Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies كرسي قطر لدراسات المنطقة الإسلاميةWaseda University

Books:

• A. Baabood and Kh. Hroub, Islamists and the Arab Revolutions (London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Books; forthcoming 2025)
• Hung, T.W. and Bak, J.H. (eds), Islam and Malaya Chinese: A Guide to Historical Sources (Johor Bahru, 2025)

 Chapters in Edited Volumes:

• A. Baabood, ‘Regionalism and the Gulf Cooperation Council’, in Kh. Almezaini and K. Alexander (eds.), An Introduction to Gulf Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2025)
• A. Mallett, “The Islamic World and the Papacy”, in M. Pattenden and R. Ventresca (eds), The Cambridge History of the Papacy. Volume One: Diplomacy and Global Affairs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), pp. 720-746
• A. Mallett, “The Application of Digital Humanities Methods in the Study of Muslim Slave Networks in Early Modern Malta”, in W. Kumakura (ed.), Connecting from Islam 8: Connectivity Illuminated by Digital Humanities (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2025), pp. 105-29 (in Japanese).

Articles:

• N. Unno, ‘Chinese Muslims and the Ottoman Empire: Faith, Intelligence, and Modernization’, in Asian History Research Reports (2025)  (in Japanese)

Books:

• A. Baabood and Kh. Hroub (eds), Islamists and the Arab Spring (in Arabic; Amman, 2024)
• A. Baabood and A.A. Ghafer (eds), Asia in the GCC: A New Strategic Partner? (Doha, 2024)
• A. Mallett (ed.), Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades (Leiden, 2024)
• T. Ohtoshi (ed.), The Actuality of the Arab Spring: Everyday Resistance under Globalization with a Focus on the 25 January Revolution in Egypt (Tokyo, 2024) (in Japanese).
• N. Sidoli (ed.), Sciamvs 24 (2024)

 Chapters in Edited Volumes:

• A. Mallett, ‘Al-ʿAẓīmī’, in A. Mallett (ed.), Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades (Leiden, 2024), 9-32
• T. Ohtoshi, “Global Bodies Living the Streets: Historical Anthropology of the Arab Spring as Reflected in the 25 January Revolution of Egypt”, in T. Ohtoshi (ed.), The Actuality of the Arab Spring: Everyday Resistance under Globalization with a Focus on the 25 January Revolution in Egypt (Tokyo, 2024), pp. 3-79 (in Japanese).
• T. Ohtoshi, “Emergent Formation of Vigilante Mutual Aid Organizations in the Egyptian 25 January Revolution”, in Tetsuya Ohtoshi (ed.), The Actuality ofthe Arab Spring: Everyday Resistance under Globalization with a Focus on the 25 January Revolution in Egypt (Tokyo, 2024), pp. 235-256 (in Japanese).
• T. Ohtoshi, “Music of the Arab Spring”, in Tetsuya Ohtoshi (ed.), The Actuality of the Arab Spring: Everyday Resistance under Globalization with a Focus on the 25 January Revolution in Egypt (Tokyo, 2024), pp. 261-269 (in Japanese).
• M. Gray, “Haitham’s Inheritance: Political Economy and Development Strategy in Qaboos’ Oman, 1970-2020”, in M. Zweiri and F. Al Qawasmi (eds), Contemporary Oman: The Sultan, the People and the Legacy of Peace (Berlin, 2024), pp. 137-162

Articles:

• M. Gray, “A Case and Research Agenda for the Study of Scent and Perfumery in the Gulf”, Journal of Gulf Studies 1/1 (January 2024), pp. 41-58
• K. Sakurai and A. Tavassoli, ‘What Merit Does a University Degree Have? Perception of Students in Tehran, Iran’, in Journal of Inter-Regional Studies: Regional and Global Perspectives 7 (January 2024), pp. 1-16
• K. Sakurai, ’Public Education and Islam in Iran’, in Religious Research 97 (2024), pp. 10-12 (in Japanese)

Occasional Papers:

• A. Baabood, ‘The Geopolitics of Economic Development in the Middle East’, Carnegie Middle East Center (February 15) https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/02/the-geopolitics-of-economic-development-in-the-middle-east?lang=en
• A. Baabood,’How Gulf States Are Reinterpreting National Security Beyond Their Land Borders’ (August 1) https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/08/how-gulf-states-are-reinterpreting-national-security-beyond-their-land-borders-abdullah-baabood?lang=en

Books:

• A. Mallett, Christian-Muslim Relations during the Crusades (Leeds, 2023)
• N. Sidoli (ed.), Sciamvs 23 (2023)

 Chapters in Edited Volumes:

• M. Gray, ‘The Changing Security Environment in the Indo-Pacific and the Implications for the GCC’, in A.A. Ghafar and A. Baabood (eds), Asia in the GCC: A New Strategic Partner? (Doha & Tokyo, 2023), pp. 7-13
• M. Gray, ‘The Political Economies of the Arab Gulf States: Policies for Change, Frameworks for Stasis’, in S. Akbarzadeh (ed.), The Edward Elgar Handbook of Middle East Politics (Cheltenham, 2023), pp. 240-54
• M. Gray, ‘Revisiting Late Rentierism’, in T.M. Yousef and A.A. Ghafar (eds), The Gulf Cooperation Council at Forty: Risk and Opportunity in a Changing World (Washington, 2023), pp. 178-85
• K. Sakurai, ‘Teaching Iranian History: Narrative Style and Messages’, in K. Morimoto and S. Rizvi (eds.), Knowledge and Power in Muslim Societies: Approaches in Intellectual History (Berlin, 2023). pp. 353-75
• W.C. Sim and H. Akibari, ‘The Visibility of the Veil and the Struggles of Foreign Muslim Women in Japan’ in H. Minesaki (eds), Islam and Gender Studies 7 Muslim Living in Japan (Akaishi, 2023), pp. 96-112 (in Japanese)

Articles:

• K. Sakurai and A. Tavassoli, ‘What Merit Does a University Degree Have? Perception of Students in Tehran, Iran’, in Journal of Inter-Regional Studies: Regional and Global Perspectives 7 (January 2024), pp. 1-16
• K. Sakurai, ’Public Education and Islam in Iran’, in Religious Research 97 (2024), pp. 10-12 (in Japanese)
• K. Sakurai and W.C. Sim, ‘Educated Qataris: Their Current Situation and Challenges’, in Waseda Global Forum 2023, pp. 31-56
• M. Gray, ‘The Search for Middle Eastern “Development Models”: Regional Differences, Economic Exceptionalism, and an Overambitious Concept’, in Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies 39/1 (2023), pp. 23-45
• M. Gray, ‘The Rise of Minilateralism, the Indo-Pacific Context, and the Arab Gulf States’, in Journal of the Indian Ocean Region 19/1 (2023), pp. 40-56
• S. Sato, ‘Decolonization and the Destruction/Concealment of Historical Records’, in Iwanamikouza World History 22 (2023), pp. 130-31 (in Japanese)
• M.C. Rhee, ‘Sustainable Oil and Gas Transfer Pricing Strategies in Carbon Taxation’, in Waseda Global Forum 20 (2023), 11-29.

Occasional Papers:

• A. Baabood, ‘The Region Needs a New Vision to Formulate an Arab National, Construction, Renaissance Civilizational Project’ (in Arabic) https://araa.sa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6644:2023-06-22-12-26-36&catid=4665&Itemid=172
• 2023 The European Union is required to move beyond trade cooperation and gradually build a regional security architecture (January 30) (in Arabic), https://araa.sa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6440:2023-01-30-08-01-20&catid=4621&Itemid=172
• A. Baabood, ”The role of the Cooperation Council in supporting joint Arab action’  (in Arabic) https://araa.sa/templates/smartone/home/assets/StudiesFiles/185-Derasat.pdf
• A. Baabood, ‘The Arab League faces the choice of gaining trust and fulfilling its role in achieving integration and security’ (April 30). (In Arabic), https://araa.sa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6568:2023-04-30-08-00-25&catid=4648&Itemid=172
• A. Baabood, ‘The Future of the Gulf Cooperation Council Amid Saudi-Emirati Rivalry’, Carnegie Middle East Center (October 30)
• A. Baabood, ‘Seas, Checks, and Guns: Emirati and Saudi Maritime Interest in Yemen Conflict’ (March 16) https://carnegie-mec.org/2023/03/16/seas-checks-and-guns-emirati-and-saudi-maritime-interests-in-yemen-conflict-pub-89288
• A. Baabood, ‘Europe’s vision of the Gulf partnership, and the Gulf vision of the European partnership: reality and hope’ (In Arabic) https://araa.sa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6440:2023-01-30-08-01-20&catid=4621&Itemid=172
• A. Baabood, ‘Why China Is Emerging as a Main Promoter of Stability in the Strait of Hormuz’, Carnegie Middle East Center (May 24) https://carnegie-mec.org/2023/05/24/why-china-is-emerging-as-main-promoter-of-stability-in-strait-of-hormuz-pub-89829

Books

• G. Edwards, A. Baabood, D. Galeeva (eds.), Post-Brexit Europe and UK: Policy Challenges Towards Iran and the GCC States (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
• A. Mallett, C. Rider, & D.A. Agius (eds), Magic in Malta: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605 (Leiden, 2022)
• M. Gray, Gulf Security and Minilateralism: The Potential, the Problems, and the Prospects, Gulf Studies Center Monograph 10 (Doha, 2022)

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• A. Mallett & C. Rider, “The Trial of Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur before the Roman Inquisition on Malta, 1605”, in A. Mallett, C. Rider, & D.A. Agius (eds), Magic in Malta: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605 (Leiden, 2022), pp. 24-243
• A. Mallett & C. Rider, “The Trial of Sellem: A Microhistorical Study”, in A. Mallett, C. Rider, & D.A. Agius (eds), Magic in Malta: Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition, 1605 (Leiden, 2022), pp. 247-304
• A, Mallett, “Problematising the Islamic Evidence for the Crusades: The Frankish Red Sea Raid of 1183”, in M. Gibson (ed.), Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning (London, 2022), 66-73
• W.C. Sim, “Research on Women’s Higher Education in the Gulf Countries of the Middle East: A Study on the Background of the Phenomenon of Women’s Higher Education”, in Y. Kimura (ed.), Research on Women’s College of Pharmacy: Beyond the Difficulties of Women’s Education (Tokyo, 2022), pp. 155-170 (in Japanese)
• T. Ohtoshi, “Tasdīr” in al-Durr al-munazzam fi ziyara al-jabal al-muqattam, in A. ‘Abd al-Hamid (ed.) Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Cairo, 2022, pp.11-16.
• Ohtoshi, “What comfort could there be for Muslims who mourn their mchildren?”, in Iwanami World History 9 (2022)

Occasional Papers

• A. Baabood, ‘Mr. Xi Goes to Riyadh’ (December 21), https://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/88685

Encyclopaedia Entries

• K. Sakurai, “Education of Muslims Overseas (Iran)”, in Islamic Cultural Dictionary Editorial Committee (ed.), Islamic Cultural Dictionary(Tokyo, 2023) 100-1 (in Japanese)
• K. Sakurai, “Islamic Revolution and Women’s Religious Academy”, in Midori Yamaguchi et al. (eds), Discussions and Gender History (Kyoto, 2023) 234-5 (in Japanese)

A. Mallett, ‘Consequences: Muslim Responses to the Crusades’, in M. Eichbauer (ed.), A Cultural History of Genocide. Volume 2: The Middle Ages (London, 2021), pp. 123-143