Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies: Recent submissions
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Emergence of a Shīʿī Islamic Environmental Paradigm: Legal and Ethical Considerations
(Brill Academic Publishers, 28 March 2025)This article examines the emerging environmental discourse in contemporary Shīʿī Islam, analysing works across traditional fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), environmental jurisprudence (fiqh al-bīʾa), and environmental theology. ... -
پەراوێزخستنی ژنان لە مێژووی ئەدەبی کوردیدا [Marginalisation of Women in Kurdish Literary History]
(Mardin Artuklu University, 30 March 2025)Abstract in Turkish: ژنان لە مێژووی کلتووری و فیکری کوردیدا پەراوێزخراون. مێژووی ئەدەبی کوردی زیاتر مێژوویێکی پیاوانە و بەشداری ژنانی کورد لە پەرەپێدانی ئەدەبی کوردی وەک دیاردەیەکی نوێ کە لە ساڵانی ١٩٨٠وە دەستی پێکردووە ... -
Challenging assimilation and marginalisation: the case of Kurdish language
(Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, 3 March 2025)The modern history of the Kurdish language or languages (we use these terms interchangeably) is one of discrimination and precarity, but also resilience and resistance. Even though there are an estimated 30-40 million Kurds ... -
Syrian Refugees in Mind: Migration - Identity - Narrative - Discourse
(University of Exeter Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, 3 February 2025)This dissertation explores the intricate relationships among identity, sense of self, and refugee discourse through the lens of Syrian refugees’ personal narratives. Drawing on a rich corpus of memoirs published in English ... -
Iran’s last sewn boat? In search of the beach-seining āmele along the Persian Gulf coast of Hormozgan Province, Iran
(University of Zadar, 25 October 2024)Recent ethnographic fieldwork along the Persian Gulf coast of southern Iran by the lead author has located probably the last-known sewn vessel in the country – a disused, beach-seining boat known in Bandari as āmele (عامله) ...