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Ignorance: Islam, Literacy, and Status in the Shadow of Revolution
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 524–539.
Published: 01 December 2018
... that observes a national literacy campaign among shipyard workers, Mouftah demonstrates how a particular strand of Islamic reformism makes modern education an indicator of morality, ultimately constraining the revolutionary potential of the literacy movement. Literacy activism offers a crucial lens to observe...
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Eden and Atrocity: Pierre Guyotat's Algeria
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 11–19.
Published: 01 May 2008
... for three months. In this way, he experienced the war as perpetrator, witness, and victim. His writing of the war echoes and extends these conflicting capacities, radicalizing and ultimately shattering the problems and processes of recognition and identification. In his novel Éden, Éden, Éden Guyotat...
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Narratives and Legacy: The Humanities Crisis in Pakistan
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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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May Fatimah Gather Our Tears: The Mystical and Intercessory Powers of Fatimah al-Zahra in Indo-Persian, Shi`i Devotional Literature and Performance
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 386–397.
Published: 01 December 2010
... intercessory grace ( baraka ) in Hyderabadi Shii devotion; and (4) Fatimah's role as the ultimate intercessor and arbitrator on the Day of Judgment in Hyderabadi Shiism. Duke University Press 2011 May Fatimah Gather Our Tears:
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Rethinking Postcolonial Emergency: Constitutional Revolution and the Temporality of the Social in Sri Lanka
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 243–259.
Published: 01 August 2014
... for a republic with a strong executive and comprehensive bill of rights to replace the colonially conferred Soulbury Constitution and its minority safeguard, Section 29. Analyzing this apparently paradoxical pairing of rights and enhanced executive power, ultimately realized in Sri Lanka’s Republican...
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The Urban Dynamism of Islamic Hegemony: Absorbing Squatter Creativity in Istanbul
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 423–437.
Published: 01 December 2009
... analyzes Islamization by studying the interactions between Islamists and the residents in a poor district in Istanbul. It demonstrates not only that the urban poor are indeed active in forming communities and subjectivities but also that their agency is shaped (and ultimately absorbed) by the Islamist...
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Shiite Peasants and a New Nation in Colonial Lebanon: The Intifada of Bint Jubayl, 1936
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 483–501.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Malek Abisaab Studies on colonial Lebanon explain social change and the engagement with the state from the perspective of the rural landed elites and urban notables. Lebanon is usually investigated as a place for exhibiting or reconciling diverse sectarian cultures that ultimately develop...
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The Swahili Art of Indian Taarab : A Poetics of Vocality and Ethnicity on the Kenyan Coast
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 336–354.
Published: 01 August 2017
... and vocality, he explores how certain Indian taarab singers—the genre's “clowns”—engage in a reflexive critical analysis of Swahili ethnicity by playfully making audible the Indianness that resonates within the space of Swahili ethnicity ( uswahili ). Ultimately, the essay seeks to generate new perspectives...
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The Zanj Rebellion and the Transition from Plantation to Military Slavery
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 246–260.
Published: 01 August 2018
... from Africa and elsewhere living under harsh conditions ultimately led to the Zanj Revolution. It threatened even the survival of the Abbasid dynasty, and led to the abandonment of plantation use of slaves. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 captives slavery Zanj Islam...
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Little Republics or Petty Republics?: The Panchayat, Imperial Sovereignty, and Discourses of Self- Government in British India, ca. 1870 – 1917
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of the panchayat for colonized subjects. The panchayat has been seen as primarily a product of Orientalist imagining—ultimately adopted, in an act of strategic essentialism, by Indian nationalists at the end of the nineteenth century. But it was never solely a product of the colonial imagination. Rather, colonial...
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Speculation
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 51–56.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of speculation through colonial policies that disentangled housing from its singular history and abstracted it out of its nonmonetizable attachments. Indeed, it is by understanding how the land and housing market became a site for future investments and ultimately was structured through new social relations...
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Dhow Itineraries: The Making of a Shadow Economy in the Western Indian Ocean
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 407–419.
Published: 01 December 2019
... it into a shadow economy that ultimately converges with financing for al-Shabaab, even as this economy sustains seafaring populations in the midst of economic precarity. Tracing dhow itineraries in tandem with shifting regulations across South Asia and East Africa, the article charts an alternate course of Indian...
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Skill as Problem-Space in the Contemporary Mumbai Construction Industry
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and solving problems at hand are now being challenged by a new industry emphasis on formal training as the basis for skill. On the other hand, builders do not necessarily seek to change their heavy reliance on labor categorized as unskilled, at times viewing technology as an ultimate solution to what they see...
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Civil Contract of Photography in India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 21–34.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of the camera. This photographic counter-narrative presents a challenge to certain Althusserian and Foucauldian accounts for which the state is ultimately the arbiter of “evidence.” As Pinney shows, political claims could be advanced in the space of photography that were disallowed in everyday life...
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The Régie Monopoly and Tobacco Workers in Late Ottoman Istanbul
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 206–219.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... It argues that the labor movement in the factory reached its peak in 1911 when some 2,000 workers launched what would be one of the longest strikes in late Ottoman history. This long strike was ultimately defeated and the labor movement in the factory quickly lost momentum. A close examination of the strike...
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Rethinking the “Middle East” After the Oceanic Turn
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 556–564.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... In pointing to the mutability of geographical models, Green aims not so much to historicize but to question the continued usefulness of the more formal, closed model of the Middle East. For all such geographical models are ultimately analytical categories that are meant to enable us to trace forms...
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Reflections on Indian Internationalism and a Postnational Global Order: A Response to Partha Chatterjee
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 220–225.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Manu Bhagavan Bhagavan's article examines Mahatma Gandhi's ideas on nationalism, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism in the interwar period of the twentieth century. It argues that Gandhi was ultimately a progressive internationalist who sought to rally the world around the concept...
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Poetic Justice: On Kalhaṇa's Historical Aesthetics
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 281–293.
Published: 01 August 2015
... the past, which encodes a historicization of its own present. In the Rājataraṅgiṇī the Sanskrit tradition reckons with both itself and something far beyond, ultimately coming to terms with its own materiality. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Kalhaṇa Rājataraṇgiṇī kāvya Sanskrit...
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Southeast Asia’s Middle East: Shifting Geographies of Islam and Trade across the Indian Ocean
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 565–573.
Published: 01 December 2014
... these two world arenas closer to one another in certain identifiable manners. Finally, Tagliacozzo reflects on what adding Southeast Asia into the story of Islam and the Middle East ultimately means, and what we as an intellectual community might gain from this project. © 2014 by Duke University Press...
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Wahhabis without Religion; or, A Genealogy of Jihadis in Colonial Law, 1818 to 1857
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 404–419.
Published: 01 August 2022
... responses to Wahhabis. Ultimately, colonial law's gestures not only rendered unexceptional its regimes of exception. Ironically, they also reified religion, such that Islam and violence became culturally consubstantial in colonial thought. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke...
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