SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Banda, Fareda (2020) African Migration, Human Rights and Literature. Oxford, UK: Hart.

Hammond, Marle (2020) The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste: A Bilingual Edition and Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (British Academy Monographs)

Wallach, Yair (2020) A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Kohl, Katrin, Dudrah, Rajinder, Gosler, Andrew, Graham, Suzanne, Maiden, Martin, Ouyang, Wen-Chin and Reynolds, Matthew, eds. (2020) Creative Multilingualism : A Manifesto. Cambridge: OpenBookPublishers.

Harrison, Rachel and Helgesen, Geir, eds. (2020) East-West Reflections on Demonization: Korea Now, China Next? Copenhagen: NIAS Press. (NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 71)

Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, eds. (2020) The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks)

Book Chapters

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Presenting the Qur’an out of Context.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Rhetorical Devices and Stylistic Features of Qur'anic Grammar.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 327-345.

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections.' In: Klar, Marianna, (ed.), Structural Dividers in the Qur'an. UK: Routledge.

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2020) 'Globalization and Asceticism: Foreign Ascetics on the Threshold of Hindu Religious Orders.' In: Cornelio, Jayeel, Gauthier, François, Martikainen, Tuomas and Woodhead, Linda, (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society. Routledge.

Birch, Jason (2020) 'Haṭhayoga’s Floruit on the Eve of Colonialism.' In: Goodall, Dominic, Hatley, Shaman, Isaacson, Harunaga and Raman, Srilata, (eds.), Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: Essays in Honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson. Leiden: Brill, pp. 451-479. (Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 22)

Birch, Jason (2020) 'The Quest for Liberation-in-Life: A Survey of Early Works on Haṭha- and Rājayoga.' In: Flood, Gavin D., (ed.), Hindu Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 200-242. (The Oxford History of Hinduism)

Hammond, Marle (2020) 'Al-Khansa': Representing the First-Person Feminine.' In: Seigneurie, Ken and Chism, Christine, (eds.), A Companion to World Literature, Volume 2: 601 CE to 1450. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, pp. 1059-1071.

Hammond, Marle (2020) 'The Kiss in Egyptian Film Language of the 1940s.' In: Lagrange, Frédéric and Savina, Claire, (eds.), Les Mots du désir : La langue de l’érotisme arabe et sa traduction. Marseilles: Diacritiques Éditions. (Sources et histoire des sources)

Healy, Dana (2020) 'The Lyrical Subversions of Socialist Realism in Đặng Nhật Minh’s New Wave Cinema.' In: Skrodzka, Aga, Lu, Xiaoning and Marciniak, Katarzyna, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (Oxford handbooks online)

Kamdem, Seraphin (2020) 'From dialectal variation to standardisation, production of literature, and pedagogical implications: Revisiting the case of Ghɔmálá’, a Grassfields‑Bantu language from Cameroon.' In: Forlot, Gilles, (ed.), Variation linguistique et enseignement des langues : le cas des langues moins enseignées. Paris, France: Presses de l'INALCO, pp. 233-251. (TransAireS)

Kennedy, Hugh (2020) 'The Rise and Fall of the early ʿAbbasid Political and Military Elite.' In: Hagemann, Hannah-Lena and Heidemann, Stefan, (eds.), Transregional and Regional Elites - Connecting the Early Islamic Empire. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 100-113. (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East)

Kohl, Katrin and Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'Introducing Creative Multilingualism.' In: Kohl, Katrin, Dudrah, Rajinder, Gosler, Andrew, Graham, Suzanne, Maiden, Martin, Ouyang, Wen-Chin and Reynolds, Matthew, (eds.), Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto. Cambridge: OpenBookPublishers, pp. 1-24.

Lüpke, Friederike (2020) 'Atlantic.' In: Vossen, Rainer and Dimmendaal, Gerrit J., (eds.), The Oxford handbook of African languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mallinson, James (2020) 'The Amṛtasiddhi: Haṭhayoga’s Tantric Buddhist Source Text.' In: Goodall, Dominic, Hatley, Shaman, Isaacson, Harunaga and Raman, Srilata, (eds.), Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions. Leiden: Brill, pp. 409-425. (Gonda Indological Studies, Volume: 22)

Mallinson, James (2020) 'Haṭhayoga’s Early History: From Vajrayāna Sexual Restraint to Universal Somatic Soteriology.' In: Flood, Gavin D., (ed.), Hindu Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177-199. (The Oxford History of Hinduism)

Marten, Lutz (2020) 'Bantu and Bantoid.' In: Vossen, Rainer and Dimmendaal, Gerrit J., (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of African Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 205-219.

Orsini, Francesca (2020) 'Poetic traffic in a multilingual literary culture: Equivalence, parallel aesthetics, and language-stretching’.' In: Reynolds, Matthew, (ed.), Prismatic Translation. London: Legenda, pp. 51-71. (Transcript (London, England), 10.)

Orsini, Francesca (2020) 'Significant Geographies in the Shadow Lines.' In: Adami, Esterino, Concilio, Carmen and Vescovi, Alessandro, (eds.), Crossing the Shadow Lines : Essays on the Topicality of Amitav Ghosh’s Modern Classic. Turin: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne – Università degli Studi di Torino, pp. 171-185.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'The Arabian Nights in Chinese and English Translations: Differing Patterns of Cultural Encounter and World Literature.' In: Shi, Flair Donglai and Tan, Gareth Guanming, (eds.), World Literature in Motion: Institution, Recognition, Location. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, pp. 433-472. (Studies in World Literature)

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'Multilingualism and Creativity in World Literature.' In: Kohl, Katrin, Dudrah, Rajinder, Gosler, Andrew, Graham, Suzanne, Maiden, Martin, Ouyang, Wen-Chin and Reynolds, Matthew, (eds.), Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto. Cambridge: OpenBookPublishers, pp. 109-130.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'War and the Worlding of Story.' In: Chism, Christine, (ed.), A companion to world literature, volume 2. 601 CE to 1450 CE. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, pp. 921-927.

Shah, Mustafa (2020) 'The Corpus of Qur'anic Readings (qirā'āt): History, Synthesis and Authentication.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 194-216. (Oxford Handbooks)

Shah, Mustafa (2020) 'Vocabulary of the Qur’an: Meaning in Context.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 294-314. (Oxford Handbooks)

Singleton, Mark (2020) 'Early Hatha Yoga.' In: O'Brien-Kop, Karen and Newcombe, Suzanne, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 120-129.

Singleton, Mark and Larios, Borayin (2020) 'The Scholar-practitioner of yoga in the western academy.' In: O'Brien-Kop, Karen and Newcombe, Suzanne, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 37-50.

Sperl, Stefan (2020) 'The Qurʾan and Arabic Poetry.' In: Shah, Mustafa and Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford handbooks)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2020) 'The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates.' In: Ferrari, Silvio and Benzo, Andrea, (eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 25-36. (Cultural Diversity and Law)

Wallach, Yair (2020) 'Jerusalem's Lost Heart: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman City Centre.' In: Maksudyan, Nazan and Alkan, Hilal, (eds.), Urban Neighbourhood Formations. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 138-158.

Journal Article

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'البالغة في دراسات العربية في الغرب وأثرها في دراسة القرآن - تجربة من بريطانيا.' Journal of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo. (Forthcoming)

Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (2020) 'Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 22 (2). pp. 60-85.

Blalack, July Scott (2020) 'Al-Shaikh Māʾ al-ʿAynayn: Maghrebi-Saharan literary geographies on the eve of colonization.' Journal of the African Literature Association, 14 (3).

Blalack, July Scott (2020) 'The Migration of Resistance and Solidarity: 'Abd Al-Qādir Al-JazāʼIrī’s Promotion of Hijra.' Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 7 (2).

Burney, Fatima (2020) 'Strategies of Sound and Stringing in Ebenezer Pocock’s West–East Verse.' Comparative Critical Studies, 17 (2). pp. 319-336.

Gibson, Hannah, Mapunda, Gastor, Marten, Lutz and Taji, Justus (2020) 'Ulinganishi wa mofolojia na sintaksia baina ya lugha 19 za Kibantu za Afrika Mashariki [A morphosyntactic comparison of 19 East African Bantu languages].' Kiswahili, 82. pp. 1-13.

Goikolea-Amiano, Itzea (2020) 'Gender and Sexuality in early 19th-century Tunisia: a Decolonial Reading of Aḥmad b. al-Qāḍī al-Timbuktāwī’s naṣīḥa on the sub-Saharan diaspora.' Genre et Histoire, 25. p. 4983.

Goikolea-Amiano, Itzea (2020) 'Historizar para decolonizar.' Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 117. p. 1407.

Goikolea-Amiano, Itzea (2020) 'Nuevas musulmanas españolas: puzles identitarios y respuestas a los malestares espirituales y de género.' Arenal : Revista de Historia de las Mujeres, 27 (1). pp. 65-93.

Gong, Xun (2020) 'How many vowels are there in Lhasa Tibetan?' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 43 (2). pp. 225-254.

Hutt, Michael (2020) 'Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution?' Conflict Security and Development, 20 (3). pp. 379-400.

Hutt, Michael (2020) 'The changing face of Nepal.' Current History, 119 (816). pp. 141-145.

Lovestrand, Joseph (2020) 'F-Structure and s-Structure of Urdu Complex Predicates.' Proceedings of the LFG'20 Conference. pp. 232-249.

Orsini, Francesca (2020) 'From Eastern Love to Eastern Song: Re-translating Asian Poetry.' Comparative Critical Studies, 17 (2). pp. 183-203.

Quddus, Miki (2020) 'A Movement Back To “Home” How Is The ‘Home’ Presented In Tamim Al-Barghouti’s “In Jerusalem”?' The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, 12 (2018-2019). pp. 63-68.

Quddus, Miki (2020) 'The Rohingya’s Suspension At The Border: Border/Lands Are Conventionally Conceived As Spaces Of Waithood And Suspension. How Do People On The Move Inhabit And Politicise The Border?' The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, 12 (2018-2019). pp. 54-62.

Sperl, Stefan (2020) 'İnsanın "Boş Özü": Hadis Literatüründe ve Klasik Arap Edebinde Etik ve Estetik [translated by Suat Koca].' Hitit Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi / Journal of Divinity Faculty of Hitit University, 19 (1). pp. 506-546.

Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin (2020) 'Intermedial Translation as Circulation: Chu Tien-wen, Taiwan New Cinema, and Taiwan Literature.' Journal of World Literature, 5 (4). pp. 568-586.

Monographs and Working Papers

Abdelnour, Mohammed Gamal (2020) The Islamic Theology of Interfaith Marriages between Theology, Law and Individual Ijtihad. Singapore: The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies: Interreligious Relations: Occasional Papers of The Studies in Inter-Religious Relations in Plural Societies Programme, no.17.

Osei-Nyame Jnr., Kwadwo (2020) Eldership, Ancestral Traditions and Cultural Identity in African Fiction: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost. London: SOAS University of London.

Book Reviews

Alavi, Seyed Ali (2020) 'Review: The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran's Global Ambitions, by Arash Azizi.' The Middle East Journal, 75 (1). 168-168(1).

Bevilacqua, Daniela (2020) 'Review of: The History of Janakpurdham. A Study of Asceticism and the Hindu Polity, by Richard Burghart. Kathmandu: Himal Books, 2016.' European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 54 . pp. 108-111.

Goikolea-Amiano, Itzea (2020) 'Review: "Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture".' Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 21 (2). pp. 279-282.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'Elizabeth Holt, Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton and the Rise of the Arabic Novel.' Literature and History, 29 (1). pp. 132-134.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment. By Alexander Bevilacqua. Cambridge MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 368. HB £28.95. ISBN 9780674975927.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 22 (2). pp. 116-119.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2020) 'Review of: Rediscovery of the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition, by Ahmed el Shamsy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 312 pp. ISBN 9780691174563.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 83 (3). pp. 525-527.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Harrison, Rachel (2020) Railway Sleepers: Travelling in Siamese Time and Space. Docalogue [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Hijjas, Mulaika (2020) Politics of the archive: Colonial collections of Malay manuscripts in comparative perspective. FutureLearn MOOC "Learning from the Past" [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Hijjas, Mulaika (2020) Where are all the Malay royal libraries? Malay Heritage Centre [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2020) Wen and the art of lockdown maintenance. British Comparative Literature Association Webpage [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Ouyang, Wen-chin (2020) 'Bringing together Arabic Adab and Chinese Wen.' ArabLit Quarterly: A Magazine of Arab Literature in Translation .