Forskergruppen for Midtøsten- og islamske studier

Pelle Valentin Olsen

• Pelle Valentin Olsen, 2025. “Atomic utopias in Egypt: intellectual thought and popular science, 1945-1950,” with Hebatalla Taha, in Utopias in the Middle East, edited by Thomas Pierret and Simon Fuchs, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN: 9781399537735.
• Pelle Valentin Olsen, 2025. Samirah “Iraqi Jewish Pioneers in the Emergence of Cinema in Iraq,” in Palgrave Handbook of Arab Film and Media, edited by Samirah Alkassim, London: Palgrave. Forthcoming.
• Pelle Valentin Olsen, 2025. “Iraqi Jews and the Emergence of Cinema Culture in Hashemite Iraq,” in Jews of Iraq: Engagement with Modernities, edited by Orit Bashkin, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Forthcoming.

Anne K. Bang

• Anne K. Bang, 2025. “Double-sided print: Silent and Communal Reading During the Rise of Islamic Print in East Africa, c. 1880-1940”, in:  K. Barber and S. Newell (eds.), Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860-1960, Cambridge University Press, 335-351.
• Anne K. Bang, 2025. “Reformers Remembered: The Haddadian Paradigm as retold in the 20th- and 21st-century Indian Ocean", in: H. Suzuki and M. Mio (eds.), “Gyres” of the Indian Ocean and Beyond: Discovering the Indian Ocean, Senri Ethnological Studies, Osaka:Japan, 165-183.
• Anne K. Bang, 2024.  Zanzibari Muslim Moderns. Islamic Paths to Progress in Interwar Zanzibar, Monograph, 234 pages, London: Hurst Publishers/Oxford University Press.

Kubra Nugay

• Kubra Nugay, 2024, “The discretion of the İmâm”: Ârif Efendi’s Preface to His Translation of Dede Cöngi’s Siyâsetnâme, In: O. Anchassi and R. Gleave, Islamic Law in Context:  A Primary Source Reader, Cambridge University Press. 

Eirik Hovden

• Eirik Hovden, 2025. "Canonising the Code: the Authorisation and Authorship of šurūḥ and ḥawāšī on the Kitāb al-Azhār under the Early Qāsimī Dynasty in Zaydī Yemen (ca. 1600-1700 CE)”, Arabic https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-01236938
• Eirik Hovden & Mahmood Kooria, 2025. "The Muḫtaṣar and Its Role in the Islamic Legal Schools". Arabica (introduction to special issue) 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-01236942
• Eirik Hovden, 2025. “Backdating the Criticism and Abolition of Family Waqf: Examples from Zaydī Yemen," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO), vol 69, Issue 5-6, 708-733 https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341653
• Eirik Hovden & Dominik Krell, 2025. "Reassessing the Family Waqf: New Insights on the Relation Between Family, Wealth, and Islamic Doctrine (introduction to special issue section) Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO),  https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341652
• Eirik Hovden, 2024, “Hvordan forstå endringer i før-moderne sharia? Et nærmere blikk på den rettsvitenskapelige tradisjonen i perioden 1200–1800,” Din Tidsskrift for Religion og Kultur, 1 https://doi.org/10.52145/din.2024.1.2284
• Eirik Hovden, 2024. "Understanding and Framing Change in Islamic Law: Potentials and Possible Pitfalls of the Concepts of Canonization and Codification", Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Volume 12, Issue 3, October 2023, Pages 289–313.
• Eirik Hovden & Christian Mauder, 2024, "The Transmission of Canonized Islamic Legal Knowledge: Practices, Genres, and Institutions", Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Volume 12, Issue 3, October 2023, Pages 283–288.
• Eirik Hovden, 2024, “The Treatise of Refutation of those who Criticise [Our] Conduct' (Kitāb al-Radd ʿalā man Ṭaʿana fī l-Sīra) attributed to Imam al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh, Aḥmad b. Sulaymān (d. 566/1170),” In: O. Anchassi and R. Gleave, Islamic Law in Context:  A Primary Source Reader, Cambridge University Press.