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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1. Jean-Paul Gaultier, “Ex-voto” Evening Ensemble, spring/summer 2007 haute couture. Photograph by the author, October 2018.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 355–367.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Prita Meier This article examines what happens to objects once they stop being mobile and come to rest on specific bodies and in specific buildings. The material landscape of Indian Ocean port cities, including their mosques, merchant mansions, and even the houses of people who are not powerful...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 102–116.
Published: 01 May 2013
... of exchanges within Islamic networks that predate the reformist ones. Moreover, the debates show the extent to which even apparently isolated rural locations participate in global exchanges and are in some ways even more vulnerable to them than the cities more often seen as hubs of globalization. © 2013...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 399–401.
Published: 01 August 2017
... actors of the time desired or even foresaw. The story of how that happened—of how an unwanted set of new nation-states emerged from an overextended and war-racked empire—provides the narrative arc of this dense, closely argued, and singular work...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Ann Laura Stoler Stoler’s article is an exercise in imagining how a collective might go about shaping the imaginative geography of a Palestinian archive. At issue is an archival assembly that is not constrained by the command—in form and content—dictated by colonial state priorities or even...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 246–260.
Published: 01 August 2018
... from Africa and elsewhere living under harsh conditions ultimately led to the Zanj Revolution. It threatened even the survival of the Abbasid dynasty, and led to the abandonment of plantation use of slaves. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 captives slavery Zanj Islam...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 365–376.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Ravinder Kaur At the turn of the second millennium, the sign of the South underwent a dramatic reconfiguration. It no longer stands for just debt, deprivation, and dystopia in the eyes of the world. It is also seen as an emerging market—a place of hope, optimism, and possibilities, even the future...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 455–472.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Lagos’s sedimentary conditions within narratives of its past, present, and future. Eko Atlantic is only one example of a pervasive culture of dredging and sand filling in Lagos, even as the city experiences intensifying floods in the newly reclaimed landforms. A geosocial reading demonstrates...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 143–158.
Published: 01 May 2019
... the Foucauldian term heterotopia to designate the sites of motor sports competitions in Libya and Algeria. The colonies now were even more modern than France or Italy itself, or, put differently, they served as showcases for a possible future. Motor sports were especially apt to serve the outlined purposes. Road...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 282–295.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., nevertheless allows Shariati to transcend postcolonial anxieties and nativist traps even as he calls on his fellow Iranian and Muslim intellectuals to attend to resources within the local culture and to delink from Eurocentric and colonially globalized knowledge regimes. In order to place his thought within...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 December 2019
... produced perplexing results: while Sunnis extended the duration of maternal custody, the Shi‘a failed to bring about even a modicum of change to judiciary practice. This essay argues that understanding this difference in outcomes requires shifting the analytical focus away from religious doctrines...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 May 2020
... should look at. I propose that the insights of the book should be utilized to study the unity of conflicting traditions even in non-Muslim societies of Africa before colonialism downsized custom. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Islamic fiqh hermeneutical Shari'ah Sufi...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 277–290.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Neilesh Bose; Victor V. Ramraj Abstract As the debate over historical antecedents to contemporary forms of lex mercatoria suggests, the nature of legal authority appears to be changing into a less familiar, more pluralistic form, even as states struggle to reassert their power. In seeking...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 407–420.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Eric Lewis Beverley Abstract Scholarship on modern South Asia, even in accounting for the fragility and capriciousness of colonial authority and exploring tensions between popular sovereignty and politics on the ground, tends to regard colonial or national states and institutions as the sole...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 454–467.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Eric Lewis Beverley Abstract Large zones of de facto political autonomy persist even as various state systems have endeavored to fix, rationalize, and secure external and internal borders. These spaces are products of long histories of uneven extension and exercise of state sovereignty...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 407–419.
Published: 01 December 2019
... it into a shadow economy that ultimately converges with financing for al-Shabaab, even as this economy sustains seafaring populations in the midst of economic precarity. Tracing dhow itineraries in tandem with shifting regulations across South Asia and East Africa, the article charts an alternate course of Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 621–625.
Published: 01 December 2020
... she calls an “anti-imperial future.” As with other such projects of “imagining,” as Ernest Renan once observed about nationalism, a certain forgetfulness and even historical error would appear essential. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 decolonization Rupert Emerson Kwame...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 319–324.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in this special section, “Minority Questions.” By examining the diverse genealogies of the concept of minority, the essays that follow provide a valuable contribution to efforts to redress historical wrongs, even as they offer a range of explanations for the enduring legacy and power of this multifaceted concept...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 455–468.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Trishula Patel Abstract “Africa weaves a magic spell around even a temporary visitor,” wrote the former Indian high commissioner to East and Central Africa, Apa Pant, in 1987, echoing the allure that the continent had over him and other fellow Indian diplomats. But the diplomatic roles of men like...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 404–412.
Published: 01 December 2021
... allowed intellectuals in the Levant to reverse the power relationship between themselves and Europe and to comment on the kinds of politics that would ensure the equality before the law of the Jewish minority in Europe. These debates further illustrate that even before the shift to electoral politics...
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