I. Selected articles & book chapters.
II. Articles in scholarly references.
III. Scholarly reviews
I. Selected articles & book chapters
Ubayd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Tahir and his (Continuation of his Father’s) History of Baghdad In ARABIC BELLES LETTRES, edited by Joseph E. Lowry and Shawkat M. Toorawa (Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2019), 73–93
A Corpus, Not a Canon (Nor an Anthology): Creating a “Library of Arabic Literature In Journal of World Literature 2 (2017), 356–37.
Performing the Pilgrimage. In Hajj: The Pilgrimage in Islam, ed. Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat M. Toorawa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 215–230.
Poetry in the Modern Arab World. In Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture, ed. Dwight Reynolds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 96–111.
Rendering the Qur'an into Cadenced Rhyming English Prose: Process and Outcome in a Translation of Sūrat al-Ghāshiya (Q. 88). Journal of Qur’anic Studies 17/2 (2015), 103–117.
The Modern Literary (After)lives of al-Khiḍr. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 16/3 (2014), 174–195.
Hapaxes in the Qur’an: Identifying and Cataloguing Loan Words (and Loan Words). In New Perspectives on the Qur’an. The Qur’an in Its Historical Context 2, ed. Gabriel S. Reynolds (London: Routledge, 2011), 191–244.
Surat Maryam (Q. 19): Lexicon, Lexical Echoes, English Translation. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 13/1 (2011), 25–78.
Islam. In Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith, ed. Roger Allen and Shawkat M. Toorawa (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. P. Eerdmans, 2011), 3–17.
Proximity, Resemblance, Sidebars and Clusters: Ibn al-Nadim’s Organisational Principles in Fihrist 3.3. Oriens 38 (2010), 217–247.
Prayer. In Key Themes for the Study of Islam, ed. Jamal J. Elias (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2010), 263-281.
Hapless Hapaxes and Luckless Rhymes: The Qur’an as Literature. Religion & Literature 41/2 (2009), 221–227.
The Shifa’ al-‘alil of Azad Bilgrami (d. 1200/1786): Introducing an Eighteenth-Century Work on al-Mutanabbi’s Poetry. Middle Eastern Literatures 11/2 (2008), 249–264.
Referencing the Qur’an: A Proposal, with Illustrative Translations and Discussion. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 9(1) (2007), 134–148.
Islamic Literatures: Writing in the Shade of the Qur’an [uncorrected proofs]. In Voices of Islam, vol. 4: Voices of Beauty, Art and Science, ed. Vincent Cornell (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2006), 121–141.
Modern Arabic Literature and the Qur’an: Creativity, Inimitability… Incompatibilities? In Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures, ed. Glenda Abramson and Hilary Kilpatrick (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), 239-257.
Defining Adab by (re)defining the Adib: Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and storytelling. In On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature, ed. Philip Kennedy (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005), 285-306. [uncorrected proofs]
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 893). In Arabic Literary Culture, 500-925, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 311, ed. M. Cooperson and S. M. Toorawa (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005), 141-149.
Afterword, in Adonis, A Time Between Ashes and Rose, Poems (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004), 181-198.
Travel in the Medieval Islamic World: The Importance of Patronage as Illustrated by ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (and other littérateurs). In Eastward Bound: Travel and Travellers, 1050-1550, ed. Rosamund Allen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 57-70.
Ibn Abi Tahir vs. al-Jahiz, or: Defining the adib. In ‘Abbasid Studies. Occasional Papers of the School of ‘Abbasid Studies. Cambridge, 6-10 July 2002, ed. James Montgomery (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), 247-261.
“We were here first”: The rhetoric of identity and anteriority among African-American Muslims and Muslims in Mauritius. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 8(1) (Spring/Summer 2003), 1-39.
Play in the Qur’an. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 5(1) (2003), 99-102.
Reflections on the Shoah by an Itinerant Muslim. Bridges: an interdisciplinary journal of theology, philosophy, history and science 10 (3-4) (Fall/Winter 2003), 275-287.
Seeking refuge from evil: The power and portent of the closing chapters of the Qur’an. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 4(2) (2002), 54-60.
Is Multiculturalism Bad for Art? Carl de Souza’s La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Mauritian City. L’Esprit créateur 41(3) (2001), 197-206.
An Addendum to Edebiyât 10.1: Bibliography of Critical Works on al-Tayyib al-Sâlih. Edebiyât 12(4) (2001), pp. 309-311.
Wâq al-wâq: Fabulous, Fabular, Indian Ocean (?) Islands… Emergences 10(2) (November 2000), 387-402.
‘Translating’ The Tempest: Dev Virahsawmy’s Toufann, Cultural Creolization, and the Rise of Mauritian Kreol. African Theatre 3 (2000), 125-138.
Imagined Territories: The Pre-Dutch History of the Indian Ocean. In Globalisation and the South-West Indian Ocean, ed. Sandra J. T. Evers and Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing (Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies; Réduit: University of Mauritius, 2000), 31-39.
‘Strange bedfellows’?: Mauritian Writers and Shakespeare. Wasafiri 30 (Autumn 1999), 27-31.
Notes Toward a Biography of Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 893). University of Mauritius Research Journal: Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (1998), 121-140.
Burdens of the Past, Burdens of the Present: Reflections on the Negotiation of Neglect. Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History 9 (1997), 104-119. Abridged version: Burdens of the past, burdens of the present: reflections on the negotiation of neglect. In Coastal Fortifications/Fortification côtières, ed. Philippe La Hausse de Lalouvière (Tamarin, Mauritius: Heritage, 1998), 171-78.
Language and Male Homosocial Desire in the Autobiography of ‘Abd al-Latif al- Baghdadi (d. 629/1231). Edebiyât: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, New Series 7(2) (Fall 1996), 45-59.
Walt Whitman in Adonis’ Manhattan: Some thoughts on ‘A Grave for New York’. Periodica Islamica 6(2) (1996), 15-20.
Cartographies (of silence), Orient/ation, and Sexuality: The Dis/covery of America and the Mascarenes. In USA-Mauritius. 200 Years: History, Trade, Culture. Conference Proceedings, ed. Susan Crystal (Moka, Mauritius: USIS/Mahatma Gandhi Institute Press, 1996), 43-71.
A Portrait of ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's Education and Instruction. In Law and Education in Medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of George Makdisi, ed. J. Lowry, D. Stewart and S. M. Toorawa (Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, 2004), 91-109.
Revision of: The Educational Background of ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi. Muslim Education Quarterly 13(3) (Spring 1996), 35-53.
The dhimmi in medieval Islamic society: Non-Muslim physicians of Iraq in Ibn Abi Usaybi‘a’s ‘Uyun al-anba’ fi tabaqat al-atibba’. Fides et Historia 26(1) (Winter/ Spring 1994), 10-21.
Muhammad, Muslims and Islamophiles in the Commedia. The Muslim World 82(1-2) (January-April 1992), 133-143.
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Point of View and the Embedded Narrator in al-Tayyib Salih’s ‘Dumat Wad Hamid’. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 28 (1992), 213-221.
Movement in Mahfuz’s Tharthara fawq al-nil. Journal of Arabic Literature 22(2) (1991), 53-65.
II. Articles in scholarly references
In Encyclopedia of Islam Three [in preparation]:
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur
In The I. B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization, ed. Mustafa Shah (London: I. B. Tauris, 2014) [forthcoming]:
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur
In Encyclopedia of the Political Thought in Islam, ed. Gerhard Böwering et al (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012):
Friendship, 178–179
Pilgrimage, 417–418
Pillars of Islam, 418–420
In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009):
Abu Bakr, 5
‘Ali ibn Abi Talib, 42
Caliphate, 326
Mecca, 1108
Medina, 1119
Muhammad, 1178
Saladin, 1454
Sunna, 1581
‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan, 1678.
In Encyclopaedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization, ed. Josef Meri (New York: Routledge, 2005):
Mythical Places, 548-549
al-Raniri, Nur al-din (d. 1658), 665-666.
In Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, ed. J. D. McAuliffe et al (Leiden: Brill, 2001-06):
Clothing, 1: 346-347 (2001)
Trips and Voyages, 4: 372-376 (2005).
In Reference Guide to World Literature, vol. 1: Authors, ed. Sara and Tom Pendergast, 3rd ed. (Detroit: St James Press, 2002):
Adonis, 6-9
Virahsawmy, Dev, 1068-1069.
In Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edn, ed. H. A. R. Gibb et al (Leiden: Brill, 1954-2006):
Sikbadj, 9: 576 (1997)
Tahir b. Muhammad al-Muhannad al-Baghdadi, 10: 103 (1998)
Tahir Sayf al-Din, 10: 103-104 (1998)
‘Ubaydallah b. Ahmad b. Abi Tahir, 10: 761-762 (2000)
Wakwak (with G. Ferrand†, G.R. Tibbetts†, and G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville), 11: 103- 108 (2000)
Zabadj (with G.R. Tibbetts†), 11: 367-369 (2001).
In Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, ed. John Hawley (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001):
Syed Hussain Alatas, 13-15.
In Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature, ed. J. S. Meisami and P. Starkey, 2 vols (London: Routledge, 1998):
Dar al-Hikma, 182
Ibn Harma al-Qurashi, 331
Ibn Hibban al-Busti, 334
Ibn al-Jarrah, 338
Patronage, 598-99.
In The Dictionary of Global Culture, ed. K. A. Appiah and H. L. Gates, Jr. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997):
Hajj, 271-272
Id al-Adha, 317-318
Id al-Fitr, 318
Islam, 328
Ramadan, 543-544.
In Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Vol. 5: Supplement and Index, ed. S. R. Serafin (New York: Continuum, 1993). Reprint: In Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Third Edition, 4 volumes, completely revised and enlarged, Steven R. Serafin, general editor (Farmington Hills, St James Press, 1999), vol. 2, 392–393:
Ahmad ‘Abd al-Muti‘ al-Hijazi, 285-286.
III. Scholarly reviews
The Qur'an: A New Annotated Translation, translated by A. J. Droge (Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2013). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 77/2 (2014), 377–379.
Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday Presented by his Students and Colleagues, ed. Beatrice Gruendler, with the assistance of Michael Cooperson (Leiden: Brill, 2008). Journal of the American Oriental Society 132/3 (2012), 491–497.
Kadhim Jihad Hassan, La Part de l’étranger. La traduction de la poésie dans la culture arabe. Essai critique (Paris: Sindbad; Arles: ACTES SUD, 2007). Middle Eastern Literatures, 200–208.
Reza Aslan (ed.). Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (W. W. Norton & Co., 2011) [typescript]. Muslim World Book Review 32/3 (2012), 27–28.
Houari Touati, Islam & Travel in the Middle Ages, tr. Lydia G. Cochrane (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 74/3 (2011), 478–479.
Ingrid Mattson, The Story of the Qur’an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008). Journal of Qur’anic Studies 12/1-2 (2010), 208-211.
Martin Lings, The Holy Qur’an: Translations of Selected Verses (Cambridge: The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought and The Islamic Texts Society, 2007). Journal of Qur’anic Studies 11(1) (2009), 132–135.
Adonis, Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs, translated by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard (Rochester, N.Y.: BOA Editions, 2008). World Literature Today 83/3 (May-June 2009), 65-66.
Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period, ed. Roger Allen and D. S. Richards (Cambridge History of Arabic Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Speculum: Journal of the Medieval Academy 83(2) (2008), 397.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005). World Literature Today 80(2), 66.
Desmond O’Grady, The Golden Odes of Love: Al-Muallaqat (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1997). Al-‘Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, 36 (2003), 167-180.
Driss Chraïbi, Muhammad, a novel (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner, 1998). Edebiyât, 14(1-2) (2003), 174-178.
Monique Agenor, Cocos-de-mer (Paris: Le Serpent à Plumes, 2000). World Literature Today 76(1) (Winter 2002), 143.
Intizar Husain, The Seventh Door and Other Stories, edited and with an introduction by M. U. Memon (Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 34 (Summer 2000), 92-93.
Rachid El-Daif, Cher Monsieur Kawabata (Paris: Sindbad/Actes Sud, 1998). World Literature Today 74(1) (Winter 2000), 210-211.
Death Before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu, translated and with an introduction by J. Elias (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). Parabola: Myth, Tradition and the Search for Meaning, Threshold, 25/1 (Winter 2000), 144-146.
Lindsey Collen, Getting Rid Of It (London: Granta Books, 1997). World Literature Today 72(3) (Summer 1998), 690-691.
Sonorités pour adoucir le souci. Poésie traditionelle de l’archipel malais. Tr. G. Voisset (Paris: Gallimard/nrf, 1996). World Literature Today 72(1) (Winter 1998), 213.
Raharimanana, Lucarne (Paris: Serpent à Plumes, 1996). World Literature Today 71(2) (Spring 1997), 438-439.
Carl de Souza, La maison qui marchait vers le large (Paris: Serpent à Plumes, 1996). World Literature Today 71(2) (Spring 1997), 464.
Reorientations/Arabic and Persian Poetry, ed. S. P. Stetkevych (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994). Journal of the American Oriental Society 117(4) (1997), 759-762 (also reviewed in Muslim World Book Review, 17[4] [Winter 1997], 45-46).
Sayyida Salme/Emily Ruete, An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds: Memoirs, Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs, Syrian Customs & Usages, ed. E. van Donzel (Leiden: Brill, 1993). Muslim World Book Review, 17(2) (Summer 1997), 57-58.
Kaisser A. Afif, And the Word Became Poem, tr. M. Ajami (Princeton: The Grindstone Press, 1994). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 30(2) (December 1996), 236-237.
Intizar Husain, Basti, tr. F. Pritchett (Delhi: HarperCollins, 1994). Annual of Urdu Studies 11 (1996), 310-315.
Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. R. Allen, H. Kilpatrick and E. de Moor (London: Saqi, 1995). Muslim World Book Review 16(3) (Spring 1996), 33-37.
[Review article] Sad Songs with Henna Leaves: Urdu Stories in Translation. Edebiyât, New Series 6(1) (1995), 131-142.
Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati, Love, Death and Exile, poems translated from Arabic by Bassam K. Frangieh (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1990). Al-‘Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic 27 (1994), 51-62.
Hanan al-Shaykh, Women of Sand and Myrrh (London: Quartet Books, 1990). Muslim World Book Review 14(3) (Summer 1994), 46-47.
‘Abbasid Belles-Lettres, ed. J. Ashtiany et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Muslim World Book Review 14(2) (Spring 1994), 47-52.
Shmuel Moreh, Live Theatre and Dramatic Literature in the Medieval Arabic World (New York: New York University Press, 1991). Muslim World Book Review 13(4) (Summer 1993), 47-48.
M. M. Enani, The New Arabic Poetry in Egypt (Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1988). Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 28 (1992), 241-244.
John Asfour, When the Words Burn (Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant Books, 1988). Journal of Arabic Literature 23(3) (1992), 236-247 (abridged version in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 24[2] [December 1990], 244-246)
Salma Jayyusi, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 24(2) (December 1990), 254-255.
(With the Members of RRALL) Wilson Bishai, A Computer Dictionary of Literary Arabic: Arabic-English (The Arabic Software Center). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 24(2) (December 1990), 247-248.
Ghazi Algosaibi, Lyrics from Arabia (Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1986). Jusur 6 (1990), 126-131.
Basim Musallam et al., ‘The Power of the Word’ [documentary film]. Jusur 4 (1988), 69-76.
Abdullah al-Udhari, Victims of a Map (London: Saqi Books, 1985). Journal of Arabic Literature 19(2) (1988), 193-200.
II. Articles in scholarly references.
III. Scholarly reviews
I. Selected articles & book chapters
Ubayd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Tahir and his (Continuation of his Father’s) History of Baghdad In ARABIC BELLES LETTRES, edited by Joseph E. Lowry and Shawkat M. Toorawa (Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2019), 73–93
A Corpus, Not a Canon (Nor an Anthology): Creating a “Library of Arabic Literature In Journal of World Literature 2 (2017), 356–37.
Performing the Pilgrimage. In Hajj: The Pilgrimage in Islam, ed. Eric Tagliacozzo and Shawkat M. Toorawa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 215–230.
Poetry in the Modern Arab World. In Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture, ed. Dwight Reynolds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 96–111.
Rendering the Qur'an into Cadenced Rhyming English Prose: Process and Outcome in a Translation of Sūrat al-Ghāshiya (Q. 88). Journal of Qur’anic Studies 17/2 (2015), 103–117.
The Modern Literary (After)lives of al-Khiḍr. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 16/3 (2014), 174–195.
Hapaxes in the Qur’an: Identifying and Cataloguing Loan Words (and Loan Words). In New Perspectives on the Qur’an. The Qur’an in Its Historical Context 2, ed. Gabriel S. Reynolds (London: Routledge, 2011), 191–244.
Surat Maryam (Q. 19): Lexicon, Lexical Echoes, English Translation. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 13/1 (2011), 25–78.
Islam. In Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith, ed. Roger Allen and Shawkat M. Toorawa (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. P. Eerdmans, 2011), 3–17.
Proximity, Resemblance, Sidebars and Clusters: Ibn al-Nadim’s Organisational Principles in Fihrist 3.3. Oriens 38 (2010), 217–247.
Prayer. In Key Themes for the Study of Islam, ed. Jamal J. Elias (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2010), 263-281.
Hapless Hapaxes and Luckless Rhymes: The Qur’an as Literature. Religion & Literature 41/2 (2009), 221–227.
The Shifa’ al-‘alil of Azad Bilgrami (d. 1200/1786): Introducing an Eighteenth-Century Work on al-Mutanabbi’s Poetry. Middle Eastern Literatures 11/2 (2008), 249–264.
Referencing the Qur’an: A Proposal, with Illustrative Translations and Discussion. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 9(1) (2007), 134–148.
Islamic Literatures: Writing in the Shade of the Qur’an [uncorrected proofs]. In Voices of Islam, vol. 4: Voices of Beauty, Art and Science, ed. Vincent Cornell (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2006), 121–141.
Modern Arabic Literature and the Qur’an: Creativity, Inimitability… Incompatibilities? In Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures, ed. Glenda Abramson and Hilary Kilpatrick (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005), 239-257.
Defining Adab by (re)defining the Adib: Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and storytelling. In On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature, ed. Philip Kennedy (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005), 285-306. [uncorrected proofs]
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 893). In Arabic Literary Culture, 500-925, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 311, ed. M. Cooperson and S. M. Toorawa (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005), 141-149.
Afterword, in Adonis, A Time Between Ashes and Rose, Poems (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004), 181-198.
Travel in the Medieval Islamic World: The Importance of Patronage as Illustrated by ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (and other littérateurs). In Eastward Bound: Travel and Travellers, 1050-1550, ed. Rosamund Allen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 57-70.
Ibn Abi Tahir vs. al-Jahiz, or: Defining the adib. In ‘Abbasid Studies. Occasional Papers of the School of ‘Abbasid Studies. Cambridge, 6-10 July 2002, ed. James Montgomery (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), 247-261.
“We were here first”: The rhetoric of identity and anteriority among African-American Muslims and Muslims in Mauritius. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 8(1) (Spring/Summer 2003), 1-39.
Play in the Qur’an. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 5(1) (2003), 99-102.
Reflections on the Shoah by an Itinerant Muslim. Bridges: an interdisciplinary journal of theology, philosophy, history and science 10 (3-4) (Fall/Winter 2003), 275-287.
Seeking refuge from evil: The power and portent of the closing chapters of the Qur’an. Journal of Qur’anic Studies 4(2) (2002), 54-60.
Is Multiculturalism Bad for Art? Carl de Souza’s La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Mauritian City. L’Esprit créateur 41(3) (2001), 197-206.
An Addendum to Edebiyât 10.1: Bibliography of Critical Works on al-Tayyib al-Sâlih. Edebiyât 12(4) (2001), pp. 309-311.
Wâq al-wâq: Fabulous, Fabular, Indian Ocean (?) Islands… Emergences 10(2) (November 2000), 387-402.
‘Translating’ The Tempest: Dev Virahsawmy’s Toufann, Cultural Creolization, and the Rise of Mauritian Kreol. African Theatre 3 (2000), 125-138.
Imagined Territories: The Pre-Dutch History of the Indian Ocean. In Globalisation and the South-West Indian Ocean, ed. Sandra J. T. Evers and Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing (Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies; Réduit: University of Mauritius, 2000), 31-39.
‘Strange bedfellows’?: Mauritian Writers and Shakespeare. Wasafiri 30 (Autumn 1999), 27-31.
Notes Toward a Biography of Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur (d. 893). University of Mauritius Research Journal: Humanities & Social Sciences 1 (1998), 121-140.
Burdens of the Past, Burdens of the Present: Reflections on the Negotiation of Neglect. Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History 9 (1997), 104-119. Abridged version: Burdens of the past, burdens of the present: reflections on the negotiation of neglect. In Coastal Fortifications/Fortification côtières, ed. Philippe La Hausse de Lalouvière (Tamarin, Mauritius: Heritage, 1998), 171-78.
Language and Male Homosocial Desire in the Autobiography of ‘Abd al-Latif al- Baghdadi (d. 629/1231). Edebiyât: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, New Series 7(2) (Fall 1996), 45-59.
Walt Whitman in Adonis’ Manhattan: Some thoughts on ‘A Grave for New York’. Periodica Islamica 6(2) (1996), 15-20.
Cartographies (of silence), Orient/ation, and Sexuality: The Dis/covery of America and the Mascarenes. In USA-Mauritius. 200 Years: History, Trade, Culture. Conference Proceedings, ed. Susan Crystal (Moka, Mauritius: USIS/Mahatma Gandhi Institute Press, 1996), 43-71.
A Portrait of ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's Education and Instruction. In Law and Education in Medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of George Makdisi, ed. J. Lowry, D. Stewart and S. M. Toorawa (Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, 2004), 91-109.
Revision of: The Educational Background of ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi. Muslim Education Quarterly 13(3) (Spring 1996), 35-53.
The dhimmi in medieval Islamic society: Non-Muslim physicians of Iraq in Ibn Abi Usaybi‘a’s ‘Uyun al-anba’ fi tabaqat al-atibba’. Fides et Historia 26(1) (Winter/ Spring 1994), 10-21.
Muhammad, Muslims and Islamophiles in the Commedia. The Muslim World 82(1-2) (January-April 1992), 133-143.
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Point of View and the Embedded Narrator in al-Tayyib Salih’s ‘Dumat Wad Hamid’. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 28 (1992), 213-221.
Movement in Mahfuz’s Tharthara fawq al-nil. Journal of Arabic Literature 22(2) (1991), 53-65.
II. Articles in scholarly references
In Encyclopedia of Islam Three [in preparation]:
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur
In The I. B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization, ed. Mustafa Shah (London: I. B. Tauris, 2014) [forthcoming]:
Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur
In Encyclopedia of the Political Thought in Islam, ed. Gerhard Böwering et al (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012):
Friendship, 178–179
Pilgrimage, 417–418
Pillars of Islam, 418–420
In Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009):
Abu Bakr, 5
‘Ali ibn Abi Talib, 42
Caliphate, 326
Mecca, 1108
Medina, 1119
Muhammad, 1178
Saladin, 1454
Sunna, 1581
‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan, 1678.
In Encyclopaedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization, ed. Josef Meri (New York: Routledge, 2005):
Mythical Places, 548-549
al-Raniri, Nur al-din (d. 1658), 665-666.
In Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, ed. J. D. McAuliffe et al (Leiden: Brill, 2001-06):
Clothing, 1: 346-347 (2001)
Trips and Voyages, 4: 372-376 (2005).
In Reference Guide to World Literature, vol. 1: Authors, ed. Sara and Tom Pendergast, 3rd ed. (Detroit: St James Press, 2002):
Adonis, 6-9
Virahsawmy, Dev, 1068-1069.
In Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edn, ed. H. A. R. Gibb et al (Leiden: Brill, 1954-2006):
Sikbadj, 9: 576 (1997)
Tahir b. Muhammad al-Muhannad al-Baghdadi, 10: 103 (1998)
Tahir Sayf al-Din, 10: 103-104 (1998)
‘Ubaydallah b. Ahmad b. Abi Tahir, 10: 761-762 (2000)
Wakwak (with G. Ferrand†, G.R. Tibbetts†, and G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville), 11: 103- 108 (2000)
Zabadj (with G.R. Tibbetts†), 11: 367-369 (2001).
In Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, ed. John Hawley (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001):
Syed Hussain Alatas, 13-15.
In Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature, ed. J. S. Meisami and P. Starkey, 2 vols (London: Routledge, 1998):
Dar al-Hikma, 182
Ibn Harma al-Qurashi, 331
Ibn Hibban al-Busti, 334
Ibn al-Jarrah, 338
Patronage, 598-99.
In The Dictionary of Global Culture, ed. K. A. Appiah and H. L. Gates, Jr. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997):
Hajj, 271-272
Id al-Adha, 317-318
Id al-Fitr, 318
Islam, 328
Ramadan, 543-544.
In Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Vol. 5: Supplement and Index, ed. S. R. Serafin (New York: Continuum, 1993). Reprint: In Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Third Edition, 4 volumes, completely revised and enlarged, Steven R. Serafin, general editor (Farmington Hills, St James Press, 1999), vol. 2, 392–393:
Ahmad ‘Abd al-Muti‘ al-Hijazi, 285-286.
III. Scholarly reviews
The Qur'an: A New Annotated Translation, translated by A. J. Droge (Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox, 2013). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 77/2 (2014), 377–379.
Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th Birthday Presented by his Students and Colleagues, ed. Beatrice Gruendler, with the assistance of Michael Cooperson (Leiden: Brill, 2008). Journal of the American Oriental Society 132/3 (2012), 491–497.
Kadhim Jihad Hassan, La Part de l’étranger. La traduction de la poésie dans la culture arabe. Essai critique (Paris: Sindbad; Arles: ACTES SUD, 2007). Middle Eastern Literatures, 200–208.
Reza Aslan (ed.). Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (W. W. Norton & Co., 2011) [typescript]. Muslim World Book Review 32/3 (2012), 27–28.
Houari Touati, Islam & Travel in the Middle Ages, tr. Lydia G. Cochrane (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 74/3 (2011), 478–479.
Ingrid Mattson, The Story of the Qur’an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008). Journal of Qur’anic Studies 12/1-2 (2010), 208-211.
Martin Lings, The Holy Qur’an: Translations of Selected Verses (Cambridge: The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought and The Islamic Texts Society, 2007). Journal of Qur’anic Studies 11(1) (2009), 132–135.
Adonis, Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs, translated by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard (Rochester, N.Y.: BOA Editions, 2008). World Literature Today 83/3 (May-June 2009), 65-66.
Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period, ed. Roger Allen and D. S. Richards (Cambridge History of Arabic Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Speculum: Journal of the Medieval Academy 83(2) (2008), 397.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005). World Literature Today 80(2), 66.
Desmond O’Grady, The Golden Odes of Love: Al-Muallaqat (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1997). Al-‘Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, 36 (2003), 167-180.
Driss Chraïbi, Muhammad, a novel (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner, 1998). Edebiyât, 14(1-2) (2003), 174-178.
Monique Agenor, Cocos-de-mer (Paris: Le Serpent à Plumes, 2000). World Literature Today 76(1) (Winter 2002), 143.
Intizar Husain, The Seventh Door and Other Stories, edited and with an introduction by M. U. Memon (Boulder & London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 34 (Summer 2000), 92-93.
Rachid El-Daif, Cher Monsieur Kawabata (Paris: Sindbad/Actes Sud, 1998). World Literature Today 74(1) (Winter 2000), 210-211.
Death Before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu, translated and with an introduction by J. Elias (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). Parabola: Myth, Tradition and the Search for Meaning, Threshold, 25/1 (Winter 2000), 144-146.
Lindsey Collen, Getting Rid Of It (London: Granta Books, 1997). World Literature Today 72(3) (Summer 1998), 690-691.
Sonorités pour adoucir le souci. Poésie traditionelle de l’archipel malais. Tr. G. Voisset (Paris: Gallimard/nrf, 1996). World Literature Today 72(1) (Winter 1998), 213.
Raharimanana, Lucarne (Paris: Serpent à Plumes, 1996). World Literature Today 71(2) (Spring 1997), 438-439.
Carl de Souza, La maison qui marchait vers le large (Paris: Serpent à Plumes, 1996). World Literature Today 71(2) (Spring 1997), 464.
Reorientations/Arabic and Persian Poetry, ed. S. P. Stetkevych (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994). Journal of the American Oriental Society 117(4) (1997), 759-762 (also reviewed in Muslim World Book Review, 17[4] [Winter 1997], 45-46).
Sayyida Salme/Emily Ruete, An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds: Memoirs, Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs, Syrian Customs & Usages, ed. E. van Donzel (Leiden: Brill, 1993). Muslim World Book Review, 17(2) (Summer 1997), 57-58.
Kaisser A. Afif, And the Word Became Poem, tr. M. Ajami (Princeton: The Grindstone Press, 1994). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 30(2) (December 1996), 236-237.
Intizar Husain, Basti, tr. F. Pritchett (Delhi: HarperCollins, 1994). Annual of Urdu Studies 11 (1996), 310-315.
Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. R. Allen, H. Kilpatrick and E. de Moor (London: Saqi, 1995). Muslim World Book Review 16(3) (Spring 1996), 33-37.
[Review article] Sad Songs with Henna Leaves: Urdu Stories in Translation. Edebiyât, New Series 6(1) (1995), 131-142.
Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati, Love, Death and Exile, poems translated from Arabic by Bassam K. Frangieh (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1990). Al-‘Arabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic 27 (1994), 51-62.
Hanan al-Shaykh, Women of Sand and Myrrh (London: Quartet Books, 1990). Muslim World Book Review 14(3) (Summer 1994), 46-47.
‘Abbasid Belles-Lettres, ed. J. Ashtiany et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Muslim World Book Review 14(2) (Spring 1994), 47-52.
Shmuel Moreh, Live Theatre and Dramatic Literature in the Medieval Arabic World (New York: New York University Press, 1991). Muslim World Book Review 13(4) (Summer 1993), 47-48.
M. M. Enani, The New Arabic Poetry in Egypt (Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1988). Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 28 (1992), 241-244.
John Asfour, When the Words Burn (Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant Books, 1988). Journal of Arabic Literature 23(3) (1992), 236-247 (abridged version in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 24[2] [December 1990], 244-246)
Salma Jayyusi, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 24(2) (December 1990), 254-255.
(With the Members of RRALL) Wilson Bishai, A Computer Dictionary of Literary Arabic: Arabic-English (The Arabic Software Center). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 24(2) (December 1990), 247-248.
Ghazi Algosaibi, Lyrics from Arabia (Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1986). Jusur 6 (1990), 126-131.
Basim Musallam et al., ‘The Power of the Word’ [documentary film]. Jusur 4 (1988), 69-76.
Abdullah al-Udhari, Victims of a Map (London: Saqi Books, 1985). Journal of Arabic Literature 19(2) (1988), 193-200.