ARAB STUDIES JOURNAL
  • Home
    • About ASJ
    • Contact Us
  • Issues
    • 2022 >
      • 30.2: Fall 2022
      • 30.1: Spring 2022
    • 2021 >
      • 29.2: Fall 2021
      • 29.1: Spring 2021
    • 2020 >
      • 28.2: Fall 2020
      • 28.1: Spring 2020
    • 2019 >
      • 27.2: Fall 2019
      • 27.1: Spring 2019
    • 2018 >
      • 26.2: Fall 2018
      • 26.1: Spring 2018
    • 2017 >
      • 25.2: Fall 2017 >
        • Buy Fall 2017 Issue!
      • 25.1: Spring 2017 >
        • Buy Spring 2017 Issue!
    • 2016 >
      • 24.2: Fall 2016 >
        • Buy Fall 2016 Issue!
      • 24.1: Spring 2016 >
        • Buy Spring 2016 Issue!
    • 2015 >
      • 23.1: Fall 2015 >
        • Buy Fall 2015 Issue!
    • 2014 >
      • 22.1: Spring 2014 >
        • Buy Spring 2014 Issue!
    • 2013 >
      • 21.1: Spring 2013 >
        • Buy Spring 2013 Issue!
    • 2012 >
      • 20.1: Spring 2012 >
        • Buy Spring 2012 Issue!
    • 2011 >
      • 19.1: Spring 2011 >
        • Buy Now!
    • 2010 >
      • 18.1: Spring 2010 >
        • Buy Spring 2010 Issue!
    • 2009 >
      • 17.1: Spring 2009 >
        • Buy Spring 2009 Issue!
    • 2007-2008 >
      • 15.2/16.1: Fall 2007/Spring 2008 >
        • Buy Fall 2007/Spring 2008 Issue!
      • 15.1: Spring 2007 >
        • Buy Spring 2007 Issue!
    • Archives (1993-2006)
  • Subscriptions
  • Submissions
    • Article Submissions
    • Review Submissions
  • STORE
  • ASJ Online
    • ASJ Blog
  • Spring 2019 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2018 - Individual Articles
  • Fall 2016 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2014 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2013 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2012 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2011 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2010 - Individual Articles
Picture
BUY NOW!
(Vol. VI No. 1): Spring 1998

From The Editors:

This issue marks the Arab Studies Journal' s sixth year in operation. Since 1992, ASJ has been committed to providing its readers with fresh and reliable scholarship. We hope our readers will agree that our current issue on the question(s) 'of Middle East exceptionalism' constitutes a landmark in our development as a publication . . . [read more]
Table of Contents
​
Special Issue: Contending with “Middle East Exceptionalism” Part I
​

Articles
​

8. Contending with Middle East Exceptionalism: A Foreword
by Peter Gran 

10. Crossing Exceptionalism’s Frontiers to Discover America’s Kingdom
by Robert Vitalis 

33. Exceptionalism and Authenticity: The Question of Islam and Democracy
by Leonard Binder 

60. To Export or Not to Export Democracy to the Arab World: The Islamist Perspective
by Larbi Sadiki 

76. Questioning Exceptionalism: Shari’a Law
by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol 

87. Unpacking Modern Arab Subjectivity: Reading al-Mu’allim Butrus al-Bustani
by Nafir Suriya and Stephen Sheehi 


Book Reviews

110. Sufi and Scholar on the Desert Edge: Muhammad b. Ali al-Sanusi and his Brotherhood
by Knut Viker
reviewed by Kathryn Coughlin De

115. Syria and Israel: From War to Peacemaking
by Moshe Ma'oz
reviewed by Mira Sucharov

118. Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq
by Malik Mufti
reviewed by Jefferson Gray

121. Populism and Feminism in Iran: Women's Struggle in a Male-Designed Revolutionary Movement
by Haideh Moghissi
reviewed by Gretchen S. North

125. Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa
by Yasir Suleiman, editor
reviewed by Camelia Suleiman

129. King Abdullah and Palestine: A Territorial Ambition
by Joseph Nevo
reviewed by T.S. Hattar

Arab Studies Journal


Website

www.ArabStudiesJournal.org

Submissions

coeditors@arabstudiesjournal.org

Contact

info@arabstudiesjournal.org
Subscribe

© 2020  |  Copyright Arab Studies Journal 
  • Home
    • About ASJ
    • Contact Us
  • Issues
    • 2022 >
      • 30.2: Fall 2022
      • 30.1: Spring 2022
    • 2021 >
      • 29.2: Fall 2021
      • 29.1: Spring 2021
    • 2020 >
      • 28.2: Fall 2020
      • 28.1: Spring 2020
    • 2019 >
      • 27.2: Fall 2019
      • 27.1: Spring 2019
    • 2018 >
      • 26.2: Fall 2018
      • 26.1: Spring 2018
    • 2017 >
      • 25.2: Fall 2017 >
        • Buy Fall 2017 Issue!
      • 25.1: Spring 2017 >
        • Buy Spring 2017 Issue!
    • 2016 >
      • 24.2: Fall 2016 >
        • Buy Fall 2016 Issue!
      • 24.1: Spring 2016 >
        • Buy Spring 2016 Issue!
    • 2015 >
      • 23.1: Fall 2015 >
        • Buy Fall 2015 Issue!
    • 2014 >
      • 22.1: Spring 2014 >
        • Buy Spring 2014 Issue!
    • 2013 >
      • 21.1: Spring 2013 >
        • Buy Spring 2013 Issue!
    • 2012 >
      • 20.1: Spring 2012 >
        • Buy Spring 2012 Issue!
    • 2011 >
      • 19.1: Spring 2011 >
        • Buy Now!
    • 2010 >
      • 18.1: Spring 2010 >
        • Buy Spring 2010 Issue!
    • 2009 >
      • 17.1: Spring 2009 >
        • Buy Spring 2009 Issue!
    • 2007-2008 >
      • 15.2/16.1: Fall 2007/Spring 2008 >
        • Buy Fall 2007/Spring 2008 Issue!
      • 15.1: Spring 2007 >
        • Buy Spring 2007 Issue!
    • Archives (1993-2006)
  • Subscriptions
  • Submissions
    • Article Submissions
    • Review Submissions
  • STORE
  • ASJ Online
    • ASJ Blog
  • Spring 2019 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2018 - Individual Articles
  • Fall 2016 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2014 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2013 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2012 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2011 - Individual Articles
  • Spring 2010 - Individual Articles