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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 266–276.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Hassan S. Khalilieh Abstract This essay demonstrates how maritime qirad , as conducted in the Muslim world prior to the emergence of the Italian communes, influenced the lex mercatoria maritima . It contends that the medieval Latin accomendatio ( commenda ) likely owes its inception to the qirad...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... More generally, texts like these formed part of the infrastructure through which circulation took place in the maritime marketplace. By thinking through these marketplace genres, we can gain a more textured sense of the processes of knowing, measuring, abstracting, and circulating that underpinned...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 215–216.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Nancy Um Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal, and Kären Wigen, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007 x, 261 pp., $52.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2008 Law...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 135–139.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Laleh Khalili Abstract In this essay Khalili surveys the maritime as a space of commodification and of creation of new financial forms and instruments. Maritime transportation made possible the colonization of the Americas, Asia, and Africa and the enslavement and transoceanic commodification...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and social stability gave women an upper hand in economic and personal choices, and within marriages, they could and did move about freely. The matrilineal system not only connected maritime Muslims but also raised serious questions about the Islamic jurisprudential tradition that evolved in the Middle East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Chandana Anusha Abstract The Mundra Port on the Gulf of Kutch in western India is one of India's largest port projects today. This article takes the port-circulated narrative of the coast being a natural harbor as its starting point, to show how fresh water was central to official maritime projects...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 91–106.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in which maritime potentates and influential merchants were able to co-opt imperial policies and profit from this transition. Over the course of the nineteenth century, violent coercion was expunged from the skillset of Arabian Sea merchants, but only after compensating merchants and coastal communities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 77–79.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the seas from Alexandria to Bengal via the Gulf of Aden and the imaginary island of Robinson Crusoe, the special section takes a local-historical approach to the development of maritime capitalism that also charts instances of violence that include the enclosure of pastoral commons, the laying siege...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 314–320.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Julia Verne; Markus Verne Over the last thirty years, the Indian Ocean has increasingly been conceptualized as a maritime spatial unit created by translocal relations and processes of exchange. Only recently, however, these relations are being examined from a “bottom-up” perspective, e.g...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 556–564.
Published: 01 December 2014
... or so, particularly the shift toward maritime conceptions of space (Mediterranean, Indian Ocean), which though by no means new have breathed new life into the study of the premodern and colonial/modern history of the Middle East. The rise of global and connected history has similar implications...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2022
... local Egyptian attempts at accounting. These centers of calculation witnessed a fight between the British, on the one hand, and the nationalist Egyptians, on the other, who wished to challenge the carte blanche that the British had by virtue of managing these maritime conduits of goods. “Customs dues...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 212–213.
Published: 01 May 2008
... scholars highlight the spatial
complexities of maritime locales by exploring rela-
tionships between land and sea, while also consider-
ing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 May 2008
... scholars highlight the spatial
complexities of maritime locales by exploring rela-
tionships between land and sea, while also consider-
ing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 217–219.
Published: 01 May 2008
... scholars highlight the spatial
complexities of maritime locales by exploring rela-
tionships between land and sea, while also consider-
ing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 219–220.
Published: 01 May 2008
... scholars highlight the spatial
complexities of maritime locales by exploring rela-
tionships between land and sea, while also consider-
ing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 139–145.
Published: 01 August 2023
... with the Universe . 15. Hofmeyr, “The Complicating Sea” ; Burton et al., “Sea Tracks and Trails.” 16. Werbner, “Vernacular Cosmopolitanism.” 17. Tsing, Friction . 18. Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal . 19. Chaudhuri, “The Portuguese Maritime Empire.” 20...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 223–224.
Published: 01 August 2020
... on the legacies of colonial violence and racial distinction in structuring exceptional state power and the justification of legal exceptionalism in our current moment of permanent war. Next, we turn to the question of the law of the seas and its relation to maritime empires, territoriality, and state...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 164–166.
Published: 01 May 2024
... to the recomposition of this relationship over the twentieth century, it is difficult to make sense of the current geopolitical consolidation between India and China in the Indian Ocean. In the twentieth century these port environments were drawn into chains of value that extended maritime commodity frontiers both...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 549–555.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., and Politics of Difference: Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1849–1919 . Leiden : Brill , 2011 . Lewis Martin W. Wigen Kären . “ A Maritime Response to the Crisis in Area Studies .” Geographical Review 89 ( 1999 ): 161 – 68 . Mikhail Alan Philliou Christine M. . “ The Ottoman Empire...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 80–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
...-Bustānī’s translation of Robinson Crusoe appeared in Beirut in 1861, Marx too would succumb, theorizing the commodity, value, time, and social labor in the first volume of Capital through a figuring of Robinson on his island. The violence, subjection, maritime adventure, and hazard of shipwreck...
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