Alwaleed Centre Publications

Over the course of its twelve year history, the Alwaleed Centre's academic team have published over 20 monographs & edited volumes, and over 100 journal articles & chapters.

Below you will find citations of all academic outputs from the Alwaleed Centre across a wide variety of disciplines.

Monographs and Edited Volumes

Beekers, Daan & Kloos, David (eds). Straying from the Straight Path: How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion, Oxford: Berghahn, 2020.

Blouet, Alexis. Le pouvoir pré-constituant: Analyse conceptuelle et empirique du processus constitutionnel égyptien après la Révolution du 25 janvier 2011, Fondation Varenne, 2019.

Elshayyal, Khadijah. Muslim Identity Politics: Islam, Activism and Equality in Britain, I. B. Tauris, 2017.

Goddard, Hugh. A History of Christian-Muslim Relations (second edition), Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Goddard, Hugh. Ortaçağdan Günümüze Hıristiyan Müslüman İlişkileri Tarihi (Turkish translation of A History of Christian-Muslim Relations), Say Press, 2018.

Goddard, Hugh. Den sande tro: Muslimer of kristne mellem konfontation of samejsistens (Danish translation of A History of Christian–Muslim relations), Vandkunsten, 2011.

Goddard, Hugh. Sejarah Perjumpaan Islam-Kristen (Indonesian translation of A History of Christian-Muslim Relations), Serambi, 2013.

Hunter, Alistair. Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return, IMISCOE Research Series, Springer, 2018.

Hunter, Alistair, and Eva Soom Ammann (eds). Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe, Routledge, 2017.

Kadoi, Yuka, and Ivan Szántó (eds). The Shaping of Persian Art: Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Kadoi, Yuka (ed). New Perspectives on the Arts of East Asia and Beyond: Special Issue on East Asia and the Islamic World, Orientations, 2013.

Liberatore, Giulia. Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain, Bloomsbury Academic (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology), 2017.

Peace, Timothy. European Social Movements and Muslim Activism: Another World but With Whom?, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Peace, Timothy (ed). Muslims and Political Participation in Britain, Routledge, 2015.

Volpi, Frédéric, and Janine A. Clark (eds). Network Mobilization Dynamics in Uncertain Times in the Middle East and North Africa, Routledge, 2019.

Volpi, Frédéric, and James M. Jasper (eds). Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings: Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters, Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Articles and Chapters

2021-2022

Al-Ajarma, Kholoud. “‘Pilgrimage of the Poor’: Religious, Social and Political Dimensions of Moroccan Local Pilgrimage”, Journal of Anthropology of the Middle East, 2022.

Al-Ajarma, Kholoud. 2022. 'Personality and Perception: Aspects of the Researcher’s Identity and their Impact on Field Research within Diverse Locations’, in The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region: Feminist Fieldwork and the Production of Knowledge, edited by Suad Jpseph, Lena Meari, and Zeina Zaatari I.B. Tauris, 2022.

Al-Ajarma, Kholoud. 'A Journey beyond Words: Senses, Emotion and the Sacred Experience of the Hajj', in Marjo Buitelaar (ed) Narrating Muslim Pilgrimage, Routledge, 2022.

Al-Ajarma, Kholoud. and Buitelaar, M. 'Here’s me with the Ka’ba Right Behind me”: Performing the Hajj in the Age of Technology and Social Media, in Marjo Buitelaar (ed) Narrating Muslim Pilgrimage, Routledge, 2022.

Dakkak, Nadeen. 'Contesting Narratives of Victimization in Migration to the Arab Gulf States: A Reading of Mia Alvar’s In the Country', Journal of Arabian Studies, 2021.

Güner, Ezgi. 'Mapping Africa: Cartographies of Imagination and Intervention in Turkey', in: Erdoğan, B., Hisarlıoğlu, F. (eds) Critical Readings of Turkey’s Foreign Policy, Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Muwahidah, Sarah. Review of 'Indonesian Pluralities: Islam, Citizenship, and Democracy' by Robert W. Hefner and Zainal Abidin Bagir (Eds), in Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion. 2021.

2019-2021

Akinci, Idil. 'Talking to Young People about Being a National: Fieldwork Reflections from Dubai' in Lorraine Charles, Ilan Pappé and Monica Ronchi (eds), Researching the Middle East: Cultural, Conceptual, Theoretical and Practical Issues, Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Akinci, Idil. ‘Language, nation, difference: Everyday language tactics of young Emiratis', in Magdalena Karolak & Nermin Allam (eds), Gulf Cooperation Council Culture and Identities in the New Millennium, Palgrave, 2020.

Akinci, Idil. 'Different Type of Refugee: Onward Journeys of Gulf-Born Migrants from Politically Volatile Countries', E-International Relations, 2021.

Akinci, Idil. ‘Culture in the “politics of identity”: Conceptions of national identity and citizenship among second generation non-Gulf Arab migrants in Dubai’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019.

Akinci, Idil. ‘Dressing the nation? Symbolizing Emirati national identity and boundaries through national dress’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2019.

Al-Ajarma, Kholoud. & Buitelaar, M. 'Social Media Representations of the Pilgrimage to Mecca', Journal of Muslims in Europe, 2021.

Al-Ajarma, Kholoud. & Maharmeh, I. 'Forced Displacement in Area C and the (Palestinian) Jordan Valley under Israeli Settler Colonialism', Siyasat Arabiya (Arab Politics), March 2021.

Al-Ajarma, Kholoud. 'After Hajj: Muslim Pilgrims Refashioning Themselves', Religions, 2021.

Al-Ajarma, Kholoud. 'Personality and Perception: Aspects of the Researcher’s Identity and their Impact on Field Research within Diverse Locations', in Suad Joseph (ed),  Politics of Engaged Transformative Gender Research (in press).

Beekers, Daan. ‘Bridging Divisions in the Anthropology of Religion: Comparing Muslims and Christians in Shared Social Contexts’, Special Section in Social Analysis, 2020.

Beekers, Daan, and Lieke L. Schrijvers. ‘Religion, sexual ethics, and the politics of belonging: Young Muslims and Christians in the Netherlands’, Social Compass, 2020.

Blouet, Alexis. 'Norms Matter: a Legal Perspective on Political Islam and State’s Power in North Africa', Strife/King’s College IMES Department joint edition, 2021.

Blouet, Alexis. 'Understanding the Lebanese Political System through a Look at its Constitutional Court', Revue française de droit constitutionnel, 2021.

Blouet, Alexis. 'Playing by the Rules when the Law is Uncertain: The Moral Search for Legal Grounds in Homosexuality Affairs – Senegal, Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia', in Baudouin Dupret, Max Travers & Julie Colemans (eds), Legal Rules in Practice: In the Midst of Law’s Life, Routletdge, 2020.

Blouet, Alexis. ‘Le droit administratif face aux parents accompagnateurs de sorties scolaires: Enjeux de catégories individuelles et réflexion sur les justifications du régime de laïcité’, La Revue des Droit de L’Homme, 2020.

Corboz, Elvire. ‘Shiʿi clerical networks and the transnational contest over sacred authority: Dynamics in London’s Shiʿi triangle’, Global Discourse, 2019.

Corboz, Elvire. ‘Iraq’s sources of emulation: Scholarly capital and competition in contemporary Shiʿism’, Middle East Critique, 2019.

Corboz, Elvire. ‘Islamisk enhedsdiskurs: Et studie af sunni-shiarelationer fra britiske shiamuslimers perspektiv’, Tidsskrift for Islamforskning, 2019.

Dakkak, Nadeen. 'Contesting Narratives of Victimization in Migration to the Arab Gulf States: A Reading of Mia Alvar’s In the Country', Journal of Arabian Studies, forthcoming 2021.

Elshayyal, Khadijah. ‘Securitisation, fundamental British values and the neutralisation of dissent within Muslim discourses in the UK’, The Maydan, 2020.

Goddard, Hugh. 'William Montgomery Watt and Islam', The Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 2021.

Keukeleire, Stephan. Lecocq, Sharon. & Volpi, Frederic. 'Decentring Norms in EU Relations with the Southern Neighbourhood', Journal of Common Market Studies, 2020.

Liberatore, Giulia. Fesenmyer, Leslie. & Maqsood, Ammara (eds), ‘Crossing religious and ethnographic boundaries - the case for comparative reflection’, Special Issue in Social Anthropology, 2020.

Liberatore, Giulia. ‘Guidance as “women’s work”: A new generation of female Islamic authorities in Britain’, Religions, 2019.

Muwahida, Sarah. 'National (In)security and Identity Boundaries: The Rise of Muslim Conservative Propaganda in Indonesia', Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies, 2020.

Stein, Ewan. ‘Historical sociology and Middle East international relations’, in Shahram Akbarzadeh (ed), Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East, Routledge, 2019.

Volpi, Frederic, ‘Algeria: When elections hurt democracy’, Journal of Democracy, 2020. - Volpi, Frederic, and Johannes Gerschewski (eds). 'Crises and Critical Junctures in Authoritarian Regimes: Addressing Uprisings’ Temporalities and Discontinuities', Third World Quarterly, 2020.

Volpi, Frederic. 'Islamically Framed Mobilization in Tunisia: Ansar al-Sharia in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings', in Melani Cammett & Pauline Jones (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies, Oxford, 2020.

Volpi, Frédéric. ‘Islam, political Islam, and the state system’, in Shahram Akbarzadeh (ed), Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East, Routledge, 2019.

Volpi, Frédéric. ‘Le mouvement protestataire algérien de 2019 à la lumière de la théorie des mouvements sociaux et des printemps arabes’, L'Année du Maghreb, 2019.

Volpi, Frédéric, and Janine A. Clark. ‘Activism in the Middle East and North Africa in times of upheaval: Social networks’ actions and interactions’, Social Movement Studies, 2019.

2017-2018

Alibhai, Fayaz. ‘Twelver Shia in Edinburgh: Marking Muharram, mourning Husayn’, Contemporary Islam, 2018.

Alibhai, Fayaz. ‘Representing Islam at the Edinburgh International Book Festival’, in Peter Hopkins (ed.), Scotland’s Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity, Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Elshayyal, Khadijah. ‘A Scottish Muslim story’, in Miqdaad Versi (ed), Our Shared Future: Muslims and Integration in the UK, Muslim Council of Britain, 2018.

Elshayyal, Khadijah. ‘Muslim political activism in Britain: Activism and the pursuit of equality’, The Maydan, 2018.

Goddard, Hugh. ‘Christianity in the hadith’, in Mustafa Shah (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Hadith Studies, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Goddard, Hugh. ‘The ebb and flow of religious tolerance in Christian and Muslim history’, in Anna Laura Trombetti (ed), Tolerance in Islam and Coexistence among the Religions: The Role of Religion in Promoting a Culture of Tolerance and Moderation, University of Bologna Press, 2017.

Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko. ‘Ibn al-Muqaffa’ and the Middle Persian Book of Kings’, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 2017.

Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko. ‘Rustam in Arabic literature and the Middle Persian Khwadāynāmag’, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 2017.

Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko. ‘The Christian context of the Qur’ān’, in David Thomas (ed), Routledge Handbook on Christian-Muslim Relations, Routledge, 2017.

Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko. ‘The novel and the Maqama’, in Wail S. Hassan (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions, Oxford University Press, 2017.

Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko. ‘Khālid ibn Safwān: An orator in Umayyad and ‘Abbāsid courts’, in Maurice Pomeranz and Evelyn Birge Vitz (eds), In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Premodern Middle East, New York University Press, 2017.

Hunter, Alistair. ‘Older migrants: Inequalities of ageing from a transnational perspective’, in Sue Westwood (ed), Ageing, Diversity and Inequality: Social justice perspectives, Routledge, 2018.

Hunter, Alistair, and Nasar Meer. ‘Is Scotland different on race and migration?’, Scottish Affairs, 2018.

Hunter, Alistair. ‘Staking a claim to land, faith and family: Burial location preferences of Middle Eastern Christian migrants’, in Alistair Hunter and Eva Soom Ammann (eds), Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe, Routledge, 2017.

Hunter, Alistair, and Anita Böcker. ‘Legislating for transnational ageing: A challenge for the Dutch and French welfare states’, European Journal of Ageing, 2017.

Hunter, Alistair, and Oana Ciobanu, ‘Older migrants and (im)mobilities of ageing: An introduction’, Population, Space and Place, 2017.

Liberatore, Giulia. ‘Between wandering and staying put: Piety and urban mobility among young Somali women in multicultural London’, in David Garbin and Anna Strhan (eds), Religion and the Global City, Bloomsbury Academic Book Series, 2018.

Liberatore, Giulia. ‘Diaspora and religion: Connecting and disconnecting’, in Robin Cohen and Carolin Fischer (eds), Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies, Routledge, 2018.

Liberatore, Giulia. ‘Forging a “good” diaspora: Political mobilization among Somalis in the UK’, Development & Change, 2017.

Mitha, Karim. ‘Sufism and healing’, Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 2018.

Mitha, Karim, Shelina Adatia and Rusi Jaspal. ‘Two cultures, one identity: Formulations of Australian Isma’ili Muslim identity’, Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, 2017.

Volpi, Frédéric. ‘Shaping contention as a Salafi movement: The rise and fall of Ansar al-Sharia in postrevolutionary Tunisia’, in Frédéric Volpi and James M. Jasper (eds), Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings: Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters, Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Warren, David. ‘Cleansing the nation of the “dogs of hell”: ʿAli Jumʿa’s nationalist legal reasoning in support of the 2013 Egyptian coup and its bloody aftermath’, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2017.

Warren, David. ‘For the good of the nation: The new horizon of expectations in Rifaʿa al-Tahtawi’s reading of the Islamic political tradition’, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 2017.

Warren, David. ‘Regulating maṣlaḥa reasoning & the production of a fiqh al-thawra after the 2011 Egyptian revolution’, in Sohaira Siddiqui (ed), Locating the Sharia, Brill, 2017.

Warren, David. ‘Makānat al-aharīʿa wa-maqāṣidihā fī zaman al-taswiyya al-siyāsiyya wa-l-taḥawwul al-Fikrī’, in F. Ḍaw (ed), Al-Dīn wa-l-Dīmuqrāṭiyya fī Urūbā wa-l-ʿĀlam al-ʿArabī, Dār al-Fārābī, 2017.

2015-2016

Barry, Yahya. ‘Muslim responses to far-right confrontation: Ethical and operational consideration in method’, in Yasir Suleiman (ed), Muslims in the UK and Europe I, Centre for Islamic Studies, Cambridge, 2015.

Elshayyal, Khadijah. ‘Scottish Muslims in numbers: Understanding Scotland’s Muslims through the 2011 census’, Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh, 2016.

Elshayyal, Khadijah. ‘From crisis to opportunity: 9/11 and the progress of British Muslim political engagement’, in Timothy Peace (ed), Muslims and Muslims and Political Participation in Britain, Routledge, 2015.

Hunter, Alistair. ‘Deathscapes in diaspora: Contesting space and negotiating home in contexts of postmigration diversity’, Social and Cultural Geography, 2016.

Hunter, Alistair. ‘Staking a claim to land, faith and family: Burial location preferences of Middle Eastern Christian migrants’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2016.

Hunter, Alistair. ‘Emotional or instrumental? Narratives of home among Moroccan and Senegalese seniors in France’, in Katie Walsh and Lena Näre (eds), Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age, Routledge, 2016.

Hunter, Alistair, and Eva Soom Ammann. ‘End-of-life care and rituals in contexts of post-migration diversity in Europe: An introduction’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2016.

Hunter, Alistair, Lise Paulsen Galal, Fiona McCallum, Sara Lei Sparre and Marta Wozniak. ‘Middle Eastern Christian spaces in Europe: Multi-sited and superdiverse’, Journal of Religion in Europe, 2016.

Hunter, Alistair. ‘Empowering or impeding return migration? ICT, mobile phones, and older migrants’ communications with home’, Global Networks, 2015.

Hunter, Alistair. ‘“Family values”: la dépendance familiale sur les transferts d’argent et le dilemme de retour au pays d’origine en âge avancé’, Revue Hommes et Migrations, 2015.

Hunter, Alistair, and Christina Boswell. ‘Comparing the political functions of independent commissions: The case of UK migrant integration policy’, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2015.

Hunter, Alistair, and Christina Boswell. ‘Research-policy dialogues in the United Kingdom’, in Peter Scholten et al. (eds), Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues, Springer International Publishing, 2015.

Hunter, Alistair, Tiziana Caponio and Stijn Verbeek. ‘(De)constructing expertise: Comparing knowledge utilisation in the migrant integration “crisis”’, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2015.

Mitha, Karim, and Shelina Adatia. ‘The faith community and mental health resilience amongst Australian Ismaili Muslim youth’, Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, 2016.

Mitha, Karim. ‘Identity, race, and belonging’, The Psychologist, 2016.

2014-2015

Goddard, Hugh. ‘Where does Islamic Studies fit?’, in Mathew Guest et al. (eds), Death, Life, and Laughter: A Festschrift in Honour of Douglas Davies, Ashgate, 2015.

Goddard, Hugh. ‘Muslims and Christian beliefs’, in David Thomas (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Christian-Muslim Relations, Routledge, 2015.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘The myth-making of the Masjid-i Jami´ of Isfahan: Arthur Upham Pope, architectural photographs, and the Persian-Gothic thesis in the 1930s’, in Mohammad Gharipour (ed), Revisiting the Historiography of Persian Architecture, Routledge, 2015.

Kadoi, Yuda. ‘From China to Denmark: A “mosque lamp” in context’, Journal of the David Collection, 2014.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘Textiles in the Great Mongol Shahnama: A new approach to Ilkhanid dress’, in Kate Dimitrova and Margaret Goehring (eds), Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages, Brepols, 2014.

Munnik, Michael. ‘British journalists, British Muslims: Arguments for “a more complex picture” of their relationship’, in Sumita Mukherjee and Sadia Zulfiqar (eds), Islam and the West: A Love Story?, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015.

Munnik, Michael. ‘When you can’t rely on public or private: Advancing media production by using the ethnographic self as resource’, in Chris Paterson, David Lee, Anamik Saha and Anna Zoellner (eds), Advancing Media Production Research: Shifting Sites, Methods and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Peace, Timothy. ‘British Muslims and the anti-war movement’, in Timothy Peace (ed), Muslims and Political Participation in Britain, Routledge, 2015.

Peace, Timothy. ‘Religion and populism in Britain: An infertile breeding ground?’, in Olivier Roy (ed), Saving the People: How Populists Hijack Religion, Hurst, 2014.

2010-2013

Goddard, Hugh. ‘A biographical approach to radicalisation: Ziauddin Sardar’s “Desperately Seeking Paradise” and Ed Husain’s “The Islamist”’, in George Joffé (ed), Islamic Radicalisation in Europe and the Middle East, I. B. Tauris, 2012.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘Translating from jing to mir’āt/ā’īna: Medieval Islamic mirrors revisited’, Art in Translation: Special Issue, 2013.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘Introduction: New perspectives on the arts of East Asia and beyond’, Orientations, 2013.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘Exchanges of shapes, exchanges of materials: Arts of jade in Islamic Eurasia’, Orientations, 2013.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘Why Persian art needs to be studied and collected’, in Yuka Kadoi and Iván Szántó (eds), The Shaping of Persian Art: Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘A loan exhibition of early Oriental carpets, Chicago 1926’, in Yuka Kadoi and Iván Szántó (eds), The Shaping of Persian Art: Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘The Samarra finds in the new world: Fragments of ‘Abbasid artistic legacy in American museums’, in Julia Gonnella (ed), Beiträge zur islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, Reichert, 2013.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘Arthur Upham Pope and his “research methods in Muhammadan art”: Persian carpets’, Journal of Art Historiography, 2012.

Kadoi, Yuka. ‘How Islamic ornament was reworked in China’, in Anja Heidenreich and Lorenz Korn (eds), Beiträge zur islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, Reichert, 2012.

Mammone, Andrea, and Timothy Peace, ‘Cross-national ideology in local elections: The case of Azione Sociale and the British National Party’, in Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins (eds), Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe: From Local to Transnational, Routledge, 2012.

Peace, Timothy. ‘All I’m asking, is for a little Respect: Assessing the performance of Britain’s most successful radical left party’, Parliamentary Affairs, 2013.

Peace, Timothy. ‘Muslims and electoral politics in Britain: The case of Respect’, in Jørgen Nielsen (ed), Muslims and Political Participation in Europe, Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Peace, Timothy. ‘The French anti-racist movement and the Muslim Question’, in Christopher Flood et al (eds), Political and Cultural Representations of Muslims: Islam in the Plural, Brill, 2012.