Publications in 2008

Abisaab, Rula. “Beyond the Modular and the Authentic: the hunafa’ in the Writings of Husayn Muroeh” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, (Fall 2008): 239–259.

—. "Augustus Norton, Hezbollah: a shorty History", Journal of Palestine Studies, Issue No. , 2008.

Abisaab, Malek. “The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).” Encyclopedia of the Modern World Oxford University Press, 2008.

Hallaq, Wael: “What is Shari`a?” The Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, vol. 12 (2005-2006), eds. H.H. Cotran and Martin Lau, pp. 151-80. (Published in 2008).

—. “The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law: A Response,” in the Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, 19, 3 (2008): 456-66.

Hartman, Michelle. "Grandmothers, Grape Leaves and Kahlil Gibran: Writing Race in Anthologies of Arab American Literature." in Race and Arab Americans Before 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects. Ed. Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2008. 170-203.

—. "Language, Individual and Community in Lebanese Women's Literature Written in French." in Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean: Self-Expression in a Muslim Culture from Post-classical Times to the Present Day. Ed. RC Ostle. London: IB Tauris, 2008. 275-294.

—. Review of Muhsin Musaw iArabic Poetry: Trajectories of modernity and tradition. IJMES 40:1 (Feb. 2008): 164-166.

—. Review of Suad Amiry. "Sharon and My Mother in Law." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 4:1 (Winter 2008): 141-144.

Ragep, F. Jamil: “Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi.” New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Ed. Noretta Koertge. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons/Thomson Gale, 2008. Vol. 6. 187-189.

—., and Sally P. Ragep. “The Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI): Towards a Sociology of the Exact Sciences in Islam”. A Shared Legacy: Islamic Science East and West. Homage to Professor J. M. Millàs Vallicrosa. Ed. Emilia Calvo, Mercè Comes, Roser Puig and Monica Rius. Barcelona: University of Barcelona, 2008. 15-21.

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