb	0
Arabic Science Fiction, written by Ian Campbell	0
ʿ⁠Abdullāh al-ʿ⁠Arwī’s ʾAwrāq: sīrat Idrīs al-dhihniyyah and the Aesthetics-Politics Dialectic	0
New Data Concerning the Historical Development of the Frame Tale of the Nights	0
Culture pop en Égypte. Entre mainstream commercial et contestation, written by Richard Jacquemond et Frédéric Lagrange	0
Children’s Leisure Reading in the Nahḍah	0
Revisiting al-Ṭabarī on Maqtal ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib: An Early Report from Historical Learning to Practical Prescription	0
Front matter	0
What Is Nakbah Literature? Selections from al-Ufuq al-Jadīd Magazine (1965)	0
Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th–10th Centuries. And The Problem of Carbon Dating Early Qurʾāns, edited by Andreas Kaplony and Michael Marx	0
On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus, written by Eric Calderwood	0
The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late ʿAbbāsid Poetics in Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī’s Saqṭ al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam, written by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych	0
A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography: Between Dissociation and Belonging, written by Ariel M. Sheetrit	0
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age, written by Tarek El-Ariss	0
Narrative in Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ	0
Arabic Oration. Art and Function, written by Tahera Qutbuddin	0
Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature, written by Lara Harb	0
Sargūn Būluṣ: Writing Iraq baʿd al-qiyāmah	0
Dār al-Ṭalīʿah and the Question of Arab Authenticity in the 1960s	0
Al-Balādhurī’s Prophet’s Biography: Narrative in Service of Politics	0
Rethinking Mahjar Literature and the Arab Nahḍah: Jubrān’s Critical Intervention	0
From Tukhmah to Wamḍah: The Literary Forum at the University of Aleppo, Its Critical Enterprise, and the New Poetics of Minimalism	0
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age, written by Tarek El-Ariss	0
Palestine as Theory Special Issue: Editors’ Note	0
Jarīr and al-Farazdaq’s Naqāʾiḍ Performance	0
Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World, written by William Granara	0