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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 280–298.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Nurçin İleri İleri's article explores the practice of lighting as a means of development of new spectacles and rise of surveillance in fin-de-siècle Istanbul. It focuses on how the concerns of Ottoman municipal and commercial authorities regarding prosperity and civility gave rise to more city...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 322–336.
Published: 01 December 2023
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 173–185.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Elham Gheytanchi Duke University Press 2007 I Will Turn off the Lights: The Allure
of Marginality in Postrevolutionary Iran
Elham Gheytanchi
he publication of Cheraghha ra man khamoosh mikonam (I Will Turn off the Lights [2001
by an Iranian Armenian woman, Zoya...
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in Forging an Anti-Bandung: Saudi Arabia and East Asia's Cold War
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Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1. Al-Amawi smoking in the background while General Park Chung-hee lights a cigar for French socialist writer Suzanne Labin. Al-Amawi, Qisat rihla illa al-sharq , 214.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 245–261.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Avner Wishnitzer The limited scholarship on late Ottoman nightlife focused mainly on street lighting and described it as a solution to the problem of darkness, the end of a dark age. However, as Wishnitzer shows in this article, the nightlife scene of the late nineteenth century did not develop...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 476–496.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of infrastructure-in-the-making sheds light on another, conceptual alliance. On one end, “thing theorists” argue for an understanding of infrastructures’ nonhuman, agentive capacity to assemble disparate people, things, and institutions. On the other end, political commentators propose, as many did, that meetings...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 330–343.
Published: 01 August 2018
... is connected to the idea of citizenship and rights to culture. By looking at the debates around the establishment of a ministry of culture in the early 1970s and 1990s, this article sheds light on the formulation of cultural policies in Lebanon. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Ministry...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 82–95.
Published: 01 May 2019
... market and space for Sufi devotional practices, institutions with contradictory social expectations. This setting and its varied social practices provide an example of a late Mughal cultural institution formed outside of the court, which forces us to redefine precolonial forms of publicity in light...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 203–208.
Published: 01 May 2020
...A. Azfar Moin Abstract Why did Shahab Ahmed treat Islam as a puzzle to solve in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic? Moin examines this question in light of the historical changes that gave shape to the milieu that Ahmed refers to as the Bengal-to-Balkans complex. Copyright ©...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that violent conflict and occupation have rendered central to their lives, this special section shines new light on the morality of resistance and the gender of militancy. loyalty critique gender morality resistance International law recognizes sovereignty solely on the basis of territory, thereby...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 214–219.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Taymiya R. Zaman Abstract This review article examines Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic in light of the book's challenge to the notion that the sharia consists of Islam's orthodox core, and Muslim literary, artistic, and philosophical truths constitute a periphery...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Zeina Maasri Abstract Shedding light on the postcolonial Arabic book, this article expands the literary and art historical fields of inquiry by bringing into play the translocal design and visual economy of modern art books. It is focused on the short-lived Silsilat al-Nafa'is (Precious Books...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 222–235.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Jairan Gahan Abstract This article investigates the history of the formation of the red-light district of Tehran in 1922, to tackle larger questions about the genealogy of the constitutional Islamic state in Iran in the twentieth century. Through an engagement with the Islamic local campaign...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 507–525.
Published: 01 December 2020
... disillusionment of vested interest groups, shedding new light on constructions of the past and future in postindependence Pakistan. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Louis I. Kahn Ayub Khan Islamabad Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Modern Islamic Architecture Architecture is more than a finished...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 389–403.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and sheds light on how western Ugandans, using oral traditions and long-standing idioms of power and prestige, understood global mobility and international importance in the midst of an increasingly globally connected world. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 325–333.
Published: 01 August 2022
... on the power dynamics of the Mughal era, as Busch repeatedly pointed out, but can also cast light on the lives of locally powerful men who hardly figure in imperially sponsored Persian histories. In Dalpat Vilas , a prose biography composed in Marwari, we witness the dilemma of Ramsingh, a second son who...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 110–121.
Published: 01 May 2023
... challenges any monolithic or essentialist narratives about an Iraqi Jewish experience by shedding light on the diversity of political projects among Iraqi Jews. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Iraqi Jews nostalgia hybridity class exile This article...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 398–411.
Published: 01 December 2023
... scholar both prior to and in the early years of the Cold War reveals important precedents that shed light on Saudi Arabia's strategic policy at the height of the Cold War. Barely remembered as the Saudi author of a Salafi da‘wa pamphlet, Muhammad Sultan al-Ma‘sumi al-Khujandi's (1880–1961) legacy stands...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 34–48.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Meir Hatina Abstract This article sheds light on a neglected episode in the scholarship on Egypt's intellectual life in the interwar period, as well as on the Arab renaissance (Nahda) and its intensive preoccupation with the triangle of religion, science, and secularism. The discussion focuses...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 49–65.
Published: 01 May 2024
.... It rather strives for a Turkist internationalism in which Turks negotiate with each other to maximize their sovereign interests. Seen in that light, Turanism is not a mystical idea, and it refers to modern practical/political concepts such as independence, territorial integrity, national sovereignty...
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