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This work explores the relationship between Senegal's political system and the Islamic Sufi orders with which the vast majority of Senegalese are affiliated. Based on a local examination of state and religion in the small provincial town of Fatick, the work offers an interpretat…

This project examines efforts by the Islamic Republic of Iran to produce loyal "Islamic Citizens" through its postrevolutionary school system as way of securing the hegemonic rule of the state. Drawing upon eighteen months of fieldwork in Iran, including archival research of tex…

This monograph---an interpretative study---examines two paradigms in comparative politics: the statist and the state-in-society approaches. Using a historical context, it explores state-society relations in Pakistan and Afghanistan---since independence to present---in order to t…