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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 109–125.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Paulo G. Pinto Duke University Press 2007 Pilgrimage, Commodities, and Religious
Objectifi cation: The Making of Transnational
Shiism between Iran and Syria
Paulo G. Pinto
ny visitor to the pilgrimage sites of Lourdes in France, Mashhad in Iran, or Varanasi
in India...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 181–189.
Published: 01 August 2003
...KIMBERLY KATZ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Legitimizing Jordan as the Holy Land: Papal Pilgrimages—1964,
2000
KIMBERLY KATZ
Pope Paul VI’s journey to the Holy Land in 1964, the associated with Muhammad’s “Night Journey and As-
first papal...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 309–321.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Shobana Shankar Abstract This article explores how pilgrimage to Arabia became the catalyst for Northern Nigerian Muslim leaders to develop a kind of humanitarianism for the poor to expand their political power in the era of independence from Britain and postcolonial Afro-Arab alliance-making...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 502–514.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Karen G. Ruffle Networks of trade, scholarship, and pilgrimage have traditionally connected Muslims transregionally, yet these very networks draw into dramatic relief the significance of the local in defining Shi'i religious practices and worldviews. The Shi'i community in the South Indian city...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 512–532.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of cholera and discussions around corpse traffic and pilgrimage to the `atabat helped transform one of the longest running unresolved issues of the Islamic world: namely, the undefined border between the Ottoman Empire and Iran. Duke University Press 2011 Bones...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 468–473.
Published: 01 December 2020
... these territories as flawed or imperfect sovereignties, we question the utility of these terms and argue that arrangements often referred to as exceptions were normative and central to the empire's survival. Drawing on our work on international law, autonomy, pilgrimage, and migration, we consider how Egypt...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., but rather that of an earlier king. These earlier events, together with the geography of conquest and pilgrimage provided by Dhanapāla, suggest a political subtext for the hymn; namely, a veiled critique of the inability of the Cauḷukya kings of Gujarat to protect the religious landscape, and a veiled praise...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 367–383.
Published: 01 August 2007
... on pilgrimage to Mecca. They also worked hard to publicize these
efforts, to market the new version of empire. Why would that be so, and what did the hajj, the
pilgrimage to Mecca incumbent on every capable Muslim, mean for the French Union?
Sponsorship was defensive, constituting a form...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 3–9.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., the making of new Buddhist spaces in India is as conditioned by concerns for Buddhist pilgrimage as it is by new forms of capitalist consumption and the simultaneously nationalist and cosmopolitan tastes of India's middle classes. Built just a stone's throw away from the ancient but now submerged Hindu...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 133–144.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., Persians, Greeks, and Romans and concluded that the
even twelve thousand) on a pilgrimage to the Holy end of the world was near. Even if interpretations of
Land.16 Significantly fewer returned the following year; biblical history did not result in apocalyptic visions, me-
the chronicle Vita Altmanni (ca...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 May 2014
... that was the major purpose of his trip: the hajj pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest city,
OMecca. This trip outside of the United States marked, and has been understood as, a major turning point
in Malcolm’s life and career as a Black orator and revolutionary. In the preceding months, Malcolm had
undergone...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 182–195.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of these dark pilgrimages focus on what used to be the only formal monument in the region, the Armenian Martyrs' Church in Dayr al-Zur. 2 But for Sona, it was the abandoned spaces—the hill of encased human remains at Margada and the unmarked caves where Armenians were burned alive at Shaddadeh—that indelibly...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 622–632.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of the annual pilgrimage caravan
Mecca and Medina in the Hijaz region Al- for purposes of appointing the sharif. In most
though the Wahhabis condemned the immedi- cases, however, the strongest claimant received
ate management of these cities, specifying the the position and approval of the state...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 2–8.
Published: 01 May 2014
... relationship with Islam. Their
self-transformation. efforts to reproduce a centuries-old scholarly net-
Vendell sees in Phule’s method important work through pilgrimage (to Cairo’s al-Azhar), sug-
links with the project of theoretical Marxism (and gests links between...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2015
... . Feldhaus Anne . Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan , 2003 . Gifford Paul . African Christianity: Its Public Role . London : C. Hurst , 1997 . Hawley John Stratton . “Modern India and the Question...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., by mining a rich and wide-ranging body of imagery in the adornment of the Buddhavanam stupa, this theme park positions Telangana within much larger networks of state patronage of religious monuments across India. The Buddhavanam represents Telangana's point of entry into a global Buddhist pilgrimage circuit...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 175–186.
Published: 01 May 2004
... be counted among tourists from Jordan and pilgrimage tourism from
the winners in the tourism sector following Septem- Iran, Syria achieved a large increase in the number of
ber 11.22 For Muslims and Arabs from the Middle tourists from the Gulf countries and Iraq than in the
East, Dubai is becoming...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (2): 8–13.
Published: 01 August 1985
...-
sible to pilgrims and tourists by bus and taxi in a day or
two of travel from the plains rather than the weeks or
months of trekking formerly required. This new form of
mass tourism taxed the capacity of the Himalayan environ-
ment heavily as it populated the pilgrimage routes with
hotels...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 565–573.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Nineteenth Centuries . Norwalk : EastBridge , 2006 . Roff William . “ The Conduct of the Hajj from Malaya, and the First Malay Pilgrimage Officer .” Kuala Lumpur : Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia , 1975 . ———. The Origins of Malay Nationalism . Kuala Lumpur : Penerbit Universiti Malaya...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 122–136.
Published: 01 May 1999
..., there was a cholera outbreak in India in 1865, seph von Pettenkofer’s (1818-1901) theories on chol-
as well as an auspicious year for pilgrimage (the Had era pr~pagationbelieving that restrictive sanitary
aZ-Jum ’a) that attracted a significantly greater number undertakings did not prevent the spread of cholera...
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