SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

El-Desouky, Ayman (2013) Figuring the Sacred in the Modern Arabic Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature Series)

George, Andrew (2013) Babylonian Divinatory Texts Chiefly in the Schøyen Collection. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press. (Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 18; Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection, Cuneiform Texts 7)

Hewitt, George (2013) Discordant Neighbours: A Reassessment of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian-South Ossetian Conflicts. Leiden: Brill. (Eurasian Studies Library)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2013) Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Scott-Baumann, Alison (2013) Ricoeur and the negation of happiness. New York; London: Bloomsbury.

Thiele, Jan (2013) Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya. Leiden: Brill.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Laachir, Karima, ed. (2013) Contemporary Moroccan Cultural Production: Between Dissent and Co-optation. Abingdon: Taylor and Francis. (Journal of African Cultural Studies. Special issue. Vol 25, (3))

Shihadeh, Ayman, ed. (2013) Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Father, Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn al-Makkī. Nihāyat al-Marām fī Dirāyat al-Kalām. Facsimile of the Autograph Manuscript of Vol. II. Berlin; Tehran: Freie Universität Berlin and Mīrāth-i Maktūb.

Willis, David, Lucas, Christopher and Breitbarth, Anne, eds. (2013) The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume I: Case Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Shindler, Colin, ed. (2013) Israel and the World Powers: Diplomatic Alliances and International Relations Beyond the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris. (Library of International Relations)

Laachir, Karima and Talajooy, Saeed, eds. (2013) Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music. London; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Ansari, Hassan and Thiele, Jan, eds. (2013) Sulaymān b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Khurāshī. Kitāb al-Tafṣīl li-jumal al-Taḥṣīl. Tehran: Mīrāth-i Maktūb, Freie Universität Berlin. (Classical Muslim Heritage Series)

Kennedy, Hugh, ed. (2013) Warfare and poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris.

George, Andrew, ed. (2013) Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age, by Y. Cohen [author]. Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature. (Writings from the Ancient World)

Book Chapters

Alshaer, Atef (2013) 'Hebrew Elements in Palestinian Arabic political discourse.' In: Khan, Geoffrey, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 7-12.

Alshaer, Atef (2013) 'Humanism, Nationalism and Violence in Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warefare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B Tauris, pp. 257-283.

Alshaer, Atef (2013) 'Islam in the Narrative of Fatah and Hamas.' In: Matar, Dina and Harb, Zahera, (eds.), Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine. London: I.B Tauris, pp. 111-133.

Breitbarth, Anne, Lucas, Christopher and Willis, David (2013) 'Incipient Jespersen's Cycle: the (non-)grammaticalization of new negative markers.' In: Fleischer, Jürg and Simon, Horst, (eds.), Sprachvandelvergleich - Comparing Diachronies. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 141-162. (Linguistische Arbeiten)

Dedes, Yorgos and Sperl, Stefan (2013) ''In the Rosebower every Leaf is a Page of Delicate Meaning': An Arabic Perspective on Three Ottoman Kasides.' In: Aynur, Hatice, Çakır, Müjgan, Koncu, Hanife, Kuru, Selim S. and Özyıldırım, Ali Emre, (eds.), Kasîdeye Medhiye: Biçime, İşleve ve Muhtavaya Dair Tespitler. Istanbul: Klasik, pp. 188-314. (Eski Türk Edebiyatı Çalişmaları VIII)

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2013) 'Travels and Studies of Stephen of Siwnik (c.685–735): Redefining Armenian Orthodoxy Under Islamic Rule.' In: Roach, Andrew P. and Simpson, James R., (eds.), Heresy and the Making of European Culture. Medieval and Modern Perspectives. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 355-381.

El-Desouky, Ayman (2013) 'Beyond Spatiality: Theorising the Local and Untranslatability as Comparative Critical Method.' In: Küpper, Joachim, (ed.), Approaches to World Literature, Volume 1, WeltLiteraturen/World Literatures Series. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 59-86.

George, Andrew (2013) 'La Porte des Dieux: la topographie cultuelle de Babylone d’après les textes cunéiformes.' In: André-Salvini, Béatrice, (ed.), La tour de Babylone. Études et recherches sur les monuments de Babylone. Rome: Istituto di studi sulle civiltà dell’Egeo e del vicino Oriente, pp. 29-42. (Documenta asiana 10)

George, Andrew (2013) 'The Poem of Erra and Ishum: A Babylonian poet’s view of war.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B.Tauris, pp. 39-71.

Hammond, Marle (2013) ''If only al-Barraq could see': Violence and Voyeurism in an Early Modern Reformulation of the Pre-Islamic Call to Arms.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 215-240.

Laachir, Karima (2013) 'Managed Reforms and Deferred Democratic Rule in Morocco and Algeria.' In: Saikal, Amin and Acharya, Amitav, (eds.), Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia. London: IB Tauris.

Laachir, Karima (2013) 'Saudi Women Novelists and the Quest for Freedom: Raja Alem’s The Doves’ Necklace.' In: Laachir, Karima and Talajooy, Saeed, (eds.), Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music. London; New York: Routledge.

Lucas, Christopher (2013) 'Negation in the History of Arabic and Afro-Asiatic.' In: Willis, David, Lucas, Christopher and Breitbarth, Anne, (eds.), The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean, Volume I: Case Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 399-452. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2013) 'Silenced Cultural Encounters in Poetry of War.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, pp. 167-192.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2013) 'Aspects of the Reception of Avicenna’s Theory of Prophecy in Islamic Theology.' In: Houser, R. E., (ed.), Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association: Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions. Volume 86, 2012. Houston, TX: Philosophy Documentation Center, pp. 23-32.

Sperl, Stefan (2013) '"O City Set Up Thy Lament" - Poetic Responses to the Trauma of War.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), War and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Taurus, pp. 1-37.

Weeden, Mark (2013) 'Names on Seals, Names in Texts. Who Were These People?' In: Mouton, Alice, Rutherford, Ian and Yakubovich, Ilya, (eds.), Luwian Identities. Culture, Language and Religion Between Anatolia and the Aegean. Boston; Leiden: Brill, pp. 73-86.

Weeden, Mark (2013) 'Poetry and War among the Hittites.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 73-98.

Journal Article

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2013) 'Rückkehr zur Geburtsgrotte. Eine Untersuchung des armenischen Berichts über die Kindheit des Herrn.' Theologie der Gegenwart, 56 (1). pp. 30-43.

El-Desouky, Ayman (2013) 'Naẓm, iʿjāz, Discontinuous Kerygma: Approaching Qur'anic Voice on the Other Side of the Poetic.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 15 (2). pp. 1-21.

Laachir, Karima (2013) 'Editorial: Contemporary Moroccan Cultural Production: Between Dissent and Co-optation.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 25 (3). pp. 257-260.

Laachir, Karima (2013) 'Reflection on Co-optation and Defeat in the Contemporary Moroccan Novel in Arabic: Mohammed Achaari's The Arch and The Butterfly (2011).' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 25 (3). pp. 292-305.

Scott-Baumann, Alison (2013) 'Ricoeur and counter-terror rhetoric: a calculus of negation.' LoSguardo - Rivista di filosofia, 2 (12). pp. 81-93.

Scott-Baumann, Alison (2013) 'Ricoeur, the bioethics of happiness and related delusional states.' Bioética y hermenéutica. La ética deliberativa de Paul Ricœur: Actas del Congreso Internacional.

Shah, Mustafa (2013) 'Al-Ṭabarī and the Dynamics of tafsīr: Theological Dimensions of a Legacy.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 15 (2). pp. 83-139.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2013) 'The Argument from Ignorance and Its Critics in Medieval Arabic Thought.' Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 23 (2). pp. 171-220.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2013) 'A Post-Ghazālian Critic of Avicenna: Ibn Ghaylān al-Balkhī on the Materia Medica of the Canon of Medicine.' Journal of Islamic Studies, 24 (2). pp. 135-174.

Thiele, Jan (2013) 'A propos de l’attribution du ms. Ambrosiana ar. F 122, fol. 35b: un fragment d’un texte zaydite du Yémen.' Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen, 16. pp. 16-24.

Weeden, Mark (2013) 'After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria.' Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 56 (2). pp. 1-20.

Weeden, Mark (2013) 'A Hittite Tablet from Büklükale.' Anatolian Archaeological Studies (18). pp. 19-35.

Weeden, Mark (2013) 'Hiyeroglif Luvicesi: bir imparatorluğu aşan dil.' Aktüel Arkeoloji, 36. pp. 64-71.

Weeden, Mark (2013) 'A probable join to the "Kırşehir Letter".' Anatolian Archaeological Studies, 18. pp. 15-17.

Book Reviews

Hammond, Marle (2013) 'Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture,and Empire, by Deborah Starr.' Comparative Literature Studies, 50 (2). pp. 375-378.

Weeden, Mark (2013) 'Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual.' The Expository Times, 124 (5). pp. 252-253.

Other

Alshaer, Atef (2013) 'Egypt: Retreat from Democracy.' E-International Relations.

Alshaer, Atef (2013) 'Review: Blood Wedding, by Gabriel Garcia Lorca.' Latinolife Magazine.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2013) 'Favour (Divine).' In: Encyclopaedia of Islam. Three. Leiden: Brill.