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The Fire, the Star and the Cross
Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
Contemporary political events have generated a strong interest in minorities in the Middle East. Although today the region is mostly identified with Islam, it has been home to many other great cultures, and the civilization of the Islamic world is itself indebted to the various peoples that the Arabs...
Oral Literature of Iranian Languages: Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Ossetic, Persian and Tajik: Companion Volume II
History of Persian Literature A, Vol XVIII
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia. It has been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others and praised by William Jones,...
Literature of the Early Twentieth Century: From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah
A History of Persian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. A History of Persian Literature...
The University of Cambridge
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2004
The intertwined stories of the great English 'Varsity' universities have many colourful aspects in common, yet each also boasts elements of true distinctiveness. So while the histories of Oxford and Cambridge are both characterised by seething town and gown rivalries, doctrinal conflicts and heretical...
Authoritarian Politics in Turkey
Elections, Resistance and the AKP
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Despite being democratically elected, Turkey's ruling AKP party moved towards increasingly authoritarian measures in the years that followed. After the coup attempt in July 2016, the AKP government declared a state of emergency which President Erdo?an saw as an opportunity to purge the public sector...
Radicalized
New Jihadists and the Threat to the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The attacks in Paris in January and November 2015 heralded the beginning of a new wave of terrorism - one rooted in the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq. As ISIS seeks to expand its reach in the Middle East, its territory serves as a base for training and operations for a new generation of jihadis....
Afghanistan
Identity, Society and Politics Since 1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Over the last three decades Afghanistan has been plagued by crisis from Soviet invasion in 1979 and Taliban rule to US invasion following the events of 9/11. Here the top specialists on Afghanistan, including Olivier Roy, Ahmad Rashid and Jonathan Goodhand, provide a unique overview of the evolution,...
by Patricia Watson, Prof Lindsay C. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Marcus Valerius Martialis, or Martial (born between 38 and 41 CE, died between 102 and 104 CE) is celebrated for his droll, frequently salacious, portrayal of Roman high and low society during the first century rule of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. Considered the 'inventor' of the modern...
The History of a Forgotten German Camp
Nazi Ideology and Genocide at Szmalcówka
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to Nazi ideology. At the outset of World War II, following the annexation of Poland, Hitler initiated a process of 'depolonization' (Entpolonisierung) which resulted in the death or displacement of a significant number of Poles living in...
Human and Animal in Ancient Greece
Empathy and Encounter in Classical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions.
This book discusses the role of animals - both domestic and wild - and mythological hybrid creatures in ancient Greek literature. Challenging the traditional view...
The Day Begins at Sunset
Perceptions of Time in the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
The vision of Time in the Qur'an is that of a divine gift created for the benefit of humankind. Night and day, and the twelve lunar months of the year, are 'appointed times for the believing people'. Reading the sky for the prayers of the hour has thus for Muslims been a constant reminder of God's...
Islam's Quantum Question
Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
In secular Europe the veracity of modern science is almost always taken for granted. Whether they think of Darwin's theory of evolution, or of spectacular investigations into the boundaries of particle physics conducted by CERN's Large Hadron Collider, most people assume that scientific enquiry goes...
Liquid Space
Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Science fiction is perhaps the most effective genre to explore the concerns of the present whilst reflecting on the possibilities of the future. But what precisely can it tell us about present and future by setting these two timeframes in the same critical space?
The Child in Film
Tears, Fears and Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Ghastly and ghostly children, 'dirty little white girls', the child as witness and as victim, have always played an important part in the history of cinema, as have child performers themselves. In exploring the disruptive power of the child in films made for an adult audience across popular films,...