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



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



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