Selected Bibliography: 2019

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The Maghreb Review, Vol. 45, 2, 2020 © The Maghreb Review 2020 This publication is printed on FSC Mix paper from responsible sources SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: 2019 CURATED BY MOHAMED BEN-MADANI This selected bibliography published here is for the benefit of our readers and subscribers and is listed in aphabetical order. The price listed here is the price from the Publishers’ catalogues at the time of catalogue publication and does not include packing and postage. 2nd and 3rd edition reprints as well as print on demand and ebooks which is now quite common practice are not included in this list. Some titles below are in stock at The Maghreb Bookshop, others can be ordered on request. We offer 10% discount on all books listed in our catalogues to our 2020 paid-up subscribers to The Maghreb Review. The minimum order is£50.00. If you would like to receive our latest catalogue, please let us know. Mahan Abedin, Iran Resurgent:The Rise and Rise of the Shia State, 2019, 272 pp, notes, bibliography, index, Paperback, £25.00 ‘By far the most important analysis of Iran’s foreign policy, Abedin’s study vividly brings to light the debates over its strategies and their domestic and international constraints. The book offers productive new insights into the future possibilities and limitations of Iran’s regional and global ambitions.’ — Faisal Devji, St Antony’s College, Oxford. Nadje Al-Ali, Deborah Al-Najjar, Editor, We Are Iraqis. Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War, 2019, 304 pp, notes, bibliography, index, Paper $34.95, Hardcover $45.00 “The book takes its readers on a journey, introducing them to different faces and facets of the country and showing them that no matter how embattled and dispersed cultural production in Iraq has become, it contains beauty even in the most desperate of situations.” — Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication “We Are Iraqis vividly describes and relives this ebb and flow of catastrophe and rebirth via a remarkably rich collection of essays, poems, interviews, and memoirs.” — Review of Middle East Studies Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Lifeworlds of Islam.The Pragmatics of a Religion, 2019, 256 pp, notes, bibliography, index, cloth, £41.99 In Lifeworlds of Islam, Mohammad Bamyeh shows that Islam has typically SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: 2019 485 operated not in the form of standard dogmas, but more often as a compass for practical individual orientations or “lifeworlds.” Through a comprehensive sociological analysis of Islam, he maps out how Muslims have employed the faith to foster global networks, public philosophies, and engaged civic lives both historically and in the present. Bamyeh further argues that all three fields are poorly understood in recent literature, which tends to focus on one specific problem or another and does not take into account the variety of lifeworlds in which Islam operates. Aurelie Campana, Cédric Jourde, Editors, Islamism and Social Movements in North Africa, the Sahel and Beyond. Transregional and Local Perspectives, 2019, 184 pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback £37.00, cloth £120.00 As North African, Middle Eastern, and Sahelian societies adapt to the postArab Spring era and the rise of violence across the area, various groups find in Islam an answer to the challenges of the era. This book explores how Islamist social movements, Sufi brotherhoods, and Jihadi armed groups, in their great diversity, elaborate their social networks, and recruit sympathizers and militants in complicated times. The book innovates by transcending regional boundaries, bringing together specialists of the three aforementioned regions. First, it highlights how geographically dispersed religious groups define themselves as members of a larger, universal Umma, while evolving in deeply embedded local contexts. Second, its contributors prioritize in-depth fieldwork research, offering fine-grained, original insights into the manifold mobilization of Islamist-inspired social movements in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Western Europe. The book sheds light on the tense debates and competition taking place amongst the different trends composing the Islamist galaxy and between other groups that also claim an Islamic legitimacy, including Sufi brotherhoods and ethnic and/or tribal groups as well. Eglė Česnulytė, Selling Sex in Kenya. Gendered Agency under Neoliberalism, 2019,192 pp, notes, bibliography, index, cloth £75.00 ‘An outstanding contribution...