SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Śrī Maṭh and the Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. (Routledge Hindu Studies Series)

Githiora, Chege (2018) Sheng: Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular. London: James Currey.

Hammond, Marle (2018) A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kendhammer, Brandon and McCain, Carmen (2018) Boko Haram. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)

Malik, Hamza (2018) The Grey Falcon: The Life and Teaching of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī. Leiden: Brill. (Arab history and civilization, v. 155.)

Sharma, Naresh (2018) Hindi Tutor: Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Nikolaeva, Irina, ed. (2018) Linguistic Typology. Critic Concepts in Linguistics. Abingdon: Routledge. (Critical Concepts in Linguistics)

Orwin, Martin, ed. (2018) Papers from the Linguistics Workshop: Somali Language and Literature at the Hargeysa Cultural Centre, December 2015. Hargeysa: Ponte Invisibile. (Dhaxalreeb)

Book Chapters

Abdelnour, Mohammed Gamal (2018) 'Muhammad abu Zahra’s muslim Theology of Religions.' In: Walters, James, (ed.), Religious Imaginations: How Narratives of Faith are shaping Today's World. London: Gingko, pp. 101-114.

Austin, Peter and Sallabank, Julia (2018) 'Language Documentation and Language Revitalization: Some Methodological Considerations.' In: Hinton, Leanne, Huss, Leena and Roche, Gerald, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization. Abingdon: Routledge.

Birch, Jason (2018) 'The Proliferation of A ̄sana-s in Late-Medieval Yoga Texts.' In: Baier, Karl, Maas, Philipp André and Preisendanz, Karin, (eds.), Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Vienna: V und R Unipress, pp. 101-180.

Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor (2018) 'The Messiah Hidden in the Depths of the Sea: Reminiscences of 4 Ezra in the Armenian Script of the Lord’s Infancy.' In: Bremmer, J.N., Hirschberger, V. and Nicklas, Tobias, (eds.), Figures of Ezra. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 79-96. (Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha; 13)

Dwyer, Rachel (2018) 'Jaffrey, Saeed (1929-2015).' In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Dwyer, Rachel (2018) 'Rimjhim ke taraane leke aayi barsaat’: Songs of love and longing in the Bombay rains.' In: Rajamani, Imke, Pernau, Margrit and Butler Schofield, Katherine, (eds.), Monsoon Feelings: A History of Emotions in the Rain. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, pp. 291-314.

Feangfu, Janit and Harrison, Rachel (2018) 'Contested modernities and spectres of progress in twentieth century Siam/Thailand.' In: Protchsky, Susie, (ed.), Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s. Leiden: Brill, pp. 166-190. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 310)

Hadjivayanis, Ida (2018) 'Integration and Identity of Swahili Speakers in England: Case Study of Swahili Women.' In: Declich, Francesca, (ed.), Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean : Swahili Speaking Networks on the Move. Netherlands: Brill.

Kennedy, Hugh (2018) 'From Polis to Madina: some reflections thirty years on.' In: Panzram, Sabine and Callegarin, Laurent, (eds.), Entre Civitas y Madina : el mundo de las ciudades en la Península ibérica y en el Norte de África (siglos IV-IX). Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, pp. 13-22. (Collection de la Casa de Velázquez, 1132-7340 ; volume 167)

Kennedy, Hugh (2018) 'Frontiers of Islam: an essay on the Varieties of Frontier Interactions.' In: Wolf, Kordula and Herbers, Klaus, (eds.), Southern Italy as a Contact Area and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages : Religious-cultural heterogeneity and competing powers in local, transregional, and universal dimensions. Koeln: Böhlau, pp. 51-64. (Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte v 80)

Lunn, David and Schofield, Katherine Butler (2018) 'Delight, Devotion and the Music of the Monsoon at the Court of Emperor Shah ‘Alam II.' In: Pernau, Margrit, Schofield, Katherine Butler and Rajamani, Imke, (eds.), Monsoon Feelings. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, pp. 219-254.

Mafi, Maryam and Farzad, Narguess (2018) 'Foreword to The Rumi Book of 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight and Inform.' In: The Rumi Book of 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight and Inform. Charlottesville, VA, 22906, USA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, xiii-xxii.

Mallinson, James (2018) 'Yoga and Sex: What is the Purpose of Vajrolīmudrā?' In: Baier, Karl, Maas, Philipp André and Preisendanz, Karin, (eds.), Yoga in Transformation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Vienna: V und R Unipress, pp. 181-222. (Wiener Forum für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft, Volume 16)

Marzagora, Sara (2018) 'Nationalism: The Italian occupation in Amharic literature and political thought.' In: Brioni, Simone and Gulema, Shimelis, (eds.), The Horn of Africa and Italy: Colonial, Postcolonial and Transnational Cultural Encounters. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 141-166.

Marzagora, Sara (2018) 'On either end of modernity: Ethiopian writers on history and social change.' In: Comberiati, Daniele and Luffin, Xavier, (eds.), Italy and the Literatures of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti). Rome: Aracne, pp. 19-48.

Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Mysteries of the Indian Jungle: Emilio Salgari's orientalist adventures.' In: Markovits, Claude, Leucci, Tiziana and Fourcade, Marie, (eds.), L’Inde et l’Italie: Rencontres intellectuelles, politiques et artistiques. Paris: Editions EHESS. (Collection Purushartha; 35)

Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Na Turk, na Hindu: Shared language, accents and located meanings.' In: Kothari, Rita, (ed.), A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Orwin, Martin (2018) 'Metre and 'extrametricality' in the geeraar.' In: Orwin, Martin, (ed.), Papers from the Linguistics Workshop: Somali Language and Literature at the Hargeysa Cultural Centre, December 2015. Hargeysa: Ponte Invisibile, pp. 105-132. (Dhaxalreeb)

Orwin, Martin (2018) 'On Translating Somali Poetry: some personal thoughts with particular reference to 'Saxansaxo' (Rain's Breeze).' In: Herbert, W.N. and Hussein, Said Jama, (eds.), So At One With You, Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn: An Anthology of Modern Poetry in Somali. Pisa and London: Ponte Invisibile and The Poetry Translation Centre, pp. 201-206.

Orwin, Martin (2018) 'Somalia: Modern and contemporary performance practice.' In: Sturman, Janet, (ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. London, UK: SAGE.

Osunnuga, Tola and Yusuf, Ayo (2018) 'Issues and challenges of adopting digital technologies by African language media: the Yoruba example.' In: Salawu, Abiodun, (ed.), African Language Digital Media and Communication. Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 209-215. (Routledge Contemporary Africa)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2018) 'Orientalism and World Literature: A Re-reading of Cosmopolitanism in Taha Husayn's Literary World.' In: Ball, Anna and Mattar, Karim, (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 97-117. (Edinbrugh Companions to Literature and the Humanities)

Sallabank, Julia (2018) 'Language Revitalization in the Channel Islands.' In: Hinton, Leanne, Huss, Leena and Roche, Gerald, (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization. Abingdon: Routledge.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodox Pseudepigraphic and Heretical Literature.' In: Radulović, N., (ed.), Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Belgrade: University of Belgrade, pp. 13-29. (CEENASWE 2)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism.' In: Blidstein, Moshe, Ruzer, Serge and Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel, (eds.), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 203-217. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 112)

Journal Article

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2018) 'The Role of Context in Interpreting and Translating the Qur’an.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 20 (1). pp. 44-66.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) 'Changing the narration, adjusting the order: The independence of the Rāmānandī sampradāya and the bestowing of the title of Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya.' Rivista degli Studi Orientali (Nuova Serie), XCI (2). pp. 13-26.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) 'Let the Sādhus Talk. Ascetic understanding of Haṭha Yoga and yogāsanas.' Religions of South Asia, 11 (2). pp. 182-206.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) 'Old Tool for New Times: The Discovery of an Ancient Holy Site in Contemporary India.' Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 20 (2018). pp. 45-66.

Birch, Jason (2018) 'Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda.' History of Science in South Asia, 6. pp. 1-83.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2018) 'Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 20 (4). pp. 488-509.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2018) 'Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out: The Methods and Tools of Non-European Poetics.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 38 (1). pp. 170-180.

Hammond, Marle (2018) '“The Language of the Eyes”: Speech Acts and the Gaze in a Monologue by Badīˁah Maṣābnī.' Journal of Arabic Literature, 49 (1-2). pp. 104-124.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2018) 'The trials of Rābi‘a al-‘Adawīyya in the Malay world: the woman Sufi in Hikayat Rabi‘ah.' Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 174 (2-3). pp. 216-243.

Laachir, Karima, Marzagora, Sara and Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Multilingual locals and significant geographies: For a ground-up and located approach to world literature.' Modern Languages Open, 1 (19). pp. 1-8.

Laachir, Karima, Marzagora, Sara and Orsini, Francesca (2018) 'Significant Geographies: in lieu of world literature.' Journal of World Literature, 3 (3). pp. 290-310.

Mustafa, Shah (2018) 'Tanzih and Tashbih in Classical Islamic Thought.' Oxford Bibliographies on line, 1 (1). pp. 1-30.

Osunnuga, Tola (2018) 'Stylolinguistic perspective of syntactic techniques in the art of Yorùbá newspaper writing.' Studies in Yoruba Culture, Language and Literature, Festschrift in Honour of Professor Olugboyega Alaba.. pp. 901-916.

Parr, Nora (2018) 'No more ‘eloquent silence’: Narratives of Occupation, Civil War, and Intifada write everyday violence and challenge Trauma Theory.' Middle East Topics and Arguments, 11 (2018).

Rettová, Alena (2018) 'Swahili and Swahili poetry in Lubumbashi: The language and lyrics of Sando Marteau.' Archív Orientální, 86 (3). pp. 333-362.

Rettová, Alena (2018) 'Translation as destruction: Kezilahabi's adaptation of Heidegger's 'Being'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 81 (3). pp. 439-457.

Ruth Gould, Rebecca (2018) 'Hard translation: Persian poetry and post-national literary form.' Forum for Modern Language Studies, 54 (2). pp. 191-206.

Sato-Rossberg, Nana (2018) 'The role of Hanlyu in Japanese Translation Studies = 일본 번역학 연구에 있어 한류의 역할.' 한국외국어대학교 통번역연구소 [Interpreting and Translation Research Institute, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies] (19th Conf). pp. 235-236.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha.' Scrinium, 14 (1). pp. 334-350.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.' The Silk Road, Fourth Conference on Chinese Studies, 4. pp. 291-300.

Conference or Workshop Items

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2018) The Communist International and the Muslim Umma: Marxist Solidarities from Baku to Calcutta (Keynote Lecture, 8 June, UCL). In: Communism in the vernacular: international imaginaries, local politics, 8 June 2018, University College London, Institute for Advanced Studies.

Izmirli Karamanli, Seda (2018) Comparative Analysis of Pierre Corneille’s Polyeucte and Abdulhak Hamid Tarhan’s Liberte as An Allegoric Emulation. In: Comparative Analysis of Pierre Corneille’s Polyeucte and Abdulhak Hamid Tarhan’s Liberte as An Allegoric Emulation, 11-12 October 2018, İstanbul. (Unpublished)

Mallinson, James (2018) Yoga and Sex: What is the Purpose of Vajrolımudra? In: Yoga in Transformation. (Unpublished)

Book Reviews

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) 'Review of: Everyday Creativity. Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills by Kirin Narayan. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016.' newbooks.asia .

Harrison, Rachel, Sinnot, Megan and Fuhrmann, Arnika (2018) 'Symposium on Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema.' Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 33 (1). pp. 181-201.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2018) 'Review of: Sher Banu A.L. Khan. Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: the Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017.' South East Asia Research, 26 (2). pp. 213-215.

Lunn, David (2018) 'Review of Walter N. Hakala, Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia (New York: Columbia, August 2016).' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 41 (1). pp. 238-240.

Marzagora, Sara (2018) 'Review of Matteo Salvadore, The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 (Transculturalisms 1400–1700.) xi, 235 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 81 (1). pp. 188-190.

McCain, Carmen (2018) 'Postcolonial Mythologies.' American Book Review, 39 (4). pp. 7-8.

Parr, Nora (2018) 'Book Review: Arabic literature for the classroom: teaching methods, theories, themes and texts.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 21 (1). pp. 112-114.

Translations

Orwin, Martin, trans. (2018) 'The Community of Ants'. So At One With You, Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn . London: Ponte Invisibile and The Poetry Translation Centre. pp. 179-181.

Orwin, Martin, trans. (2018) 'Glorious Gobannimo'. So At One With You, Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn . London: Ponte Invisibile and The Poetry Translation Centre. p. 177.

Orwin, Martin, trans. (2018) 'Inclusive Thought'. So At One With You, Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn . London: Ponte Invisibile and The Poetry Translation Centre. pp. 137-151.

Orwin, Martin, trans. (2018) 'Rain's Breeze'. So At One With You, Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn . London: Ponte Invisibile and The Poetry Translation Centre. pp. 187-193.

Orwin, Martin, trans. (2018) Rooxaan by Jaamac Muuse Jaamac. Papers from the Linguistics Workshop: Somali Language and Literature at the Hargeysa Cultural Centre, December 2015 . Hargeysa: Ponte Invisibile.

Orwin, Martin, trans. (2018) The behaviour of the suffixes -le, -ley, -ey and la in Somali by Cabdiraxmaan C. Faarax 'Guri-Barwaaqo'. Papers from the Linguistics Workshop: Somali Language and Literature at the Hargeysa Cultural Centre, December 2015 . Hargeysa: Ponte Invisibile. pp. 53-61.

Orwin, Martin and Herbert, W.N., trans. (2018) 'Arrogance' and 'Seer'. So At One With You, Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn . London: Ponte Invisibile and The Poetry Translation Centre. pp. 123-135.

Orwin, Martin and Pollard, Clare, trans. (2018) 'Searching for my Culture' and 'Indispensable'. So At One With You, Bulshoy Ma Is Baran Lahayn . London: Ponte Invisibile and The Poetry Translation Centre. pp. 71-89.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2018) The Duck that Broke the Mule's Back. Middle Eastern Literatures, 23 (2/3). London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 244-250.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2018) ‘Fangs and Claws’, an excerpt of Dog War II by Ibrahim Nasrallah, winner of 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. ArabLit . ArabLit.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin, trans. (2018) A chapter from Heir of the Tombstones by Walid Shurafa. IPAF Booklet, 2018 . IPAF: IPAF.

Datasets

Schofield, Katherine Butler and Lunn, David (2018) The SHAMSA database 1.0 – Sources for the History and Analysis of Music/Dance in South Asia, c. 1700–1900. (Version 1.0). [Datasets]

Other

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2018) 'Rāmānandī Sampradāya.' In: Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gupta, Vivek (2018) 'hulām 'Alī "Āzād" Bilgrāmī (d. 1786) and 'Abd al-Qādir Badā'ūnī (1540-1615).' In: Islam, Judaisim, and Zoroastrianism. Springer. pp. 144-146.

Harrison, Rachel (2018) 'Exit, Exile, Exodus: Culture at the Margins in Southeast Asia.'

Hutt, Michael (2018) 'A voice from the past speaking to the present: Why Devkota’s English essays are still relevant.' Record Nepal (Mar 7).