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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 83–93.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and traditions. 13. Hallaq, Reforming Modernity ; Jebari, “An Intellectual between the Maghreb and the Mashreq.” 14. Boullata, Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought , 114 . It is unfortunate that Boullata delimits “cultural critics of Arab society” as “thinkers who view the Arab world...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2020
... , edited by Badawi Mohamed Mustafa , 132 – 79 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1993 . Kassab Elizabeth Suzanne . Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective . New York : Columbia University Press , 2010 . Kassir Samir . Histoire de...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 386–397.
Published: 01 December 2023
... . “ Presidential Address .” Indo-Asian Culture 6 , no. 4 ( 1958 ): 436 – 42 . Azzam Abd al-Rahmam . “ The Arab League in World Unity .” In Contemporary Arab Thought , edited by Abdel-Malek Anouar , 142 – 45 . London : Zed , 1980 . Bennabi Malek . L'Afro-Asiatisme: Conclusions...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 1991
... that is squeezing them books, incidents, and controversies has had a ever more tightly. For those Muslims troubled by the cumulatively liberating impact on recent and problems and dilemmas inescapably imposed by the contemporary Arab thought, culture, and life in general, requirements of modem life and its...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 44–78.
Published: 01 August 2000
... and contemporary Arab thought, culture and about his own atheism, secularism and leftism. life in general, bringing previously untouchable sub- d) Conspiring with Imam Khomeini to have the “fatwa” jects within the compass of critical thought, autono- issued against his person in order...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 622–638.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that revolve around power and knowledge when writing the history of the vanquished and the contemporary societies of the colonized. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 nakbah Arab thought discourse Palestine Israel References ‘Abd al-Nāṣir Jamāl . Falsafat al-Thawrah...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 644–657.
Published: 01 December 2011
... concerns the contemporary Arab- Israeli conflict. ‘Azuri’s backward. In tracing the reception of ‘Azuri’s 645 book has been cited as historical proof for a work, this article seeks to shed light on the tra- very wide variety of apparently incompatible jectory of Western scholarship about...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 383–389.
Published: 01 December 2008
...      doi Duke 2. See, e.g., Roel Meijer, The Quest for Modernity: Secular Liberal 3. See, e.g., Stephen Sheehi, Foundations of Modern Arab Iden-     by and Left-Wing Political Thought in Egypt, 1945 – 1958 (London: tity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004); Abdeslam  © 2008...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 404–415.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Christoph Schumann In the intellectual history of the Arab world, there is a remarkable dearth of literature on liberal thought. In comparison, nationalism and Islamism have attracted much more attention and molded our image of the Middle East. This essay takes a new look at liberal thought...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 404–412.
Published: 01 December 2021
... into their coverage of events. In what follows, I analyze three stories on the affair, which focus less on Dreyfus himself and more on the French state and on Zola's trial. I do so to elucidate how the affair functioned as a political allegory for contemporary Arabs and how a strong condemnation of the persecution...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 93–121.
Published: 01 August 1993
... with the same terminological problem, A quick look at the scholarly literature produced deems it “unwise to bring preconceived categories in the West about contemporary Islamic Funda- to bear on these phenomena, [i.e., the Islamist mentalism-particularly in the Arab World-will movements...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 491–507.
Published: 01 December 2018
... (1919–24). Focusing on alternative readings of Gandhi in Arabic, this piece explores the debates Gandhi’s thought instigated among three intellectuals affiliated with the Cairo-based Islamic modernist journal al-Manar (1898–1935): the Syrian-born Muhammad Rashid Rida (d. 1935), the Moroccan-born Taqi al...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 416–427.
Published: 01 December 2008
... is questioned in this article. Recent research on expressions of liberal thought in the Arab Middle East of the interwar years has unearthed intellectual debates and ideas that, for the most part...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 32–40.
Published: 01 August 2003
...- Maghrebian French, Arabic, and Berber poetry translated into verse,” interview with Marguerite Le Clézio, Contemporary English, edited and presented by Eric Sellin, one of relatively French Civilization 19:2 (Summer 1985): 230-244, and “Du français...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 6–16.
Published: 01 May 2005
... is same traditional all this the would the experienced They aloud, people beyond. and of and silently millions world that mortal Arab your knew the of death throughout intuitively deserved emotion I and violent despite moment, the me that be to of At happens it hold enemies. if took even death, emotion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 469–484.
Published: 01 December 2021
... . 45. Massad, “Re-orienting Desire.” 46. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks , 109 . 47. Memmi, Colonizer and Colonized , 163–70. 48. Cited in Abdel-Malek, Contemporary Arab Political Thought , 89 . 49. Memmi, Colonizer and Colonized , 135; emphasis added. 50...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 34–48.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to the understanding of Arab debates about the existence of God. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 enlightenment secularism atheism Islam freedom of thought In 1937 a young author and literary critic from Alexandria, Isma‘il Ahmad...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2024
... this global division of labor has developed over the past years, including some work focusing on the Arab world, little attention is given to coloniality as an epistemic structure and to the internalized hegemony of Eurocentric categories of thought, knowing, and experiencing the world among researchers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 500–512.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Amira . Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . Moll Yasmin . “ Islamic Televangelism: Religion, Media and Visuality in Contemporary Egypt .” Arab Media and Society , March 30 , 2010 . www.arabmediasociety.com...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 497–502.
Published: 01 December 2007
... to remember and reflect with the non-Muslim world in 1948, dating from on events in history, to the extent that remote the founding of the state of Israel in the Arab history provides a preoccupation for the aver- Middle East.” 4 It is true that such a contention...