The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy (2024)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2024). The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy. Studies in Christian Ethics, 37(3), 669-692. https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468241258947

The sequence and escalation of Russian–Ukrainian political and military conflicts since 2014, culminating in Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, have reopened interest in and debates on just war theory and practice in general and specifica... Read More about The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy.

De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle (2023)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y. (in press). De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle. Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire, 2022/4(156), 85-101

For centuries, Jewish pilgrims to Jerusalem wrote their names on the stones of the Western Wall as part of their devotional practice. This custom was abruptly outlawed by British colonial authorities in 1930, after the Western Wall became the epicent... Read More about De l’inscription rituelle au texte séditieux : les graffitis hébraïques du mur des Lamentations, de l’Antiquité au 20e siècle.

The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem (2022)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y., & Cirujano, J. (2022). The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem. Jerusalem quarterly file, 92, 69-101

The deliberations over the establishment of a legislative assembly in Mandatory Palestine have long been dismissed by the historiography as one of many failed ideas of the Mandate. Yet the legislative assembly was not a mere concept thrown around in... Read More about The Unbuilt Parliament: British Colonial Plans for a Legislative Assembly in Jerusalem.

“Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77 (2022)
Journal Article
George, N. (2022). “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 42(2), 470-488. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987957

Were the events of 1975–77 in Lebanon, commonly thought of today as an internecine sectarian war between Christians and Muslims, more comparable to the furies of revolution and counterrevolution? This article reframes the Lebanese National Movement's... Read More about “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77.

الإمبراطورية في حقل الألغام: التدخّل العسكريّ الأميركي في لبنان عام 1958 (2020)
Journal Article
George, N. (2020). الإمبراطورية في حقل الألغام: التدخّل العسكريّ الأميركي في لبنان عام 1958

Between Hind and Hellas: the Bactrian Bridgehead (with an Appendix on Indo-Hellenic interactions) (2020)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2020). Between Hind and Hellas: the Bactrian Bridgehead (with an Appendix on Indo-Hellenic interactions). In R. Seshan (Ed.), Indo-Hellenic Cultural Transactions: Proceedings of the Seminar on Indo-Hellenic Cultural Transactions, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 19-20 January, 2013 (187-228). K. R. Cama Oriental Institute

Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental (2020)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2020). Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental. In L. Guirguis (Ed.), The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s–1970s (127-147). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474454261-011

It is hard to imagine language more alarming to European and American imperialists and their allies than the terms Mehdi Ben Barka used to describe the conference he was organising. In May 1965, the Afro-Asian People‘s Solidarity Organisation elected... Read More about Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental.

The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (2018)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha. https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00141P23

The study of the Old Slavonic pseudepigrapha has assumed wider significance in wider areas of Jewish and Christian religious history after recent research has indicated their importance for the investigation of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptici... Read More about The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha.

A Renaissance Interrupted? Debating Personhood through a Sexual Act in the Twelfth-Century Christianate and Islamicate Worlds (2018)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2018). A Renaissance Interrupted? Debating Personhood through a Sexual Act in the Twelfth-Century Christianate and Islamicate Worlds. In S. Schmidtke (Ed.), Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018 (308-321). Gorgias Press. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-040

Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research (2018)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research

The current and continuing shifts in frequently contrasting „official” and popular stances multiculturalism and religious pluralism in Europe are clearly symptomatic of the growing crisis of state multiculturalism in Europe, a crisis increasingly vis... Read More about Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.

St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare (2017)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2017). St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare. In M. B. Panov (Ed.), The Byzantine Missionary Activity and Its Legacy in Europe (19-28). Euro-Balkan University

The historical development and modern transformations of the attitudes of Eastern Orthodox cultures and ecclesiastical elites to the problems and ethics of war display both significant analogies and dissimilarities to the respective Western Christian... Read More about St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare.

The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City (2017)
Other
El-Kazaz, S., Mazur, K., Reynolds, N., Crane, S., & Menoret, P. (2017). The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City. Hoboken, NJ

This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a gene... Read More about The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City.

Review of: Gideon Avni, 'The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach' (2016)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2016). Review of: Gideon Avni, 'The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79(1), 179-181. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X15001135

Middle East (2016)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2016). Middle East. In E. J. Blum (Ed.), America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History (678-682). Charles Scribner’s Sons

Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Religion, War and Ethics (2014)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2014). Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Religion, War and Ethics. In G. M. Reichberg, & H. Syse (Eds.), Religion, War, and Ethics A Sourcebook of Textual Traditions (164-234). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511979651.005

Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium (2014)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2014). Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium. In S. La Porta, & K. Bardakjian (Eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition. A Comparative Perspective (379-433). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004270268_019

Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance (2013)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2013). Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance. In A. H. Pries, L. Martzolff, C. Ambos, & R. Langer (Eds.), Rituale als Ausdruck von Kulturkontakt: ‚Synkretismus‘ zwischen Negation und Neudefinition (131-151). Harrassowitz

The Interchange between Religious Heterodoxies in the Balkans and Caucasus: The Case of the Paulicians (2012)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2012). The Interchange between Religious Heterodoxies in the Balkans and Caucasus: The Case of the Paulicians. In I. Biliarsky, A. Oroveanu, & O. Cristea (Eds.), The Balkans and Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea (106-116). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare (2011)
Book
Stoyanov, Y. (2011). Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1553/0x0028e87e

The Persian conquest of Jerusalem and the Holy Land in 614 represented one of the crucial episodes and high points of the last great war of antiquity between Sasanian Persia and the East Roman/Byzantine empires (603-628). The purpose of this monograp... Read More about Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare.

Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism (2010)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2010). Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37(3), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2010.524435

Amongst the multitude of attempts to re-examine the heritage, history and textual basis of the Alevi tradition, one particular issue remains of importance; the putative relationship between Alevi and Christian groups in the Balkans and Anatolia. In p... Read More about Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism.