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Dadoyan Dadoyan, S. B. 2000. Armenians in contact with Islam. Het
Christelijk Oosten [Christian East]. 52:175–199.
———. 2000. Die Armenier und die Islamische welt paradigmen
sozio-politischer interaktion. Armenisch-Deutsche Korespondenz.
Jarrar, M. 1999. Book review. The History of al-Tabarì,
vol. XVII. The First Civil War, tr. G. R. Hawting (Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1996). MESA BULLETIN 33:62–63.
———, ed. 1999. Myths, Historical Archetypes and Symbolic
Figures in Arabic Literature. Towards a New Hermeneutic Approach, eds. A.
Neuwirth, B. Embaló, S. Günther, and M. Jarrar. Beiruter Texte und Studien
64. Stuttgart and Beirut: Franz Steiner Verlag and German Orient Institute.
———, trans. 1999. Arabic translation of chapter 1 of Josef van
Ess, Zwischen Hadit und
Theologie, pages 1–56.
Studien zur Entstehung prädestinatianischer Überl;ieferung
(Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1975). Al-Abhath 47:5–102.
———, trans. 2000. Arabic
translation (in collaboration) of Tadeusz Lewicki, Les Historiens,
biographes et tradtionnistes Ibadites-Wahbites de l’Afrique du Nord au XIIe
au XVIe sciècle (Krakow, 1961). Beirut: Dār al-Gharb
al-Islāmī.
———. 1999. The martyrdom of passionate lovers. Holy war as a
sacred wedding. Myths, Historical Archetypes and Symbolic Figures in
Arabic Literature. Towards a New Hermeneutic Approach, eds. A. Neuwirth,
B. Embaló, S. Günther, and M. Jarrar. Beiruter Texte und Studien
64:87–106. Stuttgart and Beirut: Franz Steiner Verlag and German Orient
Institute Beirut.
———. 1999. Masìh al-riwâya
al-‘Arabiyya. Hal ya‘rif ahad
kayfa yasil ilâ al-tawba? Al-Nahar Literary
Supplement 407:16–19.
———. 2000. Ard
al-Sawâd wa Khadâr
al-Sard. Qirâ’a fì riwâyat
‘Abd al-Rahmân Munìf.
Al-Tarìq 59 (iv):129–53.
———. 2000. Palestina/Andalusien: en manifestation av utopi och
ideologi I modern arabisk litteratur. Naqd (Tidsskrift for
Mellemøstens litteratur, Københavns Universitet) 2:1–23.
———. 2000. Sìrat
Ahl al-Kisâ’: Shi‘ite
Sources of the Biography of Muhammad.
The Biography of the Prophet Muhammad:
The Issue of the Sources, ed. Harald Motzki, 98–153. Leiden, Boston.
Köln: E. J. Brill.
———. 2001. Berättande, död och minne: ‘Bāb al-Shams’ ett
epos om medvetandet och motståndslitteraturen, translated into Swedish by
Gabriella Husaini. Naqd (Tidsskrift for Mellemøstens litteratur,
Københavns Universitet) 3:71–81.
Shehadeh, L. 1999. Art, the chemistry of life. Women and
War in Lebanon. University Press of Florida.
———. 1999. Women before the war. Women and War in Lebanon.
University Press of Florida.
———. 1999. Women in the Lebanese militias. Women and War in
Lebanon. University Press of Florida.
———. 1999. Women in the public sphere. Women and War in
Lebanon. University Press of Florida.
———. 2000. Women in the discourse of Sayyid Qutb. Arab
Studies Quarterly 22 (3):45–55.
Smith, R. S. 2000. Between local tax and global statistic: The
census as local record. Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.).
Abstracts, Conferences, and Proceedings
Dadoyan, S. September 1999. Islam and Armenian polemical
strategies at the end of an era: Matteos Jughayetsi and Grigor Tatevatsi. The
VIII Association Internationale des Etudes Armeniennes (AIEA) General
Conference, Vienna, Austria.
———. September 2000. Islamic forms in Bagratid Armenia;
Armenian forms in Fatimid Egypt. The 20th Congress of the UEAI -Union
Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Budapest, Hungary.
———. October 1999. The Armenian version of the Chronicle of
Michael the Syrian. Symposium on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of
the death of Michael the Syrian, Patriarch of Antioch, Maarat Saydnaya,
Damascus, Syria.
———. September 2000. The Armenian meta-system and the Near
Eastern diaspora. Workshop on minorities in the Middle East: Cultural
persistence and globalization. Organized by the Oriental Institute of Martin
Luther University, Halle/Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Germany.
———. September 2000. The philosophical legacy of medieval
Armenian sectarianism - 4th to 14th centuries. In the proceedings of the
International Conference on Armenia 2000, Martin Luther University,
Halle/Wittenberg, Germany.
———. October 2000. Feminism in Armenian history: Origins in
medieval heresies. Third International Conference of Armenian International
Women's Association (AIWA), Erevan, Armenia.
———. November 2000. Technology and women in the ESCWA region:
Strategies between local actuality and global virtuality. Expert Group
Meeting of the Technology Section of the United Nations, ESCWA, Beirut,
Lebanon.
———. April 2001. The problematic of dissidence and heresy in
the making of the national: The Armenian case in the medieval Middle East. ASN
(Association for the Study of Nationalities) Sixth Annual World
Convention on Nation Making, Past and Present: Community, Economy, Security.
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA.
———. May 2001. Medieval Armenian art: The role of the church
in the promotion of culture. 1700th Anniversary International Conference: The
Contribution of the Armenian Church to the Christian Witness in the Middle
East, Beirut, Lebanon.
———. June 2001. The spirituality of the Armenian Church in the
Armenian miniatures: Unity of spirit and vision. Proceedings of
the International Conference on Armenian Spirituality: A Contextual
Study for our Times, organized by Bossey Ecumenical Institute, Geneva,
Switzerland.
———. June 2001. Armenian spirituality: The philosophical
dimension, in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Armenian
Spirituality: A Contextual Study for our Times, organized by Bossey
Ecumenical Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.
Shehadeh, L. January 2001. Women in post-conflict Lebanon: Gender relations in post-conflict
transitions. A Joint NUPI-Fafo Forum on Gender and Peace-building, Oslo,
Norway.
———. February 2001. Women in the discourse
of Sayyid Qutb. International Political Science Abstracts, Paris, France.
Miscellaneous
Dadoyan, S. January 2000. Islam and the Armenian universe:
Historic models and historicity. Lecture at the History Department of UCLA,
California, USA.
———. January 2000. Islamic sources on Armenia and Armenians: A
critical expose. Lecture at the History Department of UCLA, California, USA.
———. February 2000. Islam and the Armenians. Department of Middle
East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, USA.
———. February 2000. New ligton Armeno-Muslim relations in the
Middle Ages. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Boston, USA.
Shehadeh, L. April 2000.
Children and families under siege during the Lebanese civil war. Rhode
Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
———. March 2000.
Women and Islamic fundamentalism. Departments of Modern Languages and
Religion, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
———. March 2000.
Women during the Lebanese war. ZONTA Women's Club of Tallahassee,
Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
———. March 2000. Women
in the Middle East. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
Research Projects
Beyond power:
Neo-Shafi’ism or the Islamic constructive metaphor in Egypt’s High
Constitutional Court Policy
Article in Press, Arab
Law Quarterly. Arabi, O.
Islam, A modern doctrinal overview
An investigation of
the constituent elements of modern Islamic culture, with a discussion of
their relevance to the contemporary quest for meaning and value in human
life. What parts and notions of the Islamic faith, theology and law could
still serve the modern individual? Is
there a place in these notions for a universal system of values and standards
that would facilitate communication between Muslims and members of other
cultures and faiths? The study invokes the works of recent Egyptian Islamic
thinkers who reflect and shape contemporary popular and intellectual
movements in Muslim countries. Work in progress. Arabi, O.
Studies in Modern Islamic Law and Jurisprudence
The Book will be published
by Kluwer Law International in October 2001. Arabi, O.
The regimentation of the subject:
Madness in Islamic and modern Arab civil laws
Study in press, in Legal
Personality: The Person and the Law in the Arab Context, ed. B. Dupret.
London:I.B. Tauris. Arabi, O.
Feminism in Armenian history: Origins of medieval heresies in Armenian
Mind (Publication of the
Philosophical Academy of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, V,
1-2[2001])
The article traces the earliest forms of feminist
movements in the Near East. The source document is Canons of the Council of
Gangra (AD 374) against the Heretics of Sivas, where "liberal"
women are anathematized as heretics. In addition, most relevant medieval
texts and episodes are used in support of the thesis that, throughout the
Middle Ages, and similar to religious heresies, gender was viewed as a form
of social dissidence and treated similarly. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Islam and Armenian polemical strategies at the end of an era: Matteos
Jughayetsi and Grigor Tatevatsi in Le Museon x(2001)
The paper is a reconstruction of the polemical strategies
of the Armenian church to deal with Islam as a doctrine and an alternative
culture at the end of the 14th century during Mongol rule. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Studies in Islam and the Armenian Universe: Some historic models
and terms of historicity
This is an extensive book that critically surveys
Islamic-Armenian political-cultural relations between the 7th and 14th
centuries in Greater Armenia, Upper Mesopotamia, al-Sham and Egypt. As such,
the book initiates a new discipline in medieval Near Eastern studies and
suggests new sets of paradigms of interaction. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Technology and women in the ESCWA region: Strategies between local
actuality and global virtuality
In the new world order, the condition of women in the
ESCWA region has indeed undergone a definite, yet slow, improvement; however,
it is still one of the most vital areas where a "power failure" has
occurred because of the serious lag created between local actualities and
global virtualities. The latter is the vast world of potentialities, which is
penetrating the region through open/closed gates and fluctuating
frontiers. Women in the Middle East are not powerless in their
societies, yet they are still on a much lower scale of politicization than
men. In view of the slender success of holistic projects, and in view
of philosophies of empowerment and gender, the paper proposes a
science/technology-based strategy that starts, not from areas where the
Middle Eastern woman is weak, but from a comprehensive plan to politicize
what it calls "tangents," where the local and the global have met
and women have improved. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
The Armenian brotherhoods and futuwwa and akhi
organizations in the medieval Islamic world: The Armenization of Abbasid
caliph al-Nasir' futuwwa reform project and literature
The paper is the first study of its kind of the Armenian
urban youth organizations or brotherhoods in relation to the futuwwa
and Anatolian akhis in the medieval Islamic world. It proposes
that the initiative of the Armenian Church in Erzinjan to establish a
brotherhood of Manuks in the year 1280 was, in fact, an Armenization
of the futuwwa reform program by Abbasid caliph al-Nasir il din
Allah (575-622/ 1180-1225). Courtly futuwwa and literature
reached Erzinjan through their adoption by the Seljuk rulers at the end of
the first quarter of the 13th century. The paper also includes the
Constitution of the brotherhood of Erzinjan, published for the first time in
an English translation. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
The Armenian meta-system and the Near Eastern diaspora in
Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte, 2(2001) of Orientwissenschaftliches
Zentrum
The Armenian meta-system is basically the persistent
identity system of this people. Arising from a historic process of
almost 30 centuries, it explains the three levels on which the "water
table" of the nation was sustained above the critical point were the
Armenian nation-states, diasporic transitions and minority polities and a
culture for persistent peoplehood. After a historic overview of the
nation-states, the paper elaborates on the significance of the role of
perpetual migration in generating stability through mobility. The next
proposition concerns the Armenian ecumene and homeland as a
peculiarity. The other sections deal with the modern Near Eastern
diaspora, the 'flux' and the 'fix', the factor of historic memory, the
Turkish episode, the legacy of the millet system, oppositional mechanisms,
and the genocide as a 'forest fire'. The last section analyzes the
genesis of the nation-state after WWI, the Republic of Armenia, Garabagh
as “cause and effect” of renewed violence and bridge to history, and
citizenship in a globalized world. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
The Armenian version of the Chronicle of Michael the
Syrian, in Hask Armenological Yearbook, 10 (2000-2001)
The paper is a detailed and systematic comparison of the 13th
century version of the Chronicle, which, in the absence of the Syriac
original, was used to the end of the 19th century. After the discovery of
this monumental history, it was published in four volumes by Chabot between
1899-1910. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
The Islamic factor in the architecture of Bagratid, Armenia
This is a study of Islamic forms in the architecture of
the Age of Kingdoms (884 - 1045), also known as the First Armenian
Renaissance in Bagratid, Armenia. Considering religious and doctrinal purism
an abstraction, the paper is also a case study which presents the view that,
in the medieval Near East, cultures developed through fusion. Artistic forms
simply captured the patterns of interaction and reflected the interplay of
forces in the region. However, the syncretistic nature of the region
did not cancel or obscure the identity of cultural traditions of each of its
elements. The contradiction between an extraordinary ability to adapt to many
different cultures and the conservatism affecting the emotional was typical
of Armenians and other peoples in the Near East. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
The Nasiri futuwwa literature and the
Brotherhood poetry of Hovhannes and Costantin of Yerzenka: Texts and
contexts, in Redefining Christian identity: Christian cultural identities
since the rise of Islam (Louvain: Peeters, 2002)
Based on direct links between Abbasid caliph al-Nasir's
reform project, and literature and its counterpart in Erzinjan, for the Armenian
brotherhoods, the article is a critical reading of the brotherhood poetry of
Hovhannes (d.1293) and Costantin (d. 1334) (with some reference to the
former's Constitution for the Brotherhood of Erzinjan). The corpus of Nasiri
literature for the futuwwa was available in Ru½m Seljuk; it included
sermons on futuwwa ethics, parables, questions/answers, verses and other
exercises for the sama', or the audience of the fityan/akhis.
For this study, the following texts are directly referred to: al-Nasir's official
Decree for the futuwwa of Baghdad, Tuhfat al-Wasaya of
al-Khartabirti, Kitab al-Futuwwa of Ibn al-Mi'mar, an epistle on the futuwwa
by Ibn al-Tusi (to the sama' of the brothers in Erzinjan), and
selected verses from the Aya Sofia compendium of futuwwa
texts. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
The problematic of dissidence and heresy in the making
of the national: The Armenian case in the medieval Middle East, in Hask
Armenological Yearbook, 9 (1997-2000)
From a non-essentialistic understanding of the term "national" (in
the case of pre-modern nations), the paper studies medieval Armenian
dissidence as an identity mechanism along with the orthodox mythomoteur. It
was one of the manners in which popular factions and faiths drew their careers
in the region as Armenians; as we follow their career, the issue of
nationalism between heresy and orthodoxy imposes itself. Indeed, when
the orthodox mythomoteur lost priority, and in the absence of a homeland,
political structures, language, and at times, even religion. As we
embark on the initiative to reconceptualize pre-modern nations, the
problematic of heresy becomes instrumental in reconstructing the process of
their making. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Yanis, in Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: E. J. Brill,
in press)
The vizier Yanis al-Rumi al-Armani al-Hafizi (d. 1132)
served under caliph al-Hafiz. He was the fourth of six Muslim Armenian
Fatimid viziers who reached absolute power during the last century of the
Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt. Dadoyan, S. B.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Sustainable improvement of marginal lands in Lebanon:
Irsal, a case study, Phase II: Land tenure in Irsal
My contribution to the larger project is to examine the
underlying component of land tenure, firstly, with reference to the 1946-50
records of land registration in order to map the pattern of property
ownership in the village at that time; secondly, with specific reference
to the form and location of common holdings; and thirdly, for comparison
with other systems of land registration and land use in the region. Hamadeh,
S. (PL), and R. S. Smith.
Supported by International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada
Al-mahr zaytuna: Property and family in the hills
facing Palestine (1880-1940)
This joint article has been accepted for publication in
Beshara Doumani, ed., New perspectives in Middle Eastern family history,
State University of New York Press. Mundy, M., and R. S. Smith.
Land, society and state in Qada ‘Ajlun (north
Jordan), 1870-1940
This is a major long-term project begun before we came to
AUB in October 1993. It involves analysis of all local documentation
concerning four selected villages in north Jordan (Ottoman and Mandate land
registers, census records, court records) for the period 1870-1940 from late
Ottoman rule to the British mandate, combined with interviews with older
members of the villages. Mundy, M., and R. S. Smith.
An exploration of the role assigned to women in Islamic
fundamentalism: The discourse of Abu al-A’la al-Mawdudi
This study examines the views of al-Mawdudi and the role
he envisages for women in the development of Islamic society and
civilization, and goes on to examine the measure of consistency in his views
within the general framework of his own argument. Shehadeh, L.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Coverture in Lebanon
The principle of coverture in Lebanon is defined and
examined through a study of the Christian personal status codes. While these
do not necessarily reflect the actual social status of women, they remain
highly discriminatory against women, if and when implemented. Origin and
reasons of this phenomenon are traced, discussed and analyzed, and solutions
are recommended. Shehadeh, L.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Women in Islamic fundamentalist discourse
This pioneering study, in book form, is basically textual.
It aims at providing a systematic exposition of the normative fundamentalist
gender theory implicit within the fundamentalist discourses studied. This
theory makes possible an evaluation of the changes effected by fundamentalist
discourses on the role of women in Islam within the framework of the ideal
Muslim society. Shehadeh, L.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Mapping property: A necessary technology of imperial
rule?
This article has been accepted for publication in
Huricihan Islamoglu, ed., Constituting property: A comparative perspective,
State University of New York Press. Smith, R. S.
Technologies of imperial rule
I have been looking at the development of pivotal
techniques of government administration in nineteenth century British India
(cartography, land registration and the census) posing questions for
comparison with Ottoman rule during the same period and relating it to ways
of imagining society and the rise of sociology. Smith, R. S.
The historiography of Indian society
This article has been accepted for publication in Veena
Das, ed., The Oxford Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology,
Oxford University Press. Smith, R. S.
The veil in Islam
This study aims at tracing the origin of the veil in Islam
and its development until the present day. The study includes a textual
analysis of the term in the Qur'an and the Hadith as well as
the reasons for its proliferation throughout history. Shehadeh, L.
Completed or in progress at AUB
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