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(2925) Literature and Authority
in Early and Classical Islam
Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve U–
Celebrity, Propriety and Repentance in
Early Abbasid Musical Culture
Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben-Gurion
U of the Negev–Bonding with Bilad
Al-Sham: The Familiarization and
Sanctification of Palestine and Syria in
Early Islamic Literature
Elizabeth Urban, U of Chicago–The
Foundations of Islamic Society as
Expressed by the Qur’anic Term Mawlā
Mimi Hanaoka, U of Richmond–Dreams
as Tools of Legitimation and Prophecy in
Local Historical Writing
8:30-10:30AM Sunday December 4
(2941) Non-State Actors in
Israel-Palestine
Barak Mendelsohn, Haverford
Col–Ideological Entrepreneurs and
Challenged State Authority: The Israeli
State and Violent Jewish Non-State
Actors
Itzchak Weismann, Haifa U–Preaching
and Politics in the Islamic Movement in
Israel
Harel Chorev, Tel Aviv U–Changes in
the Status of West Bank Elite Families:
The Network of the Al-Masri Family
(2950) Bureaucracy and
Colonial Administration
Thomas Kuehn, Simon Fraser U–‘What
Do We Know about Yemen?’: Ottoman
Politics of Knowledge Production and
Imperial Governance in Southwest
Arabia, 1872-1914
Yossef Ben-Meir, High Atlas
Foundation–Moroccan Regionalization,
Human Development, and the Western
Sahara
Eric Schewe, U of Michigan–The
Egyptian Administration of Martial Law
and Neocolonial Struggle in World War II
Dorothee Kellou, Georgetown U–
Colonial Practice of Resettling the
Population during the Algerian War of
Independence (1954-1962): The Example
of the Village of Mansourah
Jeffrey Sachs, McGill U–Rules of Law
in Colonial Sudan: The Logic of Legal
Ambiguity
u MESA 2011 Preliminary Program Page 45