Contentions

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

What Happened to the African Renaissance? The Challenges of Development in the Twenty-First Century
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 155-170 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-001 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Articles

Brian Silverstein

Sufism and Governmentality in the Late Ottoman Empire
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 171-185 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-002 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rinku Lamba

Bringing the State Back in, Yet Again: The Debate on Socioreligious Reform in Late-Nineteenth-Century India
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 186-200 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-003 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Aptin Khanbaghi

De-Zoroastrianization and Islamization: The Two Phases of Iran's Religious Transition, 747–837 CE
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 201-212 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-004 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joseph S. Alter

Yoga in Asia—Mimetic History: Problems in the Location of Secret Knowledge
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 213-229 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-005 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rebecca M. Brown

Spinning without Touching the Wheel: Anticolonialism, Indian Nationalism, and the Deployment of Symbol
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 230-245 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-006 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shanna Dietz Surendra

Explaining Social Mobilization in Pakistan: A Comparative Case Study of Baluchistan and Azad Kashmir
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 246-258 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-007 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Claire Norton

Lust, Greed, Torture, and Identity: Narrations of Conversion and the Creation of the Early Modern Renegade
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 259-268 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-008 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Laetitia Nanquette

French New Orientalist Narratives from the "Natives": Reading More than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 269-280 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-009 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gregory A. Barton

Abolishing the East: The Dated Nature of Orientalism in the Definition and Ethical Analysis of the Hindu Faith
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 281-290 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-010 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Babli Sinha

"Lowering Our Prestige": American Cinema, Mass Consumerism, and Racial Anxiety in Colonial India
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 291-305 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-011 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kamal Sadiq

What's Morality Got to Do with It? Benevolent Hegemony in the International System of South Asia
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 306-321 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-012 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Manijeh Mannani

Reading beyond Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 322-333 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-013 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Sanjay Joshi

Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class
Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Arab Middle Class
Keith David Watenpaugh Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006 xi + 325 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 334-336 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-014 [PDF]  

Wilson Chacko Jacob

Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914
Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914
Martin Thomas Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 xiii + 428 pp., $49.95 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 336-337 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-015 [PDF]  

Peter E. Pope

The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World
John F. Richards Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 696 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $26.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 338-339 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-016 [PDF]  

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self
Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self
Laura Bear New York: Columbia University Press, 2007 xii + 346 pp., $49.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 339-341 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-017 [PDF]  

Karen Grumberg

In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination
In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination
Gil Z. Hochberg Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007 192 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 342-343 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-018 [PDF]  

Peter Chelkowski

Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-revolution Iran
Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-revolution Iran
Roxanne Varzi Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006 290 pp., $79.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 343-345 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-019 [PDF]  

Philip S. Zachernuk

Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa
Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa
Laura Rice Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007 ix + 240 pp., $70.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 345-347 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-020 [PDF]  

Amal Ghazal

The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics
The Maghrib in the New Century: Identity, Religion, and Politics
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman and Daniel Zisenwine, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007 278 pp., $59.95 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 347-348 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-021 [PDF]  

Firoozeh Papan-Matin

Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
Barbara Slavin New York: St. Martin's, 2007 xi + 258 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 349-350 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-022 [PDF]  

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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(2): 351-352 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-29-2-351 [PDF]  

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