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PROF Rebecca Gould's Outputs (4)

Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration (2017)
Journal Article
Ruth Gould, R. (2017). Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration. Prose Studies, 39(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2017.1394637

This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose. It constructs from the prison memoirs of the dissident writers ʿAli Dashti, Bozorg ʿAlavi, and Reza Baraheni a genealogy of the emergence of prison consciousness in Irania... Read More about Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration.

Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America (2017)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2019). Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America. Journal of American Studies, 53(1), 146-171. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817001426

American Muslims increasingly negotiate their relation to a government that is suspicious of Islam, yet which recognizes them as rights-bearing citizens, within a culture they claim as their own. To better understand how the post-9/11 state is reshap... Read More about Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America.

Beyond the Taqlīd/Ijtihād Dichotomy: Daghestani Legal Thought under Russian Rule (2017)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R., & Shikhaliev, S. (2017). Beyond the Taqlīd/Ijtihād Dichotomy: Daghestani Legal Thought under Russian Rule. Islamic Law and Society, 24(1-2), 142-169. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685195-02412p06

As one of the first scholarly studies of Jirāb al-Mamnūn, a collection of letters by the Daghestani Shāfiʿī scholar Ḥasan al-Alqadārī (1834–1910), this article challenges the ijtihād/taqlīd dichotomy within Islamic legal thought and argues for a mor... Read More about Beyond the Taqlīd/Ijtihād Dichotomy: Daghestani Legal Thought under Russian Rule.