Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – March 2013
Middle East
- Distant witness : social media, the Arab Spring and a journalism revolution / Andy Carvin.
- Popular culture in the Middle East and North Africa : a postcolonial outlook / edited by Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman.
- Middle East authoritarianisms : governance, contestation, and regime resilience in Syria and Iran / edited by Steven Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders.
- The bazaar in the Islamic City : design, culture, and history / edited by Mohammad Gharipour.
- Resistance in contemporary Middle Eastern cultures : literature, cinema and music / edited by Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy.
- Marginality and exclusion in Egypt and the Middle East / edited by Ray Bush and Habib Ayeb.
- Our bodies belong to God : organ transplants, Islam, and the struggle for human dignity in Egypt / Sherine Hamdy.
- Local music scenes and globalization : transnational platforms in Beirut / Thomas Burkhalter.
- Red star over Iraq : Iraqi communism before Saddam / Johan Franzén.
- The violence of petro-dollar regimes : Algeria, Iraq and Libya / Luis Martinez translated by Cynthia Schoch.
- Turkey between nationalism and globalization / ed. by Riva Kastoryano.
- An anthology of philosophy in Persia / [edited by] Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Mehdi Aminrazavi.
- Woman master / Mehrnaz Stars.
- The coup : 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations / Ervand Abrahamian.
- Kurdistan – a nation emerges / Jonathan Fryer and others.
- Abnāʼ al-ruʼasāʼ min al-quṣūr ilá al-sujūn : nihāyat aṭmāʻ Āl Mubārak wa-al-Qadhdhāfī wa-Ṣāliḥ wa-al-Asad fī al-ḥukm / Ḥamādah Imām.;” أبناء الرؤساء من القصور إلي السجون ، نهاية أطماع آل مبارك والقذافي وصالح والأسد في الحكم / حمادة إمام.”
- ʻĀm fī maydān al-thawrah : wujūh wa-ṣirāʻāt wa-aqniʻah / Maḥmūd ʻAbd al-Raḥīm.;” عام في ميدان الثورة ، وجوه وصراعات وأقنعة / محمود عبد الرحيم.”
- Mubārak wa-zamānuh : mādhā jará fī Miṣr wa-lahā / Muḥammad Ḥasanayn Haykal.;” مبارك وزمانه ، ماذا جرى في مصر ولها / محمد حسنين هيكل.”
- The voices of the Arab streets / by F. Matthew Caswell.
- Mawlid al-sayyidah Miṣr : shiʻr / Fāṭimah al-Mursī.;” مولد السيدة مصر ، شعر / فاطمة المرسي.”
- The literary heritage of the Arabs : an anthology / edited by Suheil Bushrui & James M. Malarkey in collabortation with C. Bayan Bruss.
- Politics of nostalgia in the Arabic novel : nation-state, modernity and tradition / Wen-chin Ouyang.
- Adab al-kidyah fī al-ʻaṣr al-ʻAbbāsī : dirāsah fī adab al-shaḥḥādhīn wa-al-mutasawwilīn / taʼlīf Aḥmad al-Ḥusayn Ḥasan.;” أدب الكدية في العصر العباسي ، دراسة في أدب الشحاذين والمتسولين / أحمد الحسين حسن..”
- Arabian nights / translated by Sir Richard Burton.
- Akhbār al-duwal al-munqatịʻah / li-Ibn Ẓāfir al-Azdī taḥqīq ʻAlī ʻUmar.;” أخبار الدول المنقطعة / لابن ظافر الأزدي ؛ تحقيق علي عمر.”
- The Arabic commentary of Yapheth ben ‘Ali the Karaite on the Book of Habakkuk / ed. Ofer Livne-Kafri;”Sefunot. NS. 6 (21)”
- Der arabische Dialekt von Mharde (Zentralsyrien) / Jean Yoseph.
- The structure of Mehri / Janet C.E. Watson.
- The transmission of the Avesta / edited by Alberto Cantera.
- Frauen im Schahname. English;”Women in the Shahnameh : their history and social status within the framework of ancient and medieval sources / by Djalal Khaleghi Motlagh edited by Nahid Pirnazar translated from the German by Brigitte Neuenschwander.”
- Selections.;Malakut and other stories / by Bahram Sadeqi translated from Persian by Kaveh Basmenji.
- Splendeurs persanes : manuscrits du XIIe au XVIIe siècle / Francis Richard.
- Tıfli hikayelerinin türsel gelişimi.
- Mütarekeden Millî Mücadeleye Mustafa Kemal Paşa, 1918-1919 / Zekeriya Türkmen.
- İranlı tarihçilerin kaleminden Çaldıran (1514) / yayına hazırlayan, Vural Genç.
- Turcksche boucken : de oosterse verzameling van Levinus Warner, Nederlands diplomaat in zeventiende-eeuws Istanbul = the Oriental collection of Levinus Warner, Dutch diplomat in seventeenth-century Istanbul / Arnoud Vrolijk, Jan Schmidt, Karin Scheper vert., transl. Beverley Jackson, David McKay [fotogr. Jelle Hellinga].
- Şerefü’l-insan; شرف الانسان”;”Şerefü’l-insân : insan ve hayvanların yaratılış konusunda sultan huzurunda sultan tartışmaları / Lâmiʻî Çelebi hazırlayan Sadettin Eğri.
- Muhabbet-nâme : bir Vâmık ile Azrâ hikâyesi / Câmi’î hazırlayan M. Esat Harmancı.
- Mihr ü mâh : bir güneş ve ay hikâyesi : inceleme, metin, tıpkıbasım / Gelibolulu Mustafa ‘Âlî hazırlayan Zeynep Sabuncu.
Islam
- Chiisme et politique au Moyen-Orient. English;”Shiism and politics in the Middle East / Laurence Louër translated from French by John King.”
- A history of philanthropic foundations : the islamic world from the seventh century to the present / Murat Çizakça.
- Framing Muslims : stereotyping and representation after 9/11 / Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin.
[Also available as an e-book via ebrary] - Modern Islamist movements : history, religion, and politics / Jon Armajani.
- Takaful Islamic insurance : concepts and regulatory issues / edited by Simon Archer, Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim, Volker Nienhaus.
- Islamic finance : law and practice / edited by Craig R. Nethercott, David M. Eisenberg.
- The art of Islamic banking and finance / Yahia Abdul-Rahman.
- Islamic finance : principles and practice / Hans Visser.
- The Islamic debt market for sukuk securities : the theory and practice of profit investment / edited by Mohamed Ariff, Munawa Iqbal and Shamsher Mohamed.
- Tourism in the Muslim world / Noel Scott, Jafar Jafari [editors].
- In the shadow of the sword : the birth of Islam and the rise of the global Arab empire / Tom Holland.
- Kitāb ʻadad āy al-Qurʼān : lil-Makkī wa-al-Madanīyīn wa-al-Kūfī wa-al-Baṣrī wa-al-Shāmī al-muttafaq ʻalayhi wa-al-mukhtalaf fīhi / li-Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl ibn Bishr al-Tamīmī al-Anṭākī taḥqīq Muḥammad al-Ṭabarānī.;” كتاب عدد آي القرآن ، للمكي والمدنيين والكوفي والبصري والشامي المتفق عليه والمختلف فيه / لأبي الحسن علي بن محمد بن إسماعيل بن بشر التميمي الأنطاكي ؛ تحقيق محمد الطبراني.”
- Sūrat al-Rahmān wa-suwar qisār: ʻarḍ wa dirāsah.
- al-Intikhābāt : aḥkām wa-ḍawābiṭ : barlamānīyah, riʼāsīyah, maḥallīyāt / taʼlīf Akram Kassāb taqdīm Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī.;” الانتخابات ، أحكام وضوابط ، برلمانية, رئاسية, محليات / تأليف أكرم كساب ؛ تقديم يوسف القرضاوي.”
Central Asia
- Land of the unconquerable : the lives of contemporary Afghan women / edited by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi.
- Policing Afghanistan : the politics of the lame Leviathan / Antonio Giustozzi, Mohammed Isaqzadeh.
- Return of a king : the battle for Afghanistan / William Dalrymple.
- Endgame in Afghanistan : for whom the dice rolls / Hiranmay Karlekar.
- The Chinese question in Central Asia : domestic order, social change and the Chinese factor / Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse.