... been dominant. Instead this article draws on the anthropology of divination to argue that capitalist action is provoked by technologies of the imagination that generate speculation. These issues are explored in the context of changing forms of governance of the Hooghly riverine economy by bureaucrats...

...Caroline Brown “A Divine Madness: The Secret Language of Trauma in the Novels of Bessie Head and Calixthe Beyala” examines Head's A Question of Power and The Sun Hath Looked upon Me , by Beyala. In both novels, trauma serves as a metaphor for the disruption caused by gendered and/or racialized...

... does not feel estranged anywhere he or she travels, since the world—and the divine—are in continuity with the human subject. The real exile is a psychological experience resulting from the disruption of monist unity and harmony between human and divine, man and the world. This conception of exile...

...Hassan Yusefi-Eshkevari This essay's purpose is twofold: to problematize the question of the urfi (secular) system versus the religious system and to examine the question of faithful life in a modern and urfi world. As for the first part, the Islamic state is defined by “divine legitimacy of power...

... that they constituted divine signs, al-Suyuti chronicled 130 earthquakes that occurred in the Muslim world. Curiously, Zalzala reemerged more than three centuries later in the modern world of colonial expansions. In the aftermath of the 1927 earthquake in Palestine, American seismologist and Stanford professor Bailey...

...Yunus Doğan Telliel Abstract Since the end of the nineteenth century, Muslims have pursued the idea that the Quran foreshadows new scientific discoveries. Linked to claims that the Quran's divine truth is continually substantiated, rather than disproved, by new scientific discoveries, certain...

... and twentieth centuries; for the latter, these children featured as subjects in a miracle narrative, in which they were preserved from harm against all odds by their divinely animated lupine foster mothers. This history limns the curious trajectory that begins with an anthropology of the cultures that sacrifice...

... of martyrdom in the Cinema of Sacred Defense, born of a complex history, are attempts to make the divine manifest in film and in real life. While the Cinema of Sacred Defense is often claimed to be a marked departure from previous Iranian films, some of its preoccupations remain much in line with the now...

.... Our approach reveals the governmentalities, public cultures, and market actions that are characteristic of the present pursuit of value for profit and survival. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Speculation Divination Finance Economic Governance Uncertainty Vernacular Capitalism...

...- their maneuvering among languages, genres, and tionary Iran in regard to the questions of the self, citation styles, these letters simultaneously demon- community, justice, time, responsibility, revolution, strate an entanglement with the official discourse state, the divine, and the ever-­present figure...

... into twelve sec- worshiper of the true divinity finally reaches perfection and never suffers any tions, each of which is titled a “flash” lam‘a(  ) , a diminution. term with a long history...

... interest here is also that simplest possible summary of the shared ele- Kamba’s Tamil version of the story was used by ments in the narratives might run as follows: A the seventeenth-century author Umaru Palovar divinely guided individual who is portrayed as as a “literary model for a Tamil...

... for a theosophical belief in a divine reward; there life must be considered the first required step was no suggestion or promise of any possible on the path...

... of the body” in the “air of divine compas- everything. But understanding the generic features and con- sion.”9 Ironically, it was our search for patterns that led us to ventions is key to entering the concentric universes built the skipping hare as well as to the shifting borders of dis- around each...

... translated as “divine effulsion.” Anyone in gitimacy, not only in the feudal period, but also under possession of the Grace would have the right to succeed absolutist rule. Apart from that, the support or co- or accede to the throne, and his rule would therefore be operation of the church was also...

.... the is and paper of Pen sheet (Divine) the of symbolism h eainhpbtenPnadTbe in atoms: all Tablet pervades that and marriage the Pen of terms between relationship the discussing exam- in For imagery sexual...

... same thing. They both use the metaphor of philosophies to preach the ideal of divine love. human love to define a higher metaphysical di- Maxthat theWeber idea and of BhaktiGeorge as Grierson...

... of The Tale of the Rumi is filled with the sound of love or the beloved, be Reed (Nay Namih).7 it Shams or Husam al-Din, both of whom Rumi consid- The Tale of the Reed (Nay Namih)—the well known ered to have been united with the divine.8 Reynold A. opening thirty-five lines...

... language, “Islamically meaningful”—that is, whether as an explorative act of worship to contemplate the divine or as continuing a historical and specifically precolonial norm for the Muslims that is consistent with their islāms —rather than as, say, a norm for a certain class of people, namely, modern...

... with Fatimah’s divine radi- and and imah is present in every majlis to bear witness to ance sets in motion the beginnings of prophetic the ritual remembrance of the sufferings of her history...