SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Alshaer, Atef (2014) Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World. London; New York: Hurst and Columbia University Press.

El-Desouky, Ayman (2014) The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Amāra and the 2011 Revolution. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Palgrave Pivot)

Moustafa, Ahmed and Sperl, Stefan (2014) The Cosmic Script: Sacred Geometry and the Science of Arabic Penmanship, Volume 1, Sources and Principles of the Geometry of Letters, Volume 2, From Geometric Pattern to Living Form. London and Rochester, VT: Thames and Hudson and Inner Traditions.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, ed. (2014) The Arabian Nights: An Anthology. London: Random House. (Everyman's Library)

Hammond, Marle, ed. (2014) Arabic Poems. London: Everyman's Library. (Pocket Poets)

Blatherwick, Helen and Toorawa, Shawkat M., eds. (2014) The Qur'an in Modern World Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Special issue of Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 16:3)

Talib, Adam, Hammond, Marle and Schippers, Arie, eds. (2014) The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder. Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust.

Book Chapters

Alshaer, Atef (2014) 'Poetry in the Arab Spring: A historical Perspective.' In: Sadiki, Larbi, (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring : Rethinking Democratization. London: Routledge, pp. 392-407.

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2014) 'Возвращение в рождественскую пещеру: Память первозданного человечества в армянском Писании о детстве Господнем и в родственных источниках.' In: Seleznev, N. and Aržanov, Yu., (eds.), Miscellanea Orientalia Christiana. Восточнохристианское разнообразие. Bochum: Ruhr Universität, pp. 149-184.

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2014) 'The Cave of the Nativity Revisited: Memory of the Primæval Beings in the Armenian Lord’s Infancy and Cognate Sources.' In: Mardirossian, A, Ouzounian, A and Zuckerman, C, (eds.), Mélanges Jean-Pierre Mahé. Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, pp. 285-334. (Travaux et Mémoires; vol. 18)

El-Desouky, Ayman (2014) 'Disturbing Crossings: The Unhomely, the Unworldly and the Question of Method in Approaches to World Literature.' In: Harrison, Rachel, (ed.), Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures. London: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 239-245.

George, Andrew (2014) 'Tintir (Dintir, Tenter).' In: Weidner, Ernst F., (ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 56-57.

Hammond, Marle (2014) 'The Foul-Mouthed Faḥla: Obscenity and Amplification in Early Women's Invective.' In: Talib, Adam, Hammond, Marle and Schippers, Arie, (eds.), The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder. Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, pp. 254-265.

Lucas, Christopher (2014) 'Contact-induced language change.' In: Bowern, Claire and Evans, Bethwyn, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics. London: Routledge, pp. 519-536.

Lucas, Christopher (2014) 'Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account.' In: Borg, Albert, Caruana, Sandro and Vella, Alexandra, (eds.), Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 225-248.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2014) 'Mujun, Junun, Funun.' In: Talib, Adam, (ed.), The Rude, the Bad, and the Ugly: Essays in Honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder. Oxford: Oxbow Books, Gibb Memorial Trust, pp. 7-12.

Peker, Hasan and Weeden, Mark (2014) 'Some Hieroglyphic Fragments from the 2011 Season at Karkemish.' In: Marchetti, Nicolò, (ed.), Karkemish An Ancient Capital on the Euphrates. Bologna: Ante Quem, pp. 132-136. (OrientLab)

Thiele, Jan (2014) 'Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī’s (d. 321/933) Theory of “States” (aḥwāl) and its Adaption by Ashʿarite Theologians.' In: Schmidtke, Sabine, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Weeden, Mark (2014) 'Anatolian Hieroglyphs: Logogram vs Ideogram.' In: Gordin, Shai, (ed.), Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems. Berlin: PeWe-Verlag, pp. 81-100. (Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient 23)

Weeden, Mark (2014) 'State Correspondence in the Hittite World.' In: Radner, Karen, (ed.), State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 32-64.

Journal Article

Al-Rawi, Farouk N. H. and George, Andrew (2014) 'Back to the Cedar Forest: The beginning and end of Tablet V of the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgameš.' Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 66. pp. 69-90.

Alshaer, Atef (2014) 'Adonis, 'Ali Ahmad Said Esber (b.1930).' The Literary Encyclopedia: Exploring Literature, History and Culture.

Balta, Evangelia and Dedes, Yorgos (2014) 'Holding the sceptre of superiority in the Propontis? Late Ottoman Triglia/Trilye.' Journal of Turkish studies = Türklük bilgisi araştırmaları, 42. pp. 1-63.

El-Desouky, Ayman (2014) 'Between Hermeneutic Provenance and Textuality: The Qur'an and the Question of Method in Approaches to World Literature.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 16 (3). pp. 11-38.

El-Desouky, Ayman (2014) 'The Object-Interruptive: Reflections on the Social Resonance of the Archaeological Find.' Forming Material Egypt, Special Issue of Egyptology and Egyptological Documents, Archives and Libraries EDAL, 5.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2014) 'التناص والتحول: الذاكرة الجماعية في الرواية التاريخية الصينية والعربية / Intertextuality and Transformation: Collective Memory in Chinese and Arabic Historical Novels.' Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (34). pp. 109-135.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2014) 'The Qur'an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 16 (3). pp. 63-84.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2014) 'Avicenna's Corporeal Form and Proof of Prime Matter in Twelfth-Century Critical Philosophy: Abū l-Barakāt, al-Masʿūdī and al-Rāzī.' Oriens: Journal of Philosophy, Theology and Science in Islamic Societies, 42 (2-4). pp. 364-396.

Shihadeh, Ayman (2014) 'Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Response to Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s Critical Commentary on Avicenna’s Ishārāt.' The Muslim World, 104 (1). pp. 1-61.

Thiele, Jan (2014) 'The Jewish and Muslim Reception of ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Kitāb al-Jumal wa-l-ʿuqūd: A Survey of Relevant Sources.' Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 2 (1-2). pp. 101-121.

Book Reviews

Shah, Mustafa (2014) 'Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo. Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī’s (d. 716/1316) Commentary on the Christian Scriptures. A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation with an Introduction. By Lejla Demiri. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. xiv + 566. €158 (cloth).' Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 73 (2). p. 378.

Other

Alshaer, Atef (2014) 'The Palestinian Narrative of Reconciliation.' E-International Relations, May 27 2014.