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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 262–279.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Adam Mestyan This essay focuses on the month of Ramadan and its end celebration, ‘Id al-Fitr , the Festival of Breaking the Fast, in the Ottoman Arab provinces in the second half of the nineteenth century. What was the effect of new technologies and urbanization on these Muslim practices...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 549–569.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., No. 3, 2017 doi 10.1215/1089201x-4279248 © 2017 by Duke University Press Vernacular Conquest? A Persian Patron and His Image in the Seventeenth- Century Deccan Subah Dayal T he idea that the Persian language integrated courtly elites and social groups into the Mughal empire raises a number...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 280–295.
Published: 01 August 2018
... in Morocco in the First Half of the Twentieth Century .” In Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco , edited by
Maghraoui
Driss
, 142 – 53 . New York : Routledge , 2013 .
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. Islam and the Abode of War: Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries . New York...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 82–95.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Nathan Lee Marsh Tabor Abstract This article examines a posthumous literary gathering held at the grave of eighteenth-century Persian-language poet ‘Abd al-Qadir Bedil (1642–1720) in order to trace varying uses of a peculiar shrine space and its Persianate textual practices in late-Mughal Delhi...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 68–81.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of the “father of modern Hindi” Bhartendu Harishchandra in nearby Banaras, Bhanupratap never mentions reading him or reading newspapers—nor does he mention the Great Revolt of 1857, for that matter. It may seem odd to begin an essay on the eighteenth century with the autobiography of an ordinarily...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2019
... circulation, and the wider implications of using a vernacular language for reading, listening, visual, and performance practices. 17. Laksmidhara wrote the Prakrit grammar Sadbhashacandrika ; he was sometimes thought of as the author of the Sangitadarpana , as in one nineteenth-century manuscript...
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in History in Pakistan and the Will to Architecture
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 2. Orange Line construction site, Lahore, adjacent to the seventeenth-century Mughal gateway Chauburji. Photograph by the author, February 2018.
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1a. Change in globally averaged surface temperature over the twentieth century. Observations are shown with the black line, and the range of climate model simulations with and without anthropogenic climate change with the pink and purple shading, respectively. From Stocker et al., Climate
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1b. Predicted changes in precipitation (in %) over the twenty-first century under a high climate-forcing scenario (RCP8.5). Stippling indicates where the model predictions are robust, in the sense of agreeing on the sign of the change; otherwise, the models do not agree. Hatching indicates
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 185–193.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2017 . Corbin Alain . Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside , translated by Thom Martin . New York : Columbia University Press , 1998 . Dang...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 362–369.
Published: 01 December 2021
... – 51 . Cieciura Wlodzimierz . “ Ethnicity or Religion? Republican-Era Chinese Debates on Islam and Muslims .” In Islamic Thought in China: Sino-Muslim Intellectual Evolution from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century , edited by Lipman Jonathan , 107 – 46 . Edinburgh...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 455–468.
Published: 01 December 2021
... escape an ideology informed by its past as a central part of the British colonial project. While the subcontinent's longue durée relationship with Africa dates back to the fifteenth century, when trade between Gujarat and the Swahili coast formed part of the intricate network of commerce...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 91–106.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Johan Mathew Abstract This article outlines a process of enclosing private property on the Arabian Sea through the colonial imposition of secure property rights during the nineteenth century. The article proceeds in two paralleled sections. The first section explores the violence of the natural...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 441–454.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Beeta Baghoolizadeh Abstract This article looks to two songs, “Layla Said” and “Mammad, You Weren't There to See,” to examine the politics of representation, race, religion, and nationalism in late twentieth-century Iran. “Layla Said,” a religious eulogy sung by Jahanbakhsh Kurdizadeh, would serve...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 208–223.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Naz Yücel Abstract This article investigates the transformation of three coeval monarchs—Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876–1909), Queen Victoria (r. 1837–1901), and King Leopold II (r. 1865–1909)—into private landed property owners in the late nineteenth century. In its comparisons, the article centers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Samyak Ghosh Abstract This article situates the court of the Tungkhungia kings of Brahmaputra Valley (1680–1830), in present day Assam, in the space of courtly convergence and response in eighteenth-century South Asia. It studies a particular moment in the Tungkhungia royal court (1714–44) when...
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in The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana: Sculpting a Buddhist Homeland in India's Youngest State
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 5. Later face featuring stupa veneration, second century CE, double-sided drum slab, Amaravati, British Museum. Photograph by the author.
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in The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana: Sculpting a Buddhist Homeland in India's Youngest State
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 8. A dome slab from Nagarjunakonda, third century CE, Nagarjunakonda Archaeological Museum. Photograph by the author with permission of the Archaeological Survey of India.
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in The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana: Sculpting a Buddhist Homeland in India's Youngest State
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 10. Stele from Phanigiri (third century CE), State Museum, Hyderabad. Photograph by the author.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 254–270.
Published: 01 August 2003
...EUGENE F. IRSCHICK Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Conversations in Tarangambadi: Caring for the Self in
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EUGENE F. I RSCHICK
In their commentary about the Tswana, John and early eighteenth century...
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