Hany Rashwan
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqānī’s Christian Qaṣīda and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān,” Journal of Persianate Studies (2016) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
This article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic legal regulations pertaining to non-Muslim communities (ahl al-zemma), I offer a new perspective on…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Finding Bazorkin: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature,” Anthropology and Humanism (2016) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
This essay chronicles a journey through the Caucasus toward the end of the second Russo-Chechen war which resulted in an encounter with a little known work of historical fiction by the Ingush author Idris Bazorkin (1910-1991). In introducing Bazorkin to the Anglophone reader, I examine the intertextual linkages between his fiction and indigenous…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Review of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Charand-o Parand (2019) in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoReview of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Charand-o Parand. Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907–1909, Translated by Janet Afary and John R. Perry, in Iranian Studies
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Review of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Charand-o Parand (2019) in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoReview of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Charand-o Parand. Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907–1909, Translated by Janet Afary and John R. Perry, in Iranian Studies
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Critique of Religion as Political Critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda’s Pre-Islamic Xenology,” Intellectual History Review (Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
Mīrzā Fatḥ ‘Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European Enlightenment political thought to modern Iranian society. This essay frames Ākhūndzāda’s text within a broader intellectual tradition. I read Ākhūndzāda as a radical reformer whose inte…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Is the ‘Hate’ in Hate Speech the ‘Hate’ in Hate Crime? Waldron and Dworkin on Political Legitimacy,” Jurisprudence (2019) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
Among the most persuasive arguments against hate speech bans was made by Ronald Dworkin, who warned of the threat to political legitimacy posed by laws that deny those subject to them adequate opportunity for dissent. In his influential defence of hate speech bans, Jeremy Waldron addresses these objections. Dworkin’s concern with political l…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Review of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Charand-o Parand (2019) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
Review of Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Charand-o Parand. Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907–1909, Translated by Janet Afary and John R. Perry, in Iranian Studies
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Regime Change Abroad, Fascism at Home: How US Interventions Paved the Way for Trump (Counterpunch, 2016) in the group
War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWill a Trump presidency help to bring an end to the status quo? This essay, first published on Counterpunch days after the 2016 election, considers that possibility with reference to the long history of US interventions abroad.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Regime Change Abroad, Fascism at Home: How US Interventions Paved the Way for Trump (Counterpunch, 2016) on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
Will a Trump presidency help to bring an end to the status quo? This essay, first published on Counterpunch days after the 2016 election, considers that possibility with reference to the long history of US interventions abroad.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Aaron Swartz’s Legacy (Academe, 2014) in the group
Translation & Activism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Aaron Swartz’s Legacy (Academe, 2014) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Aaron Swartz’s Legacy (Academe, 2014) in the group
Digital Books on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Aaron Swartz’s Legacy (Academe, 2014) in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Aaron Swartz’s Legacy” (Academe, 2014) on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
“It’s time to…declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture,” wrote computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz in his “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” (2008). Swartz was criticizing the privatization of scholarship already in the public domain, and seeking ways to make this work accessible to everyone. This essay exami…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration in the group
Women also Know Literature on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration in the group
Prisons on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration in the group
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Why Daghestan is Good to Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, and Global Islamic History in the group
Writing Systems on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDuring the final decade of his productive life, Moshe Gammer (1950-2013) edited the first major English-language series on Daghestani philology. This chapter examines key aspects of Gammer’s legacy, while offering an overview of Daghestani philology from the colonial period to the present, and outlining how this field of inquiry enables us to r…[Read more]
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