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Brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare across Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.

The book presents a snapshot of a locality in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious region in the Ottoman East in the nineteenth century.

At a time when rights are increasingly placed on the humanitarian agenda, this unique ethnographic account of refugees with disabilities shows how they navigate categories of entitlement and concrete benefits, exposing power dynamics and redefining dependency in a thought-provoking way.

Fascinating discussions about English theologyʼs lying God, pantheism, logic of the divine, time, freedom, and fixity, if any, in biblical commentaries at the medieval University of Vienna.

This book offers a narrative analysis, coupled with a historical anthropology, of the stories that feature Muhammad's grandfather in Ibn Ishaq's Sīra. These stories form a narrative sequence composed of several episodes that cascade to a prophetic birth. Cet ouvrage propose une analyse narrative, accompagnée d'une anthropologie historique, des récits qui mettent en scène le grand-père de Muhammad dans la Sīra d'Ibn Ishaq. Ces récits forment une séquence narrative composée de plusieurs épisodes qui aboutissent en cascade à une naissance prophétique.

This book examines the individual and collective subjectivities of enslaved individuals in the Iberian worlds, exploring a broad chronology and geography, including the Indian Ocean. It offers a nuanced analysis of the complexities of race, gender, labor, social mobility, religion, and politics.

This book explores the shifting meanings and functions of the Chora/Kariye Camii site over its long life. It provides a framework for understanding not only this building but, more generally, edifices that have undergone interventions and transformations within multicultural societies.

Examining Vṛndāvana's history, architecture, art, ritual, theology, and literature in the early modern period, this book explores how these various disciplines were used to create the town as the most prominent place of pilgrimage for devotees of Kṛṣṇa.

The present work is about the life, works and travels of a seventeenth-century wandering scholar through Europe and the Near East, his connections to the foremost scholars of his time, and his promotion of the study of Arabic through the oriental manuscripts that he collected.

The present volume explores how and why Averroes, a Muslim philosopher and jurist, became one of the most important figures in the history of Jewish philosophy.

Teaching Internation Law is a topic of great interest in international law academia. This book brings together a large number of international lawyers from all over the world presenting the state of the art of this discipline.

Under the term "constitutional moments", this volume identifies occasions from Ancient Greece to the present day when writers or politicians took significant steps towards the definition or redefinition of polities, thus showing a revealing variety of constitutional thinking and action.

Splendid, multimedia celebrations for Teresa of Avila's beatification (1614) and canonization (1622) disseminated her cult to far-flung cities. Previously unknown festivities in Genoa, Rome, and Naples as well as those in Portuguese controlled Hormuz and Goa are vividly reconstructed and interpreted.

Le livre de Salah Natij, La Théorie du Bayān d'al-Jāḥiẓ d'une herméneutique de la nature à une sémiotique de la culture est une étude entièrement consacrée à la théorie du Bayān (communication, herméneutique, sémiologie) de l'encyclopédiste et polygraphe arabe al-Jāḥiẓ (m. 869). Salah Natij's book, Al-Jahiz's Theory of Bayān: From a Hermeneutics of Nature to a Semiotics of Culture is a study entirely devoted to the Bayān theory (communication, hermeneutics, semiology) of the Arab encyclopedist and polygrapher al-Jāḥiẓ (d.869).

This collection of articles on Hebrew language, Hebrew Bible, and Hebrew manuscripts, written by a host of prominent academics, is offered in honor of Gary Rendsburg, one of the world's foremost scholars of the Hebrew Bible.

This book is inspired by academic mothering before and through the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring diverse enactments of mothering, the authors critique academia's systemic failures, in the pandemic and beyond, fabulating futures in which mothering is valued and supported.

This book is inspired by academic mothering before and through the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring diverse enactments of mothering, the authors critique academia's systemic failures, in the pandemic and beyond, fabulating futures in which mothering is valued and supported.

This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports.

The book deals with musicians' behaviour at the court; the process of composition; modes, repertoire and instruments in Andalusia, the Maghreb, Persia and the Middle East; new poetic forms: zajal and muwashshaḥ; dance and shadow dance in Andalusia and the Middle East.

This volume offers new perspectives from five continents on the complex and enduring legacies of resource extraction, and demonstrates the alarming obduracy of the logic of extractivism, even - and perhaps especially - in the growing support for the so-called green transition.

The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states - all related to developments in one calendar year.

This volume offers new perspectives from five continents on the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with critical and nuanced analyses of the social, cultural and political dimensions of extraction. It also explores the narratives and imaginaries that underpin extractive activities as well as resistance to them.

This volume examines in an innovative and applied perspective the interdependence between the role of international organizations, the existence of global public goods and the need of sustainable development. Moreover, it is set within the context of current challenges in today's world of dramatic transition and clearly responds to the need for filling the existing research gap in this area. It also demonstrates excellent knowledge of primary resources and a very good mastery of the various concepts and policy issues. Moreover, it offers an important added value to the theory, research and recent publications of the concerned broad study field.

This publication brings together current scholarship that focuses on the significance of performing arts heritage of royal courts in Southeast Asia. The contributors consist of both established and early-career researchers working on traditional performing arts in the region and abroad.

Placemaking in Practice - Experiences and Approaches from a Pan-European Perspective brings together a vibrant set of experiences linked to placemaking in urban environments. Approaches reflect on the potential of placemaking from different perspectives, disciplines and actors on what placemaking from different angles means in practice.

This work is the first to bring together contemporaneous notations, musical treatises, literary sources, travellers' accounts and iconography, to present a synthetic picture of the emergence of Ottoman composed and improvised instrumental music from the early 17th to the mid-18th centuries.

This book, for the first time, investigates documentary aesthetics as a formative trend in post-war Eastern Europe. Its contributions reconstruct major artistic practices and their theoretical reflections within the broader cultural-political horizon of the turbulent 1960s.

This book is the first large-scale comparative study to provide a comprehensive portrait of indigenous religious rights around the world, both in terms of recent political advances and persistent social obstacles to the implementation of legal protections for these rights.

This deeply researched and carefully conceived volume dismantles the prevailing notion of Dada as a mainly "Western" phenomenon. Building on previous studies of East-Central European Dada, it demonstrates how Dada artists from Bucharest to Prague actively defined, shaped, appropriated, and cannibalized the Modernist canon.

Exploring an array of topics, from hybridized Buddhist music to AI singers, this book introduces Japanese music in the modern era. The chapters highlight unique influences, including the transformation of traditional genres and the adoption of Western musical practices ranging from classical music to hip hop