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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 (3): 505–507.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Lila Abu-Lughod This essay introduces the special section “The Politics of Feminist Politics,” which brings together the work of feminist scholars of the Middle East and South Asia to highlight the silences, exclusions, and occlusions that mark the transregional imaginative geographies of both...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 102–116.
Published: 01 May 2013
... managing their relations with national and transregional power centers. The dispersal of the telkin ritual in two very different locations shows that the traditional rituals attacked by Muslim reformists cannot be construed as “local” additions to “orthodox” Islam; rather, this ritual is evidence...
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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 (2021) 41 (1): 56–70.
Published: 01 May 2021
... interconnected. This shared postcolonial space extended from the Soviet South to Africa. The glue for the transregional imagination was an engagement with the topos of backwardness. For many of the participants in the debate, the Soviet past was the African present. Focusing on the 1960s and 1970s, three...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 163–175.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... With a special focus on debates over inheritance laws, this article explores the transregional and transtemporal ways in which matrilineal Muslims defended the system within Islamic legal epistemologies and maritime social systems. References Agrama Hussein Ali . Questioning Secularism: Islam...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 191–207.
Published: 01 August 2023
... was inseparable from certain aspects of his self-curated hagiography as a consummate wanderer and anti-imperial Pan-Islamist. Consequently, the two states competed for custody of his remains. This transregional case study engages multidisciplinary scholarship on commemoration of the dead and remaking nationalist...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and transregional histories, which have become more prominent, both intellectually and institutionally, in Germany with the rise of the Global History approach in recent years. Modern South Asian history, too, has successfully moved beyond the colonial and nationalist framework to explore the larger terrain...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 364–367.
Published: 01 August 2014
... history and the discursive bounds of area and (post)colonial studies. More recently—and ostensibly as part of a larger turn away from area studies toward comparative, transcultural, transregional, and global studies—the burgeoning field of Mediterranean studies has put this resurgent category into massive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 249–253.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of such transregional and cross-disciplinary history. As much as it is a story of Afghanistan, Ahmed's work underscores the importance of studying regional specificity of Islamic modernity in order to truly understand modernity's universality. The unraveling of Aman Allah's rule in Afghanistan Rising comes...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Brahmaputra Valley in regional and transregional political life. In what follows I highlight some of the points that help us in understanding this. The royal court of the Cāo-phā (rulers of heaven), or Swargadeos, belonging to the Tungkhungia lineage was an important center of cultural and literary...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 63–67.
Published: 01 May 2019
... on eighteenth-century India. This scholarship has highlighted the vitality of local, regional, and transregional actors unleashed by the fragmentation of the Mughal empire and the new possibilities offered by the East India Company. 3 For many of these actors, colonialism did not represent a dramatic turning...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 378–388.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to repetitive contentions of the political membership of Muslims in India and elsewhere. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Abul Kalam Azad empire borders transregional political membership place Islam nationalism It is strange that during the period which was one of utmost...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 237–243.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of Afghanistan, Central Asia, and South Asia rarely pursued in a substantively connected fashion. Furthermore, Muslim political actors definitely functioned in a transregional modern historical formation, given the importance of Afghanistan not only to the great British, Ottoman, and Russian Empires, but also...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 1.
Published: 01 May 2023
... section, “Buddhist Homelands: Transregional Pathways,” that productively restages the encounter between Hinduism and Buddhism, on the one hand, and modernity and the nation-state on the other. In interrogating the concepts of homeland and diaspora, the section allows us to pay particular attention...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 379–383.
Published: 01 December 2016
... partitions that have prevented critical standing of the history of the Persianate ecumene
transregional and transtemporal historical read- is today recognized as foundational, it is also fair
ings of the Persianate are products of intellectual to observe that Hodgson’s accounting...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 1.
Published: 01 May 2021
... underexplored Soviet transregional connectivities. The essays by Owain Lawson and Natalie Koch bring together political geography with environmental histories to investigate the workings of local, regional views of the land—and its rivers and deserts—from Lebanese hydroelectric engineers to Saudi desert...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 385–386.
Published: 01 December 2015
... East and South Asia who highlight the silences, exclusions, and occlusions that mark the imagina-
tive geographies of both “feminism” and “Islam” and suggest points of transregional convergence. These
essays turn to specific situations, including the Arab Spring in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (2): 135–136.
Published: 01 August 2013
... as source
of theory as well as of data has been repeatedly demonstrated during this period by bravura scholarship.
The bounded areas created by US federal agencies that acted as silos for scholarship for a generation have
given way to unfamiliar and exciting transregions, where hitherto unknown...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2019
... technologies in the Middle East at the beginning of the twentieth century. Simon Jackson's introduction examines the transregional history of automobility across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and Syria to address the relationship between the ubiquity of car cultures and their attendant and powerful...
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