פרופ' חאלד פוראני

Social theory, ethics, modernity, language and literature, secularism, Palestine, and the history of anthropology

Furani, Khaled, Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012 (312 pp.)

Furani, Khaled, Redeeming Anthropology: A Theological Critique of a Modern Science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019 (204 pp.)

Furani, Khaled, Observing the Secular:  Arab Poets Transforming their Conceptions of Public, Postscripts: Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, Vol. 3 (1), 2007 (pp. 5-29).

Furani, Khaled, Sirens of Denial: Notes on the Confrontation between Hizbullah and Israel, Boundary2, Vol. 34 (3), 2007 (pp. 109-19).

Furani, Khaled, Anthropological Sensibility and Secular Numbness: Preliminary Analysis of Wolf on Power, Theory and Event, Vol. 11 (1), 2008 (Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/tae.2008.0005).

Furani, Khaled, Rhythms of the Secular: The Politics of Modernizing Arab Poetic Forms, American Ethnologist, Vol. 35 (2), 2008 (pp. 290-307).

Furani, Khaled, Said and the Religious Other, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 52 (3), 2010 (pp. 604-25).

Furani, Khaled and Rabinowitz, Dan, The Ethnographic Arrival of Palestine, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 40 (1), 2011 (pp. 475-491).

Furani, Khaled, “Dangerous Weddings: Palestinian Poetry Festivals under Israel’s First Military Rule (1948-1966),” Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 21 (1), 2013 (pp. 79-100).

Furani, Khaled, “States of Exception, Ethics and New Beginnings in Middle East Politics,” Interventions: International Journal for Post-colonial Studies, Vol. 16 (3), 2013 (pp. 346-364).

Furani, Khaled, Is There a Postsecular? Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 83 (1), 2015 (pp. 1-26).

Furani, Khaled, Mastering Submission: Palestinian Poets Measuring Sounds of Freedom, American Anthropologist, Vol. 120 (4), 2018 (pp. 697-710).

Furani, Khaled, Secular Routes and Theological Drifts in Modern Anthropology, Religion and Society: Advances in Research, Vol. 9, 2018 (pp. 86-102).

Furani, Khaled, 70 into ’48: The State as a Scandal, Critical Inquiry, 2019.

Furani, Khaled, After Criticism: Reading Mahmoud’s Mural for Enlightenment, Boundary2, Vol. 47 (1), 2020 (pp. 145-68).

Furani, Khaled, Invited Commentary on “‘Nazareth Village’ and the Creation of the Holy Land in Israel-Palestine: the Question of Evangelical Orthodoxy,” by Lena Rose, Current Anthropology, Vol. 61 (3), 2020 (pp. 347-348).

Furani, Khaled, Ethics and Aesthetics are One, Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, Vol. 3 (3), 2020 (pp. 464-470).

Furani, Khaled, and Robbins, Joel, guest editors, Introduction, Thematic Issue on Anthropology Within and Without the Secular Condition, Religion, Vol. 51 (4), 2021 (pp. 501-517).

Furani, Khaled, and Moussa, Ebrahim, Traversing the Boundaries of the Modern Secular University: An Anthropologist and an Islamic Studies Scholar in Dialogue, Invited Dialogue for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 28 (1), 2022 (pp. 334-343).

Alcalay, Ammiel and Furani, Khaled, Poetry in Time of Conflict, in The Struggle for Sovereignty in Palestine and Israel, 1993-2004, Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (eds.) Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006 (pp. 241-48).

Khoury, Elias, In Defense of Metaphor, Khaled Furani, trans. in Belonging and Globalisation: Critical Essays in Contemporary Art & Culture, Kamal Boullata (ed.), London: Saqi Books, 2008 (pp. 71-80).

Furani, Khaled, Theology Revealing the Hājibs of Anthropology, in Theologically Engaged Anthropology, J. Derrick Lemons (ed.) Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018 (pp. 66-82).

Furani, Khaled, Review of Middle Eastern American Lives in America by Amir Marvasati and Karyn McKinney, American Anthropologist, Vol. 107 (4), 2005 (pp. 732-33).

Furani, Khaled, Review of Foundations of Modern Arab Identity by Stephen Sheehi, Journal of Modern Arabic Literature, Vol. 36 (2), 2005 (pp. 224-27).

Furani, Khaled, Review of Rituals of Truce by Benjamin Hollander, Palestine-Israel Journal, Vols. 12 (4) & 13 (1), 2005-2006.

Furani, Khaled, Review of My Happiness Bears no Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century by Adina Hoffman, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 39 (2), 2010 (pp. 128-130).

Furani, Khaled, Looking Glass Against the Wall, Who is the Freeist of us All? Stanford University Press blog, 2014 (https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2014/08/looking-glass-against-the-wall-who-is-the-freest-of-us-all.html?).

Furani, Khaled, Review of The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith by Timothy Larsen, American Ethnologist, Vol. 43 (2), 2016 (pp. 389-390).

Furani, Khaled, Review of In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists After Darwish by Najat Rahman, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 50 (2), 2018 (pp. 347-348).

Furani, Khaled, Review of Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Fusha (website), 8 February, 2020 (in Arabic).

Furani, Khaled, Back cover endorsement of The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad by Tamir Sorek (Stanford University Press, 2020).

Furani, Khaled, Review of Hen Ifshar by Menachem Mautner, Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol. 25 (1-2), 2020

Furani, Khaled, Review of Hen Ifshar by Menachem Mautner, Alpayim Ve’Od, Vol. 3, 2020 (in Hebrew).

Furani, Khaled, On Ablution and Emancipation in Stella Maris by Elias Khoury, Jama’a: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Middle East, Vol. 25, 2020 (pp. 381-383) (in Hebrew).

Furani, Khaled, translator for Asad, Talal, ‘Ta’amullat min as-Sira al-Dhatiyya fi al-Anthropolojya wad-Din,” Idafat: Arab Journal of Sociology, Vol. 49-50 (Winter-Spring), 2020 (pp. 13-22). Original text: Asad, Talal. Autobiographical Reflections on Anthropology and Religion. Religion and Society: Advances in Research, Vol. 11 (1), 2020 (pp. 1-7).

Furani, Khaled, Why Insaniyyat? A Society for Palestinian Anthropologists. American Anthropologist, Vol. 122, 2020 (pp. 942-943).

Dickinson, Maggie and Furani, Khaled, Leith Mullings, Anthropology News, February 1, 2021. https://anthropology-news.org/index.php/2021/02/01/leith-mullings/

Furani, Khaled, Leith: A Transnational Tribute, Feminist Anthropology, Vol. 2, 2021 (pp. 164-165).

Furani, Khaled, Buber and my Grandmother, Tikkun, April 15, 2021. https://www.tikkun.org/buber-and-my-grandmother/

Furani, Khaled, Stories on Israel Sociology (Review of Israeli Sociology: Intellectual History, 1882-2018 by Uri Ram), Israeli Sociology, Vol. 22 (1), 2021 (pp. 136-139) (in Hebrew).