...Tuska Benes Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Comparative Linguistics as Ethnology: In Search of Indo-Germans in Central Asia, 1770–1830 TUSKA BENES On 11 January 1809, the German Orientalist Heinrich “Völkerbrücke aus Asia nach Europa” [bridge...

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... twentieth century in the Caucasus and Central Asia was generally treated as an isolated, self-contained movement, confined within the geographic borders of Baku, Tbilisi, and Bukhara, or at most within the southern region of the czarist empire, Turkistan. The occasional reference to the cross-regional...

...Christopher M. Murphy This study examines five children’s books produced in Soviet Central Asia and the Crimea between 1926 and 1932. While stemming from pre-Soviet intellectual movements among Muslims in the Russian Empire, these books represent a new kind of product that was created for children...

...Nurfadzilah Yahaya Abstract Located at the intersection of four regions, the Middle East, East Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia, Afghanistan is a country whose legal history is sure to be diverse and exciting at the confluence of multiple legal currents. In the book Afghanistan Rising: Islamic...

... deciphered textual sources dating to the fourth and fifth centuries CE, respectively, and from the fact that Sogdian was a lingua franca of the merchant routes through Central Asia into China. Although Sogdian became the main language of dissemination of Buddhist, Manichaean, and Christian texts...

...Khodadad Rezakhani The Silk Road is commonly used as a convenient blanket term to describe the many trade routes and points of contact that criss-crossed Central Asia. The term is generally overused, to the point that everything in the history of the region is conceptualized within the confines...

...Kazim Abdullaev The relationship between the sacred drink haoma and narcotic plants is a major focus in studying the religious and ritualistic traditions of the ancient people of Indo-Iran and Central Asia. This study addresses this question through an analysis of archaeological data gathered...

...Jeff Sahadeo Sahadeo’s article examines Julian Go’s Patterns of Empire from the viewpoint of a historian of Russia’s southern borderlands of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Go offers a pathway for scholars of other expansionist regimes, including the tsarist state and the Soviet Union, to break down...

... expand and fine-tune our analytical baggage when addressing forms of fragmented rule. 17. Morozova, Rabstvo u Turkmen , 27 . 18. Morozova, Rabstvo u Turkmen , 28 . 19. Morozova, Rabstvo u Turkmen , 29 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Central Asia...

... up the understudied Cold War linkages between the Middle East, on the one hand, and East and South Asia on the other. 1 They examine how the inter-Asian lens allows us to rethink the history of the twentieth-century Middle East. 2 Central to such rethinking is the destabilization of some...

... that   Comparative The issue of power has been a central Asia, the restoration of power as a legitimate pursuit   Studies concern in Islam from its inception—in its fol...

...Rishad Choudhury Abstract This article offers a new interpretation of the “Indian Wahhabi” beyond an ostensibly religious identity. Examining encounters between a centralizing state and decentralized circulatory regimes, the study thus illuminates an overlooked sociolegal genealogy of the jihadi...

... a socialist vision was inscribed extended for them from the Soviet South—Central Asia in particular—to the newly independent countries north and south of the Sahara. The glue for this transregional imagination was an engagement with the topos of backwardness : the efforts to overcome it as well...

... sovereignty. Dhows, once habituated to a world of layered sovereignty, have now been forced to contend with the boundaries of centralized sovereign states. Moreover, government and international law and policy such as economic liberalization in India have made the dhow trade more precarious, and pushed...

... this as a description of a “śiva-visṇu temple” in Magadha , 87 . 52. See Stolte and Fischer-Tiné, “Imagining Asia in India.” 53. Sankrityayan, quoted in Ober, “Reinventing Buddhism,” 214 . 54. Ober, “Reinventing Buddhism,” 200–278 . 55. An excellent discussion of the central discourse...

...Jamie Cross The export processing or free trade zones that have been built since the 1960s across Central America and the Caribbean, north Africa and the Gulf states, and South and Southeast Asia have emerged as uniquely charged objects of anticipation—hope, conviction, and anxiety—about...

... was productive for Western empires, who were concerned with arbitrating the human in programs of war as much as settlement. The second part of the essay focuses on notions of descent from animals in South Asia with respect to how colonists studied alleged feral children, as much as the placement of accounts...

... in Saudi Arabia. However, the reform movement in which he was in fact involved at this stage was the genealogically distinct—and more avowedly modernist and progressivist—Jadid movement, prevalent in Russia and Central Asia at the time. 24 This can be gleaned from his lists of intellectual allies...

...         The article’s geographical compass em- were concerned more about financial gain and 202 braces both the Iranian plateau and a good even feared that their troops might become as- portion of Central Asia. During the early cen- similated to the local population...