Yaseen A Noorani

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Books

• Noorani, Y. A. (2010). Culture and Hegemony in the Colonial Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Yaseen Noorani, Culture and Hegemony in the Colonial Middle East (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010);

Chapters

• Noorani, Y. A. (2023). Modernizing the ‘Ajam: Islam, Orientalism and the Persianate Legacy in the Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal. In Routledge Handbook of Persian Literature.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2023). The Homeland at the Threshold of World Literature. In Routledge Companion to Arabic Poetry. Routledge.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2019). At the Threshhold of World Literature: Ahmad Shawqi. In Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature. Wiley-Blackwell. doi:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118635193
• Noorani, Y. A. (2020). At the Threshold of World Literature: Ahmad Shawqi . In A Companion to World Literature. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2020). Translating World Literature into Arabic and Arabic into World Literature: Sulayman al-Bustani’s al-Ilyādha and Rawhi al-Khalidi’s Arabic Rendition of Victor Hugo. In Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean. Edinburgh University Press.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2019). Translating World Literature into Arabic and Arabic into World Literature: Sulayman al-Bustani’s al-Ilyādha and Rawhi al-Khalidi’s Arabic Rendition of Victor Hugo. In Translation and Circulation in the Late Ottoman Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Noorani, Y. A., & el-Ariss, T. (2012). Al-Kawakibi. In The Arab Renaissanc.
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  Section on al-Kawakibi, intro, translations; Your Role: Contributor;
• Noorani, Y. A. (2008). “Normative Notions of Public and Private in Early Islamic Culture”. In Harem Histories. Duke University Press.
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• Noorani, Y. A. (2007). “Visuality, Resistance and the Repressive Hypothesis in Arabic Modernism”. Palgrave Macmillan.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: “Visuality, Resistance and the Repressive Hypothesis in Arabic Modernism”, Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony, John Chalcraft and Yaseen Noorani eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2007,75-99.;
• Noorani, Y. A., & Chalcraft, J. (2007). Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan.
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  ;Your Role: Co-author;Full Citation: Introduction", Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony, John Chalcraft and Yaseen Noorani eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 1-19.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Faculty member, London School of Economics;

Journals/Publications

• Noorani, Y. A. (2023). Romantic Aesthetics and the General Will in the Islamism of Sayyid Qutb. Political Theory, 51(6), 874-896.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2016). Estrangement and Selfhood in the Classical Arabic Concept of Watan. The Journal of Arabic Literature, 47(1-2), 1-27.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2014). Muhammad Iqbal and the Immanence of God in Islamic Modernism. Religion Compass, 8(1), 60-69.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2013). Hard and Soft Multilingualism. Critical Multilingualism Studies, 1(2), 7-28.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2010). “Iraqi Modernism and the Representation of Femininity”. International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Yaseen Noorani, "Iraqi modernism and the representation of femininity: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati," INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY IRAQI STUDIES, 4, no. 1/2, (2010): 101-119;

Presentations

• Noorani, Y. A. (2022, December). World Literature, Eastern Literature and the Struggle over Literary Identity in Inter-War Egypt. MESA 2022. Denver, CO: MESA.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2021, December). The Critical Legacy of Jaroslav Stetkevych. Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory. NYC: Columbia University’s Arabic Studies Seminar; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; Sheikh Zayed Book Award; Brill Academic Publishers.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2019, April). Comparativism and the Foundations of World Literature. The Cultural Turn in Arabic Literary Production. NYC: Columbia University, Journal of Arabic Literature.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2019, January). Orientalism, Arabic, and the Threshold of World Literature. Invited Lecture. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2019, March). “Counterpointing World Literature: Templates of Comparative Literature in the Middle East.”. American Comparative Literature Association. Washington DC: American Comparative Literature Association.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2019, September). Orientalism, Arabic, and the Threshold of World Literature. Enlarging World Literature. Shanghai: East China Normal University.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2018, March). Key Note address: The Birth of Nationality on the Stage of World Literature: The Iliad, Victor Hugo and Arabic Poetry. Jil Jadid Conference. Austin, Texas: University of Texas.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2018, March). Tarikh Shurb al-Khamr bayn al-Muslimin. Jil Jadid conference. Austin, Texas: University of Texas.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2018, November). The False Dawn of World Literature. MESA Conference. San Antonio, TX: MESA.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2017, November). The Literary Aesthetic Foundations of Islamism in Sayyid Qutb. MESA. Washington, D.C.: MESA.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2017, Spring). Adab al-Wijdan and the Islamic Vision of Reality in the Thought of Sayyid Qutb. Adab as an Interdisciplinary Pursuit. Columbia University, NY: Middle East Institute, MESAS, Columbia University.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2016, Fall). Tarjamat al-Adab al-Alami ila al-Arabiyya. The Georgetown Colloquium in Arabic Literature. Georgetown University, Washington D.C.: Georgetown University.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2016, March). Self-Modelling in the Qasida and Ghazal. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: ACLA.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2015, December). Translating World Literature into Arabic and Arabic into World Literature: Sulayman al-Bustani’s al-Ilyādha. Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations in the late 19th-century Middle East/Eastern Mediterranean. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK: The Centre for the Study of the Arab World.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2015, March). Arab Solidarity Sacrificial Palestine. American Comparative Literature Association Conference. Seattle, WA: ACLA.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2015, October). Tadhiyyat Filastin wa al-Tadamun al-Arabi. Arabic Literature Colloquium: Modern Poetry and Theory. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2014, March). Modernism and Baghdad in the Poetry of al-Bayati. ACLA Annual Conference. NYC: ACLA.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2013, Fall). Muhammad Qutb and the Aesthetics of Islamism. MESA conference. New Orleans: MESA.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2013, March). Realism, Aestheticism and the Idea of Islamic Civilization. ACLA Annual Conference. Toronto: ACLA.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2013, November). Estrangement and Selfhood in the Classical Arabic Concept of Watan. Columbia University Conference: “Arabic Literature: Migration, Diaspora, Exile, Estrangement”. NYC: Columbia University, Brill.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2012, 2013-03-01). The Secular Justification of Islamic Political Order. American Oriental Society. Boston, MA.
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  ;Submitted: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Noorani, Y. A. (2011, 2011-03-01). Literary Aestheticism and the Formation of the Notion of “Islamic Civilization”. Workshop on Language, Literacy and the Construction of Social Authority in Islamic Societies, Stanford University. Stanford University.
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  20 proposals were accepted out of 200 submitted.;Submitted: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Noorani, Y. A. (2009, 2010-05-01). Romantic Aestheticism and the Foundations of Islamism in Sayyid Qutb. Mirror Images: Challenges for Arab and Islamic Studies Conference. Villanova University, Philadelphia.
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• Noorani, Y. A. (2008, 2010-05-01). Gender and the Concealment of Desire. Classical Arabic Poetry Workshop. Rutgers University.
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• Noorani, Y. A. (2007, 2007-11-01). The Moral Discourse of Modernity: Gender and Orientalism in Early 20th Century Egypt. MESA. Boston.
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• Noorani, Y. A. (2007, 2010-05-01). Sufism and Allegory in the Masnavi. Rumi Conference. Vancouver.
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• Noorani, Y. A. (2007, 2010-05-01). “Modernity: What, Where When”, Roundtable panel. MLA. Chicago.
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Reviews

• Noorani, Y. A. (2017. Review of Middle East Studies(p. 3).
• Noorani, Y. A. (2014. Review of Madina Vladimirovna Tlostanova, and Walter Mignolo, Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas(pp 168-169). Journal of Global History 9.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2008. Review of Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Review of El-Enany, Rasheed, Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 40:4 (November 2008), 706-708.;

Others

• Noorani, Y. A. (2011, July). Conducted research in Egypt at Dar al-Kutub, June to July 2011, on the debate over the nature of the.
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  Conducted research in Egypt at Dar al-Kutub, June to July 2011, on the debate over the nature of the West and the East among Arab intellectuals in the 1920's and 1930's. I consulted dozens of articles in numerous journals and plan to write a paper on this topic.
• Noorani, Y. A. (2007).
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• Noorani, Y. A., & Chalcraft, J. (2007). Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony.
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  ;Your Role: Co-editor;Full Citation: Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony, John Chalcraft and Yaseen Noorani eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Faculty member at London School of Economics;