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The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Courtney Freer
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The birth of Ottoman penal biopolitics: motherhood, pregnancy and child-protection in the criminal justice system (1850–1918) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Gizem Sivri
This article presents a broad analysis of the Ottoman penal policies concerning the tolerant and clement punitive sanctions for mother offenders during the late Ottoman era. It scrutinizes the pena...
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Changing patterns of inclusion into old age protection in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey (1865–2020) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Kerem Gabriel Öktem
Who is protected by social security? This article explores this question by tracing the chronological sequence of inclusion into old age protection in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. The focus lies ...
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Ottoman diplomacy in Greece: the case of Syros, 1830–1900 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Berke Torunoğlu
The island of Syros in the Cyclades almost spontaneously emerged in 1830 as a prominent transit and trade hub for Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The present work is an attempt to conduct a deductiv...
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From an arasta bazaar to a piyasa street: the transformation of Direklerarası in Ottoman Istanbul from the 1720s to the 1920s Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Fatma Tunç Yaşar, Ahmet Yaşar
This article examines the transformation of Direklerarası Street, located on Istanbul’s historical Divanyolu, from the 1720s to the 1920s. Originally built in 1729 as an arasta to generate revenue ...
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Extension, renewal or resurgence? The anti-constitutional argument of a cleric in 1920s Iran Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Denis Hermann
This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complexity and diversity of anti-constitutionalist thought developed by the ulama by synthesizing the arguments of Shaykh Marandi (d...
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An Islamist disadvantage? Revisiting electoral outcomes for Islamists in the Middle East Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Courtney Freer, Naeman Mahmood
In this article, we interrogate the extent to which a so-called Islamist advantage existed prior to the Arab Spring by examining country cases often neglected in the literature on Sunni Islamism. W...
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Civil society and education in Turkey: the relations between the Society for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Imam Hatip Schools (1951-1976) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Kurtuluş Öztürk
Imam Hatip schools are among the educational institutions that have had a major impact on the social transformations in Turkey’s recent history. These institutions have played a major role in integ...
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Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Simon C. Smith
There is a growing consensus that the end of empire did not necessarily equate with a severing of imperial ties. Some historians have even argued that there was a shift from formal to informal empi...
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The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Richard Hammond
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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'Close but no Cigar’: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 2023 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer
This essay represents the continuation of my research, on the Hamas Organization’s novel methods of psychological warfare against Israel. The previous article, which covered the period between 2007...
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The search for economic and military aid in the shadow of crises: Turkish-American relations during İnönü governments (1961–1965) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Murat Kasapsaraçoğlu
The leader of Republican People’s Party (RPP), İsmet İnönü, formed three governments between 1961 and 1965. Turkey faced several political, economic, social and military challenges in this period. ...
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UAE book review Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 5, 2024)
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Cold War dilemmas and regional interests: the acknowledgment of Egypt’s King, Farouk I, as ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ by Greece (October 1951–August 1952) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Spyridon Bouzoukis
The question of Farouk’s title is considered an important part of Anglo-Egyptian rivalry. However, the existing literature neglects the issue’s possible impact on third countries. The purpose of th...
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Gendering the Muslim Brotherhood: the social network of the Muslim Sisters in twentieth-century Egypt Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Noa Davidyan
This article sheds light on the activity and thinking of women belonging to the Muslim Sisters Section within the Muslim Brothers movement (MB) in twentieth-century Egypt. While the MB has received...
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The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Robert Steele
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 5, 2024)
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Spring 1923: Turkey’s failed constitutional moment Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Ogan Yumlu
This paper focuses on a specific historical period that preceded the proclamation of the Turkish Republic and tries to re-interpret its meaning for the development of liberal democracy in Turkey. A...
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The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, A Radical Cosmopolitan Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Robert Steele
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 5, 2024)
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Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-2022 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Joshua Teitelbaum
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)
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Rethinking the salons in nineteenth-century Istanbul houses conceptualised in written media Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Derya Düzgün Top, Hatice Gökçen Özkaya
Focusing on the salons of Istanbul houses in the nineteenth century of the Ottoman Empire, this article is an attempt to rethink the spatial arrangement of the salon, the daily life practices and f...
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Disputes over pastures in the nineteenth-century Balkans Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Fatma Öncel
This research aims to contribute to the literature on Ottoman common and by analysing how mid-nineteenth century land codes influenced conflicts regarding common pastures in the Balkans. To accompl...
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Reconstructing the caliphate or bringing liberal democracy to Turkey? Millî Görüş’s view on liberal democracy before reaching power Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Uri Rosenberg
This article explores the ideas of the Turkish-Islamist Millî Görüş movement on liberal democracy. From its formation in the 1970s to the 1990s, when it won the Turkish elections, the movement exhi...
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Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in Egypt Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Simon C. Smith
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)
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Red Star Over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Erdem Sönmez
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)
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The Circassian question: liberalism and the pursuit of freedom in the mid-nineteenth century Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Mira Ahmad
For well over a hundred years, Russian expansion into the Caucasus put it face-to-face with the Circassians. This small group of Muslims successfully waged war against Russia, both militarily and d...
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Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 John Slight
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 3, 2024)
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Correction Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Ending slavery in imperial peripheries: Ottoman abolitionist policy in Trablusgarp and Benghazi provinces (1857–1911) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Salma Hargal
When Istanbul prohibited the trade of enslaved Africans in 1857, the Ottoman local authorities expanded efforts to curb human trafficking throughout the imperial realm. These endeavours also includ...
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Visualizing Palestine in Arab postage stamps: 1948-1967 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Michael Sharnoff
From 1948 to 1967, most Arab stamp depictions of Palestine showed its borders as it existed during the British Mandate (1922-1948), from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. These borders con...
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Political vs intellectual? Russia’s late Imperial archaeology and the Russian Cause Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Denis V. Volkov
Drawing on the writings of the founding representatives of late Imperial Russia’s Oriental studies, and documents from Russian archives, this article first traces Professor Nikolay Veselovsky’s (18...
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Afterlives of revolution: everyday counter histories in Southern Oman Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 2, 2024)
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The Greek population of Ottoman Pontus in the early twentieth century: a comparative demographic analysis Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Antonis Klapsis
The main aim of the article is to compare and contrast different sources that pertain to the Greek population of Pontus during the early twentieth century. More precisely, the article investigates ...
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Of hovels and homes: consumption, class, and domestic space in early republican Turkey Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Kyle T. Evered, Emine Ö. Evered
In histories of preventing and treating tuberculosis, many physicians came to prioritize the place and role of the home by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was as true in the...
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Young woman, daughter, mother: female soldiers killed in battle during Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sharon Geva
During Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949), women were a minority in the enlisted forces (10 per cent) and among the victims (9 per cent). Most did not carry weapons, and some were not killed ...
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Oman book review Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 3, 2024)
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New Military Strategies in the Gulf: The Mirage of Autonomy in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Athol Yates
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 3, 2024)
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Crime, poverty and survival in the Middle East and North Africa: the ‘dangerous classes’ since 1800 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Robert Steele
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 1, 2024)
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Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic intervention on Lebanon Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Eyal Zisser
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 1, 2024)
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Yitzhak Shamir and the unity of contradictions: between the integrity of the whole Land of Israel and integrity of the Jewish People Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Yitzhak Mualem
The purpose of this research is to investigate how the value of the unity of the homeland (Israel) and the value of the unity of the people (Jewish Nation) in the writings and policy of Yitzhak Sha...
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The appointment mechanism of the ulema to the Ilmiye posts Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Erhan Bektaş
The new, developing bureaucratic procedures in the nineteenth century had wide-ranging influence over the Ottoman ulema in such areas as professionalization, performance evaluations, examinations f...
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Kuwait’s ʿAjam merchants: a transnational community (1896–1950) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Mohammad E. Al-Habib
This article examines the transnational role of the most influential ʿAjam mercantile families (Maʿrafi, Bin Ghalib, and Behbehani) in the economic development of the state of Kuwait from the reign...
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The Palestine Commission: the forgotten chapter in United Nations peacemaking and peacekeeping in the Arab-Israeli conflict Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Jonathan Franco
This article examines the peacemaking and peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations (UN) Palestine Commission, which was charged with implementing the General Assembly’s Resolution 181 on the part...
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Allies or foes: the interplay between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood following Egypt’s 2011 uprising (2011–2021) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Limor Lavie
This paper examines the relationship between al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) following the 2011 Egyptianuprising. While the interplay between them in the pre-revolutionary period was mostl...
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Kissinger’s wrath: the reassessment of the US-Israel relationship (March 1975) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 David Tal
This article delves into the often-overlooked emotional aspect of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s decision-making during the 1975 Shuttle Diplomacy, focusing on the US-Israel relationship. Whi...
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‘A tent has fallen from the sky’: the convoluted story of a balloon accident in Ottoman Bosnia in 1803 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Fatma Sel Turhan
Based on the story of a balloon accident in the Bihke region of Bosnia in 1803, this article evaluates the balloon technology of the period through the life of Francesco Zambeccari, who was the aer...
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The battle over the Zionist maritime ethos: ‘Sea Day’ and claims to the Land of Israel’s sea culture Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Kobi Cohen-Hattab
Within the Zionist movement, the sea initially served no nationalistic purpose; it was a means of transit, a conduit for ingathering the Jewish diaspora. The Zionist leadership neglected the sea as...
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Preparation for total war: ‘Military Service Preparation Camps’ in the Turkish education system in the early Republican Era (1926–1946) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Özlem Gürsoy, Mustafa Gündüz
Since the early nineteenth century, various ideologies have attempted to design education systems with an abundance of military attitudes for the future of the state and society, thereby benefiting...
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An evaluation of the catalog of Ottoman newspapers prepared by an Ottoman Jew Abraham Galante Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Servet Tiken, Özlem Sürücü
In the Ottoman Empire, opposition journalism outside the country presented its first examples during the reign of Abdülaziz. Publishing newspapers outside the country reached its peak during the re...
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The effect of nationalist movements on Turkish and Irish children’s literature: swans and epic heroes: ‘Fly like great birds, who have no voice’ Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Refika Altıkulaç Demirdağ, Ali Altıkulaç
The establishment of the Turkish and Irish republics took place nearly simultaneously, under the influence of the nationalist movement. This study discusses the cultural foundations of nationalism ...
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Discourses on outdated but still valid currencies in Israel, from the Egyptian withdrawal in 1841 to 2023 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Amos Nadan
When reading texts mentioning past currencies, especially those that were in use in Ottoman and British Palestine and the first decade of the State of Israel, historians often remain puzzled as to ...
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‘An Oriental Gentlewoman’: Princess Nazlı Fazıl’s interview in The Gentlewoman in 1899 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Elif Yumru
This article analyses an interview given by Princess Nazlı Fazıl (1856–1913) on 3 June 1899 to the British journal The Gentlewoman . Examining this rare instance of the representation of an elite O...
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Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement’s view on popular culture Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Uri Rosenberg
This article charts changes in the views towards popular culture of the most prominent Turkish-Islamist movement that operated in the late twentieth century, the Millî Görüş (‘The National Outlook’...
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Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Saul Kelly
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 6, 2023)
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A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Denis Vovchenko
Established in 1830, Greece was the first post-Ottoman nation-state. It ambitiously aimed to incorporate all Ottoman provinces populated both by ethnic Greeks and the Slavic-speaking flock of the E...
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Selânikli Tevfik – writer, journalist, translator Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Syed Tanvir Wasti
The last four decades of the nineteenth century were a period when, as a result of increased investment in education as well as closer contacts with Europe, Ottoman Turkey and the provinces of the ...
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The rise of the Hebronite alliance: Hebronite regionalism between Palestine and Jordan, 1940–1967 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Harel Chorev Halewa
From the late British Mandate period until 1967, a cohesive system of social and political arrangements took shape among the people of the Hebron district in the West Bank. This system, referred to...
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The Massacre That Never Was: The Myth of Deir Yassin and the Creation of the Palestine Refugee Problem Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Clive Jones
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 59, No. 6, 2023)
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Cultural Imperialism and the American scramble for antiquities in Mandate Syria: 1920–1939 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Charles Sills
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)
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The Palestinian youth of East Jerusalem – between Palestinian and Israeli identity Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Shaul Bartal
Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem after the 1967 War, created a complicated reality – especially for the residents of East Jerusalem, a population of 70,000 people at the time of the annexation...