...Michael Gilsenan This article argues for the importance of concepts of translation, conversion, and articulation in the study of inheritance and the transmission of goods among diasporic populations. It focuses on the Hadhrami migrations to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century, migrations...

... through its peculiar practices of ownership of property, kinship, and marital norms. From the late eighteenth century onward, the system has been subjected to significant internal and external criticisms. These especially targeted inheritance-related customs where men got no share in the property...

...Ruchi Chaturvedi Abstract This essay revolves around different types of violence witnessed in political society and their relationship to the democratic form that many postcolonial states have inherited. It especially draws on studies of popular protests, negrophobic and xenophobic violence against...

... of history, suggesting that attempts to identify an inheritance—to articulate the form and nature of a responsibility to the past—have proved intellectually and politically productive following the country's establishment in 1947 and its further rupture in 1971. It considers how Pakistan's unsettled...

... 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...

... with the new situation. They had to be reduced to enforceable laws by the various sharia schools. The empires inherited the Mesopotamian plains, which required irrigation on a large scale based on massive slave labor. Commercially acquired slaves became the norm, and large concentrations of imported slaves...

... of its population. Observations suggest differences both with the old mahalleh s (neighborhoods), such as the blur of the previously more clear-cut public-private boundaries and the use of public spaces by youths and women, and with qualities inherited from traditional mahalleh s, such as a sense...

... of the African renaissance in the 1990s in postapartheid South Africa. Then it examines Africa's complex and contradictory inheritances of colonialism and nationalism out of which postcolonial Africa was molded. This is followed by an analysis of Africa's development ideologies and experiences since independence...

... by the Sassanian Empire in Asia were inherited by the Muslims in the seventh century CE and were continued and expanded. Duke University Press 2011 Bazaars, Merchants, and Trade in Late Antique Iran Touraj Daryaee uch of Sassanian-­era trade in the Near East is overshadowed by interest...

... charitable giving in Turkey results from a unique interaction of inherited Ottoman ideology and practices, themselves the result of combined Muslim, Turco-Mongol, Byzantine, and Arab influences; the observed example of modern Western philanthropy, notably that of the United States; and the specific...

...), Shetkaryacha Asud (1882), and Sarvajanik Satya Dharmapustak (1891). This essay argues that Phule’s project is best understood as an attempt to produce new strategies for observing, apprehending, and making judgments about the phenomenal and social world by interrogating inherited forms of knowledge. He...

...      doi Legal Change: Toward Gender Equality in India’s Inheritance Duke 1. Robert Benford, “Frame Disputes within the Nuclear Disar...

... orchards) and dedicated their revenues to sons and daughters, mostly based on the two-to-one ratio of Islamic inheritance laws but also sometimes equally (chapters 4 and 5 detail these differences). Therefore, in Trablus the family was rather nuclear. An important difference between waqf foundations...

... courses of feminine domesticity in times of behind”) inventories registered in the Damas- transformation and crisis.14 cus qassam (inheritance specialists, literally Marcus sets the stage for a renewed explo- “divider”) courts between 1880 and 1920, the ration of subaltern...

... Legalism 225 ally or radically, the inherited institutions of colo- served in the early decades of the republic as the nial society. The legal-­constitutional question con- means to contain the transformative impulse. cerned the extent to which a set of precommitted The history...

... of customary laws of inheritance alongside the widespread adoption of Sunni-Sufi traditions and the Shāfi‘ī school of jurisprudence. After all, matrilineal Muslims, as Kooria calls them, are the products of transoceanic relations, 26 which are gendered and, in the eyes of Islamic reformers and their fatwas...

... the emergence of modern thought and con- Fanon s reading of national consciousness 26. Pillay, Decolonising the Humanities. 27. Ibid. 1 2 8 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 37:1 2017 cepts that govern our present ways of thinking. It s rican humanities. It is an inheritance...

... of socialist ideals; on the other, they made genealogi- cal claims to houses in terms of inheritance based on rectifying past grievances. Before moving into this intimate realm where homes and selves met in remembrance and ruination, I first show how the history of housing redistribution illuminates residents...

... can be virtuous. In The Arabic Freud , we might identify the open-ended nature of the effort of Arab scholars of the self to be premised on a speculative scholarly ethics that traverses the limit of inherited discourses and occupies the threshold of the new. This ethics can be said to transcend...

... of communal form. their privileges. Normally this should assume the form of NOTES class conflict. However, in a backward country with a his• This paper was presented at the Mini-Conference on Dilemmas torically inherited caste and community ridden social struc• of Political Participation in South Asia...