CONTENTIONS

Ali Banuazizi

Middle Eastern Studies and the Politics of Intimidation
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 519-521 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-519 [PDF]  

Rebecca Saunders

Risky Business: Edward Said as Literary Critic
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 522-532 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-522 [PDF]  

CENTRAL ASIA AND ITS NEIGHBORS

Michael Rouland

Creating a Cultural Nation: Aleksandr Zataevich in Kazakhstan
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 533-553 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-533 [PDF]  

Eric McGlinchey

The Making of Militants: The State and Islam in Central Asia
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 554-566 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-554 [PDF]  

Irina Liczek

Cultural Parameters of Gender Policy Making in Contemporary Turkmenistan
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 567-583 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-567 [PDF]  

Caroline Upton

Institutions in a Pastoral Society: Processes of Formation and Transformation in Postsocialist Mongolia
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 584-599 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-584 [PDF]  

VARIORUM

Mahdi Tourage

The Hermeneutics of Eroticism in the Poetry of Rumi
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 600-616 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-600 [PDF]  

Nile Green

Making a "Muslim" Saint: Writing Customary Religion in an Indian Princely State
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 617-633 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-617 [PDF]  

Kamran Talattof

Comrade Akbar: Islam, Marxism, and Modernity
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 634-649 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-634 [PDF]  

Farzin Vahdat

Religious Modernity in Iran: Dilemmas of Islamic Democracy in the Discourse of Mohammad Khatami
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 650-664 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-650 [PDF]  

Sam Kaplan

"Religious Nationalism": A Textbook Case from Turkey
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 665-676 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-665 [PDF]  

Karen Leonard

South Asians in the Indian Ocean World: Language, Policing, and Gender Practices in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 677-686 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-677 [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Johan Elverskog

The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National Unity
Uradyn E. Bulag Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002 271 pp., $80.00 (cloth), $34.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 687-688 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-687 [PDF]  

Bali Sahota

The Indian Princes and Their States
Barbara N. Ramusack Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 324 pp., $70.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 689-690 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-689 [PDF]  

Carey A. Watt

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy, 2nd ed.
Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal New York and London: Routledge, 2004 xv + 253 pp., $115.00 (cloth), $31.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 690-691 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-690 [PDF]  

Kausik Bandyopadhyay

Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket
Boria Majumdar New Delhi: Penguin/Viking, 2004 xii + 483 pp., Rs 595.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 691-694 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-691 [PDF]  

James Heitzman

Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
Ananya Roy and Nezar Alsayyad, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004 352 pp., $79.00 (cloth), $27.00 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 694-695 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-694 [PDF]  

Waleed Hazbun

Globalization and Terrorism: The Migration of Dreams and Nightmares
Jamal R. Nassar Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004 x + 160 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 696-697 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-696 [PDF]  

Deepika Bahri

In the Beginning Is Desire: Tracing Kali's Footprints in Indian Literature
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena New Delhi: Indialog, 2004 vii + 336 pp.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 697-699 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-697 [PDF]  

Contributors
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25(3): 700-701 (2005); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-25-3-700 [PDF]  

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