British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
The issue of the child’s surname in custody disputes in Turkey: what are the best interests of the child?6
The ‘Officers Plot’: the German fifth column during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran in the Second World War6
What does antisectarianism oppose? Lebanese communists’ debates on sectarianism, 1975–19816
Hope, Messiah and troubles of messianic futures in Iran: exploring martyrdom and politics of hope amongst the Iranian revolutionary youth4
In pursuit of promotion, a life lost in ottoman petitions: the case of Doctor Ahmed Arif (1900–1910)3
David Yellin, Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali and the Great Library of Damascus during the First World War3
Populists’ struggle for epistemic hegemony and anti-gender attacks on higher education in authoritarian contexts: the case of Turkey3
Diaspora from the Middle East and North Africa: communities, architecture, neighborhoods3
There is no compulsion in marriage’ . Divorce and gendered change in Afghanistan during the Islamic Republic3
Syrian refugees and other Syrian forced migrants in Jordan: forms of capital approach2
Righteous Politics: Power and Resilience in Iran2
Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan Political Islam and democracy in Central Asia, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan 2
Ciné-martyrographies. Media techniques of witnessing in Iranian cinema2
Killing the dispensables: massacres perpetrated in the villages of Eastern Aleppo Province in 20132
Soldiers of democracy? Military legacies and the Arab spring2
The myth of the Basiji: Morteza Avini’s legacy for the propaganda in Iran2
The armed struggle of the 1980s in Iranian Kurdistan: a space for survival2
New order in the Gulf: the rise of the UAE2
The role of ṣulḥ in Sahrawi state-building2
Negotiating Lebanon’s urban boundaries and sectarian space: Syrian refugees in Beirut and Tripoli2
‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami2
Challenges in the conceptualization and implementation of normalization: insights from Egyptian–Israeli Relations2
Introduction: propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran2
Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence , by M2
How sanctions work: Iran and the impact of economic warfare How sanctions work: Iran and the impact of economic warfare , by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Is2
Freedom for Morocco: a family tale2
Inaudible screams: intersectional experiences of oppression and violence in the Kurdish Novel2
The war of the 60 stamps: the battle for public opinion – how the Nakba influenced Jordanian postage stamps2
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary2
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 Mi2
Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran2
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis re-revisited: World Bank and Truman–Churchill proposals1
Social capital, civic engagement and democratization in Kurdistan1
An increasingly corrosive expedient? Israel’s evolving relationship with back-channel diplomacy1
Selling god: Al-Azhar, UAE and transnational transferability of religious capital1
Religious Arabic exclamations in Persian talks-in-interaction: a micro-analytic approach to contexts and senses1
Responding to Climate Change in Jordan: understanding institutional developments, political restrictions and economic opportunities1
What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical pieces What is Iran? Domestic politics and international relations in five musical p1
Breaking the chains: women’s writing against patriarchy in Saudi narratives1
Structural dividers in the Qur’an Structural dividers in the Qur’an , by Marianna Klar, Abingdon, Routledge, 2020, 418 pp., $ 160.00 (1
Configuring the present for the future: personal narratives of the Arab spring1
Regime trajectories of Tunisia and Turkey: a comparative analysis1
Dynamic Quietism and the Consolidation of the ḥawza ʿilmīyya of Qum during the Pahlavi Era1
Framing democracy – organisational perspectives on democracy in post-2011 Tunisia1
The attraction of direct action: the making of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the Iranian Kurdish conflict1
Institutions, feminist mobilizations, and political economy: Debating equal inheritance in Tunisia1
Mission impossible: the Italian bombing of Bahrain and the British response1
Oil money: middle east petrodollars and the transformation of US empire, 1967–19881
Palestinian rural education during the British mandate: a story of a national struggle and constant resistance1
China and the transfer of military technology to the Middle East: dimensions, developments, and challenges1
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: World Bank and Truman-Churchill proposals rejoinder to Mr Gorjestani1
Power, politics & resistance: secularism and women’s marital rights in Egypt and Iran1
Hedayat’s rebellious child: multicultural rewriting of The Blind Owl in Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects1
Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar 1
Muslim reading rooms in the Caucasus: adaptation, emulation, and the cultivation of a reading public1
Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: Opportunities and Constraints Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: Opportunities and Constra1
The practice of informal marriages in the Muslim world: a comparative portrait1
Buying modernization. Western NGOs and gender politics in Pahlavi Iran1
Confronting minorization: colonial missionaries and Ottoman millets in the eyes of a Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Rabbi1
A dream of lies: stories of Bangladeshi maid migrants in the Middle East1
We are not them! Self-presentation of North African Muslim soldiers in the German captivity in 1914–19181
The rise & decline of the Dargazin’s Sunnis and their role in the events of Afghan’s invasion to Isfahan1
The life of one chosen by god: a study of the stories of Moses in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Sources1
Ingroup, outgroup, or ally? An inquiry on the identity content of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) supporters on social media1
The evolution of the party model in Turkey: from cadre to cartel parties?1
Legal conflicts among natural resources stakeholders in Iran1
Middle eastern television drama: politics, aesthetics, practices1
‘Islamization of Knowledge’: a Utopian dream or a viable project? A critique of the views of two prominent Iranian proponents of the ‘Islamization Project’1
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 1
Shifting Threats and Strategic Adjustment in Iran’s Foreign Policy: The case of Strait of Hormuz1
Regime continuity and Islamists’ limited opportunities in post-2019 Algeria and Sudan1
Iran’s foreign policy making: consensus building or power struggle?1
The failure of democracy in Afghanistan1
Violence and representation in the Arab uprisings1
Islamic identity and development after the Ottomans the Arab Middle East0
Musa al-Sadr and the missing fatwa concerning the ʿAlawi religion0
Amina Al-Saʿid: a liberal femocrat under state feminism0
A (female) country doctor in Egypt: the life and times of Nawal Al-Saadawi0
Muslim women’s identity in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow0
The Manama riots 1947: Bahraini Jews between Palestine and Gulf labour politics0
The promised land of Fadak: locating religious nationalism in shiite politics0
The influence of the social contract on the stability of Moroccan society after its Independence0
Narratives of forced mobility and displacement in contemporary literature and culture0
Parvin Etesami in the literary and religious context of twentieth-century Iran: a female poet’s challenge to patriarchy0
Truth and other lies: online foreign image management in Iran during the Rouhani Era0
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
The blessed handful of light: genesis and message of the Yezidi berat0
Publics forums in the Algerian and Lebanese hiraks or autonomy in the making0
Becoming temporarily protected, producing temporarily protecting places: how Syrian refugee women and children co-create place in Istanbul0
The enigma of the number of ʿAlawis in Syria: 11% indeed?0
The evolution of the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates0
Sufi Civilities: religious authority and political change in Afghanistan0
Disappointment and vision in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings0
Between political survival and regional power: the justice and development party and Cyprus, 2002–20170
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 Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: an oral history of a Palestinian village depopulated in the Late Ottoman period0
Violence against health care in Syria: patterns, meanings, implications0
Routledge handbook on contemporary Egypt0
Advanced English-Arabic translation: a practical guide, 2nd edition0
The absence, marginalization and culturalization of the presence: representation of the Kurds in Persian post-revolution novels: 1980–20110
Identity entanglements of descendants of Polish emigrants during the transformation of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire into a nation-state0
Review: a prophet has appeared: the rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish eyes: a sourcebook Review: a prophet has appeared: the rise of Isla0
Institutional petitions in Morocco: opportunities and challenges of claiming rights in participatory arenas0
War and peace within the Israeli Right (1970 - 1978): the path of a Hawkish party towards pragmatism0
From pharaoh to hero: contested constructions of Mubarak’s image in Egyptian post-uprising collective memory0
The role of protestant missionaries during the Great Arab Revolt in Jerusalem and South Palestine (1936-1939) – towards humanity?0
A New Diaspora Press: Persian Periodicals in 1950s Israel0
Shadow education in the Middle East: private supplementary tutoring and its policy implications0
An Inclusion demoderation hypothesis: the revolutionary socialists in a democratic transition0
Selimiye as a commemorative monument in modern Turkey0
The Muslim brotherhood in Syria0
Islamic reform with or without Ulama? A comparative study between al-Kawakibi and Naini0
Correction0
To fight ‘Justly’: Shia Clerics under Safavids and Qajars0
Contemporary Domestic and Foreign Policies of Iran0
The desert, poetry and Ibn ʿArabī0
“Intentionality” in radical flank effects: reflections on Al-Nusra Front’s discourse of moderation between 2012–20170
Damsels in distress: manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran0
Sephardic longshoremen at the Haifa Port (1933-1936): dynamics of skill-selective labor immigration from Thessaloniki to mandatory Palestine0
‘In the Byzantines’ cage’: a Transjordanian poem about Qadr al-Majali, leader of the 1910 Karak revolt – analysis of a version documented in the Negev0
State capacity and termination of terror campaigns: a qualitative evidence from PKK0
Al-Lajjun: a Social and geographic account of a Palestinian Village during the British Mandate Period0
Islamic and sectarian or secular and nationalist? New classification of Iraqi Shi’a political actors based on ideological anchorage0
India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era India’s policy towards west Asia: the modi era , edited by Sujan Chinoy and Prasanta Kumar Pradhan, New Delhi, Pentagon Pr0
The role of the Syrian business elite in the Syrian conflict: a class narrative0
Polarization & populist backlash in transitioning Tunisia: the role of internet media & media ownership0
The end of a myth? Turkish-American relations during the National Unity Committee Governments (1960–1961)0
The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation , Mixson James D, Boston, University of Toronto Pre0
Investigating the cultural signs and ideological representations in Masameer Saudi cartoon: a discursive and semiotic analysis0
An episode of the revolution: Aleppo university protest movement 2011–20130
Watermelon democracy: Egypt’s turbulent transition0
Kindred Voices: a literary history of Medieval Anatolia0
Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt 0
Institutional resilience in Modern Iranian Shiʿism: solidification of the ḥawza ʿilmīya of Qum between 1961 and 19790
An Ottoman mission to Tehran: Mehmed Tahir Münif Paşa’s second ambassadorship to Tehran and the re-making of Perso-Ottoman relations (1876-1897)0
Channelling (in)security: governing movement and ordinary life in ‘imagined geographies’0
Revolution without revolutionaries: making sense of the Arab spring0
From resentment to hatred: the Islamist complex and Iran’s anger-charged foreign policy0
Translation and traditions: Taha Abderrahmane’s intersectional views as a threshold for cultural dialogue0
The religious soundscape of Mount Lebanon in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century0
Regional demography and social change in Tunisia in the early 20th century0
Public Administration in the Middle East and North Africa0
Caribbean Zion: A creolization perspective on Jewish-Israeli cultures0
Negotiating gender during times of crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran: visual propaganda from the Iran–Iraq War to COVID-190
Disowning the past: an assassination, complex transnational influences, and the generational rift within the Iranian communist movement0
Syrian female detainees: pathetic or heroic victims?0
Syria and the Neutrality Trap: Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes Syria and the Neutrality Trap: Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Reg0
Revolutionary Utopia in the Middle East as steely romanticism: the case of the al-Baʿth party0
Hamid Dabashi, The Last Muslim Intellectual, the Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad0
Revisiting Erdoğan’s century of Turkey: unmasking populism’s political strategies through the Lens of the Canal Istanbul0
China-Iran strategic partnership and the future of US hegemony in the Persian Gulf Region0
Ethnopolitics to geopolitics: the Turkish State and the Kurdish question since 20150
Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics0
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
Social Change in Syria: Family, Village and Political Party0
Civil wars and international conflicts revisited: insights from the southern theatre of the Syrian uprising, 2011–20170
China’s economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia0
Forgetting Amir Boktor: the quintessential humanist Arab educator0
Populism at the UN: comparing Netanyahu’s and Abbas’s speeches, 2010–190
The stories of rebellious children at the time of the 1979 revolution0
Israeli Military Education: Historical Overview of a Unique Phenomenon (1941-2004)0
Palestinian workers of Israel Railways0
The use of foreign languages in Saudi television advertisements0
“Nasir’s Vietnam”: analysing Egyptian intelligence literature on the Yemen intervention0
Witness Reporting as Resistance and Recovery–The Swedish Missionary Alma Johansson and the 1915 Armenian Genocide0
Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism Turkish politics and ‘the people’: mass mobilisation and populism , by Spyros A. Sofos, Edinburgh, Edin0
From sacred earth to magic squares: emerging literacy and creating Yezidi amulets in Iraq0
Placing the environment in Middle East studies: beyond the single story0
Moroccan female religious agents: old practices and new perspectives0
Tribal Mobilisation Forces in Iraq: Subtleties of Formation and Consequential Power Dynamics0
Islamic Fundamentalism as a lifestyle? a Sociological Study of Islamic Fundamentalism among Sunni Kurds of Iran0
Television series as propaganda: the populist discourse in Aghazadeh0
Exceptionalism and nationalism in contemporary Iranian thought: a study of Javad Tabatabai’s scholarship0
Arabic media coverage of pandemics: Discourse, strategy and impact0
Diasporic Syrian women writers: stories of resilience and survival0
Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices0
Exploring the metaphors of the body in the novels of Rajaa Alem: special focus on Khātam and Ḥubbā0
“Muslim Democrats”: the rise of neo-Islamism in Tunisia and Morocco0
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship 0
Orchestrating Palestinian youth political socialization during the British Mandate (1917-1948): policies and community responses0
Women in place: the politics of gender segregation in Iran0
Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran Persian petroleum: oil, empire and revolution in late Qajar Iran 0
Trauma and the rehabilitation of trafficked women: the experiences of Yazidi survivors0
Manipulating English news reports translated into Arabic: the influence of patronage and socio-narratives0
Hagop Mnts‘uri’s The Second Marriage: Armenian realities in the pre- and post-genocide Ottoman Empire and Turkey0
From brotherhood of the revolution to the struggle for power: analysis of the Libyan Civil War in the context of the security dilemma0
Azerbaijan’s state building power as a reflection of Israel–Iran hostility0
Women’s gifting of their inheritance share to male kin is void: a study of late Ottoman fatwas on social coercion0
The Palestinian refugees, Christian humanitarianism, and the remaking of the Melkite church in Jordan0
The power of silence: rethinking Iranian Jews’ power relations during the Qajar dynasty0
The role of the Israeli-Syrian mixed armistice commission in the fate of the Arabs of Krad al-Baqqara and Krad al-Ghaname 1948-19560
Allied rivalry over oil concession during World War II occupation of Iran: the Soviet perspective based on Soviet documents0
‘The question of the corset’: fashion, health and identity in late Ottoman history0
The compromise of Islamism and democracy in the light of the Tunisian revolution and views of Rachid al-Gannouchi0
The west’s war against Islamic state: operation inherent resolve in Syria and Iraq0
Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons Whispers across continents: in search of the Robinsons , by Gareth Winro0
The post-Ottoman order in the Middle East: Mark Sykes and the complexity of the Kurdish question0
At the crossroads: A critical discourse analysis of gender and societal norms in Rajaa Alsanea’s ‘ Girls of Riyadh’0
Muslim women’s diasporic identity: a critical discourse analysis of Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005)0
Syria 2011–2013: revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem0
Collective hawza leadership in a time of crisis: the period of marajeʿ thalath (1937–1953)0
Da and its mothers of the martyred: meaning and contest in an Iranian war memoir0
National socialist propaganda in late Reza-Shah Iran: the case of Khaterat-e Hitler by Mohsen Jahansuz0
Israel, the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Fahd Plan of 1981: an historic missed opportunity0
Morocco’s colonial mutation of Arab Jewishness in the 20 th century, the case of Elie Malka0
Epilogue0
The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf0
Polygyny in Islam: a call for retrospection0
Joseph Campbell, Shiʿism, and the Karbala Narrative0
Mourning mothers and wars that never end: reading Nasim Marashi’s Haras (Pruning) in the shadow of the Iran-Iraq war0
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
Politics and writing in the shadow of the Cold War in I Was a Soviet Spy in Iran0
Understanding revolutions: opening acts in Tunisia0
Politics and poetics of witnessing: Choman Hardi and Nazand Begikhani’s poetry of witness in English0
Before the deluge: reforming Gulf states and its illusions in the shadow of an energy transition0
‘And never the twain shall meet’? The Western other in the Saudi novel and the contrastive construction of Saudi identity0
Metamorphosis of Turkey’s political landscape: unveiling the evolving party system in the aftermath of the presidential system shift and the 2023 elections0
Rethinking the critical reception by male critics in Saudi Arabia of Saudi women’s pre-1980 novels0
China’s rise in the global south0
Turkey in turmoil: social change and political radicalization during the 1960s0
Ageing in faraway lands: nostalgic reminiscences and place reproduction in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Lalami’s The Other Americans0
The development of the education system in Qatar: assessing the intended and unintended impacts of privatization policy shifts0
Tracing the origins of Sufism in India: the representation of Hinduism and Buddhism by late Ottoman Bektashi intellectuals0
The idols of ISIS: from Assyria to the internet0
Arab nationalism and the politics of “othering” in Kuwait: evidence from al-taliʿa0
“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
Istanbul’s ordeal with disaster: the British embassy-house and Sir Henry Elliot in the Pera fire of 18700
Correction0
Soft power, hard power dynamics: the case of Iran in Afghanistan0
From Sheikhs to Sultanism: statecraft and authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE0
Correction0
Missionary involvement with the Simele massacre in 1933: the end of American sympathy for the Assyrians0
Politics of hope and populist backlash: kurds in Turkey and Palestinians in Israel0
Everyday life and tactical resistance of the political prisoners: the case of F-type prisons in Turkey0
Loved Egyptian night: the meaning of the Arab spring0
From sit-ins to bureaucratic seats: absorbing pious women into Turkey’s Presidency of Religious Affairs0
Creating the Qur’an: a historical-critical study0
Perceptions of the Committee of Union and Progress in the press of the Yishuv, 1909-19140
The Anglo-Iranian oil crisis revisited: Iran ’s rejection of the World Bank intervention and the 1953 coup0
Constitutional choice in emerging democracies: adoption of the 2004 Afghan Constitution0
The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media0
International institutions of the middle east: the GCC, Arab League, and Arab Maghreb Union0
Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey0
Spaces of youth politics and the Arab uprisings: environmental activism and the Algerian Hirak0
Social classes and political Islam: a comparative ecological approach of post-Arab Spring elections in Northern Africa (2011- 2014)0
Oil, Labour and Empire: Abadan in WWII Occupied Iran0
Kemerê Duzgi: The Protector of Dersim (pilgrimage, social transformation, and revitalization of the Raa Haqi religion)0
Disempowerment without expropriation: Egypt’s old oligarchy under Sisi0
Missionaries as Humanitarian Mediators after the 1860 troubles in Lebanon0
Egypt ’s new authoritarianism from an institutionalist perspective: formal-informal interactions before and after the Egyptian revolution0
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