Regional Studies

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...

This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United State in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, t...

This book uncovers the Jesuits mystic theological interpretation in the translation of the Book of Changes (the Yijing) in their mission in China.T...

Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic ...

This book analyses how independent filmmakers from Bangladesh have represented national identity in their films. The focus of this book is on indep...

The monograph explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness, i.e., the property of an event participant to undergo chang...

This volume collects reflections on secularity from the Middle East and North Africa. To highlight proximate connections as well as resonances with...

How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history intervi...

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came ...

The documents from the aram al-sharf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad area...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...

Die Publikation stellt den Hongkonger Philosophen Lao Sze-kwang (1927-2012) anhand seiner kulturtheoretischen Schriften und mit Blick auf seine Pos...

Since Soviet collapse, the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have faced tremendous political...

Modern Iran since 1797 offers a comprehensive analysis of political, social and economic developments in Iran since the end of the eighteenth centu...

Complaint systems have existed in China for many years, and in 2004, a debate took place in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) over the Letters an...

Forty years after becoming an independent state, Israel is still involved in deadly strife with many of its Arab neighbors and with the Palestinian...

India Migration Report 2016 discusses migration to the Persian Gulf region. This volume: looks at contemporary labour recruitment and policy, both ...