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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (2): 131–133.
Published: 01 August 1998
..., Africa & the Middle East 1998 Book Review Allison Drew, South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A tional liberation politics. In her introductions of about Documentary History, Volume I, 1307-1950 (Cape 40 pages in each volume she both presents a frame- Town: Buchu Books, Mayibuye Books...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 296–311.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Hashemi's move from the seminaries of Qom to an American university signals a crisis of the transmission of Shi'i tradition in the context of the transformations of modern Iran that made the kharij, here the geographic “outside” that is the United States, an anchor for a traditionally trained jurist from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 381–387.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of early modern Hindi literature are many. She provided a fresh view for appreciating the literary tradition that emerged and flourished for more than two centuries in the courtly settings of early modern north India. This tradition is called riti poetry and it emerged when the Hindu warrior class...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 25–36.
Published: 01 May 2004
... practice.16 Through the practice of formative, and that gender identity is constituted vrats Hindu women, “traditionally denied access to through a stylized repetition of acts.14 In this regard, formal aceticism, have found a way to tap into this Kartik puja functions to affirm traditional ideals...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 58–71.
Published: 01 May 1995
... women equality and the even more persistent engagement are, as a result, most likely to continue to suffer the with “the politics of traditionalism.” These politics consequences of a patriarchal domination legiti- have been most evident in the deadly struggle to out- mized as “tradition”: what I...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 1–9.
Published: 01 August 1996
... in simple, uncomplicated, “primitive” or point, I wish to digress briefly and present the follow- “traditional” societies (more on the traditionalization ing reflections that then lead to a thesis. of the Orient below) rather than in complex ones. As outlined above, the interaction of the respective...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 656–672.
Published: 01 December 2007
... ham has pointed out one such pervasive feature Paying attention to a discursive tradition is not of Islam: its “traditionalism,” or what he calls in to essentialize certain practices or symbols as Arabic ittisaliya (continuity with the past). Gra- being more...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 595–609.
Published: 01 December 2010
... that the wider geostrategic environment, class, and other social cleavages in Swat and the ideational power of Islam ensure that spaces for the “new jihad” will continue to proliferate in Swat and its environs. Duke University Press 2011 Islam as Ideology of Tradition and Change: The “New Jihad...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 3–16.
Published: 01 May 1986
... & McGreevy (ed) Women and Poverty in the Third World . Johns Hopkins Univ Press. SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN, Vol. VI No. 1, Sprlng 1986. WOMEN: WORK, WELFARE AND STATUS. FORCES OF TRADITION AND CHANGE...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 45–59.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Allison Busch Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 The Anxiety of Innovation: The Practice of Literary Science in the Hindi/Riti Tradition Kesavdas has described the various gestures of Radha...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (1): 34–41.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Ranjini Obeyesekere Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 1 (Spring 1992) The Sinhala Literary Tradition: Polemics and Debate Ranjini Obeyesekere This paper is an attempt to identify and thereby Sinhala Buddhist monks decided to commit...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 508–520.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Jazmin Graves Eyssallenne Abstract The Islamic devotional tradition of Sidis, Indians of East African ancestry, in Gujarat and Mumbai in western India involves the performance of devotional songs. These songs constitute an oral archive that the Sidi community has preserved over generations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11706991.
Published: 22 January 2025
... Hinduism Mughal Persian colonialism Urdu ADVANCE PUBLICATION Recovering a Hindu Tradition Mughal Indol­ogy, Urdu Print Publics, and Modern Scriptural Hin­dui­ sm Supriya Gandhi Around 1867, the prol­ific writer and reform­ist Munshi Kanhaiyalal Alakhdhari (d. 1882) fini­shed his lat­ est book...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 149–154.
Published: 01 May 2018
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 606–613.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... The question: to what degree should the conventional conceptual frameworks of political theory carry the weight of Getachew's challenge? Shilliam addresses this question by looking at a “little tradition” of worldmaking: Ethiopianism. He presents the challenge provided by Ethiopianism as an analytical one: its...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 214–237.
Published: 01 May 2012
... in the neighborhood. It considers the social interactions in the public spaces of the neighborhood as a synthesis between the new norms stemming from the modern culture and the traditional cultural and religious norms reflected in gender, family, and neighborhood relations. The findings reveal that despite Narmak’s...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 678–681.
Published: 01 December 2015
... project as one that directly challenges received academic wisdom but, at the same time, is built on structures of thought erected by previous scholars—African, Muslim, Occidental, or otherwise. As he explains, his attempt at a positive innovation is rooted in the traditions of Africa, Islam...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Lungisile Ntsebeza © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Democratization and Traditional Authorities in the New South Mica Lungisile Ntsebeza Introduction cerned...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 574–581.
Published: 01 December 2014
...? © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 cosmopolitanism tradition Islam Saudi Arabia Abul Kalam Azad My thanks to Michael Christopher Low for comments on the original manuscript and for the suggestion for the title. All translations are my own. References ‘Abd al-Bari...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 362–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Julie Vig Abstract This article connects the Sikh tradition to wider cultural and literary worlds by examining how gurbilās literature—written from the end of the seventeenth century into the nineteenth—is tied to the wider Braj literary world and more specifically to Braj martial poetry. Gurbilās...