- Ana Echevarría captures changes in the field around local understandings of Mudejar as a specific Iberian category to a more comprehensive approach as one of many Muslim minorities in the Middle Ages in “Muslim minorities versus Mudejars: From the margins to the central stage of Iberian history,” History Compass.
- In “Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires,” Cambridge University Press, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the twentieth century.
- Claudia Yaghoobi proposes a methodology that brings feminist theories of embodiment to bear on the Iranian literary and cinematic tradition, this study examines temporary marriage in Iran, not just as an institution but also as a set of practices, identities and meanings that have transformed over the course of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries in “Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature,” Global Middle East (a new book series established by Cambridge University Press).
- In “Wilayat Al-Qadi and its Malpractice in Iran, Egypt, and Jordan,” UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Shams Al Din Al Hajjaji argues that the judicial systems of Iran, Egypt, and Jordan abuse their powers. It offers an account of the malpractice of judicial power in these countries and recommends reforms to conform with Islamic principles.