Open Access Journal: Middle East – Topics & Arguments

Middle East - Topics & Arguments
ISSN: 2196-629X

Middle East – Topics & Arguments is a unique platform for innovative research on the Middle East combining disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. Articles critically reevaluate established scholarly traditions and think beyond entrenched disciplinary boundaries. By bringing together well-known academics and young scholars with international backgrounds, a broad range of perspectives will ensure lively debates.

Middle East – Topics and Arguments wants to encourage interdisciplinary discussion on two levels: Firstly, between social sciences and humanities in the field of Middle Eastern studies, and secondly, between Middle Eastern studies and the systematic disciplines. We thereby aim at integrating regional academic discourse into a global setting. We hope to ensure trans-regional comparability, thus leaving behind the notion of cultural and religious exceptionalism which has for a long been connected with Middle Eastern studies.
Each issue of Middle East – Topics & Arguments focuses on one main topic. This allows for perspectives from different disciplines, such as:

cultural studies
literary studies
linguistics
history
political science
sociology
anthropology
economics
ancient studies

Vol 5 (2015): Periphery

Vol 4 (2015): Area Studies

2013

Vol 1 (2013): The Intellectual

2014

Vol 2 (2014): Middle Class

Vol 3 (2014): Cultural Heritage

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New Open Access Journal: Hadīth and Sīra Studies

Hadīth and Sīra Studies

The mission to understand Prophet Muhammad and present his message to the world based on primary sources, which Meridyen Association began in 2007 with the launch of the LastProphet.info web portal, is now expanding to a new field.

A peer-reviewed academic journal, Hadīth and Sīra Studies, is the next step in a line of academic activities that include “The Hadīth and Sīra Research Awards”, “Sīra Workshop” and “International Sīra Studies Symposium” conducted under the Lastprophet.info project. With the focus of gathering academic research of the Prophet Muhammad’s life to reveal universal guiding principles applicable to both Muslims and non-Muslims alike, this biannual journal seeks to make a meaningful contribution to the field of hadīth and sīra studies.

Hadīth and Sīra Studies recognizes the rigorous intellectual standards set by Western academia and aims to adhere to them from its first issue as part of its long-term goal to become a leading international publication. In line with its interdisciplinary perspective, Hadīth and Sīra Studies welcomes contributions from diverse fields of research.

How primary Islamic sources have been understood and interpreted throughout history shapes the way they are understood by the present generation. It is therefore necessary to both convey the Islamic tradition through a re-evaluation and analysis of the literature written during previous centuries, and to make it relevant to contemporary problems. The critical and philosophical ideas voiced since the 18^th century in both the East and West cannot be ignored and must be engaged with by hadīth and sīra studies. Classical Islamic texts should be reread and at the same time rediscovered in light of these intellectual developments. In tackling these significant issues, the importance of adopting both an international and interdisciplinary approach becomes clear. At this current time, Hadīth and Sīra Studies intends to publish articles in Arabic, English, German and French in addition to Turkish.

We welcome your academic contributions addressing the separate or common issues of hadīth and sīra studies, as well as those connecting them to relevant disciplines, for our second issue which will be published in May 2016.

Deadline for submissions: 15th March 2016

Volume:1 Issue:1 Autumn 2015

Introduction

• Saliha Büyükdeniz – Önsöz
• Fatma Kızıl – Editörden

Articles

• Fatımatüz Zehra Kamacı – Muahhar Siyer Kaynaklarında Mevzû Hadis Kullanımı Şemseddin eş-Şâmî Örneği ve Makrîzî ile Mukayesesi
• Sezai Engin – Hadis Literatüründe Hâşiyeler- Nuhbetü’l-fiker ve Nüzhetü’n-nazar Üzerine Yapılan Hâşiye Çalışmaları Bibliyografyası
• Ruth Roded – Moroccan Islamist Nadia Yassine Imagines the Life of the Prophet
• Dilek Tekin – Müslim’in Sahîh’inin Yazılı Kaynakları Üzerine Bazı Tespitler
• Gönül Yonar – 2000 Sonrası Siyer Konulu Romanlarda Kadın Sahâbe Profilleri

Review Essays

• Kasım Şulul – Hadîsin İlk Yazılı Kaynakları veya Takyîdü’l-İlm Meselesi
• Mustafa Dehqan – The Kitāb Ŗūļa Bizānī

Book Reviews

• Ali Kuzudişli – Oryantalist Hadis Anlayışı ve Eleştirisi (Ahmet Yücel)
• Güllü Yıldız – Siyer Tasarımı: Geçmişten Geleceğe Siyer’in Serüveni (Şaban Öz)
• Ferhat Gökçe – Memlüklerin Son Asrında Hadis -Kahire 1392-1517 (Halit Özkan)

Research Notes and Correspondence

• Yavuz Köktaş – “Allah’ın Düşmanının Kızı!”: Bir Metin Tenkidi Örneği

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Open Access E-book: Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions

Title: Locating Hell in Islamic traditions
Author:     Christian Lange
Publisher:     Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:     Islamic history and civilization, 119.
E - ISBN : 9789004301368

Open Access E-book: Censorship in Lebanon: Law and Practice

Censorship in Lebanon: Law and Practice

The Censorship Observatory

Place of Publication: Beirut

Date of Publication: December 2010

Number of Pages: 150
Translation of: Aʻmāl al-raqābah qānūnan, 2010

Free-to-read language learning textbooks from Routledge - expire December 15th, 2015.

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  What the Persian Media says
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New Open Access Journal: Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin

Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin
ISSN: 2410-0951

The Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin (ISSN 2410-0951, since 2015) has succeeded the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter as the main organ of the European network in Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies. 

It is a biannual peer-reviewed international journal, published on-line (under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license) and on paper as print-on-demand.

It is dedicated to the vast variety of issues concerned with the research into the oriental manuscript traditions, from instrumental analysis, to codicology and palaeography, to critical text editing, to manuscript preservation, to the application of digital tools to manuscript research. The geographical focus is the Mediterranean Near East, with its wide array of language traditions including, though not limiting to, Arabic, Armenian, Avestan, Caucasian Albanian, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Slavonic, Syriac, and Turkish.

1/1 (2015)

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Middle East Library Partnership Project - Report

Report for the Middle East Library Partnership Project :

http://melib.web.unc.edu/files/2015/10/Kurzman_Mellon_Project_Report_2015_10_16.pdf

The survey reports on the 237 respondents in Arab countries, plus an additional 20 respondents in North America responding to challenges and opportunities for collaboration between libraries in Arab countries and the United States.

The Middle East Library Partnership Project grew out of the Task Force on Global Dimensions of Scholarship and Research Libraries, convened by Duke University and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and supported by the Mellon Foundation.