Vol 3 No 1 | Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia

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Published: 2015-06-01

Articles

The Zar in the Persian Gulf Performative dimensions

William O. Beeman
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NGOs and female circumcision in Egypt An anthropological enquiry

Elsa Mescoli
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Fairies in the folklore of Booshehr

Farzaneh Sajadpoor, Ebrahim Jamali
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Book Reviews

REVIEW - Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin (ed.). A Critical Introduction to Khomeini. xxvi + 318 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Arshavez Mozafari
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REVIEW - Afsaruddin, Asma. Striving in the Path of God: Jihād and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought. x + 370 pp. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Simona Merati
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REVIEW - Agrama, Hussein Ali. Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt. xiii + 288 pp. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2012.

Mashal Saif
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REVIEW - Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11. 219 pp. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Mante Vertelyte
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REVIEW - Alsultany, Evelyn and Ella Shobat (eds.). Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora. ix + 334 pp. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2013.

David Grantham
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REVIEW - Azadpur, Mohammad. Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy. viii + 279 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011.

Abdullah Sliti
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REVIEW - Barnett, Michael and Janice Gross Stein (eds.). Sacred Aid: Faith and Humanitarianism. viii + 258 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Dominic Béchaz
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REVIEW - Devji, Faisal. Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea. 288 pp. Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Hamzah Saif
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REVIEW - Ever, Hilal. The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion. xiii +256 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Anna Vanzan
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REVIEW - Guiora, Amos N. Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security. xviii + 188 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

William Rooke
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REVIEW - Hélie, Anissa and Homa Hoodfar (eds.). Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance. xiv + 346pp. New York: Zed Books, 2012.

Wim Peumans
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REVIEW - Jung, Dietrich. Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam. 323 pp. Sheffield: Equinox Pub., 2011.

Abdessamad Belhaj
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REVIEW - Karagiannis, Emmanuel. Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb ut-Tahrir. xiv + 172 pp. London: Routledge, 2010.

Noor O’Neill Borbieva
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REVIEW - Khatib, Lina. Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Image in Political Struggle. xii + 248 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Sarah Dornhof
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REVIEW - Safdar, Ahmed. Reform and Modernity in Islam: The Philosophical, Cultural and Political Discourses among Muslim Reformers. vii + 296 pp. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Elisabetta Loi
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REVIEW - Salhi, Zahia Smail (ed.). Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies: Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa. viii + 286 pp. London: I.B.Tauris, 2013.

Henrike Florusbosch
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REVIEW - Wellman, Jr., James K. and Clark B. Lombardi (eds.). Religion and Human Security: A Global Perspective. x + 332 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Peter Faber
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REVIEW - Yavuz, M. Hakan. Toward an Islamic Enlightenment: The Gülen Movement. xxi + 300 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Efrat E. Aviv
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Film Reviews