...SherAli Tareen; Arvind-Pal S. Mandair; Nermeen Mouftah; John Modern This introductory essay provides an overview of the central themes and interventions marking Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age while also briefly describing the key nodes of analysis that frame the three...

... waves of economic integration. This fragmentation is popularly ascribed to be the result of an ontologically inward-looking nature of retrogressive local spaces such as the nations, regions, and communities. It is not coincidental that the sudden rejuvenation of difference on various local scales...

... of sectarianization in the modern period, a process organically linked to minoritization. Such tools include mobilization of the past and the construction of a historical narrative of difference suitable for the present. 1 This mirrors what Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan describe as minorities...

... (lit. “movement”), where different currents of popular mobilization, artistic experimentation, and intellectual resurgence thrived, whether in consonance or in competition, then Tan Malaka—the Sumatra-born onetime Comintern agent (and later renegade) and political philosopher in exile—emblematized...

... Ottoman presence to an end in the 1630s. Otto- elaborated a form of governance that was cru- man bureaucrats and military offi cers in Yemen cially based on the formalization and reproduc- resembled other imperial conquerors of this tion of perceived difference. More...

...Zakia Salime Searching for a Different Future: The Rise of a Global Middle Class in Morocco Shana Cohen Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004 xii + 177 pp., $74.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2006...

...Norma Claire Moruzzi © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions Norma Claire Moruzzi Context ne of the fundamental problems of modern society is the question not of women’s public...

...Anne-Maria B. Makhulu Today in South Africa issues of political economy, including the land question, are necessarily coming face-to-face with a resurgent politics of difference informing long-standing histories of dispossession whose continuities with such politics of difference are frequently...

...; to ask whether the critical yield of the normal problem-space continues to be what it was when it first emerged” 2 Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 empire law friendship identity difference bovine politics While exploring the workings and transformations of colonial...

...Abosede George George’s essay addresses the difference that distinctions of history and geography make to the development of He-Yin Zhen’s, Oyeronke Oyewumi’s, and Kimberle Crenshaw’s theorizations of gender difference. Despite their various entrees into the question of gender difference...

...Martin Slama The article compares Hadhrami communities located in two different parts of Indonesia: Java, Indonesia’s central island, and rather peripheral Central and North Sulawesi. The comparisons generated the following results: in Sulawesi, regulations implemented by the Dutch colonial...

...Reem Bassiouney This essay examines the use of language in the literature that discusses the diaspora, with concentration on one novel. The essay concentrates on the diglossic situation that prevails in the Arab world, in which there are two varieties, high and a low, each with a different function...

... Tawfiq al-Madani (1899–1983) each sought in different ways to “recover” their countries' histories in the twentieth century. Comparisons and contrasts across these generations and in each country, with their different relationships to the memory of Ottoman rule and their different colonial experiences...

...Reza Alijani The issues of religion and secularization are among the most pressing concerns in Iran today. Religion has historically played different roles and has been present at different levels within the society. Followers of different religions either have chosen total submission based...

...Matthew H. Baxter Abstract The 1981 Dalit mass conversion to Islam at Meenakshipuram, Tamil Nadu, arguably began the Hindu Right's political rise. The conversion raises two different concepts for understanding mass conversion's relationship to democracy. Though it is commonly framed in terms of B...

.... Astonishingly, an overwhelming majority of secondary sources concerned with veils as epistemological symbols in Western culture continue to talk about “the veil” — as if there were only one. Indeed, veils have usually been used in similar epistemological contexts, albeit expressing completely different...

...Ali Çarkoğlu Despite its political significance, not much is known about the behavioral and attitudinal bases of different head cover practices in Turkey. The article makes use of two nationwide representative surveys, one carried out in 1999 and the other in 2006, to expose the characteristics...

... that crisscrossed multiple jurisdictions, local, British, Dutch, and that of the Ottoman Empire. Properties of different kinds were held in different places under different legal rulings. Colonial and Islamic legal practices in the colonial period are illuminated by a detailed treatment of a complex petition...

...” lines—for example, laïcité as state ideology—and to allow for religion to mark the state in one shape or another, without that entailing the legal grounding of the state in sharia as is prevalent among Arab states. It would seem an appropriate compromise between two different visions of the state...