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The Arab Spring in view from Israel (2012)
Journal Article
Bresheeth, H. (2012). The Arab Spring in view from Israel. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 5(1), 42-57. https://doi.org/10.1163/187398612X624364

The Arab Spring is one of the most complex and surprising political developments of the new century, especially after a decade of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab western propaganda. While is too early to properly evaluate the process and its various nation... Read More about The Arab Spring in view from Israel.

Species, Scarcity and the Secular State (2012)
Book Chapter
Otomo, Y. (2012). Species, Scarcity and the Secular State. In Y. Otomo, & E. Mussawir (Eds.), Law and the Question of the Animal: A Critical Jurisprudence. Routledge

A bronze tambourine-player (2012)
Book Chapter
Behrens-Abouseif, D. (2012). A bronze tambourine-player. In V. Porter, & M. Ross-Owen (Eds.), Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World. Art, Craft and Text. I.B.Tauris

The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms (2012)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2012). The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms. In A. Kam-Tuck Yip, & P. Nynäs (Eds.), Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life (17-35). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315605029-2

This chapter presents a comparative critique of the two hegemonic discourses which challenge the social integrity and agency of individuals and communities in Pakistan and Indonesia who are outside the dominant sexual/gender matrices and politics. Th... Read More about The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms.

Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies: Indonesian Archipelagic Selves beyond Sexual/Gender Universality (2012)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. (2012). Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies: Indonesian Archipelagic Selves beyond Sexual/Gender Universality. Jindal Global Law Review, 4(1), 71-85

This study presents a critical genealogical analysis of the narratives and politics of representation of various human subjectivities in Indonesia who transgress dominant universalising sexual and gender norms. It traces various streams of regulation... Read More about Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies: Indonesian Archipelagic Selves beyond Sexual/Gender Universality.

Fatimid Approach to the Interpretation of the Qur’ān: Al-Mu’ayyad fi’l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (2012)
Thesis
Shah, B. Fatimid Approach to the Interpretation of the Qur’ān: Al-Mu’ayyad fi’l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Al-Mu’ayyad fi’l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī (d.470/1078) held the position of Chief missionary (dācī al-ducāh) under the Fatimid caliph-Imām al-Mustanṣir bi-Allāh (d.487/1094). He compiled books and delivered lectures related to the religious instructions of th... Read More about Fatimid Approach to the Interpretation of the Qur’ān: Al-Mu’ayyad fi’l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.

The Anglo-Saxon paradox: corporate governance best practices and the reform deficit in China's banking sector (2012)
Journal Article
Tobin, D. (2012). The Anglo-Saxon paradox: corporate governance best practices and the reform deficit in China's banking sector. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 10(2), 147-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2012.673780

Corporate governance is now a key concern in China’s banking sector. Its importance is related to the important policy questions of how to foster economic growth without increasing inflation in an environment where monetary guidance does not function... Read More about The Anglo-Saxon paradox: corporate governance best practices and the reform deficit in China's banking sector.

Theorizing Pentecostal Historiography: Persecution and Historical Memory in Ethiopia (2012)
Journal Article
Haustein, J. (2012). Theorizing Pentecostal Historiography: Persecution and Historical Memory in Ethiopia. PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, 11(2), 171-191. https://doi.org/10.1558/ptcs.v11i2.171

Historians of Pentecostalism are often faced with a number of problems specific to the movement, most importantly its fragmented diversity and its providential outlook. The sources they encounter therefore contain many conflicting claims to the past... Read More about Theorizing Pentecostal Historiography: Persecution and Historical Memory in Ethiopia.

Strategies of Legal Rupture: The Politics of Judgment (2012)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2012). Strategies of Legal Rupture: The Politics of Judgment. Windsor yearbook of access to justice, 30(2), 59-78. https://doi.org/10.22329/wyaj.v30i2.4369

In this article the author considers the meaning of a legal
strategy of rupture, and the possibilities that such a strategy
holds for anti-colonial and anti-capitalist political resistance.
The strategy of rupture, developed by advocate Jacques... Read More about Strategies of Legal Rupture: The Politics of Judgment.