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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 610–617.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., the rise of transnational history has made the work of comparativists more complex, in ways Go does not sufficiently recognize. Especially, it highlights the difficulty of drawing lines between the political units that are to be compared. While the article appreciates the elegance of Go’s comparison...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 235–244.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Partha Chatterjee In response to the discussion in this journal following the publication of “Nationalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Some Observations from South Asian History”, this article looks closely at some methodological questions of comparative history. If the dissolution...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 245–248.
Published: 01 December 2023
...-making allows for a critique of the settler colonial and Indigenous frameworks in Palestinian studies and points to generative avenues for comparative history and theory-making between Palestine and the global South. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 368–373.
Published: 01 August 2016
... role in the tragic history of the Mughal Empire's failed modernity. Murthy contends that we continue Chakrabarty's project and go further in understanding Sarkar's project through a structural analysis, which would also provide a comparative perspective. Toward the end of the essay, Murthy discusses...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 511–522.
Published: 01 December 2012
... “to speculate upon the comparative dimen- the ideology of the time, just as memory is acti-
sions and vigour of the sexual organs of both vated by conventional scholarly wisdom. History
either before or at the time of his marriage or and memory are potentially radically...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 184–195.
Published: 01 May 2019
...” form acquiring the historical destiny of the national. 20 In the identification of destiny or even the future as the vantage point of Pakistan, Ambedkar would, however, reprise contemporary and comparative history and equally ancient Indian history to discover and uncover the basis of sovereign...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 533–557.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Rebecca Gould This essay aims at a methodological interpretation of Sheldon Pollock's oeuvre from the perspective of comparative literary history. Part 1 focuses on his recent magnum opus, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men . Part 2 compares the Sanskrit cosmopolis in Pollock's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 584–590.
Published: 01 December 2012
... article seeks to demonstrate the ways in which the idea of the Indian Ocean might be deployed in pursuing such objectives. It surveys current trends within Indian Ocean scholarship and suggests how these might be used to illuminate questions of comparative literary history across Africa, the Middle East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 63–67.
Published: 01 May 2019
... collecting, digitalizing, and classifying manuscripts from Ge'ez-speaking and Arabic-speaking areas of the Horn 20 —these offer a wealth of materials for future comparative studies in literary and intellectual history. 21 This special section is therefore a call for more research on “multilingual locals...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 149–163.
Published: 01 May 2011
... was later canonized in Egyptian academia, so that Egypt's Ottoman history was defined as beginning in 1517 and ending in 1798. However, the vagaries of Egypt's relationship with Istanbul meant that this periodization was neither obvious nor uncontested. The purpose of this article is to compare evolving...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 156–168.
Published: 01 May 2012
...- worn), which in turn outdistances the
Comparative second- order semiological system and uses Sau- meaning. The meaning that contains a whole
ssurean linguistics to analyze the structure of system of values, a history, a geography, and a
Studies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 3–9.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Douglas Ober; David Geary Abstract This special section of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East ties together a series of modern histories and contemporary ethnographies of Buddhist spaces spread across the Indian subcontinent. Underlining each of the four essays...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 243–249.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of analysis. My comments are that of a student of Afghanistan, and I appreciate this opportunity to address the comparative imperial dimension of Afghanistan's constitutional history. I am interested in local perceptions of British Indian and Ottoman imperial cultures that offered alternative routes...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 618–625.
Published: 01 December 2014
... a “postcolonial sociology.”3 “Excep- extends beyond sociological boundaries. If a post-
tionalism,” he claims in the preface, “is the North colonial sociology is indeed the goal, then compar-
American counterpart to Eurocentrism. It silently ative approaches in colonial legal history may open
structures...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 364–367.
Published: 01 August 2014
... history and the discursive bounds of area and (post)colonial studies. More recently—and ostensibly as part of a larger turn away from area studies toward comparative, transcultural, transregional, and global studies—the burgeoning field of Mediterranean studies has put this resurgent category into massive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 34–48.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and Arab writings of his time? What can we learn from the public discussions of his views about Egyptian civil culture in the 1930s and its commitment to a democratic ethos? Addressing these questions from a comparative perspective in both Islamic and European history may contribute much...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 154–169.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Fariba Zarinebaf Placing the history of social and intellectual movements in the Middle East in a comparative context, this article examines intellectual interactions between the Young Ottomans and Young Iranians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More specifically, it sheds...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 282–295.
Published: 01 August 2011
... in the United States and Mexico that relate to confusions of place, people, and history. The article is divided into six sections. In the first section, I describe the complex categories of personhood for those who migrated from the Middle East. The second section provides a broad Arab demographic profile...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 470–488.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Nathaniel George Abstract Were the events of 1975–77 in Lebanon, commonly thought of today as an internecine sectarian war between Christians and Muslims, more comparable to the furies of revolution and counterrevolution? This article reframes the Lebanese National Movement's (LNM) “Transitional...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 407–420.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of modern sovereignty in South Asia, and in a comparative framework stretching across world regions, scholarly disciplines, and periods. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 sovereignty South Asia colonialism empire decolonization concepts comparative history Once again...
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