^#smrgDERGİ International Journal of Middle East Studies - 1 47 February

EDITORIAL FOREWORD .
AKRAM KHATER AND JEFFREY CULANG 1‘4 ARTICLES Shi‘i Intellectuals
RULA JURDI Abisaab Shi‘i Jurisprudence, Sunnism, and the Traditionist Thought (akhbart') of Muhammad Amin Astarabadi ((1. 1626-27) 5~23
TOBY MATTHIESEN Shi‘i Historians in a Wahhabi State: Identity Entrepreneurs and the Politics of Local Historiography in Saudi Arabia 25-45

Political Contestation in North Africa

AMAL N. GHAZAL Tensions of Nationalism: The Mzabi Student Missions in Tunis and the Politics of Anticolonialism ‘ , 47-63
HICHAM BOU NASSIF A Military Besieged: The Armed Forces, the Police, and the Party in Bin ‘Ali's Tunisia, 1987-201 1 65-87

Merchant Cultures and Modernity

AFSHIN MARASHI Print Culture and Its Publics: A Social History of Bookstores in Tehran, 1900-1950 89-108
ORIT OUAKNINE-YEKUTIELI Narrating a Pending Calamity: Artisanal Crisis in the Medina of Fes, Morocco . 109-129
ROUNDTABLE After the “Spring”: New Patterns of Grassroots Politics?
VICKIE LANGOHR Women's Rights Movements during Political Transitions: Activism against Public

Sexual Violence in Egypt 131-135
ZAKIA SALIME “I Vote I Sing”: The Rise of Aesthetic Citizenship in Morocco 136-139
JEANNIE SOWERS Activism and Political Economy in the New-Old Egypt 140-143
STACEY PHILBRICK YADAV The “Yemeni Model” as a Failure of Political Imagination 144-147
CILJA HARDERS “State Analysis from Below” and Dynamics in Egypt after 2011 148-451

REVIEW ARTICLES

ANNE SA'ADAH “Homeless in Tahrir”: From Hope to Anguish in the Middle East 153-168
BRANDON WOLFE-HUNNICUTT Who's “Running the Show”? Oil and Empire in the Middle East 169-174

BOOK REVIEWS
Law and Legitimacy
LORI-ALLEN, The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine (Lisa Hajjar) 175-176