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Opposing Dictatorship: a Comment on Nuruddin Farah's 'Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship' (2002)
Book Chapter
Turfan, B. (2002). Opposing Dictatorship: a Comment on Nuruddin Farah's 'Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship'. In D. Wright (Ed.), Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, edited by Derek Wright (265-281). Africa World Press

A critique of a trilogy of novels written by Nuruddin Farah in the late 1970s and early 1980s tracing the activities, perceptions and ideological platforms of selected members of a clandestine opposition group in present-day Somalia. The critique exa... Read More about Opposing Dictatorship: a Comment on Nuruddin Farah's 'Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship'.

Ilya Gershevitch (1914-2001) (2002)
Journal Article
Waghmar, B. (2002). Ilya Gershevitch (1914-2001). Nāmah-i Īrān-i bāstān, 1(2), ix-xii

A Note on Parsi Islamology (2001)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2001). A Note on Parsi Islamology. In H. N. Modi (Ed.), Third International Congress Proceedings: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute (252-258). K. R. Cama Oriental Institute

G. K. Nariman and Parsi Islamology (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2000, January). G. K. Nariman and Parsi Islamology. Presented at Third International Congress Proceedings: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, Bombay

Changing traditions and new challenges at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2001)
Journal Article
Turfan, B. (2001). Changing traditions and new challenges at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

The School of Oriental and African Studies and its Library date back to the First World War, but it was not until 1960 that a distinct Africa Division, with its own specialist librarian, was created to match the various Oriental Divisions. Since then... Read More about Changing traditions and new challenges at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.