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This volume is a collection of essays on transregional aspects of Malay-Indonesian Islam and Islamic Studies, based on Peter G. Riddell's broad interest and expertise.

Space Law in a Networked World charts how space law has been affected by the opportunities and challenges presented by digital networks and technologies.

Based on analysis of 21 arbitral awards rendered in the "Spanish saga" cases, this book discusses the current challenges faced by international investment law in the renewable energy sector. Filip Balcerzak offers both micro-level analysis of each individual case and macro-level conclusions of universal relevance.

The mission of The Italian Yearbook of International Law is to make available to the English-speaking public the Italian contribution to the literature and practice of international law. Volume XXXI (2021) opens with a Symposium on the Mediterranean Sea and international law. As in every volume the following sections feature Articles, Notes and Comments, Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, Italian Practice of International Law and Bibliographies.

Presenting the history of the Slavs in the Middle Ages in a new light, this study shows how the 'Slavs' were treated as a cultural construct and as such politically instrumentalized, and describes the real structures behind the phenomenon.

Originally presented as the author's thesis--Leiden, 1992.

The book represents a methodological notebook, which tells a life spent doing research: the red thread is Content Analysis.

Cette étude des aurores et des crépuscules dans la Thébaïde de Stace éclaire la façon dont des éléments épiques traditionnels peuvent être retravaillés et actualisés pour correspondre au contexte sinistre de cette épopée flavienne. This study of dawn and dusk descriptions in Statius' Thebaid provides an illuminating illustration of the way traditional epic features can be refashioned and updated to fit the gloomy context of the Flavian poet's epic.

Written by an impressive group of international scholars, this collection's ten essays explore key issues and forms of design, from ancient life ideals to the new media, displaying how creative design always revolves around the soma, the living, sentient body.

This book challenges us to 'think anew' about teaching and teacher education. It is rooted in rich, contemporary research and reflects the context of (post)pandemic practice and a fast-changing policy environment.

This book challenges us to 'think anew' about teaching and teacher education. It is rooted in rich, contemporary research and reflects the context of (post)pandemic practice and a fast-changing policy environment.

Nineteen friends and colleagues present this Festschrift to Ellen van Wolde, honouring her life-long contribution to Biblical studies. The contributions focus on the major topics that define her research: the books of Genesis and Job, and the Hebrew language.

Islamic literature, which has been enriched with the perspectives of different cultures throughout history, provides important insights to the human being. This book takes a complementary approach to the areas where the intellectual heritage of Islam can contribute to western psychology.

This book focuses on the restoration and renewal of Vinaya-related practices and standards in twentieth and twenty-first centuries China and Taiwan, and sheds light on the role played by monastic discipline within the dynamics of modern Chinese Buddhism.

Covering a broad chronological and geographic range and a great variety of source types, this volume examines the presence and activities of ancient women in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims.

This volume excavates the genealogy of xin 信--a term that has become the modern Chinese counterpart for the English word "faith." More than twenty experts trace its religious and non-religious roots in several traditions, including Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, Muslim, Christian, Japanese, popular religious, and modern secular contexts.

Mexican theorist Adrián Sotelo Valencia analyses the 4.0 revolution of artificial intelligence, Big Data, algorithms, and digital platforms as a global strategy of capital and the state aimed at detaining the global capitalist crisis. The new international division of labour being forged offers severe repercussions for labour.

This is the first ever critical edition of Sanātana Gosvāmin's Haribhaktivilāsa, an important mediaeval North Indian ritual text, which in great detail describes the normative ritual life of a Vaiṣṇava devotee.

With notable originality Tatiana Berringer presents, theoretically and empirically, a truly consistent Marxist analysis of Brazilian foreign policy under FHC and Lula governments, and reflections on Dilma, Temer, and Bolsonaro governments.

As the first volume to focus on texts and traditions about Enoch between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book brings specialists in antiquity into conversation with specialists in early modernity, exploring the reimagination of the antediluvian past.

In The Shifting Ground of Globalization, Thiago Aguiar describes the transformation of the Brazilian mining company into a Transnational Corporation and its consequences for workers, communities, and the environment in the first decades of the twenty-first century.

Centered around a text-critical edition of three Old Avestan chapters of the Zoroastrian Yasna litrugy, the book explores aspects of their transmission, their past and present ritual setting, and of their exegetical reception in the Middle Persian (Pahlavi) tradition.

This book presents new approaches to the study of typology in Late Antique and Byzantine art and architecture and highlights the importance of type and archetype in constructing architecture and image theories.

In Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875). The skeptical traditionalist, Pavel Pavlovitch studies the life and works of Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Naysābūrī, author of the famous collection of traditions al-Musnad al-ṣaḥīḥ (The Sound Collection), and contributor to the articulation of Sunni identity.

This volume sheds new light on an array of late ancient Christian liturgical sources, practices, and traditions emerges from these multidisciplinary studies on the interplay of New Testament writings, ancient music, liturgical spaces, biblical interpretation, and reception history

This comparative volume explores how speakers across languages use the concept of the 'face' to describe emotions, human interaction, and directions. The analyses discuss cognitive processes involved in extending human body parts to concepts beyond the body.