"With the Fujian coast at its center, this book reveals the intellectual, migratory and gendered relationships that tied Fijian to the Chinese imperial domain and to its overseas networks. This Fujian
This book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning o
Brockelmann’s History of the Arabic Written Tradition offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on manuscripts from the classical period. T
The Proselyte and the Prophet: Character Development in Targum Ruth by Christian M. M. Brady is an exegetical study of Targum Ruth with a focus upon the transformation of the biblical characters into
The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies—Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism , and anti-imperialism— still with us, if diffusely. They attempt to overcome the legacies of the Second,
This book argues that Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (p
This book involves a historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works and its role as a source of Diodorus’ Bibliothek
Sergius of Reshaina’s Syriac exposition of Aristotle’s Categories, with its discussion on substance, quantity, quality, relatives and the other categories, but also the teaching on space from the Phys
First English translation of the Coptic text (c. 400 CE), with commentaries and indices, to this major source for the teachings of Mani. Manichaeism was the most successful of the gnostic dualistic tr
The seven articles in this collection all deal with the topic of “peasants, migrant workers and informal labor,” but each has a different emphasis on one of these elements.
Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the
Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East explores the many facets associated with the questions of modernity and minority in the context religious communities
This book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary case studies on young cosmopolitans, young glocals and young protesters in cit
This volume highlights the wealth of medieval storytelling and the fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean by combining in a comprehensive overview popular eastern tales along with their Greek
In 4QSamuela and the Text of Samuel, Jason Driesbach characterizes the scribal features and textual affiliation of 4QSamuela (4Q51) and the major witnesses to the books of Samuel (MT, GB, GL), with im
A collection of the publications and other writings of Joy Hendry, with a biographical introduction also explaining the choice and rationale for the research topics addressed.
Thoroughly researched contributions from conferences at Harvard and Paris on coping with ignorance in late medieval and early modern administrative practices, science, literature and the arts, are tig
Volume 1: The Hebrew Bible, editors Armin Lange and Emanuel Tov This volume covers the books of the Hebrew canon. The volume opens with a series of overview articles on the history of the Jewish and C
This book highlights the fact that new syncretisms are being created in Latin America by means of a multicultural encounter with New Age. The analyses of the genesis and the transformations of some of
Vovin presents the most recent volume in his new English translation of the earliest and largest Japanese poetry anthology, compiled between 759 and 785 AD, with detailed commentaries. The translation
A brief introduction to the scholarly methodology known as "poststructuralism," with focus on the importance of the materiality of the signifier and how that materiality both plays a part in and disru
The Ilkhanate is the name by which historians refer to the political entity that governed present-day Iran, Azerbaijan and Eastern Anatolia between 1260 and 1335 (with a short afterlife that lasted un
In this book, Miquel Beltran undertakes the task of comparing Puerta del Cielo with Spinoza’sEthica, in order to find the doctrines asserted both by Herrera and Spinoza concerning God’s essence and at
This is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of the first edition of the Arabic version of Dimitrie Cantemir’sThe Divan or the Sage’s Dispute with the World, achieved in 1705 by Athanasios Dabbas
Roulleau-Berger shares his insights from 10 years of exchanges, discussions, comparisons, and debates with Chinese sociologists in Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing about the de-Westernization and intern
Contributors from religious studies, social sciences, and other fields look at major division with the Christian faith, Christian institutions and affiliation, movements within Christianity, and outsi
For centuries Muslim Tatars have been part of the ethnic mosaic of the Baltic region, and scholars from the region present a rarely told narrative with insights into a cultural history that deserves t
Scholars of religion contribute to the discourse research in the study of religion with theoretical reflections and contexts and cases. Among their topics are the current re-evaluation of religion and
The volume emerged from a number of large and small gatherings in which scholars involved with issues of urban change and religion discussed ethnographic perspectives on how religious life and urban c
This volume puts together notions of political liberty that arose in the English, Portuguese and Spanish Atlantic world, commencing with their inception in the colonial period, following with the inde
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonia
A bibliography of books, articles and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world which were published in the year 2014 with additions from 2001-2014. This annual volume is published as part of the 2015 sub
Francis Snyder shows how the 2008 infant formula crisis led to transnational food safety law and standards in China, reforms in government policy and closer relations with international organisations.
Robert Leigh offers a critical edition with translation into English, commentary and introduction of the pharmacological treatiseOn Theriac to Piso traditionally attributed to Galen, and reviews the e
Drawing on casebooks and other practice records and linking case studies with synthetic chapters,Medical Practices, 1600-1900 offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the changing nature of ordi
"The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incant
This volume collects new research about multiple modernities and globalization. It shows the new turn of sociological theory in the contemporary scene with respect to multiple modernities, multi-centr
In Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts John S. Lowry demonstrates that anti-imperialist resistance movements in China, Cuba, Samoa, and Africa significantly shaped Berlin’s relations with the Center
Colleagues and students honor Prof. Rachel Hachlili with this festschrift, which offers eighteen essays on the archaeology, architecture, and iconography of ancient Judaism. They demonstrate how widel
This volume of collected essays reflects on various aspects of language, text, and interpretations of war and peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple Jewish literature, with special clos
