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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 280–298.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Nurçin İleri İleri's article explores the practice of lighting as a means of development of new spectacles and rise of surveillance in fin-de-siècle Istanbul. It focuses on how the concerns of Ottoman municipal and commercial authorities regarding prosperity and civility gave rise to more city...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 222–235.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to form a semiofficial red-light district in Tehran. A new wave of petitions poured into parliament opposing Shahr-i naw as an un-Islamic place that ruined the reputation of the city and “hurt the Islamic sensibilities” ( ihsasat-i Islami ) of residents. As such gradually the district became...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 507–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... President Ayub Khan's two ambitious urban projects—Islamabad, the new capital city of Pakistan and Ayub-Nagar (renamed Sher-e-Bangla Nagar), and a second capitol complex in East Pakistan—brought together local and foreign stakeholders with differing interpretations of the idea of “Pakistan.” A significant...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 173–185.
Published: 01 May 2007
... with the city of Abadan in the Iranian national the latter’s success both as a popular novel and memory. It is within this historical background a signifi cant literary event. Symphony of the Dead that I Will Turn off the Lights is situated. The also became popular, one...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 245–261.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Wishnitzer • Eyes in the Dark: Nightlife and Visual Regimes in Late Ottoman Istanbul 257 In sum, modern nightlife as it emerges in to a “then there was light” story. Not only was the late Ottoman novels represented a fourfold threat: actual illumination of the city a piecemeal, incre- with its...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 386–397.
Published: 01 December 2010
...) Fatimah's pre-eternal light that generates prophecy and the imamate, illuminating heaven on the Day of Judgment; (2) the imitable, worldly model that Fatimah's poverty and faith provide for the Shia to integrate into their daily lives; (3) the role of relics and other ritual objects endowed with Fatimah's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 190–193.
Published: 01 May 2024
... in the Gulf mostly in the 1980s, and Simone accordingly reflects on the role of Gulf cities as an “infrastructure for coming and going” (45) during this specific period. Since then, these cities have remade themselves into crossroads of a much broader magnitude, with the ambition to radiate as centers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 262–279.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Ahmed stresses the spectacles of light.”23 By the time of the Ottoman importance of interpretation (equating a schol- Empire, the illuminated night had been a power- arly Quranic commentary to poems which refer ful feature of Muslim cities, at least during Rama- to the Quran),19 and, upgrading...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 454–475.
Published: 01 December 2014
... proftability of lighting and pow- dating the creation of vertically integrated State ering one of India’s most industrialized regions Electricity Boards (SEBs) to build grids aligned to attracted a range of private utilities to the city. federal boundaries. Most private utilities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 341–355.
Published: 01 December 2010
...-­Qudat, was born in Hamadan, a city in northwest Iran, in AD 1096 or 1098 and was executed in the same town on the charge of heresy in 1131. ‘Ayn al-­Qudat came from an important fam- ily of shafi‘i jurists and had many disciples and followers including some of the Seljuk court nobles.1 He...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 474–486.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and of Persian authors and poets.6 When pressed to notions of a single nation. The visual and narra- discuss his oeuvre in light of his cultural heri- tive motif of displacement in his films becomes Home tage, Naderi insists that his films, which focus embedded in the very fabric of Iran’s postrevo...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 August 2022
...-sadana-maṇḍitam”). 47. De, Tabaqāt-i-Akbarī , 16 , referred to by Sharma, “Some New Light,” 167–68 . 48. Sharma, “Some New Light,” 168 . 49. Jain, Ancient Cities , 342 . 50. Ram, “Fragmentary Grant,” 136 ; Jain, Ancient Cities , 342 . 51. See Flood, Objects...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 159–169.
Published: 01 May 2019
... : Presses de l'IFPO , 2009 . “ Les autos-mitrailleuses légères au Levant ” (“The Light-Armored Cars in the Middle East”). Revue des Troupes du Levant 4 ( 1936 ): 74 – 80 . Beck Lois . “ Use of Land by Nomadic Pastoralists in Iran: 1970–1998 .” Bulletin of the Yale School of Forestry...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to the urban as the context for lifemaking in light of economic processes, e.g., those constellated around the term neoliberalism , which take distinct geohistorical form though they are shaped by convergent global processes (e.g., the rise of real estate speculation, land grab, financialization of risk...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 181–189.
Published: 01 August 2003
...-suhuf biladi- 7The 1994 treaty laid out Israel’s recognition of Jordan’s him…wa-bi-sa’ir rijal al-a’alam) historic rights in the Holy City and, in particular, its supervi- 18An example of this description is “light of guidance and sion and protection of the Islamic holy places located there. peace...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 200–216.
Published: 01 August 2000
...). Laguerre, S. Michel. 1994 . The Informal City. New York: St. Martin's Press. Laguerre, S. Michel. 1999 . Minoritized Space: An Inquiry Into the Spatial Order of Things. Berkeley:Institute of Governmental Studies Press. Light, Ivan. 1972 . Ethnic Enterprise in America. Berkeley and Los...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 173–180.
Published: 01 August 2003
... have tried to reconstruct a vision of what burdens of separation in exile, and tried to comprehend happened to the city in the light of hindsight, trying to the experience of the Nakba while living through Israeli understand why the city's social elite abandoned it be- occupation and the war of 1967...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 462–475.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Syed Akbar Hyder the socio-literary cosmopolitan imaginaire in The Ghalib breathes through the same symbolic Temple’s Lamp but also at the larger intertextual instrument; he lights his temple lamp with this and intersubjective context in which this poem...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 299–313.
Published: 01 August 2017
... celebratory picture of “Stambul alive with lamps concerns about servicemen’s encounter with the and the Golden Horn torn into long streaks of nocturnal city and detailed attempts to address lights as motor-­boats raced across it,” but a few them. These sources, alongside reports...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2015
... – 210 . Sheffield, UK : Equinox , 2013 . ———. Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema . London : Routledge , 2006 . ———. “My Lord, the Elephant.” Seminar no. 651 ( 2013 ): 39 – 42 . Eck Diana . Banaras: City of Light . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1982...