Regional Studies

There has been a tendency to neglect the political life of Asia, in favour of religious and aesthetic considerations. The myth of the changeless Ea...

Host country to the 1988 Olympic Games, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) became prominent in world affairs but surprisingly little was known abo...

In the early 1980s, biotechnology caused worldwide excitement as a high technology with almost unlimited potential in science, medicine, and indust...

First published in 1929, Before the Bluestockings is a study of the individual lives and the position of educated Englishwomen from the Restoration...

Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, ec...

Rival communities of the faithful are not in the habit of reading each others books, and when they do so, it is often to find fault and disparage. ...

While most attention is given to the booming mega-cities in China and the associated problems of over-population, the rural areas in China are bein...

In 1587, Ab al-Fazl ibn Mubrak a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnmah completed his Preface to the Persian translation of th...

This work aims to distill the findings of a wide variety of scholarly disciplines into a coherent narrative of the Qurns history, from the first or...

Promoting Islamic religious communication in German requires extremely precise knowledge of this kind of communication and language. This can stre...

Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, ow...

Territorial autonomy in Spain has reached a crossroads. After over thirty years of development, the consensus regarding its appropriateness has sta...

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the regio...

Now in its sixty-fourth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world...

Die Reihe Communicatio, nun in neuer Ausrichtung, versammelt methodisch ambitionierte Forschungsbeiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache, die ...

The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic...

Few cities around the world transcend their physical boundaries the way Jerusalem does. As the spiritual capital of monotheism, Jerusalem has ancie...

Over the last twenty years, the rise of Qur'anic studies has been one of the most remarkable developments within the wider framework of Islamic sc...

This book explores multilingualism and multiscriptism in a great variety of writing cultures, offering an in-depth analysis of how diverse language...

The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be modern....

Written artefacts are traditionally studied because of their content. Material aspects of these artefacts enrich the study of ancient history in ma...

The volume offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the phenomenon of migration and mobility in the modern globalised world and their impact on mu...

The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the n...

In the past decade, Bangladesh has achieved significant social and economic progress. Despite high population density, a limited natural-resource b...