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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 506–520.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Audrey Truschke This article presents the first in-depth textual analysis of the Razmnamah ( Book of War ), the Persian translation of the Mahabharata sponsored by the Mughal emperor Akbar in the late sixteenth century. I argue that the Razmnamah was a central literary work in the Mughal court...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 132–133.
Published: 01 May 2013
...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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 August 2017
... into the precolonial Swahili poetic genre of the utendi . In contrast to previous analyses that have highlighted the appropriation of text to fit local discourses of identity, Vierke argues that the relationship between the Swahili translation and the previous Arabic text is basically aesthetic. Drawing on the concept...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., the Sangitadarpana (“Mirror of Music”) of Harivallabha (ca. 1653). Harivallabha was translating a recent Sanskrit work of the same name: an old-fashioned treatise that nonetheless proved extremely influential in Persian and other Sanskrit works, as well as in miniature painting. This article examines...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 295–308.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Razak Khan Abstract This article examines literary and cultural translations in the domain of thoughts on education by following the trajectories of intellectual networks among South Asian and German scholars. The main protagonists of this entangled intellectual history are Syed Abid Husain (1896...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 106–127.
Published: 01 August 2003
...LITAL LEVY Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Exchanging Words: Thematizations of Translation in Arabic
Writing from Israel1
LITAL LEVY
When two languages meet, one of them is necessarily linked...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (2): 33–37.
Published: 01 August 1984
...Sucheta Mazumdar Copyright 1984: Regents of University of California 1984 SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN, Vol. IV No.2, Fall 1984.
LIFE OF STRUGGLE: An Autobiography by Moni Sinha
Excerpts and Translation of Sections...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 147–150.
Published: 01 August 1991
... Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991).
Two poems of Sivaramani - Translated from Tamil
With an introduction by Sitralega Maunaguru
The two poems published below were written by Sivaramani, who killed herself on May 19...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 69–77.
Published: 01 August 1987
...Eleanor Zelliot Copyright 1987: South Asia Bulletin 1987 SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN Vol. 7 (1987).
THE VARlED VOICES OF DALIT POETS FROM
MAHARASHTRA: A COLLECTION OF TRANSLATIONS
Eleanor Zelliot
REVOLUTION...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 355–371.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Michael Gilsenan This article argues for the importance of concepts of translation, conversion, and articulation in the study of inheritance and the transmission of goods among diasporic populations. It focuses on the Hadhrami migrations to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century, migrations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 23–31.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Sumit Guha Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Transitions and Translations: Regional Power and
Vernacular Identity in the Dakhan, 1500–1800
SUMIT GUHA
The theoretical underpinnings of reductionist under- paradoxical fate of this effort through...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 175–184.
Published: 01 August 2021
... explores the place of misunderstanding and translation in encounters between evangelists and Buddhist audiences. For evangelists, to go public was to open oneself to the possibility, even the likelihood, of being misunderstood. Such misunderstandings emerged in part from the negotiation of similarity...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 57–72.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Kutluğhan Soyubol Considering translation as a convoluted process of transformation between different cultures, this article scrutinizes the work of İzzettin Şadan, the initiator of psychoanalysis in Turkey. Through translations of the works of Western psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud, Ernest...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 296–311.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Islamic activists perceive as the destructive effects of Western culture and to align the production of knowledge with the teachings of Shi'i Islam. The effort to produce modern Islamic knowledge, however, has paradoxically intensified the translation of European thought and invested it with the ethos...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 80–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Elizabeth M. Holt Abstract This article reads Buṭrus al-Bustānī’s 1861 translation of Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe into Arabic in Beirut alongside Karl Marx's contemporaneous critique of the popularity of Robinsonades among British political economists. Al-Bustānī’s translation of Robinson...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 555–558.
Published: 01 August 2022
... movements risks excising some from the domain of revolutionary practice for not fitting a model, and relegating others to the status of belated and derivative ones that repeat the stages of the earlier model. Instead, the author suggests moving past models to pay attention to the practices of translation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 392–407.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and deploys the colonial context as an analytical lever to pose broader questions concerning the legibility and translation of speculation as both an illicit outside and a complicit inside of the market. Charting key shifts in the two decades before 1947, it maps the governmentalization of speculation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 574–581.
Published: 01 December 2014
...John M. Willis In recent years, historians and postcolonial critics have illuminated several trends of universalist thought among a group of Indian intellectuals and activists who articulated forms of humanist anti-imperialism within the circuits of publication and translation in the transregional...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 375–381.
Published: 01 August 2015
... sphere in the Indian Ocean. The essay discusses the efforts of Gandhi to create a “reading public” as well as the reformist orientation, the importance of translation, the provisional nature of the printed texts, and the use of multiple languages and scripts. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 183–188.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of universalism in feminist theory and the ongoing urgency of literal and epistemological translation to the field of feminist studies. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Oyewumi He-Yin Zhen Crenshaw feminism colonialism anti-universalism gender difference References Crenshaw Kimberlé...
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