British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 50, Issue 5 (2023)

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British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 50, Issue 5 (2023)

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Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism: modernism, sectarianism and the politics of self-flagellation (taṭbīr)
Oliver Scharbrodt
Pages: 1067-1090
Published online: 31 Mar 2022
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The armed struggle of the 1980s in Iranian Kurdistan: a space for survival
Marouf Cabi
Pages: 1091-1111
Published online: 31 Mar 2022
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Conflicting German Orientalism: Zionist Arabists and Arab scholars, 1926–1938
Amit Levy
Pages: 1112-1131
Published online: 11 Apr 2022
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Is the Arab Spring over? Unpacking perceptions of democracy, elections and regime-types in MENA countries
Nur Köprülü
Pages: 1132-1150
Published online: 25 Apr 2022
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Hagop Mnts‘uri’s The Second Marriage: Armenian realities in the pre- and post-genocide Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Talin Suciyan
Pages: 1151-1166
Published online: 02 May 2022
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In search for a spiritual authority. Shi’i clergy in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema
Magdalena Rodziewicz
Pages: 1167-1188
Published online: 16 May 2022
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‘Just another story that was prepared in advance’ - political distrust, Islamism, and conspiratorial thinking in Arab public opinion on the Islamic State
Lars Berger
Pages: 1189-1208
Published online: 24 May 2022
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The Roc’s egg as vanishing mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from text to film
Jan Gresil S. Kahambing
Pages: 1209-1233
Published online: 18 May 2022
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Social classes and political Islam: a comparative ecological approach of post-Arab Spring elections in Northern Africa (2011- 2014)
Gilles Van Hamme & Alia Gana
Pages: 1234-1254
Published online: 06 Jul 2022
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Tunisian youth: catalyst for socio-political change and emergence of identity politics in post-Arab Spring Tunisia
Zouhir Gabsi
Pages: 1255-1274
Published online: 31 May 2022
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Understanding the Jihadi Salafi threat in Jordan in 2011-2017
Mohammad Abu Rumman, Moamen Gouda & Neven Bondokji
Pages: 1275-1297
Published online: 24 May 2022
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Damsels in distress: manufacturing ‘Lolitas’ for the West in Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran
Hossein Nazari
Pages: 1298-1319
Published online: 13 Jun 2022
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The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy
Dina Matar
Pages: 1320-1336
Published online: 08 Jun 2022
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Tribal Mobilisation Forces in Iraq: Subtleties of Formation and Consequential Power Dynamics
Haian Dukhan
Pages: 1337-1351
Published online: 14 Jun 2022
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Book Review

Book Review
The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship
by William Gourlay, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 270 pp., $110
Beyza Çubukcu
Pages: 1352-1353
Published online: 24 May 2022
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The (Un)translatability of Qur’anic idiomatic phrasal verbs: a contrastive linguistic study
by Ali Yunis Aldahesh, New York, Routledge, 2021, xii + 275 pp., £47.99 (hardback), £47.99 (E-book), ISBN 9780367132958
Fahmi Gunawan
Pages: 1353-1355
Published online: 24 May 2022
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Faces of Muhammad: Western perceptions of the prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to today
by John V. Tolan, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2019, xii + 309 pp., 17 ills, $29.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0691167060
Hülya Taflı Düzgün
Pages: 1355-1357
Published online: 29 May 2022
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Blasphemy and apostasy in Islam: debates in Shi’a jurisprudence
by Mohsen Kadivar, Translated by Hamid Mavani, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press Ltd, in Association with Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, 2021, xviii + 433 pp., $76.64 (hardback), ISBN 9781474457576
Masoumeh Rad Goudarzi
Pages: 1357-1359
Published online: 24 May 2022
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States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey
by Zerrin Özlem Biner, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 264 pp., $69.95 (hardback), ISBN 9780812251753
Şeref Kavak
Pages: 1359-1361
Published online: 24 May 2022
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Correction
Correction
Page: 1362
Published online: 31 May 2022
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