Publications
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The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625-1800
(2019)
Twelve international scholars offer innovative studies of the law of nations from the Peace of Westphalia to the Enlightenment. The focus is on little known contexts and sources, and on novel interpretations of classics ...
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
(2018)
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. The contributions in the volume also accommodate and interact with critical insights ...
In Leijdeckers voetspoor
(1974)
Indonesia
A Collated and Critical Study of the Xiang’er Commentary to the Laozi
(2024)
This work is a translation of the Xiang'er commentary to the Daodejing and Jao Tsung-i's (1917-2018) supplemental notes and analysis. Jao Tsung-i offers a historically and hermeneutically rich study of the Xiang’er Commentary, ...
Development as a Battlefield
(2017)
Development as a Battlefield is an innovative exploration of conflict and development, phenomena that are often regarded as ostensibly antagonistic. It invites readers to reconsider socio-political and economic developments ...
Jesuit Libraries
(2022)
The Society of Jesus began a tradition of collecting books and curating those collections at its foundation. These libraries were important to both their European sites and their missions; they helped build a global culture ...
Autor:innenschaft und/als Arbeit
(2024)
Literarisches Schreiben wird seit der Romantik als Gegenentwurf zur Erwerbsarbeit konzipiert. Allerdings muss auch das literarische Werk entworfen, geschrieben, verlegt, vertrieben und gelesen werden. Die Beiträge des ...
Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article
(2020)
This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially ...
The Wolio Language
(1988)
Indonesia
Der Tempel der Gerechtigkeit
(2023)
In marked contrast to what has hitherto been thought the 432 titles of Digest are not an amorphous heap of quotations but have to a significant extent a rhetorical structure. The hermeneutics of the Digest have to take ...
Songs of the Royal Zhōu and the Royal Shào
(2022)
The songs of the Royal Zhōu (“Zhōu Nán” 周南) and of the Royal Shào (“Shào Nán” 召南) have formed a conceptual unit since at least the late Spring and Autumn period (771–453 BC). With this book Meyer and Schwartz provide a ...
Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia
(2020)
Constructed around seven extensively contextualized case studies, Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia offers a critical trans-dynastic understanding of the socio-political histories ...
Qarakhanid Roads to China
(2022)
Qarakhanid Roads to China takes readers on a large-scale adventure with envoys and merchants, monks and artists, men and women along the Silk Roads and beyond.
Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire
(2001)
Readership: All those interested in Roman history (also at the local level in communities in the Roman Empire), the history of ancient Greek and Roman religions, the representation of power of Roman emperors, and the ...
Bima Swarga in Balinese Wayang
(1981)
The aim of the author's research was to study 1) the thematic elements and the composition of the plays (lelampahan wayang), and 2) their religious and cultural background. She concentrates on one particular play: the story ...
The Eudaimonist Ethics of al-Fārābī and Avicenna
(2022)
Al-Fārābī and Avicenna are the two most influential authors of the classical period of Arabic philosophy, yet their ethical thought has been largely overlooked by scholars. In this book, Janne Mattila provides the first ...
Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva
(2020)
In Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva, Sartori and Abdurasulov show that in Khorezm prior to Sovietization the dispensation of justice according to Islamic law depended mostly on a group of officials ...
Poetische Gerechtigkeit als kognitives Prinzip der Rezeption
(2024)
The concept of poetic justice is reinterpreted within the framework of cognitive literary theory and is understood as the reader's interpretation. This reinterpretation of the concept is demonstrated through Arthur ...
Sinn für Gespenster
(2022)
In Late Medieval Europe, apparitions were often interpreted as manifestations of restless souls from purgatory, seeking the help of the bereaved. Induced by a complex set of theological re-interpretations, Protestant ...
Sacrifice in Modernity
(2020)
Sacrifice seems to belong to a religious context of the past. In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society. The ...
Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies
(2023)
During the early modern period, thousands of Jesuits across Europe wrote individual applications for appointments in the “Indies” directly to the superior general of the Society of Jesus in Rome. Known today as litterae ...
Unfree Lives
(2024)
This first detailed study of slavery in medieval Yemen examines the lives of women and men who were enslaved as children and then placed in various subaltern positions - from domestic servant to royal concubine, from ...
The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews
(2009)
In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to ...
China: Promise or Threat?
(2017-03-30)
In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to ...
Scholars in Action (2 vols)
(2013)
In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.; Readership: All interested ...
Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity
(2017)
Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity offers a collection of essays that deal with perceptions of wisdom, femaleness, and their interconnections in a wide range of ancient sources, including papyri, Nag Hammadi documents, ...
Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion
(1975)
Indonesia
Sja'ir Perang Mengkasar
(1963)
Indonesia
Habsburg als Touristenmagnet
(2021)
Betätigten sich die Habsburger durch ihre alpinen Reisen als frühe Influencer? Ursula Butz untersucht den Einfluss dieser Reisen auf den lokalen Fremdenverkehr der Kurorte Bad Ischl, Meran und Reichenau an der Rax und auf ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 1 (1991)
(1992)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
Rebellion under the Banner of Islam
(1981)
The Darul Islam rebellion, striving for the establishment of an Islamic State of Indonesia, broke out in several areas since 1949. The author describes each of these Darul Islam rebellions and identifies some of the factors ...
Investigating Understanding
(2024)
With a fresh and innovative perspective, Leonie Kirchhoff introduces an interdisciplinary xamination of literary understanding, drawing upon cognitive, educational, and literary studies. At the heart of the study is a ...
Symbolic Anthropology in the Netherlands
(1982)
Indonesia
Private World(s): Gender and Informal Learning of Adults
(2015)
This book is the third production from the ESREA Gender network and, once more, an opportunity to let the readers discover, or to know more, for a better understanding of questions related to gender and adult learning. It ...
Oost-Soemba
(1940)
Indonesia
Bridging between Research and Practice
(2014)
This book presents a fresh approach to bridging the perceived gap between academic and classroom cultures. It describes a unique form of research partnership whereby Cambridge University academics and school teachers ...
Private World(s): Gender and Informal Learning of Adults
(2015)
This book is the third production from the ESREA Gender network and, once more, an opportunity to let the readers discover, or to know more, for a better understanding of questions related to gender and adult learning. It ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 2, 2023
(2023)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
Inklusive Verwaltung
(2014)
Die Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste ist eine Vereinigung der führenden Forscherinnen und Forscher des Landes. Sie wurde 1970 als Nachfolgeeinrichtung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung ...