Publications: books and special issues

Shanneik, Yafa and Annelies Moors, eds., 2021. Global Dynamics of Shia Marriages: Religion, Gender, and Belonging R. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press

Moors, Annelies and Yafa Shanneik, 2021, 'Introduction', in Global Dynamics of Shia Marriages: Religion, Gender, and Belonging, Rutgers University Press, Pp. 1-20

Asgarilaleh, Tara and Annelies Moors, 2021. 'Laboratory sigheh: The (dis)entanglements of temporary marriage and third party donation in Iran', in Global Dynamics of Shia Marriages: Religion, Gender, and Belonging, Rutgers University Press, Pp. 135-150.

Nadia Fadil, Annelies Moors, and Karel Arnaut, 2021. Special issue on making hijra, Contemporary Islam 15, 1. 

Includes:

Nadia Fadil, Annelies Moors and Karel Arnaut.2021. Introduction:  “Hijra as a distinct regime of mobility?” Contemporary Islam 15, 1: 1-16

Vroon-Najem, Vanessa and Annelies Moors. 2021, ‘Making Hijra’: Im/Mobility, Religion and the Everyday Among Women Converts to Islam in the Netherlands, Contemporary Islam 15, 1: 35-55

Moors, Annelies, Rajnaara Akhtar and Rebecca Probyn, 2018, Special Issue Non-state registered marriages, Sociology of Islam 6, 3

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Moors, Annelies, Rajnaara Akhtar and Rebecca Probyn, 2018,  'Introduction: Contextualizing Islamic religious-only Marriages', Sociology of Islam 6, 3: 263-273.

Moors, Annelies, Martijn de Koning and Vanessa Vroon-Najem, 2018, 'Concluding an ‘Illegal Islamic Marriage’ in the Netherlands: Controversy, Criminalization and Contestations', Sociology of Islam 6, 3: 274-296

Akhtar, Rajnaara, Rebecca Probyn, and Annelies Moors, 2018, Special Issue Informal Muslim Marriages: Regulations and Contestations, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 7, 3.

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Akhtar, Rajnaara, Rebecca Probyn, and Annelies Moors, 2018, 'Introduction: Informal Muslim Marriages: Regulations and Contestations, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 7, 3: 367-375.

Jouili, Jeanette and Annelies Moors, eds., 2014, Islamic Sounds and the Politics of Listening. Special Issue Anthropological Quarterly  87, 4.

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Moors, Annelies and Jeanette Jouili, 2014, "Introduction: Islamic Sounds and the Politics of Listening." Anthropological Quarterly 87, 4: 977-988.

Tarlo, Emma and Annelies Moors, eds., 2013, Islamic fashion and anti-fashion: New perspectives from Europe and North-America. London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomington.

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Moors, Annelies and Emma Tarlo, 2013, 'Introduction: Islamic fashion and anti-fashion. New perspectives form Europe and North America', in Emma Tarlo and Annelies Moors, eds., Islamic fashion and anti-fashion. New perspectives form Europe and North America. London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomington (with Emma Tarlo). Pp. 1-30.

Moors, Annelies, 2013, 'Fashion and its discontents. The aesthetics of covering in the Netherlands', in Emma Tarlo and Annelies Moors, eds., Islamic fashion and anti-fashion. New perspectives form Europe and North America. London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomington. Pp. 241-60.

Reviews:

• Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 51 (2014)8: 1446 (B.Chico)

• Contemporary Islam, 2014 (Anne Meneley)

• Newsline , your hotline to Pakistan , (Subuk Hasnain)

• Fashion Historia, 2014, (Jennifer Heath)

• Middle East Media and Book Reviews online, 2014 (Alfons H Teipen)

• Interactive (Shameer KS, India)

Maussen, Marcel, Veit Bader and Annelies Moors, eds., 2011, The colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Full text available at: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=408876

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Moors, Annelies, 2011, Colonial traces?  The (post-)colonial governance of Islamic dress: gender and the public presence of Islam, in Maussen, Marcel, Veit Bader and Annelies Moors, eds., The colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 135-155. 

Moors, Annelies, and Ruba Salih, eds., 2009, special issue on 'Muslim women' in Europe: Secular normativities, bodily performances and multiple publics. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. 17, 4

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2009, Moors, Annelies and Ruba Salih, 'Muslim women' in Europe: Secular normativities, bodily performances and multiple publics, Social Anthropology 17,  4: 375-8.

2009, “The Dutch and the Face Veil: The Politics of Discomfort”, Social Anthropology 17, 4: 392-407

Dupret, Baudouin, Barbara Drieskens and Annelies Moors, 2008, eds. Narratives of Truth in Islamic Law. London: IB Taurus.

This edited volume addressed the issue of truth in law within the context of Muslim societies. The truth, in legal terms, is the version of 'what happened' which carries most authority. This volume looks at how this narrative is constructed in Muslim societies, and which truths are privileged over others in constructing it.

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Moors, Annelies, 2008, ‘Registering a token dower: The multiple meanings of a legal practice’ in Baudouin Dupret, Barbara Drieskens and Annelies Moors, eds., Narratives of Truth in Islamic Law. London: IB Taurus, pp. 85-104. 

Meyer, Birgit and Annelies Moors, 2006, eds., Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere. Indiana University Press. 

Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film these movements address multiple publics and offer alternative forms of belonging, often in competition with the postcolonial nation-state. How have new practices of religious mediation transformed the public sphere? How has the adoption of new media impinged on religious experiences and notions of religious authority? Has neo-liberalism engendered a blurring of the boundaries between religion and entertainment? The vivid essays in this interdisciplinary volume combine rich empirical detail with theoretical reflection, offering new perspectives on a variety of media, genres, and religions. 

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Meyer, Birgit and Annelies Moors,  2006, ‘Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere: Introduction’, in Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors, eds., Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere. Indiana University Press, Pp 1-29 (co-author Birgit Meyer).

Moors, Annelies, 2006, ‘Representing Family Law Debates in Palestine: Gender and the Politics of Presence’, in Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors, eds., Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere. Indiana University Press, Pp 115-132.

Reviewed in:

• Visual Anthropology 21 (2008) 5: 460-2 (Katryn Pype)

• Journal of Communication 56 (2008) 3: 633-4 (Daniel Stout)

• PentecoStudies 7 (2008) 2: 85-86 (Evangelos Karagiannis)

• Topia 19 (2008): 189-92 (David Long)

• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13 (2007) 4: 1042-3 (Felicia Hughes-Freeland)

Moors, Annelies, 2003, guest editor, ‘Public Debates on Family Law Reform. Participants, Positions, and Styles of Argumentation in the 1990s’, special issue of Islamic Law and Society 10, 1.

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Moors, Annelies, 2003, ‘Public Debates on Family Law Reform. Participants, Positions, and Styles of Argumentation in the 1990s’, Islamic Law and Society 10, 1: 1-11.

Moors, Annelies, 1995, Women, property and Islam. Palestinian experiences, 1920-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

According to Islamic law, women are entitled to inherit property, to receive a dower at marriage, and are in full control of their income. Through an anthropological study of Palestinian women on the West Bank, Annelies Moors demonstrates that this is not always the case in practice. In fact, their options vary greatly depending on whether they gain access to property through inheritance, through the dower or through paid labour. The narratives of women from different stratas of society indicate under what circumstances they claim property rights, and when they are prevented from doing so in order to gain other advantages. While essentially an ethnographic study, the author’s use of court records demonstrates how historical changes have affected women’s claims to property, focusing on the relation between local traditions, international politics and transnational labour migration. 

Reviewed in: 

• American Anthropologist 99 (1997) 1: 189-90

• American Historical Review 102 (1997) 2: 493-4

• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3 (1997) 2: 391-2

• Middle East Journal 51(1997) 3: 456-7

• Anthropos 92 (1997), 4-6: 633-4

• International Journal of Middle East Studies 29 (1997) 4: 644-5

• Signs 23 (1997) 1: 243-6

• Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 1998

• Middle Eastern Studies 35 (1999) 1: 198-202

Moors, Annelies, 1995, co-editor (with Inge Boer and Toine van Teeffelen), ‘Changing stories: Postmodernism and the Arab-Islamic world’,)  special issue Orientations 3. 

In Changing Stories: Postmodernism and the Arab-Islamic World some recent ideas current in postmodernist theoretical discourse are critically investigated and pragmatically applied to concrete issues relating to the contemporary Arab-Islamic world. In particular Jean-François Lyotard's distinction between "grand narratives" (or master stories) and "small stories" (or local narratives) is taken by the authors as a starting-point and point of reference and in various ways they address the legitimacy and applicability of this distinction. After a general introduction nine separate articles deal with the predicament of Palestinian women in the occupied territories, Dutch development-aid discourse in Gaza and the West Bank, Islamism and modernism in Tunisia, modernist and postmodernist political discourse in Egypt, feminism in Egypt and, as a "travelling theory", in the Arab world as a whole, juridical and educational attitudes towards Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands, and the concept of the "Islamic city".

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Moors, Annelies, 1995, ‘Crossing Boundaries, Telling Stories: Palestinian Women Working in Israel and Poststructuralist Theory’, Orientations 3: 17-36.

Moors, Annelies, 1995, co-editor (with  Toine van Teeffelen, Ilham Abu Ghazaleh and Sharif Kanaana)., Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text and Context. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis

Includes:

Moors, Annelies, 1995, ‘Introduction’, in A. Moors, T. van Teeffelen, I. Abu Ghazaleh and S. Kanaana, (eds.), Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text and Context. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis. Pp. 1-7 (with co-editors).

Moors, Annelies, 1995, ‘Dealing with the Past, Creating a Presence: Picture Postcards of Palestine,’ in A. Moors, T. van Teeffelen, I. Abu Ghazaleh and S. Kanaana (eds.), Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text and Context. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis. Pp. 11-26  (with S. Wachlin).