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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 396–401.
Published: 01 December 2024
.../acceptance operates as a technology for one's political agency and a second one in which refusal/acceptance partakes in the construction of an intimate sociality. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 ethics pragmatics ethnographic refusals makings I...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 214–226.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Samuel J. Hirst Between 1920 and 1922, Moscow dispatched guns, grain, and gold to Ankara. The obvious paradox of collaboration between Bolshevik internationalists and the Turkish National Forces has frequently been dismissed as pragmatic union born of necessity, with necessity defined in terms...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 644–661.
Published: 01 December 2012
... doctrine and engage in the market-oriented pragmatism they call moral economy or integral humanism. Taking examples from different cultural settings, Elsenhans’s article shows that we are heading for a world of diverse cultural identities incorporated by powers that defend their sovereignty...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 162–170.
Published: 01 May 2017
... identifies three salient features of these policies: one, that the HEC considers all education to be reducible ultimately to a pragmatic process of systematic vocational training that promises employment; two, that the study of the humanities is expressly discouraged as a matter of policy target; and three...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 500–512.
Published: 01 December 2019
... therapy of spirit ( jinn ) exorcism that has become increasingly popular, visible, and debated in the public sphere beginning with the 1980s. By tracing the semantics and pragmatics of Quranic healing's evidentiary regime, the article shows that evidence is situated and crosses two domains of knowledge...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 27–40.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the symbolic and pragmatic politics of these connections were woven together through the circulation of gifts. At the same time, the article draws attention to fundamental misalignment in the groups' conceptions of gender and in their ambitions for the relationship. Bound by institutional norms, the KSZh...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 588–600.
Published: 01 December 2011
... a complete segment of the society as a prerequisite for establishing full control over the masses, the republican leaders pragmatically vested old families with the right to explore their competences and make use of their abilities. As far as the imperial state had been unchallenged in supervising...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 427–441.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., although they held different views of it. Their alliance, however, did not rest on ideology alone: by analyzing respective links, the article shows how substate actors following their pragmatic interests have succeeded in bringing about a relatively stable alliance that was rationalized through Third...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11706975.
Published: 22 January 2025
... activity was shaped by Orthodox models of social activism where “heaven starts from earth.” Theological concepts of service were activated in relation to a divine management that addressed concrete needs and in response to economic uncertainty. Together, they authenticated a pragmatic God working through...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2007
... tinents. Consequently, for many centuries, the region was the site of invasions and conquests. conquests. and siteofinvasions the was region the centuries, for many Consequently, tinents. ict precipitated the revivalist movements, pragmatic concerns and recognition of certain...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 521–537.
Published: 01 August 2011
... and resentation,” Pragmatics 5 (1995): 129 – 38; and Wool- .edu/symposia/2/part1/index.html. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (New York: Oxford Uni- ard, “Introduction: Language Ideology.” On linguistic versity Press, 1988), 45 – 86. Cohn’s pioneering work...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 543–545.
Published: 01 December 2019
... genres can connect to one another in complex ways while combining to serve a unified purpose. Vinea shows that Salafi evidence takes on a dual character as something deployed both in the pragmatic context of a cure and in polemics with opponents of exorcism. These are not the same contexts, but neither...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 273–278.
Published: 01 August 2005
... of Interna- Ramazani, “Who Started the Iraq-Iran War?” public, 2nd ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994), 166. tional Law 33 (1992): 69–89. 8 e .K aaai Ia’ oeg oiy Both 393–412. Policy: Foreign South,” “Iran’s and Ramazani, North K. R. See 18. For- Iran’s in Policy,” eign K. Pragmatism R. and see...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 134–147.
Published: 01 August 1993
... the prevailing “pragmatism” hides a social conservatism most burdensome problems facing the Islamic that has firmly blocked all radical change and Republic of Iran in its first years. Discussing the sanctioned locally negotiated solutions, based on issue of land reform might seem somewhat curious...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (1): 45–60.
Published: 01 May 1984
... South Africa arrived in this very city of Ahmedabad to establish his Harijan Ashram and later his equally famous weekly Harijan Bandhu. The city which was the first seat of the 'Mahatma', the city known for its industry, peace and pragmatism was caught for four months in the midst...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 May 1989
.... There are exceptional circum- economic and political reforms. There is much in com- stances, such as the ability of the arms race to fuel the mon between the pragmatic economic programs of capitalist economies, that explain the dynamism of CPM-led governments in Indian states and the eco- capitalism...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 170–180.
Published: 01 May 2018
... . Pritchett Frances W. “ Orient Pearls Unstrung: The Quest for Unity in the Ghazal .” Edebiyat 4 ( 1993 ): 119 – 35 . Rao Velcheru Narayana Shulman David Subrahmanyam Sanjay . “ A Pragmatic Response .” History and Theory 46 , no. 3 ( 2007 ): 409 – 27 . Rao Velcheru...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 August 1992
... that there was no such thing as religious view should “lose its power.” He saw Islam a Islamic economy. The fundamental choice con- pragmatically as a uniEying force against the West, but fronting them was whether foreign or local agency criticized the Indian ulema for their division of science would carry out...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 370–377.
Published: 01 December 2021
... specifically the lineage of Prophet Muhammad's tribe, the Quraysh. Moreover, in a dash of pragmatism, he took strong exception to Azad's call for jihad against the British. Such foolhardy confrontation against a powerful colonial state will only invite self-destruction, Khan had argued, while speculating...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 75.
Published: 01 May 1990
.... Perdue first presents and refutes the ab- There is a substantial evidence that the Western media prism solutist view of terrorism which is couched theoretically as refracts the official story of terrorism through stereotypes of well as pragmatically in the dominant ideology of Western the Middle...