Publications
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Doubts on Avicenna
(2015)
In Doubts on Avicenna, Ayman Shihadeh offers an extended study and critical edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk, a key and hitherto unstudied source for twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. This ...
Crossroads of Cuisine
(2020)
Crossroads of Cuisine provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in ...
The Dissolution of Mind
(2002)
This book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind’s architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a ...
Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus
(2022)
In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography ...
Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness
(2016)
The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, ...
Metaphysics of Cooperation
(2023)
The Metaphysics of Cooperation presents the intellectual achievements of the Polish associative socialist and pioneer of social sciences, Edward Abramowski. The volume is divided into five sections, each of them contains ...
Coping With the Gods
(2011)
Inspired by a critical reconsideration of current monolithic approaches to the study of Greek religion, this book argues that ancient Greeks displayed a disquieting capacity to validate two (or more) dissonant, if not ...
Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries
(2017)
Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and ...
The Dutch East India Company and Mysore 1762-1790
(1961)
Indonesia
Grading Goal Four
(2020)
Grading Goal Four explores the tensions, threats and opportunities within Sustainable Development Goal 4 on quality education, aiming to support its rights-based implementation and to build capacity for strengthened ...