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...Joel Gordon Gatekeepers of the Arab Past: History and History Writing in Twentieth-Century Egypt Di-Capua Yoav . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 406 pp., $65.00 (cloth) , $36.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights...

...Donald Quataert This short contribution is a slightly edited version of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture that Donald Quataert gave at Binghamton University on 5 November 2010—his last public lecture before his death in February 2011. Quataert was a tireless advocate of the method of “history from...

..., Africa & the Middle East 1998 Book Review Allison Drew, South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A tional liberation politics. In her introductions of about Documentary History, Volume I, 1307-1950 (Cape 40 pages in each volume she both presents a frame- Town: Buchu Books, Mayibuye Books...

...Haider A. Khan Ranajit Guha New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. x,116. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Book Reviews Ranajit Guha. History at the Limit of World-History New so tenaciously and honestly demonstrated, history and York...

...Neilesh Bose Abstract Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising enters several historical subfields through a textured study of Afghanistan's modern history. This introduction to the kitabkhana offers a snapshot of these contributions—and their limits—through the lens of recent developments in imperial...

...Sherene Seikaly Seikaly’s article reflects on a decade of research, contingent, accidental, and unconsciously autobiographical, to explore archival practices and the writing of history. She recounts her experience of stumbling across family papers that carried the story of Naim Cotran as a “man...

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...Alastair McClure; Saumya Saxena This introduction offers a critical survey of existing literature on law in modern India and presents an overview of the four essays in the special section, which illustrates new directions in the field of Indian legal history. Copyright © 2018 Duke University...

...Julia Stephens Abstract This Kitabkhana contribution situates Beshara Doumani's Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History within recent trends in the field of legal history. Doumani's hybrid method, which combines quantitative analysis with qualitative case studies, presents...

... Partition. Three appendices vidual freedom. He goes on to posit the Buddhist no- are informative as they give the lay reader a short history tion that victimhood is yet another way of “[reinforcing] of the Punjab and the Indian press, as well as biogra- one’s delusive sense of self as that which has been...

...Chris Moffat Abstract This essay serves as both an introduction to the themed section and a provocation regarding a possible agenda for the anthropology of history in Pakistan. It considers the implications of Faisal Devji's argument that unity in Pakistan was originally pursued through a rejection...

... value as an instrument for historical analysis that is restricted neither solely to minority-majority relations nor to debates about (political) representation. Instead, the authors propose a global intellectual history of “minority” as a concept and experience, which is explored in the essays compiled...

...Leyla Rouhi The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 Rudi Mathee Washington, DC: Mage, 2005 xvii + 346 pp., $39.50 (cloth) Duke University Press 2006...

...C. S. Adcock Proponents of cow protection in colonial north India around the turn of the twentieth century made abundant use of “economic” arguments for a legislative ban on cow slaughter. Drawing on recent critical reflections on secular history, this essay explores what it might mean to take...

... over the past fifty years. It also attempts to take a closer look at the text of Le reveil and suggest some of the ways the book could be used not as a source for the perennial foci of the Middle East’s recent political history but as a snapshot of the concerns of a mobile, Western-facing, Levantine...