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Corinth in Late Antiquity
A Greek, Roman and Christian City
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, later, a key focal point...
Fifty Years in the East
The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Few fields of Islamic studies have witnessed as much progress in modern times as Ismaili studies, and in even fewer instances has the role of a single individual been as pivotal in initiating progress as that of Wladimir Ivanow (1886-1970), whose memoirs are now published here for the first time....
Persian Historiography
A History of Persian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
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...
by Ian Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Professor Whyte's A Dictionary of Environmental History provides in a single volume a comprehensive reference work covering the past 12,000 years of the Earth's environmental history. An introduction to the discipline is followed by almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
The Parthians are a fascinating but little-known ancient civilization. In the mid-third century BCE a bold and ambitious leader called Arshak challenged Hellenic rule and led his armies to victory. The dynasty which he founded ruled over what became a mighty empire and restored the glory of Iran following...
Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey
Migration, Gender and Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The question of Kurdish identity and belonging is counted among the most controversial and challenging issues in modern Turkey. Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey cuts to the heart of this debate in an exploration of shifting ethnic identities brought on by the processes of extensive rural-urban...
The Political Economy of Human Rights in Armenia
Authoritarianism and Democracy in a Former Soviet Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the Republic of Armenia has experienced a reversal from a brief period of democratization to a Soviet-style authoritarian regime, and has been accused of repressive approaches to human rights. Here, Simon Payaslian juxtaposes a masterful survey...
Nation-Building in Modern Turkey
The 'People's Houses', the State and the Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime. During these years the state embarked upon an extensive reform programme of modernization and nation-building. The Kemalist reform movement has been extensively studied in its institutional dimensions...
New Spaces of Exploration
Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
On the 2 March 1899 the British flag was hoisted on the Antarctic continent. The event - recorded in the first ever photograph taken on Antarctica - claimed possession on behalf of the British crown. A century later, 14,000 feet beneath the North Pole, a mini-submarine attached to a nuclear-powered...
Unbelievable
Why We Believe and Why We Don't
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Why believe? What kinds of things do people believe in? How have they come to believe them? And how does what they believe – or disbelieve – shape their lives and the meaning the world has for them? For Graham Ward, who is one of the most innovative writers on contemporary religion, these questions...
Fundamentalisms
Threats and Ideologies in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
What is fundamentalism and what does it really amount to? How do uncompromising counter-cultural movements make ordinary people behave in extraordinary ways? Arguing that an adherence to scriptural literalism and biblical inerrancy is at root a reaction to modernism, these are among the key questions...
Feminism and Art History Now
Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Four decades of feminist art history have prompted a radical rethinking of the discipline. This volume asks how feminism's interventions and propositions are relevant to contemporary scholarship today. To what extent have developments in global politics, artworld institutions, and local cultures reshaped...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz's verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism...
Understanding the Qur'an
Themes and Style
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
NEW PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED GUIDE TO THE QUR'AN AND ITS INTERPRETATION BY A WORLD AUTHORITY ON ISLAM
The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of theQur'an. In this important introduction, now revised and updated for a newpaperback edition, Muhammad...