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Brill, Die Welt des Islams, International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam.
Review of Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh (eds.): Sufism East and West. Mystical Islam and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Modern World. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019. 297 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-39391-2.2021 •
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Die Welt des Islams
Introduction: Challenges from "The Periphery"? – Salafi Islam Outside the Arab World. Spotlights on Wider Asia2020 •
Co-authored with Philipp Bruckmayr (University of Vienna). This is a conceptual introduction to a special themed issue of Die Welt des Islams on Salafī Islam and Salafism outside the Arab World, with separate case studies on Azerbaijan, Cambodia, the Pashtun Borderland and Indonesia. In this introduction, the two guest-editors of this issue provide an up-to-date overview of the research on "Salafī Islam/Salafism", with a focus on the attempts to conceptualize and systematize the phenomena under investigation. A revised conceptual framework is proposed that is aimed at advancing the heuristics in this particular field of study.
Die Welt des Islams
Smile of the Crescent: Constructing a Future Identity Out of Historical Ambiguity in İstiklal Marşı (with Translation)2023 •
The print version of my formerly advanced and open-access online published article. This article analyses identity construction in İstiklal Marşı ("Independence March"), the national anthem of the Republic of Turkey, within the theoretical framework of Eurocentric nation-state rhetoric. It argues that the continuing success of the text, written by Mehmet Akif [Ersoy] in 1921, is independent of the ideological stand of its author, and lies instead in its conveyance of a modern nation-state identity. In order to demonstrate this, the article first depicts the circumstances of the adoption of the national anthem and its immediate reception in Turkey. Afterwards, it examines identity construction in the anthem and reveals that the war against European forces determined the self-perception of the nation by both the negation and mirroring of the other. It concludes that, by foregrounding certain elements such as l'esprit frondeur and faith, and by interpreting the convention of Ottoman Divan poetry, the poet infused the cultural and aesthetic legacy of the past into the future needs of a nation-state.
In the 19th century, Turcophone communities of the Ottoman Empire displayed a keen interest in European fiction. This study questions whether translating European works was simply linguistic substitution or rather had intrinsic dimensions such as cultural appropriation. It also investigates the reciprocity of literary production, and offers some observations on how translation influences and inspires " the making of literature ". The methods used are mainly based on statistical interpretation of bibliographic data and comparative sociological analysis. Turkish works printed in Arabic, Armenian and Greek alphabets are the objects of investigation. The findings demonstrate that translation in the Ottoman mind is actually an active literary appropriation primarily due to differences in the criterion of " modern fiction " from European standards where the differences are exaggerated by the Ottoman notion of translation, lending the translator liberating space and opportunity to interfere with the original text. Moreover, the inter-mingling between the oral and print cultures that obscures the definition of literary genres adds another level of complexity. It is also revealed that the millets of the Empire affected each other's choice and taste resulting in a web of interactions that exhibit the literary market and literary " canon " of the period.
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556-18182018 •
The meaning of land revenue farming in Indian history has eluded consensus. Some view it as an administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iqṭāʻ and ijārah, two Perso-Arabic terms frequently translated from the sources as ‘revenue farming estate’. I then suggest that existing perspectives do not capture the broader structure and significance of various entitlements to land revenue. Instead, I suggest that entitlements be schematized according to how regularized the right was, whether it was permanent, and how duty-bound the right holder was. In this formulation, revenue farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in ad- vance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under which entitlements fell, the others being estates from bureaucratic assignment, hereditary occupation or possession by grant/gift, and tributary or chieftaincy.
Review of Central and East European Law, Vol. 48. Nos. 3-4.
Constitutional Review as a Democratic Instrument2023 •
2022 •
European Journal of Jewish Studies, Special Issue: Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity, edited by Patrick Benjamin Koch and Agata Paluch Volume 16 (2022): Issue 1 https://brill.com/view/journals/ejjs/16/1/ejjs.16.issue-1.xml
This is a draft of the article. To cite, please use the following details: Piela, Anna (2015) Online Islamic Spaces as Communities of Practice for Female Muslim Converts Who Wear the Niqab. Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp. 363 –382. This article focuses on online narratives of female converts to Islam who wear or plan to wear the niqab. There is little discussion in research literature about motivations leading to adoption of the niqab or experiences of women who wear it. Instead, the discourse on niqab has been sensationalised by tabloid media which construct it as a symbol of otherness and separation from the host culture and, recently, one of radicalisation. This begs the question: why are some converts drawn to it despite negative reactions to the niqab by some Muslims and non-Muslims. Using a mix of narrative analysis and grounded theorising, I examine online discussions in which converted women argue why they wish to wear the niqab, often in contradiction to other Muslims’ views. I draw from Rambo’s conversion model (1993) and Lave and Wenger’s concept of communities of practice to illuminate the process whereby participants learn about Islam and the niqab through social interaction. Keywords: niqab, conversion, Internet, online forums, gender
Rainer Brunner
Serena Tolino