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Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice presents the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture.
Philosophical Theology in Islam explores the later history of the Ashʿarī school of theology through in-depth studies on its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts.
In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world in al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms(10th century C.E.) and unravels how the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium.
How can human vulnerability be a platform for community and a potential for political agency? A Political Theology of Vulnerability explores how religious, and in particular Christian, resources may inspire a radical precarious politics.
The 'future of teaching' represents a technological disruption of moral traditions of teaching and what teaching might become and is a serious concern for the current generation of philosophers in both China and the West.
The 'future of teaching' represents a technological disruption of moral traditions of teaching and what teaching might become and is a serious concern for the current generation of philosophers in both China and the West.
Complete list and analysis of Greek quarry inscriptions from the east bank of Gebel el-Silsila.
This book critically re-examines the scientific understanding of learning and presents novel concepts and emerging theories, ground-breaking research, pioneering investigations, and state-of-the-art projects. The chapters in this book portray theoretical frameworks, thought-provoking ideas, and promising efforts in framing new science of learning.
This cross-disciplinary volume of essays offers the first comprehensive set of studies to examine the nexus of music and religious education and to illustrate the ways music served as a means of religious teaching and learning in early modern Europe.
In Willing and Understanding, prominent scholars elucidate a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the interplay of the will and the intellect in the late Middle Ages.
In this volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers a distinct and original international historical sociology of the European far-right from its origins in 1848 to fascism, through the prism of uneven and combined development.
The Soviet dissolution had significant repercussions on Chinese politics, foreign policy, and other aspects. The book examines what Chinese scholars learned from the lessons of the Soviet demise and how they used that knowledge to legitimize communist one-party rule in China after the end of the Cold War.
Volume 5 of the fully revised Commentaries on World Trade Law offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, article by article analysis of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) - the WTO's multilateral agreement on trade in services.
The catechisms of Peter Canisius highlight the struggle within the Catholic Church to reframe Christian identity after the Protestant Reformation. In contrast to the defensive catechesis of Rome, Canisius's catechisms proposed to achieve orthodoxy by encouraging Christian piety.
How does a modern society that venerates soldiers write about ancient wars? This book explores how the intellectual environment of the German Empire left lasting militaristic traces on the way we write the history of warfare in ancient Greece.
The authors strive to illuminate every aspect of Erasmus' life, work, and legacy while providing an expert synthesis of the most inspiring research in the field. There is no volume to compare or to compete with this compendium of all Erasmian knowledge.
Space Law in a Networked World charts how space law has been affected by the opportunities and challenges presented by digital networks and technologies.
Science and Society in the Sanskrit World contains seventeen essays that cover a kaleidoscopic array of classical Sanskrit scientific disciplines, such as the astral sciences, grammar, jurisprudence, theology, and hermeneutics.
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses how being situated in a specific cultural and historical context informs the meanings that pilgrims attribute to their experiences in Mecca. The book provides unique insights in Islam's rich and evolving tradition of hajj storytelling.
The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible is the single major work of reference on the gods, angels, demons, spirits and semi-divine heroes whose names occur in the biblical books. First published in 1995 and chosen by "Choice" as Best Reference Work of 1996, and then in an extensively revised edition in 1998. Arranged in the order of the Latin alphabet, the more than four-hundred names are those found in the books of the Hebrew and the Greek Bible, Old and New Testament, including the Apocrypha. Extensive indices and cross-references provide easy access to the rich information of the dictionary. The Dictionary of Deities and Demons is the fruit of a common effort of a group of more than a hundred international scholars from a variety of traditions.
The book investigates China's relations to the outside world between ca. 100 BCE and 1800 CE. In contrast to most histories of the Silk Roads, the focus of this book clearly lies on the maritime Silk Road and on the period between Tang and high Qing, selecting aspects that have so far been neglected in research on the history of China's relations with the outside world.
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