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Focusing on new nation states and mandates in post-Ottoman territories, this book examines how people negotiated, imagined or ignored new state borders and how they conceived of or constructed belonging.

This book discusses five cases of hatred politics on the margins of global capital: Turkey under Erdogan (since 2003), Hungary under Orbán (2010), India under Modi (2014), the Philippines under Duterte (2016) and Brazil under Bolsonaro (2019).

Volume 2 of Theaters and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society presents several qualitative and quantitative researches on the social roles of the theatre and performance, as organized institutions or social groups, in contemporary society.

This volume is a collection of studies on agricultural workers: from enslaved people on sugar plantations in 18th century Cuba, peasant families in the 19th century Russian Empire, to migrant labourers on palm oil plantations in 21st century South-East Asia.

This collection of essays presents a wide range of case studies devoted to the establishment, growth, and demise of holy places in Muslim societies.

A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba offers a compelling account of Cordoba's most important archaeological, urban, political, legal, social, cultural and religious facets throughout the most exciting fifteen centuries of the city.

This book offers an analysis of China's growth from 1949 to the present day. The authors rebuild time-series databases (capital, education, R&D...), mobilize modern tools of statistics and econometrics, and use various methodologies (mainly Marxist) to carry out this research.

'Alī, son of Abī Ṭālib is the Theophanic Guide of Shi'i spirituality. Through a detailed analysis of different categories of sources, this book demonstrates that Shi'ism is the religion of 'Alī like Christianity is the religion of Christ.

A wide-ranging appraisal of the work, influence and intellectual profile of Pascale Casanova, a major figure in the humanities and social sciences, from sociology to literary theory and criticism.

The present volume takes the analysis of taxation in Tibetan societies in new directions using hitherto unexploited Tibetan-language sources, allowing a better understanding of both the institutional organisation of taxation and of the experience and representations of taxpayers themselves.

This volume examines how multifaceted End-of-Life Care moral questions be addressed from interdisciplinary perspectives within the Islamic tradition.

Johann Michael Wansleben's Travels in Turkey, 1673-1676 is a hitherto unpublished version of a remarkable description of Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa by the German scholar traveller Wansleben.

Presents the latest findings in the vibrant and interdisciplinary field of medieval settlement and landscape studies as influenced by the groundbreaking career of Terry Barry.

Athens and Wittenberg explores how Luther and early Lutheranism did not neglect the classics of Greece and Rome, but continued to draw from the philosophy and poetry of antiquity in their quest to reform the church.

Grief, Identity and the Arts addresses the interplay between grief and identity in a broad range of artistic disciplines, historical periods, and geographical areas.

This book presents powerful approaches, research and tools for educating 21st-century gifted, talented, creative and dissimilar learners in the context of rapidly evolving global educational reforms. One of the key strengths of this book is the diversity of contexts in which the various aspects of the book's themes are evidenced and discussed.

This book presents powerful approaches, research and tools for educating 21st-century gifted, talented, creative and dissimilar learners in the context of rapidly evolving global educational reforms. One of the key strengths of this book is the diversity of contexts in which the various aspects of the book's themes are evidenced and discussed.

Politics in the Roman Republic rewrites the field's modern historiographical narrative through critical re-examinations of four foundational historians: Barthold Niebuhr, Theodor Mommsen, Friedrich Münzer, and Matthias Gelzer. Each chapter traces these scholars' impact and offers novel (re)interpretations of their enduring frameworks, conceptual and methodological alike.

The first women Latinists lived in renaissance Italy. The new learning spread from there to the rest of Europe. The original purpose of teaching women Latin was diplomacy, but later women used the language in many ways.

These essays explore death as a Leitmotiv of Ovid's career, revealing a unity in diversity that is typical of this poet's career and his posthumous reception, but that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.

Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-basar was completed in 1441. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of the Sasanian period and the conquest. It also includes the complete text of ʿAhd Ardasīr, here translated for the first time into English.

This is the second edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements

This is the first in-depth typological research into how the grammatical encoding of information source, that is, evidentiality, functions in Qiangic languages.

The volume exposes the modus operandi of Wilhelm Bode's strategic involvement in the art market and the formation and dissolution of public and private collections, showcasing his complex agency within the art marketplace of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In this volume, Aaron Brody and Michal Artzy present Akko excavations. Middle Bronze burials; "Sea Peoples" and Phoenician finds are discussed, alongside studies of stone artifacts and animal bones.

This volume collects recent work from past and present members of the European Reformation Research Group, exploring key fronts in contemporary Reformation Studies, achieving a broad view of how historiography has developed in recent decades - and where it seems set to go next.

Visualizing Sufism gathers the largest collection of graphic materials found in Sufi literature and body of studies on the subject ever brought together, undertaken by an international team of experts on the basis of a vast selection of manuscript sources.

Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics reveals to the public the original version, previously considered lost, of a landmark work in Arabic philosophy authored by Averroes (1126-1198) and relevant quotations of it by the mystical philosopher Ibn Sabʿīn (13th c.).

Una de las primeras hagiografías de la periferia del imperio español en América del Sur, este libro es una mirada a la compleja relación entre los discursos religiosos y protonacionalistas que tuvieron lugar a principios del siglo XVIII en Quito. One of the first hagiographies from the periphery of the Spanish empire in South America, this book paints a fuller picture of the complex interweaving of religious and proto-nationalist discourses that emerged in early eighteenth-century Quito.