Faculty Publications

DISC Core and Affiliated Faculty's recent publications


Chris Bail

Bail, C. Terrified: How anti-Muslim fringe organizations became mainstream, 2014.


Fadi Bardawil

Bardawil, Fadi A., Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation. Duke University Press, 2020.


miriam cooke

cooke, miriam. Dancing in Damascus Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution. Routledge, 2016.

Cooke, M. Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf. University of California Press, 2014.

cooke, M. Nazira Zeineddine. A Pioneer of Islamic Feminist Pioneer. Oxford: Oneworld Press, 2010.

Göknar, E., M. Cooke, and G. Parker. Mediterranean Passages from Delos to Derrida. UNC Press, 2008.

cooke, M. Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Officia. Duke University Press, 2007.


Shai Ginsburg

Ginsburg, Shai, Martin Land, and Jonathan Boyarin. Jews and the Ends of Theory, 2018.

Ginsburg, S. P. Rhetoric and nation: The formation of Hebrew national culture, 1880–1990, 2014.

Ginsburg, S., and Brian Horowitz. Bounded Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel, 1880–2010. Slavica Publishers, 2013.

Man, P. D. The Resistance to Theory. Translated by P. D. Shai Ginsburg. Resling, 2010.


Erdağ Göknar

Göknar, E. Orhan Pamuk, secularism and blasphemy: The politics of the Turkish novel, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203080108.

Göknar, E. Conversations With Orhan Pamuk. University of Mississippi Press, 2013.

Submitted, Proposal. Occupied Istanbul: From Trauma to Trope in Turkish Culture. Edited by Joe Whiting under consideration. Routledge, 2013.

Göknar, E., M. Cooke, and G. Parker. Mediterranean Passages from Delos to Derrida. UNC Press, 2008.


Mona Hassan

Hassan, M. Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.


Jayne Huckerby

Huckerby, J., and M. Satterthwaite. Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Perspectives. Routledge, 2013.


Engseng Ho

Ho, E. “Custom and conversion in malabar: Zayn al-din al-malibari's gift of the mujahidin: Some accounts of the Portuguese.” In Islam in South Asia in Practice, 403–8, 2009.


Bruce Jentleson

Jentleson, Bruce W. The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Pauly, L. W., and B. W. Jentleson. Power in a complex global system, 2014.


Mohsen Kadivar

Kadivar, M. Enqelab va nezam dar buteye Naqd-e Akhlaqi (Testing the Revolution and Regime with Ethical Criticism: Ayatollah S. Muhammad Rouhan, Slander and Authority),. Vol. 3. self-published e-book, 2015.

Kadivar, M. Sug-Name-ye Faqih-e Pakbaz (A Tribute of the Virtuous Theologian Ayatollah Montazeri). self-published e-book, 2015.

Kadivar, M. Dar Mahzar-e Faqih-e Azadeh (In the Presence of a Noble Theologian Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) A Collection of Exchanges between the Mentor and the Disciple). self-published e-book, 2015.

Kadivar, M. Al-Hokumat al-Wila’yyai (The Government of the Guardian Jurist). Beirut: Mu’sasi al-Intishar al-Arabi (Arab Diffusion Company), 2015.

Kadivar, M. Ebtezal-e Marja’iyyat-e Shi’a (The Trivialization of Shi’i Authority: Impeaching Iran’s Supreme Leader’s Claim to Religious Authority). self-published e-book, 2015.


Bruce Kuniholm

Kuniholm, B. The United States and Turkey, 2003.

Kuniholm, B. The Palestine Problem and United States Policy, with an annotated bibliography by Michael Rubner. Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 1986.

Kuniholm, B. The Persian Gulf and United States Policy. Claremont: CA: Regina Books, 1984.

Kuniholm, B. The Near East Connection: Greece and Turkey in the Reconstruction and Security of Europe, 1946-1952. Brookline, Mass.: Hellenic Press, 1984.

Kuniholm, B. The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.


Timur Kuran

Kuran, T. The long divergence: How Islamic law held back the Middle East, 2012.

Kuran, T. Islam and mammon: The economic predicaments of islamism, 2010.


Bruce Lawrence

Lawrence, B. B. The Koran in English: A Biography. Princeton University Press, 2017.


Mbaye Lo

Lo, Mbaye. The Arabic Classroom Context, Text and Learners, 2019.

Lo, Mbaye. Political Islam, Justice and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Lo, M., and M. Haron, eds. Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Lo, M. B. Amrika: al-Islam wa al-Sudan: Qiraat fi Ghayahib al-Fikr al-Siyasi al-Hadith (America, Islam and Sudan: Readings in the Darkness of Modern Political Thought). Cairo & Khartoum: Arab and African Research Center & Center for the Studies of Islam and Contemporary Muslim World, 2011.

Lo, M. B. Civil Society-Based Governance in Africa: Theories and Practices: ( A Case Study of Senegal). Society Studies Center, 2010.


Adam Mestyan

Mestyan, A. Arab Patriotism - The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.


Ellen McLarney

McLarney, E. A. Soft force: Women in Egypt's Islamic awakening, 2015.


Negar Mottahedeh

Mottahedeh, Negar. Whisper Tapes Kate Millett in Iran. Stanford University Press, 2019.

Mottahedeh, N., I. Szeman, and M. O’Driscoll. After oil 2015. Petrocultures Research Group (in partnership with press), 2016.

Mottahedeh, N. #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015.

Mottahedeh, N. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's journey West: The course of human solidarity, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032010.

Mottahedeh, N. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's journey West: The course of human solidarity, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032010.


Meredith Riedel

Riedel, Meredith L. D. Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity Writings of an Unexpected Emperor. Cambridge University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107281967.


Omid Safi

Safi, Omid. Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition.  Yale University Press, 2018

Safi, Omid.  Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters.  HarperOne, 2009.

Hammer, J., and O. Safi. The Cambridge companion to American Islam, 2011.


Rebecca Stein

Stein, R., and A. Kuntsman. Digital militarism : Israel's Occupation in the Social Media Age. Stanford University Press, 2015.

Stein, R. L. Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism. Duke University Press, 2008.

Stein, R. L., and J. Beinin, editors. The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005. Stanford University Press, 2005.

Stein, R. L., and T. Swedenburg, editors. Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture. Duke University Press, 2005.


Mustafa Tuna

Tuna, Mustafa. Imperial Russia's Muslims Islam, Empire and European Modernity, 1788–1914. Cambridge University Press, 2015.


Lucas Van Rompay

Van Rompay, L., and S. P. Brock. Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments in the Library of Deir al-Surian, Wadi al-Natrun (Egypt). Vol. 227. Louvain: Peeters, 2014.

Rompay, L Van, F. Petit, and J. J. S. Weitenberg. Eusèbe d’Émèse. Commentaire de la Genèse. Texte arménien de l’édition de Venise (1980), fragments grecs et syriaques, avec traductions. Peeters, 2011.

Van Rompay, L., and J. Frishman, eds. The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation. Peeters Publishers, 1997.


Erica Weinthal

Luong, P. J., and E. Weinthal. Oil is not a curse: Ownership structure and institutions in soviet successor states, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779435.

Weinthal, Erika. State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia. MIT Press, 2002.


Joseph Winters

Winters, Joseph R. Hope Draped in Black: Race Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress (Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People).  Duke University Press, 2016.