This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researcher…
Within the scope of the events of the 2019 Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Year, under the auspices of our Presidency and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in partnership with Istanbul University, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University, and the Fuat Sezgin Islamic Science History Research Foundation, we had the honor of hosting the first International Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Sympo…
The CD publication features 30 sound recordings, chiefly recitations of classical Tamil poetry, made by Hilko Wiardo Schomerus in Madras (Chennai) in 1929. What is new and special about this release is the publication of the sources, of which hitherto no (or only little) notice has been taken. Die CD-Publikation enthält 30 Tonaufnahmen, hauptsächlich Rezitationen aus der klassischen tamilis…
The CD publication features 30 sound recordings, chiefly recitations of classical Tamil poetry, made by Hilko Wiardo Schomerus in Madras (Chennai) in 1929. What is new and special about this release is the publication of the sources, of which hitherto no (or only little) notice has been taken. Die CD-Publikation enthält 30 Tonaufnahmen, hauptsächlich Rezitationen aus der klassischen tamilis…
How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing? Since the emergence of new technologies, new modes of cooperation, deliberation and representation have risen to the fore, @ is for Activism maps out how political relationships have been reconfigured and new have emerged through the use of new technolog…
The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approa…
This volume provides a new critical edition of Galen’s On Avoiding Distress and On My Own Opinions, which represents an improvement on earlier editions by offering more accurate readings of the main witness Vlatadon 14, supplementation of previously unrestored lacunae, and many sound emendations to thorny passages. The authoritative critical texts are accompanied by English translations, maki…
Moving far beyond predominant views of Africa as a place to be 'saved', and even more recent celebratory formulations of it as 'rising', African Luxury: Aesthetics and Politics highlights and critically interrogates the visual and material cultures of lavish and luxurious consumption already present on the continent. Methodologically, conceptually and analytically, the collection dismantles tak…
The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literature beyond the restrictions of book publishing on the continent. Arguing that writers are putting their work on cyberspace because communities are emerging from this space, and because increasing numbers of Africans use the internet as part of their da…
Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages ove…