Table of contents (14 chapters)

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Anchoring Modernity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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      Pages 23-54

      The Making of New Delhi

      • Monica Juneja
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      Pages 55-76

      Classics in the Garden: Suppers in an Earthly Paradise

      • Ronald Inden
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      Pages 77-99

      A Classic Paving the Way to Modernity: The Ritual of Zhou in the Chinese Reform Debate Since the Taiping Civil War

      • Rudolf G. Wagner
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      Pages 101-120

      Modernity’s Islamicist: Sayyid Qutb’s Theocentric Reconstruction of Sovereignty

      • Mustapha Kamal Pasha
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3. Repositioning Texts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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      Pages 123-141

      Classical Scholarship and Arab Modernity

      • Peter E. Pormann
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      Pages 143-163

      The Septuagint as a Jewish Classic

      • Nicholas de Lange
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      Pages 165-186

      Phenomenon and Reference: Revisiting Parmenides, Empedocles, and the Problem of Rationalization

      • André Laks
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      Pages 187-208

      Towards an Anthropology of Reading

      • Sarah C. Humphreys
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4. Reconstructing Pastness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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      Pages 211-230

      The Ruins of the Others: History and Modernity in Iran

      • Setrag Manoukian
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      Pages 231-260

      Making New Classics: The Archaeology of Luo Zhenyu and Victor Segalen

      • Denis Thouard,
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      Pages 261-292

      Homer, Skepticism, and the History of Philology

      • James I. Porter
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      Pages 293-313

      Naked Presence and Disciplinary Wording

      • Michael Fotiadis
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      Pages 315-329

      Middling Ages and Living Relics as Objects to Think with: Two Figures of the Historical Imagination

      • Gadi Algazi
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5. Back Matter

   Pages 331-346

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