Religion

Divination is only a small part of a witchs stock in trade, and although a basic introduction to the subject can be learned from books, proficiency...

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

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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...

Global Phenomenologies of Religion offers a new way of looking at the past, current and future trajectory of the study of religion. The phenomenolo...

Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary...

This book questions whether the best way to deal with religious diversity is to equalise upwards or downwards, what the obstacles to a more egalita...

Islamic art is justly famed for its technological sophistication, varied approaches to ornament, and innovative employment of the written word. But...

Apart from an opening survey of modern study of ancient Jewish history, which emphasizes the foundational role of German-Jewish scholars, the studi...

One of the most controversial issues that divided Islamic philosophers and theologians for many centuries was whether human beings would have a spi...

In this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as profet national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and film....

ikyat Abu al-Qsim, probably written in the 11th century by the otherwise unknown al-Azd, tells the story of a gate-crasher from Baghdad named Ab al...

Who are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what was the Arabs' role in the rise of Islam? Investigating these core ques...

How can people belong simultaneously to two cultures, originating in two different places and expressed in two different languages, without alienat...

From its earliest times, Islam has had an ambivalent relationship with violence. For many early Muslim authors, violence was a simple fact of life....

The legend of Theophilus is a widely disseminated medieval miracle story. A good man gives in to Vain Glory, sells his soul to the Devil, has a ter...

The legend of Theophilus is a widely disseminated medieval miracle story. A good man gives in to Vain Glory, sells his soul to the Devil, has a ter...

David Gibson walks through each verse in Psalm 23, thoroughly examining its 3 depictions of the believers union with Christ as sheep and shepherd, ...