Yasir Suleiman
Biographic Data
| ID | 538544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasir Suleiman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasir |
| FAMILY NAME | Suleiman |
| SIGNATURE | SULEIMAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8490-5824 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Language is important in the prosecution of conflicts, particularly in the Middle East
The Middle East and North Africa is one of the most conflict-ridden regions in the world, with 90 percent of all states participating in at least one violent conflict since the end of World War II, or since becoming independent, against a ratio of 64 percent worldwide.The causes for these conflicts are complex and varied, but language is not one of them.However, these conflicts are played out on the international stage through intermediary langua…
A language in conflict
The Arabic Language and National Identity
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617074'); 'A very useful addition to courses on Arab nationalism, nationalism in general, and Arabic linguistics.' Professor Clive Holes FBA, Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford 'Masterfully combines his profound familiarity with the Arabic literature, the endless literature on nationalist ideology, and the very substantial sociolinguistic literature on language an…
Arabic Language and National Identity
Launching the journal, opening the forum
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Launching the journal, opening the forum
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Launching the journal, opening the forum
Intimate strangers
This article explores the relationships between female converts to Islam in Britain and their close friends and family. It pays attention to the perspectives of converts but focuses on the reactions of their intimates to the conversion. We argue that converts become ‘intimate strangers’ through conversion—estranged on the level of understanding and belief but intimate on the emotional plane. This strangeness is symbolised by the Orientalist stere…
Being Palestinian
‘These thoughtful, poignant reflections bring forth vividly some of the human dimensions of one of the great tragedies of current history, the forced dispossession of Palestinians from their homeland.’ - Noam Chomsky ‘This handsome collection speaks in a multiplicity of voices and textures that capture the enduring presence of the homeland in every Diasporic home. Palestinians and non-Palestinians will be moved by it in equal measure.’ - Azmi Bis…
Arabic in the Fray
Develops Yasir Suleiman's groundbreaking project on Arabic in the social worldGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748680320','ISBN:9780748680313','ISBN:9780748637409','ISBN:9780748680344']);Taking as its point of departure the symbolic role of language and its use as proxy in the social world, this book investigates how Arabic is involved in ideological and cultural debates in which conflict is a defining feature. The author shows how discuss…
Arabic Sociolinguistics
Arabic Grammar and Linguistics
This book explores aspects of the Arabic Grammatical Tradition and Arabic Linguistics from both a theoretical and descriptive perspective. It also touches on issues of relevance to other disciplines, particularly Qur'anic exegesis and jurisprudence. The links between the fields of language and religion are historically strong in the Arabic and Islamic traditions as so much time and effort was spent by grammarians in interpreting the precise meani…
Arabic, Self and Identity
Language is not just a means of communication but also a powerful symbol of identity in society at the individual, Self, and group levels. This symbolic role of language comes to the fore under conditions of war, conflict, displacement, and persistent cultural anxiety in society. Using autoethnography and autobiography, the book provides a novel way of investigating these issues in the Middle East using Arabic as a paradigmatic case. A study of p…
Arabic, Self and Identity
This book builds on Suleiman's earlier research on the link among the Arabic language, identity and conflict, which he explored at some length in 'The Arabic Language and National Identity' and 'A War of Words'. The present study builds on his interest in the symbolic realms of signification, and Suleiman approaches the Arabic language as a marker of identity and as a factor in sociopolitical conflict in society.
Living Islamic HistoryStudies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand
This book gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA, throwing new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world
Living Islamic History
Arabic on Campus and Beyond
Egypt
The language–national identity link is a recurrent theme in nationalism studies. However, both this link and its constituent members (language and nation) are a matter of construction, what I have elsewhere called a discursive project (Suleiman 2006), that is amenable to formulation and counter-formulation. It is, therefore, not surprising that for much of the twentieth century the link between language and national identity in Egypt has been the…
Conducting Fieldwork in the Middle East’
The workshop explored the practice of fieldwork in the Middle East. It considered the methods and techniques used by scholars, obstacles and opportunities encountered in the field, and the way that these influenced the research product. It also asked to what extent, if any, these features of conducting fieldwork were particular to the Middle East. The workshop examined these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropolo…
On Arab American Literature
On Arab American Literature Professor Yasir Suleiman, FRSE, Director of the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Fellow of King's College MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Special Issue: Arab American Literature, Vol. 31, Number 4, Winter 2006. Guest Editors, Salah D. Hassan and Marcy Jane-Knopf-Newman. This issue of MELUS contains eight papers, three interviews, an in…
Islam on Campus
The purpose of the 'Islam on Campus' conference was to consider the state of Islamic Studies in the UK.Its immediate context was the awareness that issues relating to the teaching of Islamic Studies were assuming greater importance, both on university campuses and in the funding and political arenas.The general interest in, and concern about, these issues has led to a number of previous events, including the Islam and Higher Education conference …
On Arab American Literature
Arabic in an Ethnic Jewish State
Charting the Nation
This chapter surveys recent work on the linguistic construction of national identity in the Middle East, against the backdrop of political conflicts of different intensities. It does so by discussing the language situation in Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Jordan in so far as these situations involve conflict between Arabic and other languages (French and Hebrew), Arabic and one of its dialectal variants, or different Arabic dialects. The chapter…
Intimate strangers
This article explores the relationships between female converts to Islam in Britain and their close friends and family. It pays attention to the perspectives of converts but focuses on the reactions of their intimates to the conversion. We argue that converts become ‘intimate strangers’ through conversion—estranged on the level of understanding and belief but intimate on the emotional plane. This strangeness is symbolised by the Orientalist stere…
A language in conflict
Arabic on Campus and Beyond
Conducting Fieldwork in the Middle East’
The workshop explored the practice of fieldwork in the Middle East. It considered the methods and techniques used by scholars, obstacles and opportunities encountered in the field, and the way that these influenced the research product. It also asked to what extent, if any, these features of conducting fieldwork were particular to the Middle East. The workshop examined these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropolo…
Nationalist concerns in the poetry of Nazik Al‐mala'ika
(1995). Nationalist concerns in the poetry of Nazik Al‐mala'ika. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1-2, pp. 93-114
B. Reviews
Fate' By Samira CAzzām
A. Reviews
JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, Vol. 1. Edited by ATHANASIUS TH. PHOTOPOULOS. Athens, 1989. viii, 245 pp. RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN ARAB SIND. By BERRYL N. MACLEAN. (Monographs and Theoretical Studies in Sociology and Anthropology in Honour of Nels Anderson, 25.) Leiden, Brill, 1989. x, 191pp. Hf1.75‐/$37.50. AN ARAB‐SYRIAN GENTLEMAN AND WARRIOR IN THE PERIOD OF THE CRUSADES: MEMOIRS OF USAMAH IBN‐MUNQIDH. Translated by PHILIP K. HITTI. Co…
B. Reviews
REGIERUNG UND VERWALTUNG DES VORDEREN ORIENTS IN ISLAMISCHER ZEIT. TEIL 2. Mit Beiträgen von D. SOURDEL und J. BOSCH VILÁ. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, Band VI: Geschichte der islamischen Länder, Abschnitt 5.) Leiden, Brill, 1988. vi, 152pp. Hfl.68.‐ (58.‐ to Series subscribers). BRITAIN AND THE MIDDLE EAST: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY 1945–87. By FRANK BRENCHLEY. (Middle East Studies.) London, Lester Crook, 1989. 391pp. AN IMPERIAL TWILIGHT. By SIR GAWA…
Until Such a Time By Samira 'Azzăm
UNTIL SUCH A TIME BY SAMIRA 'AZZ M* "Don't get up, Su'dd, now just you stay right where you are! I shall bring you breakfast in bed". Su'dd was just about to throw back the bedclothes when Auntie's hand reached out to restrain her. "Just you stay there! I heard you coughing yesterday-it wouldn't do for you to catch a cold". Su'-ad's cough was not serious enough to cause such concern- certainly not to merit being spoilt to the extent of her aunts …
B. Reviews
A HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLES. By ALBERT HOURANI. London, Faber and Faber, 1991. xviii, 551pp. £25 (hb). STUDIES IN ARAB HISTORY. Edited by DEREK HOPWOOD. (St.Antony's/Macmillan series.) London, Macmillan, 1990. 189pp. 5 plates and 3 figures. A HISTORY OF THE SELJUKS: İBRAHIM KAFESOGLU'S INTERPRETATION AND THE RESULTING CONTROVERSY. Translated and edited By GARY LEISER. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. 208pp.…
Palestine and the Palestinians in the Short Stories of Samira 'Azzām
Abu Richard By Mu'Nis Al-Razzaz
Death in the early poetry of Nazik Al‐mala'ika
Nationalist concerns in the poetry of Nazik Al‐mala'ika
(1995). Nationalist concerns in the poetry of Nazik Al‐mala'ika. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 22, No. 1-2, pp. 93-114
Yusuf Al-QaĪd, Drought
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A HISTORY OF PALESTINE 634–1099. By Moshe Gil. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 968 pp. ARABIC HISTORICAL THOUGHT IN THE CLASSICAL PERIOD. By Tarif Khalidi. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, xiii+250 pp. £35.00 (hb). THE HISTORY OF THE SAFFARIDS OF SISTAN AND THE MALIKS OF NIMRUZ (247/861 to 949/1542–3). By C. E. Bosworth. Costa Mesa, Mazda Publishers, 1994. 477 pp. $49.00. BADR AL‐DIN LU'LU’: ATABEG OF MOSUL, 1211–1259. By…
The Arabic Grammatical Tradition
The concept of taʿlīl occupies a central position in the Arabic intellectual tradition. In grammar it covers a host of areas of immense theoretical interest, including description, methodology, epistemology and explanation. This book sets out to deal with the concept by investigating the major works of those grammarians who have contributed most in theoretical terms to its development and elaboration in the Arabic Grammatical Tradition. It seeks …
Arabic Grammar and Linguistics
A War of Words
Yasir Suleiman's 2004 book considers national identity in relation to language, the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political, cultural or even historical difference. As a language with a long-recorded heritage and one spoken by the majority of those in the Middle East in a variety of dialects, Arabic is a particularly appropriate vehicle for such an investigation. It is also a penetrating device for exploring the conflicts of …
Taha
Charting the Nation
This chapter surveys recent work on the linguistic construction of national identity in the Middle East, against the backdrop of political conflicts of different intensities. It does so by discussing the language situation in Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Jordan in so far as these situations involve conflict between Arabic and other languages (French and Hebrew), Arabic and one of its dialectal variants, or different Arabic dialects. The chapter…
Literature and Nation in the Middle East
This study presents an original look at how ‘the nation’ is represented in the literature of the Middle East. It includes chapters on Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Israel, drawing on the expertise of literary scholars, historians, political scientists and cultural theorists, and offers a synthesising contribution to knowledge, placing Arab literature within the context of emergent or conflicting nationalist projects in the area. Topi…
On Arab American Literature
On Arab American Literature Professor Yasir Suleiman, FRSE, Director of the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Fellow of King's College MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Special Issue: Arab American Literature, Vol. 31, Number 4, Winter 2006. Guest Editors, Salah D. Hassan and Marcy Jane-Knopf-Newman. This issue of MELUS contains eight papers, three interviews, an in…
Islam on Campus
The purpose of the 'Islam on Campus' conference was to consider the state of Islamic Studies in the UK.Its immediate context was the awareness that issues relating to the teaching of Islamic Studies were assuming greater importance, both on university campuses and in the funding and political arenas.The general interest in, and concern about, these issues has led to a number of previous events, including the Islam and Higher Education conference …
On Arab American Literature
Arabic in an Ethnic Jewish State
Egypt
The language–national identity link is a recurrent theme in nationalism studies. However, both this link and its constituent members (language and nation) are a matter of construction, what I have elsewhere called a discursive project (Suleiman 2006), that is amenable to formulation and counter-formulation. It is, therefore, not surprising that for much of the twentieth century the link between language and national identity in Egypt has been the…
Conducting Fieldwork in the Middle East’
The workshop explored the practice of fieldwork in the Middle East. It considered the methods and techniques used by scholars, obstacles and opportunities encountered in the field, and the way that these influenced the research product. It also asked to what extent, if any, these features of conducting fieldwork were particular to the Middle East. The workshop examined these issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropolo…
Arabic on Campus and Beyond
History (27 works) · Political science (22 works) · Philosophy (21 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Islamic Studies and History (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Arabic (12 works) · Ancient history (11 works) · Archaeology (11 works)