Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
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Vol. 18 (2018)
1 - Anthony Edwards, Fact or Fiction? In Search of the “Learned Council” of Ǧirmānūs Farḥāt (pdf 692 kB, pp. 1-21)
2 - Basilius Bawardi and Alif Faranesh, Non-canonical Arabic Detective Fiction: The Beginnings of the Genre (pdf 798 kB, pp. 23-49)
3 - Dalia Chams, Le soufisme New Age des salles de yoga (pdf 515 kB, pp. 51-62)
Vol. 17 (2017)
8 - Dossier spécial: Arrays of Egyptian and Tunisian Everyday Worlds: An Update on the project In 2016—How it felt to live in the Arab World five years after the "Arab Spring", ed. by S. Guth, E. Chiti, and A. Hofheinz (pdf, pp. 455-508)
Front matter and TOC ♦ S. Guth & A. Hofheinz, Introduction: From "issues" to "arrays" ♦ ʿĀmmiyya (E. M. Håland) ♦ Baby Milk (A. Hofheinz) ♦ Clash (E. Chiti) ♦ Conversions (M. Lindbekk) ♦ Crowdfunding (T. Pepe) ♦ Dérja (M. Achour Kallel / M. Guellouz) ♦ Dual Identities / Masking (S. Guth) ♦ Father figures (M. Yordanova) ♦ Psychiatrists (M. B. Aardal) ♦ Satire (on YouTube channels) (M. Mohamed)
7 - Dossier spécial: Approaches to the Etymology of Arabic, ed. by Stephan Guth (pdf 3,25 MB, pp. 311-453)
- 7a — Front matter and Table of Contents (pdf 1,06 MB, pp. 311-312)
- 7b — Stephan Guth, Introduction (pdf 226 kB, pp. 313-321)
- 7c — Zeus Wellnhofer, On Some Arabic Roots and Their Etymological Relevance (pdf 244 kB, pp. 322-331)
- 7d — Simona Olivieri, The ism in the Arabic Grammatical Tradition: Reflections on Its Origin and Meanings (pdf 298 kB, pp. 332-344)
- 7e — Stephan Guth, Biradicalist Mimophonic Triradicalism: Sounds, root nuclei and root complements in M. Ḥ. Ḥ. Gabal’s ‘etymological’ dictionary of Arabic (2012) (pdf 680 kB, pp. 345-376)
- 7f — Jean-Claude Rolland, Éclats de roche : Une étude d’étymologie sur les noms de la pierre en latin, grec et arabe (pdf 589 kB, pp. 377-406)
- 7g — Lutz Edzard, Notes on the Emergence of New Semitic Roots in the Light of Compounding (pdf 201 kB, pp. 407-414)
- 7h — Francesco Grande, The Arabic Lexicographer Ibn Sīdah and the Notion of Semantic Field (pdf 381 kB, pp. 415-433)
- 7i — Gizem Işık, Etymology and Polysemy: A Non-Objectivist Approach to the Domain of Vision in Semitic Languages (pdf 482 kB, pp. 434-453), incl. "all-in-one" view of Table 2 (pdf 646 kB)
6 - Dossier spécial: Islamic Law and Minorities, ed. by Carlo De Angelo and Serena Tolino (pdf 2,7 MB, pp. 137-309)
- 6a — Front matter and Table of Contents (pdf 451 kB, pp. 137-140)
- 6b — Obituary: In memory of Prof. Agostino Cilardo (Carlo De Angelo, Serena Tolino) (pdf 72 kB, pp. 141-142)
- 6c — Introduction: Carlo De Angelo, Serena Tolino, Minorities as Subjects and Minorities as Producers of Islamic Law: Past and Present (pdf 278 kB, pp. 143-155)
- 6d — Paola Pizzo, Non-Muslim Minorities in a Wasaṭī Perspective (pdf 336 kB, pp. 156-170)
- 6e — Nijmi Edres, Fiqh al-aqalliyyāt in Israel: Wasaṭiyya and the Use of the Past by Muslim Judges (pdf 353 kB, pp. 171-186)
- 6f — Uriya Shavit, Embattled Minority in-between Minorities: An Analysis of British and German Salafi Anti-Jihadi Campaigns (pdf 361 kB, pp. 187-203)
- 6g — Carlo De Angelo, Muslim Emigration to the West: The Jurisprudence of the Saudi Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Fatwas (pdf 383 kB, pp. 204-222)
- 6h — Serena Tolino, Transgenderism, Transsexuality and Sex-Reassignment Surgery in Contemporary Sunni Fatwas (pdf 462 kB, pp. 223-246)
- 6i — Bettina Dennerlein, Sexual Rights and their Discontents: Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī on Homosexuality and the ‘Islamic Family’ (pdf 424 kB, pp. 247-267)
- 6j — Antonella Straface, Ritual Ablution and Cultic Purity in Ismaili Context: The Siǧistānian View (pdf 306 kB, pp. 268-279)
- 6k — Edmund Hayes, Alms and the Man: Fiscal Sectarianism in the Legal Statements of the Shiʿi Imams (pdf 396 kB, pp. 280-298)
- 6l — Agostino Cilardo, A Dispute Between Ḥanafis and Twelvers About Mutʿa (First Half of 2nd c. AH) (pdf 286 kB, pp. 299-309)
5 - Themed section: Arab-Sicilian and Andalusian Grammarians, ed. by Mirella Cassarino and Antonella Ghersetti (pdf 3,5 MB, pp. 65-135)
- 5a — Front matter and Table of Contents (pdf 370 kB, pp. 65-66)
- 5b — Mirella Cassarino and Antonella Ghersetti, Which differences? Notes for a project on Sicilian and Andalusian grammarians (pdf 255 kB, pp. 67-78)
- 5c — Oriana Capezio, Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʿ et la métrique arabe en Sicile entre le XIe et le XIIe siècle (pdf 13,3 MB, pp. 79-96)
- 5d — Francesco Grande, Originality of the Semantic Approach in Arabic Linguistic Thought, with Particular Reference to Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʿ’s Work (pdf 333 kB, pp. 97-113)
- 5e — Cristina La Rosa, The Maǧmūʿa min šiʿr al-Mutanabbī wa-ġawāmiḍihi by Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʿ al-Ṣiqillī: A Morphological and Lexical Analysis (pdf 333 kB, pp. 114-135)
4 - Daniele Mascitelli, Some Verses by Ḥassān b. Ṯābit al-Anṣārī not Included in His Dīwān (pdf 977 kB, pp. 53-63)
3 - Patrizia Zanelli, Subversive Writing: Mona Prince’s ‘Laughing Revolution’ from pre- to post-2011 Egypt (pdf 550 kB, pp. 35-52)
2 - Ismail Lala, An Analysis of Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Tahānawī’s Approach in Kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn – The entry of huwiyya (pdf 642 kB, pp. 14-34)
1 - Haggai Mazuz, Post-Biblical Jewish Sources in al-Maqrīzī’s Historiography—Whence His Knowledge? (pdf 853 kB, pp. 1-13)
Vol. 16 (2016)
9 - Special dossier: Living 2016: Cultural Codes and Arrays in Arab Everyday Worlds Five Years After the “Arab Spring” [= Proceedings of a workshop, held at the Department for Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, Norway, May 29-30, 2016], ed. Stephan Guth & Elena Chiti (pdf, pp. 221-388)
- 9a — Front matter & Contents (pdf, 501kB, pp. 221-223)
- 9b — Stephan Guth: Introduction: Living 2016 and the In 2016 Project (pdf, 417 kB, pp. 224-233)
- 9c — Mona Abaza: Cairo: Personal Reflections on Enduring Daily Life (pdf, 1235 kB, pp. 234-252)
- 9d — Myriam Achour-Kallel: “La Rolls et la Volkswagen”: Écrire en tunisien sur Facebook en 2016 (pdf, 1169 kB, pp. 253-272)
- 9e — Elena Chiti: “A Dark Comedy”: Perceptions of the Egyptian Present Between Reality and Fiction (pdf, 593 kB, pp. 273-289)
- 9f — Mariem Guellouz: The Construction of “Tunisianity” Through Sociolinguistic Practices: From the Tunisian Independence to 2016 (pdf, 235 kB, pp. 290-298)
- 9g — Stephan Guth: Twenty-Three Recent Arabic Films: Impressions From Two Film Festivals (Oslo and Tübingen, 2016) (pdf, 908kB, pp. 299-326)
- 9h — Albrecht Hofheinz: #Sisi_vs_Youth, or: Who Has a Voice in Egypt? (pdf, 1015 kB, pp. 327-348)
- 9i — Richard Jacquemond: Satiric Literature and Other “Popular” Literary Genres in Egypt Today (pdf, 749 kB, pp. 349-367)
- 9j — Delphine Pagès-El Karoui: Deciphering the Binary Code “Egyptian vs. Foreigner” in Egyptian Cinema (pdf, 846 kB, pp. 368-384)
- 9k — Ragnhild J. Zorgati: Impressions from Tunisia, Spring 2016 (pdf, 59 kB, pp. 385-388)
- 9l — Dalia Chams: Le soufisme New Age des salles de yoga [published in JAIS 18 (2018): 51-62]
8 - Zaid Alamiri and Peter Mickan, What Makes the Qurʾānic Narratives Cohesive? Systemic Functional Linguistics-Based Analysis of Reference Role: Some Reflections (pdf 761 kB, pp. 199-219)
7 - Liana Saif, The Universe and the Womb: Generation, Conception, and the Stars in Islamic Medieval Astrological and Medical Texts (pdf 620 kB, pp. 181-198)
6 - Salah Natij, La conception ǧāḥiẓienne de l’adab d’après son épître Ṣināʿāt al-quwwād (pdf 791 kB, pp. 163-179)
5 - William M. Cotter, One Piece of the Puzzle: Notes on the Historic Interdental Fricatives /θ, ð, ðˁ/ in the Arabic Dialect of Gaza City (pdf 887 kB, pp. 149-162)
4 - William Costel Tamplin, Who Was ‛Umar ibn Sayyid? A Critical Reevaluation of the Translations and Interpretations of the Life (pdf 781 kB, pp. 125-147)
3 - Rachel Anne Friedman, Significant Intersections between Legal and Rhetorical Theories: Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Reading of al-Bāqillānī’s Theory of Language (pdf 873 kB, pp. 99-123)
2 - Hani Elayyan, Three Arabic Novels of Expatriation in the Arabian Gulf Region: Ibrāhīm Naṣrallāh’s Prairies of Fever, Ibrāhīm ʿAbdalmagīd’s The Other Place, and Saʿūd al-Sanʿūsī’s Bamboo Stalk (pdf 679 kB, pp. 85-98)
1 - Vera von Falkenhausen, Nadia Jamil, and Jeremy Johns, The Twelfth-century documents of St. George’s of Tròccoli (Sicily) (pdf 12 MB, pp. 1-84)
Earlier volumes
Vol. 17 (2017) ♦ Vol. 16 (2016) ♦ Vol. 15 (2015) ♦ Vol. 14 (2014) ♦ Vol. 13 (2013)
Vol. 12 (2012) special issue: The Book in Fact and Fiction in Pre-Modern Arabic Literature, ed. by A Ghersetti and A Metcalfe
Vol. 11 (2011) ♦ Vol. 10 (2010) ♦ Vol. 9 (2009) ♦ Vol. 8 (2008) ♦ Vol. 7 (2007) ♦ Vol. 6 (2005-06) ♦ Vol. 5 (2003/04) ♦ Vol. 4 (2001/02) ♦ Vol. 3 (2000) ♦ Vol. 2 (1998/99) ♦ Vol. 1 (1996/97)