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...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...

... of Early Modern Iran Rudi Matthee . . . la Perse est tombée d’un état plus florissant dans un plus grand abîme de malheurs  —  V o l t a i r e , Essai sur les moeurs nasmuch as they are composites of the infinite variety of human action, all societies are studies...

...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...

...Dina Le Gall Contested Conversions to Islam: Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Krstić Tijana . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 xvi + 264 pp., $60.00 (cloth) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights...

...Kunal Chattopadhyay Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages Harder Hans , ed. New Delhi : Social Science Press , 2010 . xii + 387 pp. , $64.99 ( cloth ) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...

...Lisa Pollard Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt Abugideiri Hibba Farnham, UK : Ashgate Press , 2010 ix + 268 pp. , $119.95 ( cloth ) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small: mately...

...Kyle T. Evered Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House Akcan Esra Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 xiv + 392 pp. , $89.95 ( cloth ), $24.95 ( paper ) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...

... 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...

...Timothy Ryan Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 1,1990. At The Barricades: Press-state Relations In Modern India Timothy Ryan The health of a democratic society such as India’s is ity of the press as a formal opposition...

...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...

...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...

...Sheldon Pollock Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 - Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia: Introduction SHELDON POLLOCK The study...

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... BOOK REVIEWS 688 of the Daurs as a separate “ethnicity,” transformed the voiceless “foreign Mongolist” appropriated to the writing of modern Inner Mongolian history. celebrate fifty years of communist rule...

... 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...

... 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...