SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Coetzee, Carli (2019) Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa. UK: Boydell and Brewer. (African Articulations)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Kidambi, Prashant, Kamat, Manjiri and Dwyer, Rachel, eds. (2019) Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in honour of Jim Masselos. London ; New York: Hurst and Co..

Shah, Mustafa, ed. (2019) Islamic Theological Discourses and the Legacy of Kalām: Gestation, Movements and Controversies. Berlin: Gerlach. (Critical Surveys in Islamic Studies)

Vittrant, Alice and Watkins, Justin, eds. (2019) The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area. Berlin: De Gruyter. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 314)

Marzagora, Sara, Orsini, Francesca and Laachir, Karima, eds. (2019) Multilingual Locals and Textual Circulation Before Colonialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (Special issue: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 39, no. 1)

Blatherwick, Helen and Bray, Julia, eds. (2019) 'Arabic Emotions From the Quran to the Popular Epic', Special issue of Cultural History Journal 8:2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Mina, Nima, ed. (2019) Freydoun Farokhzad: Another Season Andere Jahreszeit. A Bilingual Edition with Critical Introduction, Annotations and Archival Material. Edited and Translated by Nima Mina. London: Mehri Publication. (Poetry)

Book Chapters

Dwyer, Rachel (2019) 'Bollywood and America: an overview.' In: Jhaveri, Shanay, (ed.), Outsider films on America. Mumbai: Shoestring Publishers, pp. 140-161.

Farzad, Narguess (2019) '‘A Cup, Nectar Brimmed: The Enduring Appeal of Persian Poetry’.' In: Ardalan, Ziba and Wire, Helen, (eds.), The Spark Is You. London, UK: Parasol Unit- Foundation for Contemporary Art, pp. 22-30.

Farzad, Narguess (2019) 'Hafiz and the Challenges of Translating Persian Poetry into English.' In: Schwepcke, Barbara and Swainson, Bill, (eds.), A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East and West. London: Gingko, pp. 132-140.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2019) 'Naimy and the Russian Literary Canon.' In: Rihani, May A. and Dravis, Michael W., (eds.), Reshaping the Landscapes of Arab Thought: The Legacies of Kahlil Gibran, Ameen Rihani & Mikhail Naimy. College Park, MD: University of Maryland. The Khalil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace, pp. 125-136.

Harrington, Louise (2019) 'Post-partition anxieties and the matter of authenticity in Ireland.' In: Mohanram, Radhika and Raychaudhuri, Anindya, (eds.), Partitions and Their Afterlives: Violence, Memory, Living. London: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 157-179.

Kula, Nancy C. and Marten, Lutz (2019) 'Vowel copying in Dciriku and Mwenyi: On the interaction between phonology and semantics.' In: Banda, Felix, (ed.), Theoretical and Applied Aspects of African Languages and Culture: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Mildred Nkolola-Wakumelo. Cape Town: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS). (CASAS book series; no. 130)

Lunn, David (2019) 'Queer Desires and Satirised Empires: Notes on Aubrey Menen’s A Conspiracy of Women (1965).' In: Luther, J. Daniel and Ung Loh, Jennifer, (eds.), Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender. London: Zed Books, pp. 125-145.

Marzagora, Sara and Kebede, Ayele (2019) 'Literary networks in the Horn of Africa: Oromo and Amharic intellectual histories.' In: Adejunmobi, Moradewun and Coetzee, Carli, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of African Literature. London, UK: Taylor and Francis, pp. 429-442.

Murtagh, Ben (2019) 'Reimagining HIV in Indonesian online media: a discussion of two recent Indonesian webseries.' In: Luther, J. Daniel and Loh, Jennifer Ung, (eds.), Queer Asia: decolonising and reimagining sexuality and gender. London: Zed Books, pp. 45-64.

Nikolaeva, Irina (2019) 'Focus as a morphosyntactic and morphosemantic feature.' In: Baerman, Matthew, Bond, Oliver and Hippisley, Andrew, (eds.), Morphological Perspectives. Papers in Honour of Greville G. Corbett. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 370-389.

Orwin, Martin (2019) 'Somalia: History, Culture, and Geography of Music.' In: Sturman, Janet, (ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. London, UK: SAGE.

Rettová, Alena (2019) 'Czechoslovakia’s Swahilists: Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková.' In: Aiello, Flavia and Gaudioso, Roberto, (eds.), Lugha na Fasihi : Scritti in onore e memoria di / Essays in honour and memory of Elena Bertoncini Zúbková. Napoli: Unior Press, pp. 543-550. (Series minor (Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale." Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo), 85)

Shah, Mustafa (2019) 'The Word of God: The Epistemology of Language in Classical Islamic Theological Thought.' In: Yelle, Robert, Handman, Courtney and Lehrich, Christopher, (eds.), Language and Religion. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 158-192. (Language Intersections)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.' In: Sosnowska, Danuta and Drzewiecka, Ewelina, (eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought. Warsaw: The University of Warsaw Press, pp. 129-144.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy.' In: Kulnazarova, Aigul and Popovski, Vesselin, (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 461-476. (Palgrave Handbooks)

Vittrant, Alice and Watkins, Justin (2019) 'Introduction: Languages of the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area – Grammatical Sketches.' In: Vittrant, Alice and Watkins, Justin, (eds.), The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 1-11. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 314)

Watkins, Justin (2019) 'Wa (Paraok).' In: Vittrant, Alice and Watkins, Justin, (eds.), The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 432-474. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 31)

Journal Article

Birch, Jason (2019) 'The Amaraughaprabodha: New Evidence on the Manuscript Transmission of an Early Work on Haṭha- and Rājayoga.' Journal of Indian Philosophy, 47 (5). pp. 947-977.

Blatherwick, Helen (2019) '‘And The Light in his Eyes Grew Dark’: The Representation of Anger in Arabic Popular Epic.' Cultural History, 8 (2). pp. 226-247.

Blatherwick, Helen (2019) 'Textual Silences and Literary Choices in al-Kisāʾī’s Account of the Annunciation and the Birth of Jesus.' Arabica, 66 (1). pp. 1-42.

Burney, Fatima (2019) 'Locating the World in Metaphysical Poetry: The Bardification of Hafiz.' Journal of World Literature, 4 (2). pp. 149-168.

Dhital, Pragya (2019) 'From ‘Imam ul-Hind’ to Azizul Hind: The ‘One Man Media House’ in Modern India.' South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42 (3). pp. 452-468.

Dhital, Pragya (2019) 'Media satyagraha in the broadcast age: underground literature and populist politics during the Indian internal emergency of 1975–1977.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 21 (7). pp. 942-958.

Gibson, Hannah and Marten, Lutz (2019) 'Probing the interaction of language contact and internal innovation: Four case studies of morphosyntacitc change in Rangi.' Studies in African Linguistics, 48 (1). pp. 64-86.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2019) 'The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s Natives.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55 (1). pp. 48-65.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2019) 'Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America.' Journal of American Studies, 53 (1). pp. 146-171.

Hammond, Marle (2019) 'Pagan or Muslim? “Structures of Feeling” and Religious Ambiguity in al-Khansāʾ.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 22 (1). pp. 36-57.

Harrison, Rachel and Helgesen, Geir (2019) 'Inviting Differences: An Ideal Vision for Area Studies?' South East Asia Research, 27 (1). pp. 3-13.

Hutt, Michael (2019) 'Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'.' South East Asia Research, 27 (1). pp. 21-25.

Hutt, Michael (2019) 'Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu.' Journal of Asian Studies, 78 (3). pp. 549-576.

Istratii, Romina (2019) 'Epistemological reflexivity and labyrinthine ethnography: insights from a gender-sensitive study of conjugal abuse in a religious society.' Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Online, XI (1). pp. 25-52.

Laachir, Karima (2019) 'The Literary World of the North African taghrība: Novelization, Locatedness and World Literature.' Journal of World Literature, 4 (2). pp. 188-214.

Mallinson, James (2019) 'Kālavañcana in the Konkan: How a Vajrayāna Haṭhayoga Tradition Cheated Buddhism’s Death in India.' Religions, 10 (4). pp. 1-33.

Marzagora, Sara (2019) 'Ethiopian Intellectual History and the Global: Käbbädä Mikael’s Geographies of Belonging.' Journal of World Literature, 4 (1). pp. 107-128.

Orsini, Francesca (2019) 'Between Qasbas and Cities: Language Shifts and Literary Continuities in North India in the Long Eighteenth Century.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 39 (1). pp. 68-81.

Orsini, Francesca (2019) 'Present Absence: Book circulation, Indian vernaculars and world literature in the nineteenth century.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 22 (3). pp. 310-328.

Orsini, Francesca (2019) 'World Literature, Indian Views, 1920s–1940s.' Journal of World Literature, 4 (1). pp. 56-81.

Orsini, Francesca, Marzagora, Sara and Laachir, Karima (2019) 'Multilingual locals and textual circulation before colonialism.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 39 (1). pp. 63-67.

Orsini, Francesca and Zecchini, Laetitia (2019) 'The Locations of (World) Literature: Perspectives from Africa and South Asia Introduction.' Journal of World Literature, 4 (1). pp. 1-2.

Orwin, Martin (2019) 'Arabic influence on metre in Somali Sufi religious poetry.' Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 11 (2). pp. 340-374.

Phoenix, Aisha (2019) 'Negotiating British Muslim Belonging: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study.' Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42 (10). pp. 1632-1650.

Ram, Moriel and Aharon-Gutman, Meirav (2019) 'Sacred Rhythms and Political Frequencies: Reading Lefebvre in an Urban House of Prayer.' City and Society, 31 (2). pp. 251-274.

Rao, Anandi (2019) 'Reading double: Queer girls and hindutva politics in the world before her.' Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 9 (2). pp. 129-142.

Singleton, Mark and Birch, Jason (2019) 'The Yoga of the Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati: Haṭhayoga on the Cusp of Modernity.' Journal of Yoga Studies, 2. pp. 3-70.

Suzuki, Hiroyuki, Cairangsanzhou, Tsering Samdrup, Niangwujia, Nyangwu-Gyal, Jixiancairang, Chaksham-Tsering and Sonam Wangmo, Silangwengmu (2019) '/ɧ/ in Amdo Tibetan: Descriptive and Historical Approaches.' Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan = 音声研究, 23. pp. 76-82.

Conference or Workshop Items

Anjaria, Keya (2019) Forging the Spirit of Gezi: Perihan Mağden's Two Girls and Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book. In: BATAS Symposium / Turkish Area Studies Review, May 2019, Cambridge UK.

Book Reviews

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2019) 'Review of: Metapoesis in the Arabic tradition: from modernists to Muḥdathū. by Huda Fakhreddine, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2015.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 22 (1). pp. 59-61.

Shah, Mustafa (2019) 'Review of ‘Sharia and the Concept of Benefit: The Use and Function of maṣlaḥa in Islamic Jurisprudence’. By Abdul Aziz bin Sattam.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 21 (1). pp. 122-126.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Lunn, David (2019) Can Urdu and Hindi be one language? Dawn [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Lunn, David (2019) Interview: Salman Rushdie on his latest novel, ‘Quichotte’. The Hindu [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Lunn, David (2019) The Syair Tabut, an overlooked scroll. Leiden Special Collections Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

McCain, Carmen and Ukoh, Africa (2019) Humanity, Culture, and Representation in Theatre and Film: Africa Ukoh, author of 54 Silhouettes, and Carmen McCain in Conversation. Brittle Paper [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2019) The Poetics of Exile, The "Ruins" of Homeland. Creative Multilingualism Website [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2019) The Silk Roads of Comparative Literature. British Academy Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Translations

Hadjivayanis, Ida and Shivji, Issa, trans. (2019) Poems for the Penniless. Ottowa, Canada: Daraja Press.

Audios

Farzad, Narguess (2019) The Decade that Invented the Future: The 1970s "The impact of the 1979 revolution in Iran". BBC. [Audio]

Other

Lunn, David (2019) 'Hindustani.' Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, 2019 (6). Leiden: Brill. pp. 52-54.

Orwin, Martin (2019) 'Introduction to Poetic Verbal Art.' In: Poems from the Edge of Extinction : an anthology of poetry in endangered languages. London: Chambers. pp. 13-19.