Archive for January 13th, 2026

1.Guerre et paix en islam de David Cumin

David Cumin : Guerre et paix en islam, géopolitique et polémologie des régions et des pays du monde musulman (XXe-XXIe siècles)

Tome 1 : Approche globale (268 pages – isbn: 9791093817149)

Tome 2 : Approche aréale (606 pages – isbn 9791093817156)

Ouvrage disponible – profitez du tarif de souscription jusqu’au 20 janvier 2026

https://editionsguilhem.com/catalogue/344977-Societe

2. Tuḥfat al-Mulūk fī al-Taʿbīr

Editors: Lina Jammal, Bilal Orfali

AUB Press, 2026

One of the earliest known Arabic works on dream interpretation, attributed to the Sistani ruler Abū Aḥmad Khalaf bin Aḥmad al-Sijistānī (d. 399/1009).

https://aub.edu.lb/aubpress/Pages/Tuhfat_al-Muluk.aspx

3. The Turn to the Environmentالاتجاه نحو المحيط

AUB Press, 2026

During the late 1980s, the artist Hanaa Malallah (b. Baghdad, 1958) made frequent visits to the Iraq Museum, sketching archaeological artifacts in an attempt to grasp the temporality by which they could at once belong to the past and yet exist in the present. In the wake of the Gulf war in 1991, when the museum was closed and sanctions isolated Iraq from the outside world, Malallah shifted her attention from the museum to its surrounding environment, and she began to explore the city of Baghdad as a field of traces with a temporal structure like that of the archaeological artifact. This research resulted in a distinctive manner of constructing her panels—using found materials to build patterns that seem to encode some indecipherable meaning but only communicate the meaning of time itself—and it set her on a path of further research that moved increasingly in the direction of semiotics and logic.

Malallah conceptualized this turn to the environment in dozens of short texts that she published in newspapers in Baghdad and London over the 1990s. This book gathers that body of art theory not only to provide insight into the evolution of Malallah’s practice, in its taking up a question first posed by Jewad Selim and renewed by Shakir Hassan Al Saʿid, of the relationship between the modern artwork and the historical artifact, but also to open a window into the practice of art in Iraq during a decade of intellectual isolation and material deprivation

https://aub.edu.lb/aubpress/Pages/turn-to-the-environment.aspx

4. Zahra Institute: Spring 2026 Kurdish Studies Courses & Speaker Series

Register Now for Spring 2026 Courses 

Zahra Institute is pleased to offer M.A. and Certificate programs in Kurdish Studies and Critical Muslim Studies. All courses are also available as standalone options for those seeking focused academic enrichment.

Our Spring 2026 courses include Kurdish Media, Approaches to Kurdish Studies, and language courses in Kurmanji.To register, contact:
admissions@zahrainstitute.org

2026 Spring Speaker Series Begins February 11

We are delighted to announce the launch of Zahra Institute’s 2026 Spring Speaker Series on February 11. This semester’s lineup brings together scholars and experts exploring a range of topics, including Kurdish politics, cultural heritage, literature and identity, Islamic intellectual history, and Muslim chaplaincy in the US.

For details on both see the website: https://www.zahrainstitute.org.