...Jonathan Hyslop Hyslop’s article criticizes Julian Go’s approach to the historical analysis of empires. It views his work as an example of comparative historical sociology and contrasts it with the methods of transnational historians. While both schools constitute valid research directions...

.... Whereas Go makes important contributions to critiques of exceptionalism, his analytic approach reveals the limits of comparative historical sociology. Mawani asks to what extent sociology offers the requisite conceptual and methodological tools to study empires past and present or whether sociology itself...

... approach is the latter, which 20. For more details see Go, Patterns, 47 – 49; comparison requires separation between is also different from the early Mills-­based 80 – 82; 131 – 32; 141 – 45. units (and hence that it precludes transna- comparative-­historical sociology of Theda...

.... 610 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East • 34:3 • 2014 Cannadine, David. “Statecraft: The Haunting Fear of Na- Comparative Historical Sociology and tional Decline.” In In Churchill’s Shadow: Confronting Transnational History...

... discourse of all ing to the nature of the universe to which it relates. mention of GuCnon. One can neither reduce his text to one or other of the Thus, the comparative sociological scheme which intellectual, epistemically contradictory spaces from Dumont attempted...

... and Society, International Zachary Wright is an associate professor in residence Journal of Middle East Studies, Sociological Forum, Critical at Northwestern University in Qatar, with joint Sociology, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and appointments in history...

..., coauthored with Ersin Kalaycıo Ersin with coauthored book, recent Turkey. in most politics His party and opinion, behavior, voting public politics, comparative are interests research year.His academic 2008–9 the for (NIAS) Sciences Social and manities Hu the in Study forAdvanced...

... (2008). Studies Eastern Middle Critical Critique: 1925 Iran, in   Morality Religious of ization National the and Ulema “The of author the is He studies. and historical studies) and sociology doctorates are inpolitical science (European His decades. fortwo more than activist...

.../modern, indigenoudforeign the present issue, we intend to develop a far more and so on. systematic effort to publish articles on Africa and This is not to deny the value of disciplined em- the Middle East that speak to comparable situations pirical or historical study of localities, regions...

... is currently work- cipal researcher in two international comparative ing on two book projects: “Post-Islamism in Iran: research projects, “Diaspora, Islam, and Gender” Neo-Shariati Discourse” and “Political Sociology and “Muslim Diasporas: Heightened...

..., art, law, historicality, em- server has put it, “History tends to be the mildly annoy piricism, numeracy, and almost everything else. Much of ing stuff which happens between one sociological model this scholarship has been both substantively and theo- and another are far more inclined simply...

... the fourth decade of Iran’s revolution and continue to study the sweep- ing changes that such a historic event brought to that nation, it is also fitting that we identify and study the ways that those Iranians who left their homeland in the period between 1979 and 1988...

... and prospects of these alternatives need to address the limitations of materialist in- Comparative for achieving an Islamic reformation and ad- strumentalism and idealist primordialism along dressing the question of “what went wrong” with the historically contingent multicausal lines...

... have to create an “up-to-date Muslim sociological problem of historical transition . . . Turkism” [muasır bir İslâm Türkl realizing Andrew Davison but as a problem of translation, as well.”5 The that each of the three ideals is an aspect of the goal is to “provide plural or conjoined genealo...

... is completing a manuscript He has published widely on modern South Africa, in titled “Trash Matters: Infrastructures and Arts of Citi- periodicals including Journal of Global History, Journal zenship in Dakar, Senegal.” of Historical Sociology, and Public Culture...

.... et al, (eds) Europe and its Others, Proceedings of the 1984 Sociology of Literature Conference, Colchester, University of Essex, forthcoming. (Copies may be ordered by writing to the Sociology of Literature Conference Committee, Department of English, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester...

... by a uniform logic. Second, these analyses link sideration of specific political details within a factual, historical events to a posited and largely given society. Indeed these specific issues and imagined “historical memory” that on a collec- their sociological context...

... sociology. The empirical richness of several of these essays will prove valuable not only to historians, but also to comparative sociologists seeking to broaden...

... negative Eurocentric appraisal of the creative works of Africans, it was not compared favorably to other foreign literatures. There was acute protectionism of African literature from perceived foreign incursion and supplanting, which led to a call for an Afrocentric criticism. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed...

... of the Egyptian Revolution .” IDS Bulletin 43 , no. 1 ( 2012 ): 16 – 25 . Armbrust Walter . Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . Arnove Robert Graff Harvey , eds. National Literacy Campaigns: Historical and Comparative...