Project MUSE - Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East-Volume 30, Number 3, 2010

Introduction: The Indo-Persianate World

pp. 327-328

Firoozeh Papan-Matin

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Sacred Plants and the Cultic Beverage Haoma

pp. 329-340

Kazim Abdullaev

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'Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani, His Work, and His Connection with the Early Chishti Mystics

pp. 341-355

Firoozeh Papan-Matin

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Fayzi's Illuminationist Interpretation of Vedanta: The Shariq al-ma'rifa

pp. 356-364

Carl W. Ernst

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Mah Laqa Bai and Gender: The Language, Poetry, and Performance of a Courtesan in Hyderabad

pp. 365-385

Scott Kugle

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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

pp. 386-397

Karen G. Ruffle

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Introduction: Trade and Traffic in the Persianate World

pp. 398-400

Pardis Mahdavi, Arash Khazeni

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Bazaars, Merchants, and Trade in Late Antique Iran

pp. 401-409

Touraj Daryaee

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The Sogdians: Prime Movers between Boundaries

pp. 410-419

Jenny Rose

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The Road That Never Was: The Silk Road and Trans-Eurasian Exchange

pp. 420-433

Khodadad Rezakhani

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Children of Cain in the Land of Error: A Central Asian Merchant's Treatise on Government and Society in Ming China

pp. 434-448

Kaveh Louis Hemmat

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The Imaginary Realm: Europe's Enlightenment Image of Early Modern Iran

pp. 449-462

Rudi Matthee

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The City of Balkh and the Central Eurasian Caravan Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century

pp. 463-472

Arash Khazeni

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Persian Print and the Stanhope Revolution: Industrialization, Evangelicalism, and the Birth of Printing in Early Qajar Iran

pp. 473-490

Nile Green

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Trafficking in Persianness: Richard Burton between Mimicry and Similitude in the Indian Ocean and Persianate Worlds

pp. 491-511

Thomas F. McDow

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Bones of Contention: Corpse Traffic and Ottoman-Iranian Rivalry in Nineteenth-Century Iraq

pp. 512-532

Sabri Ateş

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The "Trafficking" of Persians: Labor, Migration, and Traffic in Dubayy

pp. 533-546

Pardis Mahdavi

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Amman Cosmopolitan: Spaces and Practices of Aspiration and Consumption

pp. 547-562

Jillian Schwedler

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Reading between Public and Private in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic

pp. 563-573

Benjamin C. Fortna

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"Awakening a Horrible Monster": Negotiating the Jazz Public in 1920s Istanbul

pp. 574-582

G. Carole Woodall

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Is Islam a Threshold for Escape or an Insurmountable Barrier? Women Bargaining with Patriarchy in Post-Islamist Sudan

pp. 583-594

Liv Tønnessen

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Islam as Ideology of Tradition and Change: The "New Jihad" in Swat, Northern Pakistan

pp. 595-609

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

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The Indo-Mediterranean Caduceus and the Worship of the Tree, the Serpent, and the Mother Goddess in the South of India

pp. 610-620

Patrizia Granziera

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Globalization and the Production of Difference: A Case Study of the Neoliberal Production of Hindu Nationalism in India

pp. 621-632

Ipsita Chatterjee

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The Fight for Property Rights: How Changes in Movement Actors and History Brought about the Changes in Frames in a Single Movement

pp. 633-643

Soma Chaudhuri

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Millenarian Movements as Cultural Resistance: The Karen and Martinican Cases

pp. 644-659

William F. S. Miles

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Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800 (review)

pp. 660-661

Mana Kia

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Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (review)

pp. 662-663

Katarzyna Pieprzak

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Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast (review)

pp. 663-666

Valerie J. Hoffman

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Contributors

pp. 667-669

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Volume 30, Number 3, 2010

Table of Contents

The Indo-Persianate World

Introduction: The Indo-Persianate World

Sacred Plants and the Cultic Beverage Haoma

'Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani, His Work, and His Connection with the Early Chishti Mystics

Fayzi's Illuminationist Interpretation of Vedanta: The Shariq al-ma'rifa

Mah Laqa Bai and Gender: The Language, Poetry, and Performance of a Courtesan in Hyderabad

May Fatimah Gather Our Tears: The Mystical and Intercessory Powers of Fatimah al-Zahra in Indo-Persian, Shi'i Devotional Literature and Performance

Trade and Traffic in the Persianate World

Introduction: Trade and Traffic in the Persianate World

Bazaars, Merchants, and Trade in Late Antique Iran

The Sogdians: Prime Movers between Boundaries

The Road That Never Was: The Silk Road and Trans-Eurasian Exchange

Children of Cain in the Land of Error: A Central Asian Merchant's Treatise on Government and Society in Ming China

The Imaginary Realm: Europe's Enlightenment Image of Early Modern Iran

The City of Balkh and the Central Eurasian Caravan Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century

Persian Print and the Stanhope Revolution: Industrialization, Evangelicalism, and the Birth of Printing in Early Qajar Iran

Trafficking in Persianness: Richard Burton between Mimicry and Similitude in the Indian Ocean and Persianate Worlds

Bones of Contention: Corpse Traffic and Ottoman-Iranian Rivalry in Nineteenth-Century Iraq

The "Trafficking" of Persians: Labor, Migration, and Traffic in Dubayy

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Amman Cosmopolitan: Spaces and Practices of Aspiration and Consumption

Reading between Public and Private in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic

"Awakening a Horrible Monster": Negotiating the Jazz Public in 1920s Istanbul

Is Islam a Threshold for Escape or an Insurmountable Barrier? Women Bargaining with Patriarchy in Post-Islamist Sudan

Islam as Ideology of Tradition and Change: The "New Jihad" in Swat, Northern Pakistan

The Indo-Mediterranean Caduceus and the Worship of the Tree, the Serpent, and the Mother Goddess in the South of India

Globalization and the Production of Difference: A Case Study of the Neoliberal Production of Hindu Nationalism in India

The Fight for Property Rights: How Changes in Movement Actors and History Brought about the Changes in Frames in a Single Movement

Millenarian Movements as Cultural Resistance: The Karen and Martinican Cases

Book Reviews

Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800 (review)

Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (review)

Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast (review)

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