COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA, AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Volume XXII | Numbers 1&2 | 2002

Table of Contents

Linda T. Darling: Do Justice, Do Justice, For that is Paradise: Middle Eastern Advice for Indian Muslim Rulers
Rochona Majumdar: Self-Sacrifice versus Self-Interest: A Non-Historicist Reading of the History of Women's Rights in India
James Clark: Frequent Imcompatibilities: Ethnic and Religious Diversity and the Nations of the Middle East
Mehran Kamrava: The Politics of Weak Control: State Capacity and Economic Semi-Formality in the Middle East
Ali Riaz: Nations, Nation-State and Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia
Henry F. Carey: The Postcolonial State and the Protection of Human Rights
Runa Das: Engendering Postcolonial Nuclear Policies Through the Lens of Hindutva:Rethinking the Security Paradigm of India

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Testing the Limits: The Poetics of Remaking

Fatemeh Keshavarz: Pregnant with God: The Poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred In Rumi's Fih-i ma fih
Nargis Virani: "I am the Nightingale of the Merciful": Rumi's use of the Qur'an and Hadith
Sunil Sharma: Amir Khusraw and the Genre of Historical Narratives in Verse
Juan R. I. Cole: The Provincial Politics of Heresy and Reform in Qajar Iran: Shaykh al-Ra'is in Shiraz, 1895-1902

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Contentions

Alec Rasizade: Azerbaijan Descending into the Third World After a Decade of Independence
Patricia K. McCormick: Internet Access in Africa: A Critical Review of Public Policy Issues
Notes on Contributors