The journal Philological Encounters (PHEN) is dedicated to a historical and philosophical critique of philology and promotes critical and comparative perspectives with the aim of integrating textual scholarship and the study of language from across the world.
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Sindh: Towards the Philology of a Place
Philological Encounters
Sindh: Towards the Philology of a Place, the new special issue of the journal Philological Encounters, edited by Manan Ahmed Asif consists of the following articles:
Sindh: Towards the Philology of a Place, by Manan Ahmed Asif
Fit to be King! Iconographies of Kingship and Political Identities in Early Sixteenth-Century Sindh, by Munazzah Akhtar
Luminescent Lotuses: Mimesis in Miḥrābs and Micro-architecture at Maklī, by Fatima Quraishi
Following Richard Burton: Religious Identity and Difference in Colonial Sindh, by Uttara Shahani
Before Ethnicity: Reading Sindh between Religion, Race, Language, and Nation, by Shayan Rajani
A Meshwork of Melodies: Des-making Through the Singing and Wayfaring of Shah Abdul Latif’s Devotees, by Pei-ling Huang
The issue also features our second Philological Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg and Islam Dayeh:
Philology and Microhistory: A Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg, by Islam Dayeh
