South Asian Studies and Diaspora

• Introduced new hybrid deep learning model (CMNV2) for effective and efficient deepfake detection for machine learning applications. • Proposed a hybrid CMNV2 model for deepfake detection. • Evaluated 14 deep learning models on 5,000 images. • Achieved 99.10% accuracy, outperforming 13 models. • Demonstrated how the…

• SEYED SAJAD AHMAD POUR

I foreground the reconstituted notion of ‘nation-state-as-home’ as central to our understanding of the hostility to and fear of Muslims, Islamophobia, in the contemporary west and beyond. The reconfiguration of the quest from a ‘heavenly home’ into an ‘earthly home’ – a prime signature of secular modernity – led to th…

• IRFAN AHMAD

Throughout her career Sarah Kane forces people to see the logic of public and private violence in a world of atrocities. Through a combination of form and content her theatre offers a radical theatrical experience of extreme violence. Kane’s plays often depict dimensions of violence, and organised cruelty. Physical, s…

• AHMET GÖKHAN BİÇER

NILE GREEN, BOMBAY ISLAM: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2011, pp. 327 HUMEIRA IQTIDAR, SECULARIZING ISLAMISTS? Jama’at-e-Islami and Jama’at-ud-da’wa in Urban Pakistan (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2011, pp. 216.

• IRFAN AHMAD

Azar Nafisi’s Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times is an inspiring book that brings readers out of their “comfort zone” where they read “texts that confirm [their] presuppositions and prejudices” (5). Nafisi complains that most readers avoid reading dangerously in order not to break t…

• ONUR EKLER

Çalışma Çingenelerin, uzun süreli göç hareketleri ve göçün sosyo-ekonomik/kültürel sonuçları bağlamında kurgulanmıştır. Çingenelerin Hindistan’dan başlayan büyük göçleri, konar-göçerlik ve yerleşiklik aşamaları tarihsel kayıtlar ve görünümler çerçevesinde ele alınmaktadır. Hindistan’dan başlayan Çingene göçlerinin bir…

• MUHAMMET FIRAT

Joya Chatterji, The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947–1967 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-521-87536-3, xvi + 342 pp., $A160. Neeti Nair, Changing Homelands: Hind...

Joya Chatterji, The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947–1967 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-521-87536-3, xvi + 342 pp., $A160. Neeti Nair, Changing Homelands: Hind...

• IRFAN AHMAD

Postcolonial fiction and trauma are almost coalesced into one another as a result of the nature of postcolonial cultural condition. Trauma emerges as one of the most important and inevitable themes in postcolonial novels written, in particular, by the British authors of colonial origin. In Brick Lane, Monica Ali portr…

• MEHMET ALİ ÇELİKEL

Hindu-Muslim conflict and riots in India are enduring intergroup conflicts in south Asia, destabilizing the region for a long time. Despite having federal democracy and secular nationalism in the political system of India, the state and its various technology of power take sides with religious groups abetting the pers…

• ABDULLA AL MAHMUD

Hindu-Muslim conflict and riots in India are enduring intergroup conflicts in south Asia, destabilizing the region for a long time. Despite having federal democracy and secular nationalism in the political system of India, the state and its various technology of power take sides with religious groups abetting the pers…

Ibn Taymiyah is the crucial scholar and activist that his ideas influenced Muslim societies. In the contrast to the generally stagnant intelectual trend of his time, Ibn Taymiyah is found to be a prolific write who went against many of the social and intelectual norms of his age. For his ideas on politics, he is consi…