Reading List (3 and final)

Case study session #4: Gender, Palestine/Israel and ‘Arab Jews’
– Margalit Shilo, “’Flora Saporto’ as a Window into Changes in the Lives of Sephardi Women in Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Era”. Journal of Levantine Studies 5,1 (summer 2015), 127-136
– Smadar Lavie, “Writing Against Identity Politics”. American Ethnologist, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 779–803
– Galit Saada-Ophir, “Borderland Pop: Arab Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance”. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 2006), pp. 205-233

Case Study #5: Abraham Serfaty’s concept of the ‘juif arabe’
– Abraham Serfaty, “Moroccan Jewry and Zionism” (excerpt). Souffles 15/Anfas 7-8, 1969-72
– Abdelkebir Khatibi, “A Colonial Labyrinth”. Yale French Studies, No. 83, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms, Volume 2 (1993), 5-11
– Chapter 4 “Portrait of an Arab Jew” and Chapter 5 “Abrahamic Tongues” in Olivia C. Harrison, Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization.
Stanford University Press 2015

Reading List (2)

Case Study Session 1: A.S Yahuda and Zionism

— S. Yazaki, “Muslim-Jewish relations in the Duties of Hearts: A.S. Yahuda and his study of Judaism”, to be published in Y. Meri C. and Adang (eds) Muslim-Jewish Relations in Past and Present: A Kaleidoscopic View, Brill
— A.S. Yahuda, “My early meetings with Herzl,” Zionews (New York), vol. 4, nos. 29/30, (July-August 1943), pp. 26-7, 34.
— A.S. Yahuda, Dr Weizmann’s Errors on Trial: A Refutation of his Statements in ‘Trial and Error’ concerning my Activity for Zionism during my Professorship at Madrid University, New York: Twersky Bros, 1952, pp. 5-19.
— S. Stroumsa, “Thinkers of ‘this peninsula’: toward an integrative approach to the study of philosophy in al-Andalus”, D.M. Freidenreich and M. Goldstein (eds) Beyond Religious Borders: Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2012, pp. 44-53

Case Study Session 2: pre-1948 Baghdad
— Orit Bashkin: New Babylonians : A History of Jews in Modern Iraq. Stanford University Press, 2012
— Lital Levy: Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the “Mashriq”. Jewish Quarterly Review 98,4 (2008), 452-469

Case Study Session 3: Lebanon
— Kirsten Schulze: The Jews of Lebanon: Between Co-existence and Conflict. Sussex Academic Press, 2011

Reading list (1)

The readings set for this workshop are listed below and in a second post, in the hope that they will provide a resource for other students and researchers working on related topics.

Historical Background
Gilles Veinstein, “Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire”. In A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day, edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb & Benjamin Stora. Princeton University Press, 2014
Henry Laurens, “Judaism and the Religious Denominational Community in the Middle East”. In A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day, edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb & Benjamin Stora. Princeton University Press, 2014
Ella Shohat, “The Invention of the Mizrahim.” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 5-20
Michael Lecker, “The Jewish Reaction to the Islamic Conquests.” In Dynamics of the History of Religions between Europe and Asia, ed. Volkhard Krech and Marion Steinicke. Brill, 2012
Moshe Behar & Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, “The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 2014, DOI:10.1080/13530194.2014.878506

Opening discussion session
Emily Benichou Gottreich, “Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib”. The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Fall, 2008), pp. 433-451
Moshe Behar, “Mizrahim, Abstracted: Action, Reflection, and the Academization of the Mizrahi Cause”. Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Winter 2008), pp. 89-100
Sahar Mandour, “From Diaspora to Nationalism via Colonialism: The Jewish “Memory” Whitened, Israelized, Pinkwashed, and De-Queered”. Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Summer 2015)

Our speakers (2)

Dr Saeko Yazaki, University of Glagow:

Saeko Yazaki (PhD, Edin.) came to Glasgow in 2012 after working at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, as the Outreach and Project Manager. Her areas of research include the mysticism and epistemology of religion, the Judaeo-Islamic tradition in al-Andalus, and their continuing relevance to the present. She is also pursuing comparative study of monotheistic and non-monotheistic faiths. In her monograph, Islamic Mysticism and Abu Talib al-Makki: The Role of the Heart, she addresses the complexity of the Sufi-Hanbali interaction on one hand, and the Muslim-Jewish nexus on the other, through an exploration of the religious image of the heart in the works of the tenth-century Sufi preacher, al-Makki, and specifically his book on ethics, Qut al-qulub (‘The Nourishment of Hearts’). Currently she is carrying out research on connections between Jewish and Muslim spirituality, and a comparative analysis of Sufism and Zen.

Glasgow University department profile here.
Academia profile here.
Islamic Mysticism and Abu Talib Al-Makki: The Role of the Heart (Routledge, 2013)