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Examining the role of speculation in philosophy, art and finance, Speculation as a Mode of Production is an essential, widescreen theorization of capital's drive to self-expansion, and an urgent corrective to the narrow and one-sided periodisations to which it is most commonly subjected.

In The Grey Falcon, Hamza Malik offers an account of the life and teaching of the twelfth century scholar and Sufi, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (1066-1177), through a careful analysis of his most popular written works.

This volume contains annotated translations of anecdotes, on musicological and socio-cultural topics, from al-Iṣbahānī's The Grand Book of Songs. Includes music theory and treatises; instruments; composition techniques; education and transmission; vocal and instrumental performances; solo and ensemble music; improvisations; emotions; dances; social status.

Ivana Noble describes in Essays in Ecumenical Theology I emerging methods, aims and themes. She also shows why the search for common roots, mutual knowledge and shared mission has became so important in (Post)Modern Christianity.

This volume consists of multiple original comprehensive scholarship about and approaches to the history of the fortresses of Ghana and Benin. It suggests an alternative approach and view on them.

In Cambodia's Muslims and the Malay World Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development of Cambodia's Muslim minority from the mid-19th to the 21st century. Particular attention is paid to Malay influence, Islamic factionalism and the minority context.

A Companion to Medieval Toledo. Reconsidering the Canons explores the limits of "Convivencia" through new and problematized readings and initiates the non-specialist into the historical, cultural, and religious complexity of the iconic city.

Transformation has emerged as a prominent construct in myriad academic disciplines. Such transformational processes as movement from sickness to wellness, from grief to closure and from fractured to integrated are evident within the pilgrimage literature and are explored in this volume.

The Organization of Distance argues that the impression of Chineseness in Chinese poetry is a product of translation, simultaneously nativizing and foreignizing from sources abroad and in the past.

Since 2010 Greece entered a period of austerity, protest and political crisis. The contributions in this volume deal with questions regarding capitalist crisis, debt, European integration, political crisis, new forms of protest, the rise of neo-fascist parties and left-wing strategy today.

This book explores the events, people, and writings surrounding the early Jesus movement. The essays are divided into four groups: the movement's formation, production of its early Gospels, description of the Jesus movement itself, and the Jewish mission and its literature.

In The Performative Structure, Nils Billing investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex and tomb as a ritualized architecture, made operative through its architectural configuration and decoration patterns in terms of texts and images.

In Lost in Translation, Found in Transliteration, Alex Kerner examines communal usage of languages and censorship policies on printed materials, proposing to look at London's Spanish and Portuguese Jews' congregation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a linguistic community.

How Muftis Think offers a wealth of new materials from the nearly unexplored field of contemporary women-related fatwas in Europe. Lena Larsen's interviews and readings provide fascinating insights into fatwa-giving as a contribution to developing a local European Islamic jurisprudence.

Ocean Law Debates: The 50-Year Legacy and Emerging Issues for the Years Ahead offers historical perspectives on the ocean-law debates of the 1960s and after, leading to the signing of UNCLOS in 1982, along with perceptive analyses of various key current-day issues, including climate change, biodiversity in the Area Beyond National Jurisdiction, seabed mining, genetic prospecting, and the geopolitics of Marine Protected Areas.

Machiavelliana is the first comprehensive study of the uses and abuses made of Niccolò Machiavelli's name in management, primatology, leadership, power, as well as in novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, rap music, children's books, and more.

In Christianity, Empire and The Spirit, Néstor Medina uncovers the interwoven cultural processes that influence how people understand reality, express faith, and think about God. Countering Eurocentric theological articulations, he proposes that the Spirit is at work in the cultural.

The Bibliography of the Exact Sciences in the Low Countries presents the most complete census of printed calendars, almanacs and prognostications by authors of the Low Countries from ca. 1470 to the Golden Age (1700).

In Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person.

In Taming Ares Emiliano J. Buis studies the narrative foundations of the (il)legality of warfare in the classical Greek world in order to demonstrate its contribution to a better historical understanding of the international legal rules applicable to the use of force and the conduct of hostilities.

The current work provides bibliographic information, a worldwide census, ownership records, and a description of the annotations in all the copies of Vesalius' Fabrica. It reconstructs the travels of the Fabrica across the globe since 1543 and its annotated readership.

In The Plot-structure of Genesis Todd L. Patterson argues that Genesis is organized by a development from complication to dénouement. The question 'Will the righteous seed survive?' drives the narrative to climax.

The Plant Contract presents contemporary art that changes human perception of the vegetal world, after centuries of plant disassociation, and returns us to the genius and solace of "nature and thought".

In The Politics of Religion in Peru (1884-1935) Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti offers an account of the Catholic Church's responses to the secularisation of the State and society along with an appraisal of the contributions of Social Catholicism in post-independence Peru.

Sola Scriptura offers a multi-disciplinary reflection on the theme of the priority and importance of Scripture in theology, from historical, biblical-theological and systematic-theological perspectives, aiming at the interaction between exegesis and dogmatics.