All Stories

  1. Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire , written by Andrew Newman

    Article • Shii Studies Review, April 2018, Brill

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  2. Peasant Uprisings in Astarabad: theSiyāh Pūshān(wearers of black), the Sayyids, and the Safavid State

    Article • Iranian Studies, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  3. Shi`ism, Sunnism, and the Traditionist Movement in Safavid Iran

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, February 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  4. The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion by Sarah Bowen Savant

    Article • Journal of Shi a Islamic Studies, January 2014, Project Muse

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  5. Stefan Winter, The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1788 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Pp. 218. $103.00 cloth, $37.99 paper, $30.00 e-book.

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, July 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  6. Reviews

    Article • Iranian Studies, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  7. Lebanese Shi‵ites and TheMarja‵iyya: Polemic in the Late Twentieth Century

    Article • British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  8. Rula Jurdi Abisaab, Converting Persia: Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire (London/New York: I. B. Tauris, 2004). Pp. 256. $74.95 cloth.

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, February 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  9. Deconstructing the Modular and the Authentic: Husayn Muroeh's Early Islamic History

    Article • Critique Critical Middle Eastern Studies, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  10. :Hezbullah: A Short History

    Article • Journal of Palestine Studies, January 2008, University of California Press

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  11. KATHRYN BABAYAN, Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran (Boston, Mass.: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Press, 2002). Pp. 575

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, February 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  12. The Pessoptimist : Breaching the State's da'wâ in a Fated Narrative of Secrets

    Article • Edebiyat, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  13. SH?'ITE BEGINNINGS AND SCHOLASTIC TRADITION IN JABAL '?MIL IN LEBANON

    Article • The Muslim World, January 1999, Wiley

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab

  14. The Ulama of Jabal ‘Amil in Safavid Iran, 1501–1736: marginality, migration and social change

    Article • Iranian Studies, January 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rula Jurdi Abisaab