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{"title":"Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Existential Function <b>Vicegerency in Islamic Thought and Scripture: Towards a Qur’anic Theory of Human Existential Function</b> , by Chauki Lazhar, London, Routledge, 2023, 284 pp., £90.00 (hardback) £35.09 eBook, ISBN: 9781032372211, eBook ISBN: 9781003335948","authors":"Putri Nurjayana Muin, None Nurmawan","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2268437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2268437","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135616454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy","authors":"Dina Matar","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2022.2087598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2022.2087598","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Palestine Liberation Organization has been extensively studied and researched in a variety of disciplines and perspectives. However, little attention has been paid to its media and/or political communication strategies that went hand in hand with its political evolution and aims from 1969 to 1982, a period marked by flux and political uncertainty as well intensive PLO state-building processes. This paper seeks to partially fill the gap by addressing political communication not only as a fundamental political practice and strategy but also as an arena in which political elites compete to achieve media legitimacy and ensure support for their objectives and ideologies. Drawing on archival research of the PLO mass media platforms during the period under review, primary sources and interviews with former PLO media personnel, the paper begins with an overview of the PLO’s investment in mass media institutions and other cultural genres before discussing its political communication strategy and its aims in the period from 1969 to 1982. The paper then addresses how the late PLO chairman Yasser Arafat actively competed in the political communication arena to achieve media legitimacy and secure public consent for the PLO’s ideologies and aims. In doing so, the paper does not suggest Arafat achieved total domination of the political communication space nor that other guerrilla leaders, Arab and other actors did not compete in this arena. Rather, the approach emphasizes the relationship between political agency and structure during moments of flux and change, thus complementing dominant approaches in political communication research that focus on framing and discourse.","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"1320 - 1336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139316200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Kurds in Erdogan’s Turkey: balancing identity, resistance, and citizenship","authors":"Beyza Çubukcu","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2022.2080400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2022.2080400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"127 1","pages":"1352 - 1353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139316032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation <b>The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation</b> , Mixson James D, Boston, University of Toronto Press, 2022, 324 pp., $94.53 (hardback), ISBN: 978-148750 5769","authors":"Hülya Taflı Düzgün, Haydar Akçadağ","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2266653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2266653","url":null,"abstract":"\"The Crusade of 1456 Texts and Documentation in Translation.\" British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt <b>Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt</b> , by Hesham Sallam, New York, United States of America, Columbia University Press, 2022, ix-xviii+454 pp., $35 .00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-231-203258","authors":"Francesco Cavatorta","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2266651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2266651","url":null,"abstract":"\"Classless Politics. Islamist movements, the left, and authoritarian legacies in Egypt.\" British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran <b>Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought, Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran</b> , by Lloyd Ridgeon, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 288 pp., £86 (hardback), ISBN 978-1009322225","authors":"S. Yaser Mirdamadi","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2266654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2266654","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran” <b>“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran”</b> , by Kusha Sefat, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, May 23 2023, 184 pp., $29.95 (paperback)","authors":"Ehssan Hanif","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2266652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2266652","url":null,"abstract":"\"“Revolution of things; the Islamism and Post-Islamism of objects in Tehran”.\" British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135646270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alliance and sectarian attitudes in the MENA: the case of Arab opinion towards Iran","authors":"Alireza Raisi","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2251120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2251120","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTDespite a growing body of analyses on sectarian tensions in the MENA, few have examined the impact of sectarian attitudes on public opinion towards the regional powers. Drawing from a statistical analysis of public opinion polls and the case study of Egypt and Sudan, the paper examines determinants of public attitudes towards Iran in the post-Arab spring era. The analysis indicates that public attitudes towards the regional player, i.e. Iran influenced by the alliance in the MENA. Although the Arab spring fuelled the negative sentiments towards Iran in the allies of Saudi Arabia, strong ties between Iran and the Islamist rule shaped positive attitudes towards Iran in Sudan. The analysis further reveals the impact of Salafi’s anti-Iran campaigns in Egypt. This campaign utilizes negative symbolism and ethnoreligious myths to depict Shias as an enemy and construct an existential threat from Iran. In this environment, the symbolic politics and emotionally laden hatred in the Arab countries explain the sectarian attitudes towards Shias and Iran. AcknowledgmentsThe author would like to thank Nukhet Sandal, and Aisha Ahmad for their cogent comments on the earlier draft of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2251120.Notes1 This growing body of analysis led some scholar to argue that term of sectarianism has lost its analytic effectiveness. As a result, sectarianism needs more specific adjectives such as doctrinal, subnational, national, transnational Haddad, F. (2020). Understanding ‘Sectarianism’: Sunni-Shi’a Relations in the Modern Arab World, Oxford University Press, U.S.A.2 This meta-study of new studies of sectarianism in the MENA develops a typology of three groups of studies. The first group completely rejects the existing primordialism and instrumentalism views. The second approach tries to adopt certain elements from each of these existing views, and the third view calls for analytical eclecticism. Valbjørn, M. (2020). ‘Beyond the beyond (s): On the (many) third way (s) beyond primordialism and instrumentalism in the study of sectarianism’. Nations and Nationalism 26(1): 91–107.3 Köse, T., et al. (2016). ‘A comparative analysis of soft power in the MENA region: the impact of ethnic, sectarian, and religious identity on soft power in Iraq and Egypt’. Foreign Policy Analysis 12(3): 354–373.4 Ciftci, S. and G. M. Tezcür (2016). ‘Soft power, religion, and anti-Americanism in the Middle East’. Foreign Policy Analysis 12(3): 374–394.5 Telhami, S. (2013). The world through Arab eyes: Arab public opinion and the reshaping of the Middle East, Basic Books (AZ).6 Kamrava, M. and Dorzadeh, H. (2020). Arab Opinion Toward Iran 2019/2020. Doha Qatar, The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.7 Ibid.8 Tajfel, H., et al. (1979). ‘An integrative theory of intergroup confli","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136279809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deliberate polarization as a distractive political strategy in economic downturns: the case of Turkey","authors":"A. Szymański, A. Cihangiroğlu","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2251140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2251140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49250004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institutional resilience in Modern Iranian Shiʿism: solidification of the ḥawza ʿilmīya of Qum between 1961 and 1979","authors":"Mohammad Mesbahi","doi":"10.1080/13530194.2023.2251113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2023.2251113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46267,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42512503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}