Prof. Claire Gallien

Books

Gallien, Claire, Epistemology as Beauty in Islam. Tartīb al-‘Ulūm and the Theological, Aesthetic, and Ethical Foundations of the Organisation of the Sciences in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Islamic World. (in preparation)

Gallien, Claire, Appropriations and Reconfigurations of Arabic, Persian, and Indic Literatures in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain. Recreating the Islamicate Canon, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2025.

Gallien, Claire, L’Orient anglais. Connaître et imaginer l’Orient dans la littérature anglaise du XVIII^e siècle, Oxford: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2011.

Edited Volumes

Gallien, Claire, and Sarah bin R. Tyeer, eds., Islam and New Directions in World Literature, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2022.

Gallien, Claire, and Ladan Niayesh, eds., Eastern Resonances in Early Modern England: Receptions and Transformations from the Renaissance to the Romantic Period, New York: Palgrave, 2019.

Special Issues

Gallien, Claire, and Easa Saad, Reading Literature as Theology in Islam, Special issue (forthcoming with Open Theology, 2025)

Gallien, Claire, and ZoneZadir research collective, Eco-poétiques transculturelles, Special issue of Littérature 201.1 (March 2021)

Gallien, Claire, and Sarga Moussa, eds, Vers un Humanisme Intégral. Repenser l’histoire littéraire à partir de Raymond Schwab, Special issue of the Revue de Littérature Comparée (Spring 2020)

Gallien, Claire, ed. Refugee Literature. Special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 54.6 (Dec. 2018).

Gallien, Claire, ed. Anglo-Arab Literature. Special issue of Commonwealth Essays and Studies 39.2 (Spring 2017).

Journal Publications

Gallien, Claire, “Reading Literature as Theology in Islam. Introduction - Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī’s (d. 429/1039) Taḥsīn al-qabīḥ wa-taqbīḥ al-ḥasan”, Special issue Reading Literature as Theology in Islam, Open Theology (Spring 2025)

Gallien, Claire, “Exploring Islamic Literature Beyond the (Secularized) Christian Normative in Western Academia’” religions (Fall 2024)

Gallien, Claire, “Al-Yūsī, Tawḥīd and the Theological Structure of Islamic Knowledge”, Islamic Studies Journal (Fall 2024)

Gallien, Claire, “The Place of the Qur’ān and Islamic Theology in Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān and its Early English Receptions: A Study in Textual Citation and Excision”, Philological Encounters 8.4 (2023).

Gallien, Claire, Chloé Chaudet and Lucie Taïeb, “Pour une approche multiscalaire des lieux dévastés : décharge, île, ligne d’aridité”, Littérature 201.1 (March 2021): 99-127.

Gallien, Claire and ZoneZadir research collective, “Introduction. Pour une écopoétique transculturelle”, Littérature 201.1 (March 2021): 10-23.

Gallien, Claire, “The Decolonial Turn in the Humanities”, Alif 40: Mapping New Directions in the Humanities (2020): 28-58.

Gallien, Claire, “Sur la préface d’Edward Said à la traduction anglaise de La Renaissance orientale (1984) de Raymond Schwab : De « l’humanisme intégral » à « l’humanisme démocratique »”, Special Issue : Repenser l’histoire littéraire à partir de Raymond Schwab, guest editors Claire Gallien and Sarga Moussa, Revue de Littérature Comparée 374.2 (Apr-Jun. 2020) : 141-148.

Gallien, Claire and Sarga Moussa, “Introduction. Vers un humanisme intégral. Repenser l’histoire littéraire à partir de Raymond Schwab”, Special Issue : Repenser l’histoire littéraire à partir de Raymond Schwab, guest editors Claire Gallien and Sarga Moussa, Revue de Littérature Comparée 374.2 (Apr-Jun. 2020): 127-140.

Gallien, Claire, “From One Empire to the Next: The Reconfigurations of ‘Indian’ Literatures from Persian to English Translations”, Special Issue: Translation in India, guest editor Hephzibah Israel, Translation Studies 14.2 (2021): 225-241. OnlineFirst 24 Oct. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2019.1678069

Gallien, Claire, “Of Seas, Slaves, and Colonies in Robinson Crusoe – Cartography, Strata, and Contrapuntal Reading”, Special Issue: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe: A Gazetteer. A special issue to mark the 300^th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe, guest editor Rebecca Bullard, Études anglaises 72.2 (Apr.-Jun. 2019): 135-150.

Gallien, Claire, “When Literature Becomes an ‘Enhanced National Security Threat’ – Literary Interventions of the ‘Terrorist’ and ‘Terrorist’ Interventions of Literature”, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 57.1 (March 2022): 133-152. OnlineFirst 26 Feb. 2019, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021989419826366

Gallien, Claire, “Forcing Displacement: The Postcolonial Interventions of Refugee Literature and Arts”, Special Issue: Refugee Literature, guest editor Claire Gallien, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 54.6 (Dec. 2018): 735-750.

Gallien, Claire, “Refugee Literature: What postcolonial theory has to say”, Special Issue: Refugee Literature, guest editor Claire Gallien, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 54.6 (Dec. 2018): 721-726.

Gallien, Claire, “Anglo-Arab Literatures – Enmeshing Form, Subverting Assignation, Minorizing Language”, Special Issue: Anglo-Arab Literature, guest editor Claire Gallien, Commonwealth Essays and Studies 39.2 (Spring 2017): 5-12.

Gallien, Claire, “Creating the Archive. Of Counter-Memories, Breakable Memories and other Proleptic Moves into the Past in Larissa Sansour’s and Wael Shawky’s Arts”, Postcolonial Interventions [online] II.1 (Jan. 2017) < https://postcolonialinterventions.com/archive/>.

Gallien, Claire, “Minding (About) the Gazan Border in Contemporary Palestinian Art and Fiction”, in Special Issue: Post-Conflict Territories: Representations and Reconfigurations, guest editor Fiona McCann, Commonwealth Essays and Studies 38.2 (Spring 2016): 57-68.

Gallien, Claire and Olivera Jokic, “Eighteenth-Century Orientalism in Contemporary British Historiography and Literary Criticism”, Literature Compass 12.4 (2015): 121–133.

Gallien, Claire, “Les orientalistes britanniques de la fin du XVIIIe siècle et la création du canon littéraire indien”, Special Issue : Problèmes d’histoire littéraire indienne, guest editors Claire Joubert and Laetitia Zecchini, Revue de Littérature Comparée 356 (2015/4): 405-417.

Gallien, Claire, “Edward Pococke et l’orientalisme anglais du XVII^e siècle : passeurs, transferts, et transitions”, Special Issue : Orientalisme, guest editor Aurélien Girard, Revue XVII^e siècle 268 (2015/3): 443-458.

Gallien, Claire, “Edward FitzGerald’s Rubayat”, Special Issue : L’art de la traduction, guest editors Julie Sauvage and Adriana Serban, Essais sur l’art 8 (2015): 65-87.

Gallien, Claire, “Une querelle orientaliste : la réception controversée du Zend Avesta d’Anquetil-Duperron en France et en Angleterre”, Special Issue : Querelles, guest editors Jeanne-Marie Hostiou and Alain Viala, Littératures classiques 82 (2013): 257-268.

Gallien, Claire, “Le costume oriental au XVIII^e siècle: Entre connaissance et travestissement de l'Orient”, in Figures pionnières de l’orientalisme : Convergence européennes, edited by Isabelle Gadoin et Ziva Vesel, Res Orientales XX. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2011, p.79-102.

Gallien, Claire, “The Politics of Lines in Bruce Chatwin’s and Iain Sinclair’s Travel Narratives”, Études britanniques contemporaines 40 (June 2011): 143-160.

Gallien, Claire, “Recycling the Orient in Eighteenth-Century British Literature – The Case of Busiris by Edward Young”, Études Anglaises 63.4 (2010): 387-401.

Gallien, Claire, “Supplément oriental et inspiration poétique”, RSEAA XVII-XVIII 67 (2010) : 145-169.

Book Chapters

Gallien, Claire, “Aridity Line Literatures. Ibrāhīm al-Kūnī and Hawad as Case Studies“, in The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature, edited by Laura Rebecca Brueck and Praseeda Gopinath. New York: Routledge, 2024, pp. 149-169.

Gallien, Claire, “God 99 – Staying with the Fragments, Designing Other Worlds”, in Handbook of Literature and Migration, edited by Corina Stan and Charlotte Sussman. New York: Palgrave, 2023, pp. 533-548.

Gallien, Claire and Sarah R. Bin Tyeer, “The World Imaginaries of Islam: Islam and New Directions in World Literature”, in Islam and New Directions in World Literature, edited by Claire Gallien and Sarah R. Bin Tyeer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2022, pp. 1-53.

Gallien, Claire, “La littérature comme ‘menace sérieuse pour la sécurité de la nation’. Interventions littéraires du ‘terroriste’ contre interventions ‘terroristes’ de la littérature”, in Figurer le terroriste. La Littérature au défi, edited by Elara Bertho, Catherine Brun, and Xavier Garnier. Paris: Khartala, 2021, pp. 61-84.

Gallien, Claire, “The Heterolingual Zone: Arabic, English, and the Practice of Worldliness”, in Multilingual Literature as World Literature, edited by Jane Hiddleston and Wen-chin Ouyang. London: Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 69-90.

Gallien, Claire, “The Turkish Refugee as Vagrant Slave: Spaces of Disconnection and Dispossession in Ishmael Bashaw's Refugee Narrative”, in Migration and Modernity: The State of Being Stateless, 1650-1850, edited by JoEllen Mary Delucia and Juliet Shields. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.184-211.

Gallien, Claire and Louisiane Ferlier, “‘Enthusiastick’ Uses of an Oriental Tale: The English Translations of Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqdhan in the Eighteenth Century”, in Eastern Resonances in Early-Modern England, edited by Claire Gallien and Ladan Niayesh. New York: Palgrave, 2019, pp. 93-114.

Gallien, Claire and Ladan Niayesh, “Chapter 1. Introduction”, in Eastern Resonances in Early-Modern England, edited by Claire Gallien and Ladan Niayesh. New York: Palgrave, 2019, pp. 1-15.

Gallien, Claire, “Recoller l’image brisée d’Edward Said: Réarticuler l’activisme avec la critique, la Palestine avec la théorie”, in Orientalismes/Occidentalismes: à propos de l'oeuvre d'Edward Said, edited by Makram Abbes and Laurent Dartigues. Paris: Hermann, 2018, pp. 327-352.

Gallien, Claire. “Minding Orientalist Margins: Colonial Nomos and Jonathan Scott’s Revision of The Arabian Nights.” In Minding Borders: Resilient Divisions in Literature, the Body and the Academy, edited by Nicola Gardini, Adriana X. Jacobs, Ben Morgan, Mohamed-Salah Omri, and Matthew Reynolds. Oxford: NED-New edition, Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2017, pp. 76–96.

Gallien, Claire, “Orientalist Pococke: Brokering Across Borders, Disciplines and Genres”, in The Internationalization of Cultural Exchange in a Globalizing Europe, 1636-1780, edited by Robert Mankin. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2017, pp. 1-30.

Gallien, Claire, “British Orientalism, Indo-Persian Historiography, and the Politics of Global Knowledge”, in India and Europe in the Global Eighteenth Century, edited by S. Davies, D. S. Roberts, and G. Sanchez Espinoza. Oxford: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, 2014, pp. 29-52.

Gallien, Claire, “Chapitre. Religions – ‘Perse’”, in Histoire des traductions en langue française, edited by Yves Chevrel, Annie Cointre and Yen-Maï Tran-Gervat, vol. 17-18. Lagrasse: Éditions Verdier, 2014. 

Gallien, Claire, “Le manuel de langue orientale, reflet d'une politique coloniale? Le cas anglais en Inde, 1757-1830”, in Manuels d’arabe d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. France et Maghreb, XIXe-XXIe siècle, edited by Sylvette Larzul et Alain Messaoudi. Paris: Éditions de la BNF, 2013, pp. 31-46. https://books.openedition.org/editionsbnf/233?lang=de

Gallien, Claire, “Esthétique et pratique du double regard dans le Recueil de cent estampes (1714) par Le Hay et dans A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1709) par Aaron Hill”, in Récit de voyage et Encyclopédie, edited by Madeleine Descargues-Grant. Valenciennes: PU Valenciennes, 2011.

Dictionary Entries, Short Pieces, Interviews

Gallien, Claire, “Literature and Theology”, St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (forthcoming 2025)

Gallien, Claire, “Sacred Time”, St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology (forthcoming 2025)

Gallien, Claire, MEMOrients Blog posts, https://memorients.com/members/dr-claire-gallien

Gallien, Claire, “Arthur John Arberry’s Interpretation of the Qur’ān (1955)”, Coran 12-21 (2021) , https://quran12-21.org/en/contexts/arberry

Gallien, Claire, “L’interprétation du Coran par Arthur John Arberry (1955)”, Coran 12-21 (2021) https://coran12-21.org/fr/contextes/arberry

Gallien, Claire, Entries : “Anquetil-Duperron,” “Anthologies,” “Le Cercle Jones,” “Fort William College,” “Hobson-Jobson,” “Société Asiatique (du Bengale)”, in Dictionnaire encyclopédique des Littératures de l’Inde, edited by Anne Castaing, Nicolas Dejenne, and Claudine Leblanc. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022.

Gallien, Claire, “Interview with Arundhati Roy”, FIFDH 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw2JUAjrBG4&t=2274s

Gallien, Claire, “Interview with Prof Ian Coller: Muslims & Citizens: Islam, Politics & the French Revolution”, IRCL 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWD3dRdH6so&t=90s

Gallien, Claire, “Is Decolonial Thought Soluble in the Neo-Liberal Academia?”, Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter #25, June 2020.

Gallien, Claire, ”Arundhati Roy, ou l’engagement du littéraire”, La vie des idées, 3 janvier 2020. https://laviedesidees.fr/Arundhati-Roy-ou-l-engagement-du-litteraire.html

Gallien, Claire, ”Pour une écologie décoloniale”, La vie des idées, 11 février 2019. https://laviedesidees.fr/Pour-une-ecologie-decoloniale.html

Gallien, Claire, ”Paris à l’heure indienne”, La vie des idées, le 9 juin 2016. https://laviedesidees.fr/Paris-a-l-heure-indienne.html

Gallien, Claire, ”Le monde comme littérature. À propos de : G. C. Spivak, En d’autres mondes, en d’autres mots. Essais de politique culturelle, Payot”, La vie des idées, le 6 janvier 2011. https://laviedesidees.fr/Le-monde-comme-litterature.html

Gallien, Claire, ”The Subversive Power of the Migrant. About: Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant, Stanford UP”, La vie des idees, 2 March 2017. https://booksandideas.net/The-Subversive-Power-of-the-Migrant.html

Gallien, Claire, Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, and Mathias Enard, “L’Orient, fantasme de l’altérité radicale”, France Culture 29 Nov. 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0byPA6jYaXs&t=12s

Gallien, Claire, ”Picturing Fantasies. About Illustrations of the Arabian Nights”, La vie des idees, 7 September 2011, https://booksandideas.net/Picturing-Fantasies.html

Gallien, Claire, Entries : “Ezour Vedam (Controverse de l’) ”, ”Zend-Avesta (Querelle du)”, ”Hastings (Scandale de)”, Banque de données AGON [online] https://obvil.huma-num.fr/agon/recherche-querelles?keys=gallien

Gallien, Claire, “Turkey and the Middle East, representations of”, in The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789, edited by Gary Day and Jack Lynch. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Translations

Gallien, Claire, trans. The Principles of Islamic Studies. A Subtle Synopsis of the Ten Principles for Seventeen Islamic Sciences by Harun Verstaen (from English into French), Uitgeverij Plataan Publisher, forthcoming.

Gallien, Claire, trans. Kitab Sidi ‘Ali al-Jamal (from Arabic into English), Norwich, Diwan Press, in preparation.

Gallien, Claire, trans. Vent Rouge by Hawad (from French/Tamazight into English), in preparation.

Gallien, Claire, trans. “Al-ṣamt. Chapitre sur ‘Le silence’ dans le Traité sur la science du soufisme par Abû al-Qâsim al-Qushayrî (traduit de l’arabe)”, Café 2 (2020) https://cafetranslations.home.blog/2-silence-2/

Gallien, Claire, co-trans. “The Cairo Edition (1924), by Hassan Chahdi”, Coran 12:21 (2020) https://quran12-21.org/en/contexts/caire

Gallien, Claire, co-trans. “Muhammad Hamidullah’s French Translation,

As Revised By the King Fahd Complex (2000), by Mouhamadoul Khaly Wélé”, Coran 12:21 (2020) https://quran12-21.org/en/contexts/hamidullah

Gallien, Claire, co-trans. “Régis Blachère’s French Translation (1957), by Georges Bohas” Coran 12:21 (2020) https://quran12-21.org/en/contexts/blachere

Gallien, Claire, co-trans. “The French Translation By André Du Ryer (1647), by Ghazi Eljorf, Tristan Vigliano, and Mouhamadoul Khaly Wélé” Coran 12:21 (2020) https://quran12-21.org/en/contexts/duryer

Gallien, Claire, co-trans. “The Latin Translation of Peter the Venerable and Robert of Ketton (1143), as edited by Bibliander (1543-1550), by Paul Gaillardon, Smaranda Marculescu and Tristan Vigliano”, Coran 12:21 (2020) https://quran12-21.org/en/contexts/bibliander

Gallien, Claire, trans. Dictionnaire des philosophes français du xviie siècle Acteurs et réseaux du savoir. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020, 2100 pp. [Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers. New York, London: Thoemmes-Continuum, 2008]