- In “Reconfiguring Political Islam: A Discursive Tradition Approach” (American Journal of Islam and Society), Abbas Jong (Freie Universität Berlin) “reconceptualizes Political Islam through the analytic lens of discursive tradition, restructured within the framework of social configurations. Departing from essentialist, universalist, nominalist, and reductionist readings, the study foregrounds the epistemological contingencies and internal pluralities that characterize Political Islam as a historically situated and discursively constructed phenomenon.”
- In “Backdating the Criticism and Abolition of Family Waqf: Examples from Zaydī Yemen” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient), Eirik Hovden (University of Bergen) “presents examples of pre-modern criticism and abolition of family waqf decreed by Yemeni Zaydī imamic rulers, thus highlighting a pre-modern, internal Muslim criticism of the family waqf that has been scarcely studied to date, and framed mainly as a way to secure justice based on the Quranic inheritance shares.”