...Homa Katouzian © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Problems of Democracy and the Public Sphere in Modern Iran Homa Katouzian To begin with, it would be useful to say a few chaos. words about the main elements...

...Negar Mottahedeh © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-‘Ayn Tahirah’s Unveiling and the Iranian Massacre of the Babis Negar Mottahedeh...

... into what Michel Foucault termed the “modern episteme.” This is also the period when Egyptian scholar al-Ṭahṭāwī spent about five years in Paris as the spiritual guide of a mission of students sent by the Ottoman governor Meḥmed ʿAlī to train in the new sciences, before returning to Egypt to play a central...

... . Ruling the Periphery, Governing the Land The Making of the Modern Ottoman State in Kurdistan, 1840 – 70 Nilay Özok-­Gündog˘an n 1845, the provinces of Diyarbekir and Sivas, together with the Maden-­i Hümâyuˆn,1 were brought under...

... PROVOCATIONS Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism Some Observations from Modern Indian History Partha Chatterjee Before the Twentieth Century et me state as my first proposition that the problem of nationalism...

... institutions of higher learning during the Modern Egypt, Cambridge Middle East Library, 23 (Cambridge: same time period. In this chapter Reid paints a picture of the Cambridge University Press, 1990). Pp. xviii + 296. $30. student body, which included a surprising number of west...

...William G. Martin © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 The End of Africanist Economic History? Considerations on Tiyambe Zeleza’s A Modern Economic History of Africa, Vol. 1...

... of religious and political betrayal, therefore prompting different, and often opposing, narratives of conversion. A number of tropes predominant in early modern English narratives dealing with conversion to Islam are of interest in this regard: the immoral deviant “renegade” motivated by excessive lust...

...Sanjay Joshi Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class Keith David Watenpaugh Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006 xi + 325 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern...

...Peter E. Pope The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World John F. Richards Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 696 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern in the Middle East...

... of the Second Empire in the nineteenth century. Duke University Press 2009 The Second Empire: The Transformation of the Ottoman Polity in the Early Modern...

... the way for a modern Arab ethnoscape, where the Arab subject experiences transnational movement in the global space without associating this experience with the negative aspects of exile. Ibn al-Arabi dismisses the negative effects of “geographic” displacement. According to his reasoning, an expatriate...

...Debali Mookerjea-Leonard The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar New York: Columbia University Press, 2007 xvi + 288 pp., $50.00 (cloth), $27.50 (paper) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish...

... Persianate ideas of moral refinement and ethical behavior to put forth modern visions of self and collective association. This process posed a self that was Iranian but identifiable according to Persianate notions of collectivity, allowing for simultaneous broader affiliations with Muslims, Indians...

...Zoe Griffith State building and nationalism have been widely examined in the context of both the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish Republic. This article explores the role of Islamic calligraphy and calligraphers during the final decades of Ottoman rule and through the twentieth century...

.... Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 We Are Family: The Child and Modern Nationhood in Early Turkish Republican Cartoons (1923 – 28...

...Farah al-Nakib This article examines the making of modern Kuwait City between 1950 and 1980 by complicating the popular “rags to riches” paradigm that permeates both official state discourse and much of the literature on Kuwait’s urban development. It argues that the “modern” city that replaced...

...Morteza Mirgholami; Sidh Sintusingha Most cities in developing countries experience unprecedented changes in their physical and social structures during the process of modernization. This article investigates daily life in a modern neighborhood of Tehran, Narmak, designed in 1951 based on Western...

... of the Slavery Era Simone Schwarz-Bart with André Schwarz-Bart Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokurov, trans. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002 256 pp., $49.95 (cloth) In Praise of Black Women, Volume 3: Modern African Women Simone Schwarz-Bart with André Schwarz-Bart Rose-Myriam Réjouis...

...Judith Snodgrass Duke University Press 2007 Defi ning Modern Buddhism: Mr. and Mrs. Rhys Davids and the Pa¯li Text Society Judith Snodgrass arly...