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Knowing - Unknowing : African Studies at the Crossroads
This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g. symmetry, collaboration, undisciplining) gain traction. Through our critical engagements with structural, relat…
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- 978-90-04-70144-1
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- xiv, 310 pp.
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- Africa Multiple, Volume: 4
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Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, drawing on a large number of Middle Persian, Greek, Arabic, and Classical Persian sources. The Khwadāynāmag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comp…
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- 978-90-04-27764-9
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- Studies in Persian Cultural History, Volume: 14
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Key Concepts in the Study of Religions in Contact
There is no religion lest there are two religions. Therefore, it is only possible to examine the history of religions by taking the crucial situations of contact into account. Contact needs concepts. Not only scholars but also participants in situations of contact are forced to conceptualize themselves and the other. Taking its point of departure from the contact-based approach to the study of …
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- 978-90-04-71490-8
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- xiv, 598 pp.
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- Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume: 15
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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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Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting : Firs…
Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[t]busch, 1604). This English-language edition of the Grondt, accompanied by an introductory monog…
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- 978-90-04-52307-4
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- cloth with dustjacket, 484 pages, 33 full-color illustrations
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- Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume: 62
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Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran
“I am not Shemr, this is not a dagger, nor is this Karbala,” recites the arch-antagonist as a taʿziyeh performance begins. Verisimilitude is not the endeavour; this is a devotional offering that stirs lament for the the Shiʿi martyrs by representing events crucial to sacred history. But what does that retelling entail? Through study of four of its main episodes—from their long inter-fem…
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- 978-90-04-71614-8
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- xii, 260 pp., incl. 11 fc illus.
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- Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World, Volume: 15
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Justice and food security in a changing climate
"The UN's Sustainable Development Goals saw the global community agree to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. However, the number of chronically undernourished people is increasing continuously. Ongoing climate change and the action needed to adapt to it are very likely to aggravate this situation by limiting agricultural land and water resources and changing environmental con…
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- 978-90-8686-915-2
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- 434 pp.
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Judeans in Babylonia : A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE
In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical study of the Babylonian Exile, commonly regarded as a pivotal period in the development of Judaism. The results are considered in the light of the wider Babylonian society a…
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- 978-90-04-36542-1
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- xii, 353
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- Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume: 109
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Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) : Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) was the most prolific poet and playwright of his age. During his long life, roughly coinciding with the Dutch Golden Age, he wrote over thirty tragedies. He was a famous figure in political and artistic circles of Amsterdam, a contemporary and acquaintance of Grotius and Rembrandt, and in general well acquainted with Latin humanists, Dutch scholars, authors and …
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- 978-90-04-21883-3
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- Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe, Volume: 1
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John Buridan Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione Aristotel…
John Buridan (d. 1361) was one of the most talented and influential philosophers of the late Middle Ages. His fame extended far into the seventeenth century and underwent a revival in the twentieth century, when the French physicist Pierre Duhem rediscovered his manuscripts and wrote studies about them. So far, very few of Buridan's works have been edited. Two different questions commentaries o…
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- 978-90-04-18586-9
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- x, 270 pp.
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- Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Volume: 14
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