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As I was conceptualizing a project on death in early 2016, a friend and colleague I was visiting in Jerusalem mentioned a sloppy online essay that had drawn the ire of Palestinian feminists. The piece essentially argued that Palestinian women had difficulty receiving an abortion in the West Bank because of “culture.” Thinking about abortion […]
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How complicit is the field of Middle East studies in helping Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan consolidate his authoritarian rule? It’s a completely unfair question, of course. But, having lobbed similar accusations at a previous generation of scholars, we should perhaps give it some thought. Over the past several decades there has been a proliferation […]
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During the socially and politically turbulent seventeenth century, Moroccan scholars studied the natural and mathematical sciences throughout a network of rural and urban institutions of learning that were closely associated with Sufi orders, the Maliki school of jurisprudence, and the Ash‘ari creed of theology. Their study of these sciences resulted in their writing works in […]
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The decorative work on the iwan, sponsored by Shah ʿAbbas I, Safavi Photo © 2021 Shivan Mahendrarajah
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There are not many good things about this COVID-19 era we are living in. One of the few positive side effects one might celebrate, though, is that it has permitted many of us to rediscover the joys of slowing down and paying attention to things that we have been otherwise thoughtlessly passing by, looking at […]
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It was a decade ago in graduate school when I read Shahla Haeri’s magnificent book, Law of Desire, for the first time. Haeri’s book became the inspiration for a series of papers, conference presentations, and ultimately this book. Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature emerged out of […]
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We do not yet know whether President Trump’s killing of Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s second most powerful leader, will prove to be a masterstroke or a disaster. The president’s antipathy toward the Islamic Republic is easier to discern. Its roots lie in the Cold War. Trump may have been acting on short-term intelligence in targeting the […]
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Herman Melville’s last novel, The Confidence-Man, was published on April Fool’s Day, 1857. Aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi, a series of plausible projectors invite their fellow passengers to interest themselves – and invest – in a wild variety of impressive schemes. Touting ventures which range from the Black Rapids Coal Company to the Philosophical […]
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