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In the study of Lawāmiʿ al-Naẓar, Ibrahim Safri presents a history of rational sciences in the Maghribī tradition in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. He also presents a critical edition of the work, which can be considered as an introduction to post-Avicennian studies in North Africa.

This book deals with an intriguing aspect of EU external relations, namely the special legal and political relationship between Switzerland and the EU, seen against the background of the country's refusal to join the European Economic Area.

Erasing boundaries between local and global, imperial and immigrant histories, Tōhoku Unbounded examines how multiple mobilities converge in Japan's supposed hinterland. Drawing on research from three continents, this monograph demonstrates that Tohoku's regional identity is inextricably intertwined with Pacific migrations.

A double edition in English and Arabic about the art of ornamentations in the performance of the Arabic qanun (psaltery), based on George Sawa's experience as an artist and performer, as well as the experience of his teachers and their teachers.

Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Read this book to find out what resources and institutional pillars ensure that the festivalization of capitalism is here to stay.

With the view of improving doctoral education, contributors from diverse cultural, political and disciplinary contexts critically analyse challenges and opportunities that impact on the experience of doctoral researchers and university staff, providing reflection opportunities for readers including policy makers.

With the view of improving doctoral education, contributors from diverse cultural, political and disciplinary contexts critically analyse challenges and opportunities that impact on the experience of doctoral researchers and university staff, providing reflection opportunities for readers including policy makers.

This volume addresses polarizations within societies as well as within churches, and asks the question: given these dynamics, what may be the calling of the church? In particular the role, meaning and potential of the Reformed theological tradition is assessed.

The Hand of Fatima traces the khamsa, or hand motif, across the Arab-Islamic world and beyond. It explores multifarious khamsas, from amulets to fine art, with a special focus on the hand symbol in Algeria, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Shiʿism.

This collection of essays explores a new concept in world literature studies: the ultraminor, a category that goes beyond the binary opposition of "major" and "minor" literatures to encompass the literatures of smaller but vibrant regional and linguistic communities.

Our world is in urgent need of global answers on subjects such as Big Data, climate change, and the interconnected global economy. This volume tackles those issues and more, with the goal of advancing more democratic modes of decision-making.

This volume celebrates the outstanding achievements of Samuel N. C. Lieu and his contribution to Manichaean, Roman, Byzantine, and Silk Road Studies. Readers will find his wide range of scholarly interests reflected in the contributions of his colleagues and former students.

Where do the resources come from to finance development? This volume analyzes how we can mobilize and use resources more effectively to tackle the climate crisis, digitalization, or sustainable development in order to fully deliver on the development mandate.

Paul climaxes 1 Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 15 by employing the rhetorical device called insinuatio, which delays the most controversial topic of resurrection until the end of the letter after subtly hinting at it at the outset.

This book explores the perspective of individuals, families and groups of interest in their daily strive to survive an European pursuit of empire.

This book solves the long-standing mystery of a Christian monastery near Samarkand, seen and described by two Arab travellers in the tenth century.

The book provides a comprehensive survey of the complex agreement system of Arabic, spanning from the pre-Islami era to the present age and including both the written form of the language and its spoken varieties.

This book comprises a rich range of empirical investigations from the Global south highlighting dynamic relationships between local struggles, and global political and economic power, and which are explained with ideas developed by the pioneering anthropologist Eric R. Wolf.

This book traces the origins of the legend that Jewish musicians in concentration camps were forced to play a Tango of Death at the gas chambers and shows how in this legend the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether.

This study shows that Zenodotus (first half of the 3rd century BCE) knew a more archaic form of the Homeric text than the one we now know, bringing to light important new elements for both Greek historical linguistics and Homeric studies.

Doing Justice to a Wronged Literature, a Festschrift for the Arabist and Islamicist Thomas Bauer, includes 17 essays by established academics on various themes and aspects of Arabic literature and rhetoric of the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods (12th-18th centuries).

Parler de l'infini est une entreprise impossible. Oui, mais nous savons qu'à l'impossible nul n'est tenu. Alors, allons-y, voyageons à travers les multiples cultures qui enrichissent notre planète; tissons un lien théorique entre les littératures du monde; abordons les conditions qui nous permettent de nous syntoniser les uns avec les autres. Talking about infinity is an impossible task. Yes, but we know that no one is bound to the impossible. So, let's go and travel through the multiple cultures that enrich our planet; let's weave a theoretical link between the literatures of the world; let's talk about the conditions that allow us to tune into each other.

The Social Lives of Chinese Objects is the first anthology of texts to apply Arjun Appadurai's well-known argument on the social life of things to the discussion of artefacts made in China.

This book highlights the powerful impact of some important Spanish Jesuits (Suárez, Acosta, Ribadeneira, Mariana) on some relevant English thinkers such as Locke, Bacon, and others, regarding politics, law and natural rights, an influence sometimes hidden and always controversial.

Through looking at fragments of poetry on garbage and as graffiti, as well as at lesser-studied sources, like inscriptions on pottery, architecture, and especially wooden tablets known as mokkan, this book explores how both writing and literature spread through early Japan.

Quedlinburg Abbey was one of the oldest and most prestigious women's religious communities in medieval Germany. This essay collection conveys the abbey's illustrious history, political importance, and cultural significance through studies on, among others, its architecture, rich treasury, and its abbatial effigies.

This book reclaims the concept of animal resistance and exposes the asymmetry of human-animal relationships at sites of commodification. The chapters within explore instances in which resistance challenges human dominion and identity and in some cases ignites social movements on behalf of animals themselves.

Through a comparison of everyday practices surrounding dairy production and breastfeeding in Croatia, this book explores the way that humans work to transform milk into human or animal milks.

In The Iconography of Family Members in Egypt's Elite Tombs of the Old Kingdom, Jing Wen offers a comprehensive survey of the depiction of family members and provides a new perspective to explain its meaning.