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The seventeenth-century Ottoman Ḥijāz was a major center of Sufi life, hosting more than 150 Sufi shaykhs and forty Sufi orders. The Ottoman-era sources edited in this volume illustrate the richness of both individual and collective Sufi life and activities.

A collection of essays that demonstrate fruitful applications and recent further developments in globalization theory with reference to and in honour of the work of Roland Robertson, especially the concept of glocalization.

In Public Health Systems in the Age of Financialization, Cordilha offers an original analysis of the French and Brazilian health systems to show how they are being transformed into vehicles for financial speculation and capital accumulation in the neoliberal period.

Old Religion, New Spirituality: Implications of Secularisation and Individualisation in Estonia, edited by Riho Altnurme, discusses the link between the secularity of Estonia and the image of individualised religiosity in this country today.

This book provides legal perspectives on sustainability and participation, from contexts of environmental law and economic law, in which the two concepts originally arose, to new areas to which the concepts have spread, such as finance.

This book comprises a comprehensive study of the main linguistic isoglosses shared between the Aeolic dialects and their neighbours and presents an innovative new methodology for testing the likelihood of phylogenetic relationships among closely related dialects.

This is the first English translation of one of the most important treatises written during the late-Middle Ages in defense of converts from Judaism, favoring religious tolerance in the face of religious and racially motivated prejudice and violence.

This sixth volume of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic comprises five articles, each of which explores issues of perennial concern in the field of archaic Greek epic.

This commemorative volume offers a retrospective of the discipline as mirrored in the series Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft since its founding in 1993. Leading scholars examine issues of world literature, the history of ideas, gender studies, aesthetics and literary translation.

Illuminating issues of diversity at the intersection of rural education and multilingual learners in the United States, this edited volume brings forth new research that captures the importance of place and rurality in the work of educators who serve multilingual learners and their families.

Combining a unique collection of qualitative and quantitative contributions, this volume provides new perspectives on geographies of contention in Africa by bridging discussions on armed conflict and urban protest, the countryside and the city.

The image and voice of abandoned women are a familiar topic to students of classical Chinese poetry. This book explores the formation of the conventional, male-constructed voice of women, characterized by the expression of loneliness and resentment by a lady longing for an absent lover.

Is the Sublime Sustainable? considers the contemporary relevance of the sublime, introducing the key points of debate around the topic while opening new avenues for future inquiry, especially through its comparative aesthetics approach.

Investigating the remarkable economic development of both 'socialist' and 'capitalist' East Asian countries in the late twentieth century through the lens of state capitalism theory.

Illuminating issues of diversity at the intersection of rural education and multilingual learners in the United States, this edited volume brings forth new research that captures the importance of place and rurality in the work of educators who serve multilingual learners and their families.

Based on the author's thesis, University of Oxford.

In this volume, Fernando Tupa explores the significance and practical consequences of the fundamental principle that consent to international arbitration is forum-specific, which is sometimes overlooked by investment tribunals.

Islam on the Margins commemorates the contributions Michael Bonner made to Near Eastern Studies. Its collection of contributions from students and colleagues recalls the breadth of Michael Bonner's erudition and impact on the field.

This book provides a constructive historical and theological analysis of the relationship between neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicism from the angles of Scripture and tradition, interaction with modernity, ethics and moral theology, and worship, presented by internationally-renowned scholars.

This volume presents the Medinet Madi Library as one of the major collections of religious manuscripts from late antiquity, providing status reports from current editorial projects on individual codices and a set of studies on the Manichaean religion informed by these texts.

Basé sur l'ouverture intellectuelle et un intérêt pour les perspectives transdisciplinaires, ce volume édité présente aux spécialistes de la paix et de la sécurité africaines des approches méthodologiques et conceptuelles innovantes, offrant de nouvelles perspectives sur la vie intérieure de l'APSA.

Eight essays in this volume challenge basic assumptions about the Radical Reformation. They critique categories used to define Reformation radicals, provide new perspectives on the relationship between religious change and socio-political radicalism, and problematize the very concept of radicalism.