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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 442–455.
Published: 01 December 2023
.... This impact emerges in particularly high relief in the later careers and writings of two of the most accomplished Chinese Muslims who studied in the 1930s–1940s at al-Azhar, Cairo's renowned mosque-seminary: Muhammad Pang Shiqian (龐士謙, 1902–1958) and Badr al-Din Hai Weiliang (海維諒, 1912–2006). 1 Pang stayed...
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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 (2016) 36 (1): 134–151.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Roanne L. Kantor Kantor's article examines the way that two distinct communities—rural villagers and the writers who represent them in fiction—marshal filth as an ethical term in the discussion of the same problem: dysfunction and socioeconomic stagnation in rural South Asia. Shrilal Shukla's Raag...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 691–694.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., or for that matter the
Framing these three studies Bulag provides us Tumed¨ “on the street,” really care about whether
with historical surveys of the development of two rit- the Daurs were Mongols or not? This is not to dis-
uals reinforcing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 24–36.
Published: 01 May 2019
... returns to a South African metaphor—Thabo Mbeki's “two economies” thesis—focused on the problem of poverty, its causes, and the governmental approach to combating it. This discussion shows how the work of Partha Chatterjee helps us understand the governmental problems Mbeki's representations reframe...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 264–281.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Matthew H. Baxter Abstract The 1981 Dalit mass conversion to Islam at Meenakshipuram, Tamil Nadu, arguably began the Hindu Right's political rise. The conversion raises two different concepts for understanding mass conversion's relationship to democracy. Though it is commonly framed in terms of B...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 101–109.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Khawar Mumtaz Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulktin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991).
Khawateen Mahaz-e-ha1 and Sindhiani Tehrik
Two Responses to Political Development
in Pakistan*
Khawar Mumtaz
their efforts...
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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 (2009) 29 (2): 201–212.
Published: 01 August 2009
... CE). This article investigates the sociopolitical upheavals of this period to explain the conversion of Iranians from Zoroastrianism to Islam as a two-stage process. The article argues that the Iranians first distanced themselves from conventional Zoroastrianism and followed insurgent leaders...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 13–22.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and the rise of religious fundamentalism in civil society. Duke University Press 2011 Two Concepts of Secularism
Ramin Jahanbegloo
ecularism, for many of us, is not a terra incognita, and yet it is certainly an improperly
defined and unexplained concept. For more than 150 years...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (2): 22–32.
Published: 01 August 1984
...
IN TELENGANA (1946-1951)
(Part Two)
Akhil Gupta
The first part of this article was largely descriptive. In it, I attempted to sketch the state of affairs that prevailed in
Hyderabad before the revolutionary rupture. That was followed by a narrative...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2022
... a unique political arrangement (“two kings”) was expressed by courtiers, chroniclers, and poets in the language of a stylized fiction of love. The article tries to make meaning of the “two kings” problem by looking at a set of textual and visual materials and situates them within a context of “multilayered...
FIGURES
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 515–527.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Purnima Dhavan This article examines two early-nineteenth-century Punjabi histories to demonstrate how these texts reflect ruptures in the recording and reordering of Sikh historical memories in the decades prior to colonization. An awareness of the East India Company's interest in the records...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 544–555.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Tariq Amin-Khan The article offers an alternative to Eurocentric understandings of political Islam and now militant Islam—the two phenomena are distinguished—as an analysis of modernity, power, and the political is offered in relation to political Islam's characterization by modernists...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 370–380.
Published: 01 August 2022
...William R. Pinch Abstract In this essay William R. Pinch probes whether and how we might understand early Hindi poetry as a form of history, a theme that Allison Busch explored in a series of essays. His focus is on two late eighteenth-century poems that Allison, Dalpat Rajpurohit, and Pinch...
FIGURES
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 137–148.
Published: 01 May 2011
...James McDougall This article examines the role of the Ottoman state as a reference point in Maghrebi historiography through two works from each of Algeria and Tunisia and from two generations of historical writers. Ahmad al-Sharif al-Zahhar (1781–1872), naqib al-ashraf of Algiers at the end...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 172–182.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., titled, Deli ( Mad ), written in 1930, both by by Refik Halit Karay, an intellectual and journalist living in exile in Aleppo, serve as two points of entry into this decade. The plot of the play, in which a man falls into a coma two days before the restoration of the constitution in 1908 and wakes up...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 217–226.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Karima Laachir Egyptian filmmakers have braved the issue of religious tension since the beginning of the new millennium occasioned by the rise in religious violence between the two communities. Hassan and Morqos (2008) is the first popular film to address the issue of sectarian tensions directly...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 102–115.
Published: 01 May 2012
... response. Yet interpreting the reactions to these two cases together reveals much about the existence of racism and Islamophobia in contemporary Germany. In this article I juxtapose the public discussions of these two cases to consider the potential for a critique of headscarf discourse. I suggest...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 255–269.
Published: 01 May 2012
... in those early days, the “homeland for the Muslims of India” was conceived (ideally) in two guises: either as a container for the Muslims that lived or migrated there, or as a project for making Pakistanis. The Indian Islam of large sections of the existing population was not of a kind to be respected...
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