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Kurdish Studies Archive : Vol. 5 No. 2 2017
Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies. This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal, published by Brill, and focuses on research, scholarship, and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidiscip…
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- 978-90-04-50617-6
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Key Classical Works on Islamic Ethics : قراءات في عيون الترا…
This book transcends the narrow philosophical concept of ethics confined to the Greek model, demonstrating that “Islamic ethics” is an interdisciplinary field. It encompasses both theoretical and practical ethics, incorporating disciplines such as Qurʾān, ḥadīth, biography of the Prophet (sīra), theology (kalām), jurisprudence (fiqh), Sufism, and philosophy. The book provides analyti…
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- 978-90-04-45947-2
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- xxxiv, 341 pp.
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- Studies in Islamic Ethics, Volume: 7
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Islamic Sensory History : Volume 2: 600–1500
Islamic Sensory History, Volume 2: 600–1500 presents a selection of texts translated into English from Arabic and Persian. These selected texts all offer illustrative engagements with issues related to the sensorium in different times, places, and social milieus throughout the early and medieval history of Islamic societies. Each chapter is prefaced by an introductory essay by the translator,…
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- 978-90-04-51593-2
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- xxii, 594 pp.
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- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 182.2
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Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the very first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. This twelve-chapter volume presents the results from a pioneering seminar held in 2017 at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in Qatar. The contributors to this volume, coming …
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- 978-90-04-39213-7
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- xiv, 340 pp.
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- Studies in Islamic Ethics, Volume: 1
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Intra-European Litigation in Eighteenth-Century Izmir : The Role of the Merch…
Scholars have long debated the use of law to settle international trade disputes in the early modern period. In this book, Tijl Vanneste uses the case study of commercial litigation before the Dutch consular court of Izmir to argue that merchants relied on a particular blend of mercantile customs, which he calls ‘the merchants’ style’, and specific legal forms and procedures, laid down in…
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- 978-90-04-49823-5
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- Approx. 390 pp.
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- Mediterranean Reconfigurations, Volume: 4
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The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
This volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the many ways and purposes for which the Arabic language was taught and studied by scholars, theologians, merchant…
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- 9789004338623
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- 366 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The History of Oriental Studies, Volume: 3
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The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856)
The Crimean War was a defining event in both European and Ottoman history, but it has principally been studied from the Europeans’ point of view. This study analyzes the role of the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War and the War’s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society. Based on hitherto unused Ottoman and Russian sources, it offers new insights into the Crimean War’s financial, s…
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- 9789004190962
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- 448 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Middle East, Islamic & African Studies The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume: 44 Brill's Paperback Collection
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The Orient in Utrecht: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Ant…
Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion covers the intellectual achievements of a remarkable man: Adriaan Reland, professor of Oriental languages (1701) and Hebrew Antiquities (1713) at the University of Utrecht from 1701 to 1718. Although he never travelled beyond the borders of his home country, he had an astonishingly broad worldview…
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- 9789004462175
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- 532 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The History of Oriental Studies, Volume: 10
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The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black…
The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov) and their hinterland. Addressing the mediating role of the Balkans between East and West all the way to Poland and Lithuania…
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- 9789004515468
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- 416 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi = Sufism through the Eyes of ʿImād al-Dīn…
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi explores the life and teachings of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), a little-known Ḥanbalī Sufi master from the circle of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328). The first part of this book follows al-Wāsiṭī’s physical journey in search of spiritual guidance through a critical study of his autobiographical writings. This provides unique insights…
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- 1
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- 9789004377554
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- 338 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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