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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 119–132.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Nandini Chandra This article depicts the closing of the distance between a rational public sphere and popular Hindi cinema in view of a spurt of youth-related Hindi films in the 2000s, especially Rang de basanti (2006). Rang de basanti is taken as the starting point for a discussion of the idea...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 156–172.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and Sacred Space in Rural India: Community Mobilization in the ’Anti-Cow Killing’ Riot of 1893 .” Comparative Studies in Society and History 22 ( 1980 ): 576 – 96 . Imperial Transgressions
The Animal and Human in the Idea of Race
Sujit Sivasundaram...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 93–121.
Published: 01 August 1993
... Reconsidered:
A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and
Approaches, Part 1
Sadik J.Al-Azm
“In Heaven there are no Protestants, there are only Now I would like to turn to a discussion of some
Catholics.” representative...
View articletitled, Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, <span class="search-highlight">Ideas</span> and Approaches, Part I
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 153–155.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Elizabeth R. Alexandrin Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas Samer Akkach Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005 288 pp., $80.00 (cloth), $25.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis...
View articletitled, Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architectural Reading of Mystical <span class="search-highlight">Ideas</span>
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Sadik J. Al-Azm © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 1 ( 1994).
Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered:
A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and
Approaches, Part II
Sadik J.AI-Azm...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (3): 260–263.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and the Disciplines , edited by Szanton David L. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2004 . mission statement responses
Areas and Ideas
Asef Bayat
hese days, the divide between the area studies and social...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 August 2020
... groups like Jews and Muslims did not simply promote their own subnational and confessional aspirations. Rather, they produced novel forms of cosmopolitanism and ideas of universalism in an age when majority populations were turning toward nationalist authoritarianism and fascism. These essays highlight...
View articletitled, Introduction: Minor Cosmopolitanisms: Institutions, Intellectuals, and <span class="search-highlight">Ideas</span> between India and Germany
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11707031.
Published: 22 January 2025
...Daniel Jacobius Morgan Abstract Shah Waliullah of Delhi, the famous eighteenth-century Naqshbandi, is widely recognized as a major figure in the emergence of Islamic reformist discourse in South Asia, but we still have little sense of the first audiences who engaged with his ideas. This article...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 155–170.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Paul Tiyambe Zeleza The essay discusses the trajectory of the African renaissance as an idea and a project, a task that in essence entails examining Africa's postcolonial development paradigms, performances, and prospects. It is argued that this idea represents a recurrent yearning for a usable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 378–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... this conception of place as the grounds for an alternative frame of the political. For Azad, place indicated a point of equilibrium between conceptions of nationalism, particularly as a form of anticolonialism, and universal ideas of humanity ( insāniyyat ), and the earth as its common inheritance ( arẓiyyat...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 75–88.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Mona Damluji As the most widely circulated cinematic portrait of Abadan under full administration of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the AIOC film Persian Story offers an exceptional opportunity to examine the ways in which the British company linked the idea of modernity to the image...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 404–415.
Published: 01 December 2008
... by arguing that scholars should not confine themselves to searching for an Arab “liberalism” in the form of intellectuals or organizations that describe themselves as “liberals.” It would be more fruitful to investigate the rise and decline of liberal ideas within the framework of ideologies that seem...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of communication between eastern and southern Asia concerning the exchange of ideas linked to these practices, and where some scholars presume direct, linear exchange, and obvious congruity, others see radical difference and discontinuity. Taking the inspired work of the Bengali scholar Prabodh Candar Bagchi...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 184–195.
Published: 01 May 2019
... in the same analytic rubric his writings on caste and Pakistan and the salience of separation to his political thought. Violence, power, and antagonism are elaborated here, as these were redirected to agonistic ends for the assumption of republicanism. The consideration of Pakistan as a political idea...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 528–542.
Published: 01 December 2019
...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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 49–65.
Published: 01 May 2024
... usages. A considerable number of Turkish nationalist intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in fact, approached it as a modern political concept within the confines of solidarity and sovereignty. They regarded the general idea of nationalism as a universal concept to which...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 104–117.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Bhavani Raman Abstract Coastal development did not arise from sovereign property rights to the coast or efforts to fix moving shorelines in law. Instead, it emerged from ideas of the public good and public trust that vested the protection of shores and seas in modern states. State protection...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 625–630.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in India, both discursively and historically. Even on the face of it, the notion of liberal empire is a contradiction in terms: the idea of liberty and the idea and institution of empire are mutually incompatible. After all, the very fact of empire as an exercise in political power over an alien population...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 246–255.
Published: 01 August 2016
... and reform through the idea of Muslim unity. However, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's religious authority was charismatic: he was not only recognized as a mujaddid (renewer) but also claimed to be the masih-i-mawud (promised messiah). This article analyzes the arguments through which Iqbal denounced Mirza Ghulam...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of Jadunath Sarkar and shows how Mughal history in his wake has had to abjure ideas and subjectivity as a result of this constitutive tension. Devji's comments follow up this point by looking at the way in which Sarkar's apparently biased and old-fashioned focus on character, and so religion and ideas...
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