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...Lawrence McCrea Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 review essay In the World of Men and beyond It Thoughts on Sheldon Pollock’s The Language of the Gods in the World of Men Lawrence McCrea t is a rarity...

...Ravinder Kaur When and how did the third world transform into an emerging market in the global economy? Kaur addresses this ongoing reinscription of the old third world as market, unpacking new modes of imagination and knowledge at the heart of this historical shift. She argues that if the quest...

... of fascism in third troubled by the idea that this might constitute a seri- world countries in an utterly unproblematic manner. ous theoretical departure from classical understand- © 2000: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. XX Nos. 1&2 116...

...: The Indo-­Persianate World t e World Firoozeh Papan-­Matin i ana...

...Pardis Mahdavi; Arash Khazeni Duke University Press 2011 h e t Introduction: Trade and Traffic in the Persianate World e World t e World Pardis Mahdavi...

...Sumit K. Mandal This article explores how Arabness has been rediscovered in the Malay world—in this instance Indonesia and Malaysia and, to some extent, Singapore—from the early 1990s to the present. Arabs, mostly of Hadhrami descent, are an intimate part of local culture, given the shared faith...

... with the indigenous Indonesians. After the Japanese capitulation they were forced to side with either the new Indonesian republic or the returning Dutch administration. In both periods all kinds of new relationships came into being, both transient and lasting, and often mutually contradictory. World War II as well...

... to and the Arab World t man Amy Mills, James A. Reilly, and Christine Philliou...

...Yigal Bronner © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 A Road Map for Future Studies: The Language of the Gods in the World of Scholars REVIEW ESSAY Yigal Bronner...

...Yusuf Sarfati Democratic Values in the Muslim World Fattah Moataz A. Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner , 2006 v + 209 pp., $23.50 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Mocha’s commercial ties. The Merchant Houses of Trade...

... protagonists to the problems faced by youth in the Arab world today. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The 99: Superhero Comic Books from the Arab World Mary- Jane Deeb n the Kuwaiti media company Teshkeel Media Group (TMG) was established. It would revolutionize...

..., the metaphysical veil, the discursive veil, the veil of perception, the psychological veil, or the veil between subjects, all of which contribute to an all-encompassing veil in the sense of a “world metaphor.” Different literary texts from the corresponding periods in literary history use veils as epistemological...

... of comparison, and separating them are the details of the comparative practice, its ends and its powers. More specifically, the main difference between the two journals concerns the fate of the world covered on their pages: the first engages in comparative destruction, the second in comparative construction...

... Third World movement. Building on diverse fields including Chinese, Islamic, Middle Eastern, and global history, this essay seeks to decouple Chinese Muslim history from narratives of marginalization and to decouple histories of China and the Middle East from the fraught encounter between “West...

... The Humanities to Come Thinking the World from Africa Suren Pillay A cross the African continent, the humanities and the interpretive social sciences might best be summed up by the following conditions: benign neglect, functional stasis, active marginalization, and exceptions of flourishing. In many countries...

...Rashid Khalidi Khalidi introduces the essays of two contributors to the roundtable on the global humanities, Ahmad Dallal and Khaled Fahmy, who focus on the state of humanities in the Arab world. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 humanities Egypt Arab world GLOBAL HUMANITIES...

...Ahmad Dallal Available evidence suggests that the crisis of the humanities is more critical in the Arab world than it is in the West. This article provides a provisional sketch of the state of arts and humanities scholarship within university settings in the Arab world. The article also examines...

... Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 1,1990 Documents: From Samudra Report of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, “What does the future hold for World Fisheries?” Bangkok Conference, (May 1990...

...Carolyn A. Brown © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Struggles over the Labor Process: Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria during World War I1 Carolyn A. Brown As the only coal mine in West Africa...

...David Johnson © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 Urban Labor, World War II, and the Revolt of the Working People in Colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) David Johnson In times of war ruling classes the world over...