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Pensée 3: Reconceptualizing the “Regions” in “Area Studies”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

John O. Voll
John O. Voll*
Affiliation:
Prince al-Waleed bin Talal Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; e-mail: vollj@georgetown.edu
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Extract

“Area studies” as a way of trying to understand human experience is undergoing a major transition. Questioning the connection between Middle East and African studies highlights important dimensions of the changing nature of area studies at the beginning of the 21st century.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , May 2009 , pp. 196 - 197
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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NOTES

1 Fisher, W. B., The Middle East: A Physical, Social, and Regional Geography, 5th ed. (London: Methuen, 1963), 3Google Scholar.

2 See, for example, Patai, Raphael, Society, Culture, and Change in the Middle East, 3rd ed. (Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969), 13–38Google Scholar.

3 Wright, Donald R., The World and a Very Small Place in Africa, 2nd ed. (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2004)Google Scholar.

4 Bovill, E. W., The Golden Trade of the Moors (Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener, 1958/1995)Google Scholar.

5 See, for example, Bang, Anne K., Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860–1925 (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003)Google Scholar.