British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Middle Eastern 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Myth of Turkish Islam: the influence of Naqshbandi-Gümüşhanevi thought in Turkish Islamic orthodoxy10
The representation(s) of Saudi women pre-driving era in local newspapers and magazines: a critical discourse analysis9
Youth and political engagement in post-revolution Tunisia9
Departing ‘Secularism’: boundary appropriation and extension of the Syrian state in the religious domain since 20118
Authoritarianism in the information age: state branding, depoliticizing and ‘de-civilizing’ of online civil society in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates5
Ramallah ravers and Haifa hipsters: gender, class, and nation in Palestinian popular culture5
The inter-Islamic competition and the shift in al-Nur party stance towards civil state in Egypt5
At the Intersections of Populism, Nationalism and Islam: Justice and Development Party and Populist Reconfiguration of Religion in Politics5
Egyptian foreign policy after the 2011 revolution: the dynamics of continuity and change4
Localizing resilience: discursive projections, entrapments and domination4
The empire’s opposition strikes back: popular culture as creative resistance tool under Turkey’s AKP4
Stagnation Vs adaptation: tracking the Muslim Brotherhood’s trajectories after the 2013 coup4
Chinese ‘Soft Power Pipelines Diffusion’ (SPPD) to the Middle Eastern Arab Countries 2000-2018: A Discursive-Institutional Study4
Counterinsurgency in Istanbul: provocative counterorganization, violent interpellation and sectarian fears4
Ideology matters: cultural power in the case of Daesh3
The power of nonsense: humour in Egypt’s counter/revolution3
Revisiting multilateralism in the Middle East between securitization and desecuritization of the Kurds3
Islamism and the rise of Islamic charities in post-revolutionary Tunisia: claiming political Islam through other means?3
Willpower: auto-ethnographic insights into the challenges that women encounter in academia3
Shifting Threats and Strategic Adjustment in Iran’s Foreign Policy: The case of Strait of Hormuz3
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 20153
Afghans in Iran: the state and the working of immigration policies3
Negotiating patriarchal relationships to become economically active: an insight into the agency of Syrian refugee women in Jordan using frameworks of womanism and intersectionality3
Queer counterpublics and LGBTQ pop-activism in Jordan3
Islamic Fundamentalism as a lifestyle? a Sociological Study of Islamic Fundamentalism among Sunni Kurds of Iran2
‘We don’t want to be governed like this anymore’: protest democracy as an expression of a crisis of governmentality in post-revolution Tunisia2
Active on the street but apathetic at the ballot box? Explaining youth voter behaviour in Tunisia’s new democracy2
Engendering hunger strikes: Palestinian women in Israeli prisons2
Syrian refugees and other Syrian forced migrants in Jordan: forms of capital approach2
The Arab Rationalist Association and the turn to Nahḍah in contemporary Arab thought2
Sectarianism in the service of Salafism: Shiites as a political tool for Jordanian Salafis2
An episode of the revolution: Aleppo university protest movement 2011–20132
Institutions, feminist mobilizations, and political economy: Debating equal inheritance in Tunisia2
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?2
Political time and leadership in the Middle East: an analysis of 22 prominent leaders2
When colonialism and nationalism meet - but speak a different language: the case of Haifa during the British Mandate2
Social capital and sense of neighbourhood belonging among Qatari nationals2
Constructing new Turkey’s desired worker: the denial of social class in the AKP era2
On Palestinian Yiddish and Ashkenazi Arabic in 18-19 century Palestine: a language-oriented new look on Jewish-Arab relations2
The rise of hybrid political Islam in Turkey - origins and consolidation of the JDP1
Space, place and consciousness; Explorations on Jewish identity in Amos Oz’s life narrative A Tale of Love and Darkness1
Musical spirits and poetic tongues: oral traditions in the cultural politics of Kurdish intellectuals (1920s-1940s)1
Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism: modernism, sectarianism and the politics of self-flagellation ( taṭbīr )1
The Russo-Ottoman struggle over the support of the Muslims of Southern Caucasus in the 1890s1
From ‘ yol ’ to diasporic Alevism: migration and religious change among Alevis in Britain1
Political economies of the middle east and north Africa1
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways1
Between political survival and regional power: the justice and development party and Cyprus, 2002–20171
The ‘myth of moderation’ following the Arab Uprisings: polarization in Tunisia and Egypt’s founding elections1
175 years of persecution: a history of the Babis and Baha’is of Iran1
British policy towards Iran 1809-1914: the question of cost1
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring1
Demographic analysis on social perceptions of Hijab in contemporary Iran: dimensions and determinants1
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait1
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK1
Returning the megaphone to the people: the Theatre of the Oppressed as artivism in the public space for a new critical citizenry in Morocco1
Investigating the cultural signs and ideological representations in Masameer Saudi cartoon: a discursive and semiotic analysis1
Legal conflicts among natural resources stakeholders in Iran1
Azerbaijan’s state building power as a reflection of Israel–Iran hostility1
Alevism as Islam: rethinking Shahab Ahmed’s conceptualization of Islam through Alevi poetry1
Jordanian stamps of Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem: 1967-19891
Orchestrating Palestinian youth political socialization during theBritishMandate (1917-1948): policies and community responses1
Styles of ‘religion’, ‘non-religion’ and ‘spirituality’ in post-revolutionary Iran: the ‘ironic’ impact of ‘Islam’ on people’s ‘religiosity’1
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: social justice and the rise of dystopian art and literature post-Arab Uprisings1
The cinema of the young Muslim Brothers: claiming a space in Egyptian pop culture1
Oil, Labour and Empire: Abadan in WWII Occupied Iran1
Violence against health care in Syria: patterns, meanings, implications1
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts1
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival1
Ingroup, outgroup, or ally? An inquiry on the identity content of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) supporters on social media1
Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices1
Religious Arabic exclamations in Persian talks-in-interaction: a micro-analytic approach to contexts and senses1
Soft power, hard power dynamics: the case of Iran in Afghanistan1
Iran’s foreign policy making: consensus building or power struggle?1
Emotions and narratives of the spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s collective identity and status in international relations1
Political thinking performed: popular cultures as arenas of consent and resistance1
‘Revenge of the jobniks’? Soldier representation and resistance in contemporary Israeli popular culture1
Baudrillard in Ankara: mainstream media and the production of simulacra in the Turkish public sphere1
Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas1
Mass violence in Syria: continuity and change1
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan1
The role of the Syrian business elite in the Syrian conflict: a class narrative1
Islam and existentialism in Turkey during the Cold War in the works of Sezai Karakoç1
The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period1
New directions in the study of popular culture and politics in the Middle East and North Africa1
Kurdish subjectivity: Liminal Kurd characters stymied in harsh liminal contexts in Sherzad Hassan’s short fiction1
Egypt ’s new authoritarianism from an institutionalist perspective: formal-informal interactions before and after the Egyptian revolution1
Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran1
“Muslim Democrats”: the rise of neo-Islamism in Tunisia and Morocco1
Palestinian rural education during the British mandate: a story of a national struggle and constant resistance1
The Persian Whitman: beyond a literary reception0
British diplomacy and the Iranian revolution, 1978-1981 (security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world)0
The palm tree and the fist. The use of popular imagery in the Tunisian protest songs of the 1970s-1980s0
Iraqi Jewish Immigrants, Palestinian refugees, and intercommunal relations in Tira Transit Camp0
Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran0
Social capital, civic engagement and democratization in Kurdistan0
Poetry as a communicative vehicle in the jihadi milieu: the case for modern extremist poetry0
Women and equality in Iran: law, society and activism0
Understanding community resilience in Yemen: how parallel institutions meet essential needs in the absence of the state0
Framing democracy – organisational perspectives on democracy in post-2011 Tunisia0
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region0
Review of the book: political economy of iran: development, revolution and political violence0
Hope, Messiah and troubles of messianic futures in Iran: exploring martyrdom and politics of hope amongst the Iranian revolutionary youth0
The west’s war against Islamic state: operation inherent resolve in Syria and Iraq0
Turkey in turmoil: social change and political radicalization during the 1960s0
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20th century, the case of Elie Malka0
Hedayat’s rebellious child: multicultural rewriting of The Blind Owl in Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects0
National socialist propaganda in late Reza-Shah Iran: the case of Khaterat-e Hitler by Mohsen Jahansuz0
Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey. Attempted Coup d’état and the acceleration of political crisis0
Nationalizing the fig commerce: Aram Hamparzum’s warehouse from the Empire to the Republic0
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–19180
Serializing protestantism: the missionary Miscellany and the Arabic press in 1850s Beirut0
‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami0
Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: a global and historical comparison0
Iranian women & gender in the Iran-Iraq war0
Policy success or policy failure? Narrative analysis of the Islamic parliament of Iran’s debates on the FATF recommendations bill0
A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic A revolution in rhyme: poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic , by Fatemeh Shams, Oxford, Oxford 0
Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)0
Epilogue0
‘We are rich in mass graves’: representing a history of violence through Êzîdî poetry0
Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring Islam and democracy after the Arab Spring , by John L. Esposito, Tamara Sonn, and John O. Voll, Oxford, Oxford University Press0
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence , by M0
Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran0
‘The perspectives of Iranian Feminists and Women Activists on Gender Equality in Iran’0
The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy0
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran0
Structural dividers in the Qur’an Structural dividers in the Qur’an , by Marianna Klar, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 418 pp., $ 160.00 (0
Damsels in distress: manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran0
‘Just another story that was prepared in advance’ - political distrust, Islamism, and conspiratorial thinking in Arab public opinion on the Islamic State0
The rise & decline of the Dargazin’s Sunnis and their role in the events of Afghan’s invasion to Isfahan0
Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists Television and the Afghan culture wars: brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activis0
The Sīmurgh in Chach: bird symbolism in the Rawdat al-fariqayn0
Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in MENA countries0
The Israeli policing army – the gray arm of annexation0
Negotiating Lebanon’s urban boundaries and sectarian space: Syrian refugees in Beirut and Tripoli0
Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: international relations in the interwar period0
Women in place: the politics of gender segregation in Iran0
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English0
Institutional resilience in Modern Iranian Shiʿism: solidification of the ḥawza ʿilmīya of Qum between 1961 and 19790
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary0
The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film0
Reforming modernity: ethics and the new human in the philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha0
Christian Arab nationalism between ideology and pragmatism the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Of Antioch Gregorios IV in the First World War0
New order in the Gulf: the rise of the UAE0
Hagop Mnts‘uri’s The Second Marriage: Armenian realities in the pre- and post-genocide Ottoman Empire and Turkey0
“The old rains are gone, so are we”: Kurdish Nomads of Mount Ağrı (Ararat)0
Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgement, and mourning in Syria0
Methodological approaches in Kurdish studies: theoretical and practical insights from the field0
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy0
The resistance axis and regional order in the Middle East: nomos, space, and normative alternatives0
“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran” “Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran” , by Kusha Sefat,0
The attraction of direct action: the making of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iranian Kurdish conflict0
Internet-mediated Islamist semiotics: policing memes and the R4BIA pizza effect0
The role of ṣulḥ in Sahrawi state-building0
The dynamics of humanitarianism, religion and politics in the Middle East, 1860s-1960s: introductory remarks0
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran0
A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel0
Joseph Campbell, Shiʿism, and the Karbala Narrative0
The issue of the child’s surname in custody disputes in Turkey: what are the best interests of the child?0
Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture0
Disliking others: loathing, hostility, and distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands0
The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan0
The ‘Officers Plot’: the German fifth column during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran in the Second World War0
The Arab renaissance: a bilingual anthology of the Nahda0
Beyond the Prophet’s Heirs: Emergent Trajectories of a new Sectarian Polemic in Contemporary Iran0
Freedom on the Frontlines: Afghan Women and the Fallacy of Liberation Freedom on the Frontlines: Afghan Women and the Fallacy of Liberation , by Lina Abirafeh, Jefferson0
What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical p0
An introduction to Arabic translation0
Magdi Youssef: Corrections and refutations0
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup0
Expecting the best: Palestinian Utopianism and trans-sectarianism in the Mandate period0
Challenges in the conceptualization and implementation of normalization: insights from Egyptian–Israeli Relations0
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures0
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates0
The art of ambiguity – Michelle Langford, Allegory in Iranian Cinema. The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance0
Missionaries as Humanitarian Mediators after the 1860 troubles in Lebanon0
The armed struggle of the 1980s in Iranian Kurdistan: a space for survival0
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran , by Blake Atwood, Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2021. 264 pp.,0
Tunisian youth: catalyst for socio-political change and emergence of identity politics in post-Arab Spring Tunisia0
The influence of the social contract on the stability of Moroccan society after its Independence0
Responding to Climate Change in Jordan: understanding institutional developments, political restrictions and economic opportunities0
In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema0
States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey 0
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel0
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–20170
Tunisian youth as drivers of socio-cultural and political changes: glocality and effacement of cultural memory?0
Martyrdom, mysticism and dissent: the poetry of the 1979 Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) Martyrdom, mysticism and dissent: the poetry of the 1979 0
Turkey: the pendulum between military rule and civilian authoritarianism0
Iran reframed: anxieties of power in the Islamic Republic0
Sinews of war and trade: shipping and capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula0
Advanced English-Arabic translation: a practical guide, 2nd edition0
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad0
Mission impossible: the Italian bombing of Bahrain and the British response0
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship 0
The modern silk road: trade in Persian opium across Central Asia in the long nineteenth century0
The wind in my hair: my fight for freedom in modern Iran0
The politics of mass violence in the Middle East0
‘Lakum ‘Adatkum wa-Lana al-Musiqa’ A critical engagement with the politics of identity, resistance and affect in Mashrou` Leila’s Music0
Social classes and political Islam: a comparative ecological approach of post-Arab Spring elections in Northern Africa (2011- 2014)0
Confronting minorization: colonial missionaries and Ottoman millets in the eyes of a Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Rabbi0
Search and sovereignty: the relatives of the Lebanese disappeared in Syria0
The rise and demise of Safavid-Kizilbash millenarianism in Western Asia: an ecosystemic institutionalist explanation0
The war of the 60 stamps: the battle for public opinion – how the Nakba influenced Jordanian postage stamps0
Islam, science fiction and extraterrestrial life: the culture of astrobiology in the muslim world0
Iran and a French empire of trade, 1700-1808: the other Persian letters0
Dynamic Quietism and the Consolidation of the ḥawza ʿilmīyya of Qum during the Pahlavi Era0
Responses of the EU and Member States to the Tunisian Revolution: Discourse vs Action0
Diaspora from the Middle East and North Africa: communities, architecture, neighborhoods0
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership0
The stories of rebellious children at the time of the 1979 revolution0
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings0
Menachem Begin and the question of the settlements: 1967–19770
The metamorphosis: a literary analysis of the Arab Muslim refugee’s interpersonal struggles of integration in London0
A Shiʿi Lebanese reading of Sunni Hadith: progress, inclusivity, and an empowered contestation of narratives0
The unfinished Arab spring: micro-dynamics of revolts between change and continuity0
The temptation of graves in Salafi Islam: iconoclasm, destruction and idolatry0
What does antisectarianism oppose? Lebanese communists’ debates on sectarianism, 1975–19810
White Revolution on the screen; the transformation of hegemonic currents in the Iranian rural films during the 1960s and 1970s0
The Muslim brotherhood in Syria0
Jihad in the City – militant Islam and contentious politics in Tripoli Jihad in the City – militant Islam and contentious politics in Tripoli , by Raphael Lefevre, Cambr0
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar 0
Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue0
Syrian female detainees: pathetic or heroic victims?0
Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Existential Function Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Ex0
Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis Grounded nationalisms: a sociological analysis , by Siniša Malešev0
Faces of Muhammad: Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to today Faces of Muhammad: Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Mi0
The birth of a poetry of political criticism: the transformation that took place in the political verses of the Negev Bedouin at the close of the Ottoman period0
Contemporary Turkey in Conflict: Ethnicity, Islam and Politics0
POLITICS OF HOPE AND POPULIST BACKLASH: KURDS IN Turkey AND PALESTINIANS INIsrael0
International Security in a World of Fragile States: Islamic States and Islamist Organisations0
‘Islamization of Knowledge’: a Utopian dream or a viable project? A critique of the views of two prominent Iranian proponents of the ‘Islamization Project’0
Understanding the Jihadi Salafi threat in Jordan in 2011-20170
The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a contrastive linguistic study The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a 0
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan0
Iran’s changing naval strategy in the Persian Gulf: motives and features0
Mernissi’s impact on Islamic feminism: a critique of the religious approach0
Correction0
Parallel Discursive Fields in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Iran: The West as a Model or an Anti-Model0
Killing the dispensables: massacres perpetrated in the villages of Eastern Aleppo Province in 20130
‘And never the twain shall meet’? The Western other in the Saudi novel and the contrastive construction of Saudi identity0
Political opposition and voter mobilization in an authoritarian state: The case of parliamentary elections in Iran0
Zionism in a white coat: Israel’s geopolitics of medical aid development assistance of health to Africa0
Religious Parties and the Politics of Civil Liberties0
Sectarianization and Memory in the post-Saddam Middle East: the ‘Alāqima0
The Near East Relief and the American Board Commissions for foreign missions. Humanitarian partnership and divorce in the Near East (1918–1929)0
Your sons are at your service. Tunisia’s missionaries of Jihad0
Museums, emotion and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey0
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis0
Conflicting German Orientalism: Zionist Arabists and Arab scholars, 1926–19380
Regional identity and the sense of political belonging in a disputed land: the Golan Trail as symbolic socio-political initiative0
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