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2022

Ajil, Ahmed (2022). Politico-ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World: All in. Routledge, 286 Seiten, ISBN e-book: 9781003281665; ISBN book print: 9781032251226; doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003281665.

Ajil, Ahmed (2022). “Politico-ideological violence in Lebanon”. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Online Open Access, Ausgabe vom 4. November 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2022.98899.

Bicer-Deveci, Elife (2022). Medicalizing the “Alcohol Problem” in the Ottoman Empire: Expert Networks and Exchanges between Istanbul, Munich and Zurich. In: Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Sozialforschung, 32, 3/4, S. 378-394. https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/view/3254

Bicer-Deveci, Elife (2022). The Issue of Alcohol in Turkey during the 1980s and 1990s. In : Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerrannée, 151, S. 179-198. https://doi.org/10.4000/remmm.18018

Bicer-Deveci, Elife (2022). Turkey’s Prohibition in 1920: Modernising an Islamic Law. In: Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since Nineteenth Century: Disputes, Practices and Politics, edited by Elife Biçer-Deveci and Philippe Bourmaud. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan St. Antony’s Series, S. 23-42. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84001-3_2

Bicer-Deveci, Elife, and Brandenburg, Ulrich (2022). “The Ottoman Empire and “Germansphere” in the Age of Imperialism.” Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Sozialforschung, 32, 3/4. ISBN: 978-3-96023-477-7

Bicer-Deveci, Elife, and Bourmaud, Philippe (2022). Alcohol in the Maghreb and the Middle East since Nineteenth Century: Disputes, Practices and Politics. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan St. Antony’s Series. ISBN: 978-3-030-84001-3

Boulos, Samir, and Feixas, Mònica (2022). Learning Through International Exchanges in Teacher Education: Experiences with the Learning Culture in Universities (LECU) Project in Albania, Kosovo and Switzerland (dokinsight, Vol. 1). Zurich: Zurich University of Teacher Education, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7377613

Boulos, Samir, and Feixas, Mònica, eds. (2022). Learning Across Borders in Teacher Education: Experiences with the Swiss-north African Academic Network (SINAN) Project (dokinsight, Vol. 2). Zurich: Zurich University of Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7377546

De Angelo, Carlo, and Tolino, Serena (2022). "Special Issue: The Human Body in Islamic Law. Essays in Memory of Agostino Cilardo", Studi Magrebini, 20(2), pp. 117-246

Langer, Axel (2022). Im Namen des Bildes. Die figürliche Darstellung in den islamischen & christlichen Kulturen, Berlin und Zürich: HatjeCantz und Museum Rietberg, 2022, 504 S., ISBN 978-3-7757-4732-5.

Schlaepfer, Aline (2022). “Le conseil communal israélite libanais. Relations interconfessionnelles et performativité du territoire à Sidon après la création du Grand Liban”, Cahiers de la Méditerranée 105, 131–144.

Tolino, Serena (2022). «Eunuchs in the Sunnī Legal Discourse: Reflections on the Gender of Castrated Men». Studi Magrebini, 20(2), pp. 117-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2590034x-20220071 

Tolino, Serena (2022). «Pregnancy». In: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection.  

Tolino, Serena (2022).    «Castration» In: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection.  

2021

Schäublin, Emanuel, 2021. "Counting Good and Bad Deeds under Military Rule: Islam and Divine Bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine)." In: Clarke, Morgan and Emily Corran (eds.). Rules and Ethics: Perspectives from History and Anthropology. Manchester: Manchester University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526148919.00014 

Schlaepfer, Aline, 2021. “Sidon Against Beirut. Space, Control and the Limits of Sectarianism within the Jewish Community in Modern Lebanon,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 53, 424-448 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743821000180

Schlaepfer, Aline, 2021. “Between Ruler and Rogue. Sayyid Talib al-Naqib and the British in Early 20th Century Basra,” in Age of Rogues Rebels, Revolutionaries, and Racketeers in Turn of the Century Eurasia Minor, eds. Ramazan Öztan and Alp Yenen, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 235–257 https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474462624.003.0008

Podcast

Sitting in a virtual teahouse, Shar3i meets with scholars interested in Islamic law to discuss their research and teaching, but also their hobbies. It begins with the scholars participating in the 10th Islamic Legal Studies conference, convened by the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS) in partnership with the Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), held at the Aga Khan Centre in London, 19–21 May 2022.

New collections

  • Phototheca Afghanica, a project of Foundation Bibliotheca Afghanica:

Phototheca Afghanica: safeguarding old photographs from Afghanistan. In 2023, the Bibliotheca Afghanica Foundation transferred its collections to the University of Basel.

  • Sources arabes médiévales de la Bibliothèque cantonale universitaire de Lausanne/BCUL

Vue d'ensemble de la collection de sources arabes médiévales déjà disponibles à l'Unithèque : lien sur Renouvaud.

Projects

  • Frank Beat Keller, Youssef Dabliz, Bassem Zawdeh et l’association Les Ami-e-s du Khan: Projet de rénovation du caravansérail des Égyptiens à Tripoli, Liban: https://fr.karawanserei-tripoli.ch/

Events

  • Workshop Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies, Murtensee, 30 August-1 September 2023, organized by Stephan Conermann, Laura Emunds, Laura Rowitz, Omar Anchassi, Serena Tolino. Organizational aspects: Kacem El Ghazzali