Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies: Recent submissions
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From Road to Path: The Symbolic Roles of Islam Amongst South London Gangs
(Taylor & Francis / Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics / Association for the Study of Nationalities, 4 December 2020)Two different understandings of the symbolic repertoire of Islam for young British gang members have been used in this article. Islam was used to justify participation in gang life, a function of rationalisation and ... -
Excavations at Samahij, Bahrain, and the Implications for Christianity, Islamisation, and Settlement in Bahrain
(Wiley, 12 February 2021)The episcopal seat of Meshmahig or Mašmahig is referred to in various historical sources, such as the synods of the Church of the East, of 410 and 576. These sources have been extensively explored, and it has been suggested ... -
Reversing the gaze? or decolonizing the study of the Qurʾan
(Brill Academic Publishers, 17 December 2020)Taking as the starting point, Majid Daneshgar’s Studying the Qurʾan in the Muslim Academy, I argue that the political and intellectual contexts for the study of Islam and indeed the Qur’an cannot be ignored whether the ... -
Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad as a case study of consecration, annexation, and decontextualization in Arabic–English literary translation
(SAGE Publications, 16 December 2020)Differences in culture, language and context alter the reading experience, meaning and textual relations of modern Arabic literature in translation, which raises questions about the relationship between the Arabic and ... -
Exploring Post-Rebel Parties in Power: Political Space and Implications for Islamist Inclusion and Moderation
(Scientific Research Publishing, 10 October 2020)This article analyzes factors relating to moderation and immoderation of post-rebel parties in power, thus making a significant departure from previous studies, which have tended to examine these from a position of ...