Secular Muslims

Berna Turam and Monica M. Ringer

Introduction: State and Society: Neither Lovers nor Haters
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 353-359 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-023 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yesim Bayar

The Dynamic Nature of Educational Policies and Turkish Nation Building: Where Does Religion Fit In?
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 360-370 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-024 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sinem Gürbey

Islam, Nation-State, and the Military: A Discussion of Secularism in Turkey
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 371-380 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-025 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Buket Türkmen

A Transformed Kemalist Islam or a New Islamic Civic Morality? A Study of "Religious Culture and Morality" Textbooks in the Turkish High School Curricula
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 381-397 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-026 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Esra Özyürek

Christian and Turkish: Secularist Fears of a Converted Nation
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 398-412 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-027 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Metin Heper

Does Secularism Face a Serious Threat in Turkey?
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 413-422 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-028 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cihan Tugal

The Urban Dynamism of Islamic Hegemony: Absorbing Squatter Creativity in Istanbul
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 423-437 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-029 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Marcie J. Patton

The Synergy between Neoliberalism and Communitarianism: "Erdoan's Third Way"
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 438-449 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-030 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ali Çarkoglu

Women's Choices of Head Cover in Turkey: An Empirical Assessment
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 450-467 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-031 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Variorum

Yasuyuki Matsunaga

The Secularization of a Faqih-Headed Revolutionary Islamic State of Iran: Its Mechanisms, Processes, and Prospects
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 468-482 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-032 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Malek Abisaab

Shiite Peasants and a New Nation in Colonial Lebanon: The Intifada of Bint Jubayl, 1936
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 483-501 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-033 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karen G. Ruffle

Who Could Marry at a Time like This? Debating the Mehndi ki Majlis in Hyderabad
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 502-514 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-034 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Purnima Dhavan

Reading the Texture of History and Memory in Early-Nineteenth-Century Punjab
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 515-527 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-035 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alireza Korangy

A Literary and Historical Background of Martyrdom in Iran
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 528-543 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-036 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tariq Amin-Khan

Issues of Power and Modernity in Understanding Political and Militant Islam
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 544-555 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-037 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Baki Tezcan

The Second Empire: The Transformation of the Ottoman Polity in the Early Modern Era
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 556-572 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-038 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Deana Heath

Communalism, Globalization, and Governmentality: Some Reflections on South Asia
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 573-581 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-039 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Michael H. Fisher

India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza ("India Book")
India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the Cairo Geniza ("India Book")
S. D. Goitein and Mordechai A. Friedman Leiden: Brill, 2008 xxxii + 918 pp., $336.00 (cloth)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 582-583 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-040 [PDF]  

Philip Stern

Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968
Britain's Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968
Ronald Hyam Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 xviii, 464 pp., $85.00 (cloth), $32.99 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 583-584 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-041 [PDF]  

Laila Parsons

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappe Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2006 320 pp., $27.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 585-586 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-042 [PDF]  

Roksana Bahramitash

Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran
Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran
Nima Naghibi Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007 232 pp., $67.50 (cloth), $22.50 (paper)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 586-587 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-2009-043 [PDF]  

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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29(3): 588-589 (2009); DOI:10.1215/1089201X-29-3-588 [PDF]  

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