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Volume 29, Issue 2
August 1, 2009
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Cover Image for Volume 29, Issue 2
ISSN 1089-201X
EISSN 1548-226X
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What Happened to the African Renaissance? The Challenges of Development in the Twenty-First Century
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
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Articles

Sufism and Governmentality in the Late Ottoman Empire
Brian Silverstein
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Bringing the State Back In, Yet Again: The Debate on Socioreligious Reform in Late-Nineteenth-Century India
Rinku Lamba
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de-Zoroastrianization and Islamization: The Two Phases of Iran's Religious Transition, 747–837 CE
Aptin Khanbaghi
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Yoga in Asia—mimetic History: Problems in the Location of Secret Knowledge
Joseph S. Alter
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Spinning without Touching the Wheel: Anticolonialism, Indian Nationalism, and the Deployment of Symbol
Rebecca M. Brown
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Explaining Social Mobilization in Pakistan: A Comparative Case Study of Baluchistan and Azad Kashmir
Shanna Dietz Surendra
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Lust, Greed, Torture, and Identity: Narrations of Conversion and the Creation of the Early Modern Renegade
Claire Norton
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French New Orientalist Narratives from the “Natives”: Reading More Than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris
Laetitia Nanquette
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Abolishing the East: The Dated Nature of Orientalism in the Definition and Ethical Analysis of the Hindu Faith
Gregory A. Barton
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“Lowering Our Prestige”: American Cinema, Mass Consumerism, and Racial Anxiety in Colonial India
Babli Sinha
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What's Morality Got to Do with It? Benevolent Hegemony in the International System of South Asia
Kamal Sadiq
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Reading Beyond Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
Manijeh Mannani
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Book Reviews

Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class
Sanjay Joshi
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Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder After 1914
Wilson Chacko Jacob
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The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
Peter E. Pope
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Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
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In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination
Karen Grumberg
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Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran
Peter Chelkowski
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Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa
Philip S. Zachernuk
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The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics
Amal Ghazal
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Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.s., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
Firoozeh Papan-Matin
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Contributors
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