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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 245–261.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Avner Wishnitzer The limited scholarship on late Ottoman nightlife focused mainly on street lighting and described it as a solution to the problem of darkness, the end of a dark age. However, as Wishnitzer shows in this article, the nightlife scene of the late nineteenth century did not develop...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 280–298.
Published: 01 August 2017
... lights and how the installation of these lights contributed to the flamboyant visuality of Istanbul's modern life. It also elaborates on how, in a new world of enhanced exposure and spectacle, darkness took on a new importance because it limited visibility. İleri traces these questions through archival...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 412–440.
Published: 01 August 2018
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 32–46.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the government has been trying to sell for the Western “democratic” and free world an image of a civilized “enlightened” government, combating its “dark” opponents, it has itself reinvented practices of harshly disciplining the unruly. By promoting enlightenment from the top, the government attempts to promote...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 317–326.
Published: 01 August 2024
... categories for defining what an injury was. The company mobilized the material and epistemological properties of X-ray light on a photographic negative to erase chronic injury within dark or blurred spaces. The resulting category, a “nonexistent incapacity,” acknowledged both the presence of injury and its...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 450–467.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., and the shoulders and leaves only a smaller portion of the face uncovered; and the veil, in dark brown or black, leaves only the eyes uncovered. Several hypotheses are made on an a priori conceptual level, variables are operationalized, and proper tests are conducted. A detailed series of questions concerning...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 149–163.
Published: 01 May 2011
... with the Ottoman Empire. Broadly, one may distinguish between an appreciation of the Ottomans in their defense of Islam and implementation of Muslim justice (al-Jabarti and Farid), and a repudiation of the Ottoman period as Egypt's “dark ages” (Mubarak, Iskandari, and Hasan). However, Iskandari and Hasan's book's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 356–364.
Published: 01 December 2010
... in a collection of four Indo-­Persian texts.6 This tice of yoga. work, which to date has not been the subject of 2. On the explanation of the fact that all the lights of the world are darkness in relation to scholarly analysis, is the basis...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 69–77.
Published: 01 August 1987
... and the dark's kingdom came We would sit at the door with no light in the hut. In house after house the lamp would be lit, The fire would bestarted, bhakri kneaded, From somewhere the smell of lentils, of wange, Would hit our noses. In our stomachs all was darkness. And a stream of tears would flow from my...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 147–150.
Published: 01 August 1991
... on? Fireflies? Or the stars shining with no meaning like the light that emits from a corpse’s eye? Truth is not visible in this darkness. To discern untruths is not an easy task. But my younger sister preparing for exams I cannot ask what motivates you why you...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 255–262.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Rajbir Singh Judge 21. Copjec, cited in El Shakry, Pursley, and McKusick, “Introduction,” 273 . 22. Khanna, Dark Continents , 64 . For more on psychoanalysis and historicism, see Copjec, Read My Desire. 32. This would be a discursive tradition as Talal Asad has importantly...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 109–123.
Published: 01 May 2008
... the white Afrikaner subjectivity as if these two “nar- “heart of darkness” into exile and the return   ratives” also entail a transition to an equitable from exile into the heart of darkness. As Glen society in which the legacies of colonization and Retief points out...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 183–184.
Published: 01 August 2017
... Wishnitzer’s essay on literary representations of the neighborhood of Beyoğlu shows that new ways of “seeing through darkness” devised by the Ottoman state engendered concerns about the moral order and set forth new norms of navigating the modern night. Adam Mestyan’s article focuses on the relationship...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 90–99.
Published: 01 August 2002
... that “the darkness provide something of a context before looking at the Dis- around us is deep.”5 What of the general Western reader who courses. As my contextualization unfolds into a brief appraisal is removed from the literary culture of medieval Islam with of our current attempts to make sense of Rumi’s...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 135–139.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Garden , 160 . 5. Quoted in Walvin, Zong , 137 . 6. Text of the case quoted in Philip, Zong! , 211 . 7. Johnson, River of Dark Dreams , 86 . 8. Johnson, River of Dark Dreams , 87 . 9. Johnson, River of Dark Dreams , 86–87 . 10. Baucom, Spectres , 61...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 391–395.
Published: 01 December 2024
... studies for guidance. I turned to political and social theory and to studies of fascism and empire to see what they could illuminate about this dark episode in Libya. The three main modern theorists of genocide—Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Hannah Arendt, all familiar to contemporary scholars...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 358–361.
Published: 01 August 2003
... contrivance] of what we might ungenerously about López’s reading of Heart of Darkness in his first call a comprador intelligentsia”1 as “a cheap shot” (9), chapter is precisely its insistence on shifting the analysis López appears to lose sight of the important distinction beyond the question of whether...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 455–473.
Published: 01 August 2011
... traditions. Thus Iranians fornia are often attached to a specific pheno- were being constructed as a foreign race, as type: dark brown or black hair that is dyed or opposed to foreign nationals. As Iran became highlighted blonde, along with dark eyes and more visible in and valuable to American...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (1): 47–55.
Published: 01 May 1989
... and skin color have had a particularly mobilization in the United States. convoluted history. On the one hand the dark-skinned South Myths of South Asian is identified as black. This is the case not Asians and Origin only in white-majority societies but also in China and In all the impassioned...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 173–185.
Published: 01 May 2007
... for woman, Claris, during the 1960s in the then him and falls in love with his niece, Surmelina, multicultural city of Abadan. In this novel, who thinks like him and is against the forces of Claris conveys her inner struggles through an darkness (i.e., tradition). Meanwhile, Aida mar- ambivalent...