No previous full-scale study has been undertaken so far to study the polemical writings of the Muslim reformist Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (1865-1935) and his associates in his well-known journal al-Manār (The Lighthouse). The book focuses on the dynamics of Muslim understanding of Christianity during the late 19th and the early 20th century in the light of al-Manār’s sources of knowledge, …
Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization. It covers a wide range of intellectual activity in the first three centuries of Islam, such as the study of ḥadīth, the Qurʾān, Arabic language and literature, and history. Individually and taken together, …
During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European theological libraries…
Buku akses terbuka ini merupakan contoh langka dari studi etnografi jurnalisme investigasi. Buku ini mengeksplorasi upaya-upaya wirausaha untuk menggabungkan jurnalisme investigasi tradisional dengan cara-cara alternatif untuk mengorganisir pekerjaan ini. Buku ini melampaui proyek-proyek investigasi daerah aliran sungai dan mendukung cara-cara di mana para pelaku baru (warga, ahli teknologi, bl…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once li…
This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture,Empire Under the Microscopeexplores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-P…
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, America…
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empi…
Buku akses terbuka ini mengkaji hubungan antara perdagangan dan pemberdayaan ekonomi perempuan dengan berfokus pada usaha kecil dan menengah (UKM) di enam negara: Kamboja, Ghana, Madagaskar, Nigeria, Senegal, dan Vietnam. Para penulis menggunakan data survei dan analisis kualitatif untuk memahami mengapa dan bagaimana perdagangan dapat menciptakan lebih banyak lapangan kerja bagi perempuan, dan…
Buku akses terbuka ini menunjukkan beberapa hal penting yang dipresentasikan pada Kongres Teknik Mesin XV Ibero-Amerika. Makalah-makalah ini mengeksplorasi bidang-bidang terdepan dalam Teknik Mesin, yang berisi penelitian mekanika fluida, sistem energi, tribologi, ilmu material, robotika, mekatronika, biomekanika, instrumentasi, termodinamika, dan keberlanjutan mekanis. ;;; CIBIM / CIBEM dalam …