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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 656–672.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Ovamir Anjum © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors variorum Ovamir Anjum...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Fadi A. Bardawil “The Solitary Analyst of Doxas: An Interview with Talal Asad” explores Asad's intellectual trajectory. In Bardawil and Asad's intergenerational conversation Asad discusses his critique of the neutrality of the social sciences, his own critique of Orientalist scholarship (while...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 264–281.
Published: 01 August 2019
... (Geertz/Asad), which I argue favors EVR's concept of conversion over Ambedkar's. Such issues are not unimportant in an age of rising right-wing populisms globally. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Meenakshipuram mass conversion and democratic fulfillment non-Brahmin political...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 557–574.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Susanna Ferguson Ferguson reads a 2009–11 debate over the proposed reissue of Syria's Personal Status Code in the Syrian feminist journal al-Thara to highlight the role women's rights discourse plays in disciplining and producing political subjects. She draws on Talal Asad's observation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 570–587.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., the Mughal emperor Jahangir received a visitor from the city of Thatta in Sindh, a former client of his deceased vassal, Mirza Ghazi Tarkhan. In the Tuzuk- i Jahangiri the visit is de-scribed as follows: Mulla Asad the storyteller, one of the servants of Mirza Ghazi, came in those same days from Thatta...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 198–203.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that cites the political stakes of Edward W. Said's Orientalism 4 (107n257); a brief acknowledgment by the end of the book that colonialism—which appears in passing a handful of times—upended the “Balkans-to-Bengal complex” paradigm that Ahmed recovers (524); and, in a discussion of Talal Asad's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 296–311.
Published: 01 August 2019
... on original insights of Marcel Mauss, Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, and psychoanalytic and phenomenological discourses in their approach to the body and the psyche. The work of Talal Asad ( Genealogies of Religion , Formations of the Secular ) , William Hanks ( Converting Words ) , Charles Hirschkind...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2016
... A. Bardawil’s interview with anthro- pologist Talal Asad sheds new light on Asad’s long career. Bardawil returns to some of Asad’s early work, including his Essays in Sudan Ethnography, to encourage Asad to reflect on his intellectual trajec...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 230–245.
Published: 01 August 2018
... Jean-Loup Sibeud Emmanuelle , eds. Maurice Delafosse: Entre orientalisme et ethnographie: l’itinéraire d’un africaniste (1870–1926) . Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose , 1998 . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity . Stanford, CA : Stanford...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 470–488.
Published: 01 August 2022
...-Akhbār . February 8 , 2020 . al-Asad Ḥāfiẓ . “ Khuṭṭāb Al-Sayyid Al-Ra’īs Ḥāfiẓ Al-Asad Khilāl Liqā’ihu Ma‘ I‘aḍā’ Majālis Al-Muḥāfaẓāt, ” July 20 , 1976 . http://www.presidentassad.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=651:20–7-1976&Itemid=476 . al-Azmeh...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 94–109.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., of embracing pain and martyrdom, should be examined as a disciplinary act performed within a discursive space. As I show later, and following Talal Asad, acts performed as part of discursive tradition do not focus on meaning but “on the behavioral customs and the sensibilities they teach and regulate...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 195–198.
Published: 01 May 2020
... whom Ahmed greatly admirers but targets for criticism. What might be the political implications of his criticism of this thinker? Here I have in mind the group of readers who will be most critical of the book—that is, those inspired by the anthropologist Talal Asad. Their criticisms will arise, in part...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 371–380.
Published: 01 December 2009
... with nated mainly by the Directorate of Religious Af- the help of the Diyanet. Therefore, this article 6. Talal Asad argues against a transcultural and trans­ 7. Alev Çınar, “Subversion and Subjugation in the Pub- 9. According to article 35 of the Internal Service Reg- historical conception...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 107–121.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Egypt . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 . ‘Amer Sa‘id . Al-Fatwa bayna al-Asala wa al-Mu‘asar. (The Fatwa between Authenticity and Modernity) . Cairo : Al-Azhar , 2012 . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity . Stanford, CA...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11706959.
Published: 22 January 2025
... of Anderson s claim about the univ­ ers­ al and modu­ l­ar nature of nationa­ li­sm, Asad s descript­ion of the emer­gence of the categories of reli­gion and secu­ ­lari­sm in the West, and An-Na im s argum­ ents about the unviability of sharia as the basis for law and gov­er­nance in a mode­ rn nation-state...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 451–456.
Published: 01 August 2018
... on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . New York : Verso , 2006 . Asad Talal . Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1993 . Asad Talal Mahmood Saba Butler Judith...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11707039.
Published: 22 January 2025
..., not doxis a sense that Islam, in con­trast to Chris­tian­ity, relates more to how one lives than to what one believes, as Talal Asad has influ­en­tially maintained.3 Troubling this split between prac­tice and belief, the essays in this spe­cial sec­tion approach the­olo­ gy as an ethn­ og­ raphi­­cally...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 405–417.
Published: 01 August 2014
... in general and the Mediterranean in particular. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References el-Ariss Tarek . Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political . New York : Fordham University Press , 2013 . Asad Talal , ed. Anthropology and the Colonial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 508–524.
Published: 01 December 2015
... vols . Dhaka : ASK , 2001–10 . ———. “Report of the Investigations Unit on Case # 12/9, Debidar Thana.” June 28 , 2009 . Copy on file with author . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Modernity and Islam . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2003...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 102–115.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., introduction to Is Critique Secu- tions- , Integrations- und Minderheitenpolitik (Immi- 7.  See Alev Çınar, “Subversion and Subjugation in  lar? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech, by Talal Asad,  gration under the Sign of Globalization: Migration, the Public Sphere: Secularism and the Islamic Head- Wendy...