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Revised and expanded, this volume deals with the religious traditions of ancient Egypt. New material allows a much more precise allocation of religious texts and ideas in terms of time, place and social context.

Explores all equipment made or used to contain the embalmed internal organs of the kings of ancient Egypt. The book traces the mythological development of the various forms of container, and catalogues all known canopic items belonging to the kings of Egypt from the 4th to 26th Dynasties.

This volume brings together the works on ancient religion by Aylward Manley Blackman (1883-1956). A select bibliography provides an update and key to the more recent work on topics discussed by Blackman.

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A study of the intellectual and social history of modern Japan, with an analysis of popular culture in the post-war years. The book uses various mediums to reveal many of the contradictory forces at work beneath the surface of an apparently uniform culture.

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This classic volume focuses on the life of the Buddha and the early history of his order, and includes the first translation of many works. The first part of the book consists of the translation and analysis of contained in the Tibetan Dulva or Vinaya-pitaka, and the second part includes chapters on the early history of Tibet and Khosan and an index of Tibetan words with their Sanskrit equivalents. The author, William Woodville Rockhill, (1854-1914) was a scholar-diplomat, linguist, ethnologist and Tibetan expert who was the first American to speak, read and write Tibetan and the first to explore the Tibetan highlands. While serving as the American Minister to China, he became an authority on Buddhism and a friend of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. His collection of Tibetan manuscripts, including those consulted for this volume, became the core of the Library of Congress's Tibetan holdings.

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is one of the fundamental sources of information on chivalry as well as many other interesting subjects. Princess Anna was the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, and a highly educated and cultured woman. This is the first and only full translation of this remarkable work, although it has been much quoted in various scholarly works. Sir Walter Scott relied heavily on it for his various accounts of the chivalric tradition.

An ethnography of ritual and belief in contemporary Cairo. It contrasts the concepts and practices of three groups of Sunni Muslims - Sufis, practitioners of magic (dagaleen) and the varied religious groups known as Islamists. It shows that in Cairene society, purity and practice neither uphold social division nor significantly oppress women.

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Following on from "Ethiopia Engraved", this book covers the inception of photography in the country up until the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings and rulers of Ethiopia make it a very photogenic country.

Provides a history of the Yezidis people, tracing the origin of their religion, describing the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early 19th century, and detailing the community's traumatic recent history, and their current status.

An anthropological study of food, eating and culinary culture. Entries describe the significance of food in the culture under examination, explain how it is selected and prepared, and provides a recipe that can recreate the tastes of other worlds.

Gives an account of magical procedures of the past. This work provides the reader with passages from leading magical texts from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. It covers magical procedure, and includes topics such as gods, costume, and the planets and their relation to the supernatural.

This novel relates the experiences of four young men arriving in Cairo as students in the late 1950s. Freed from the restraints of strict religious conservatism, they plunge into the easy-going ways of Cairo, before being forced to react in various ways to the sudden outbreak of the Suez conflict.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The late Bernard Heuvelmans, founder of the science of cryptozoology and explorer, researcher and writer on the subject, presents the account of his revolutionary and pioneering account of the great beasts that inhabit our oceans.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later passing on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O''Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites; Indian influences by land and sea and the rise of Buddhism, O''Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect for all those interested in the history of medicine and science, and of historical geography as well as the history of the Arab world.

Preceded by critical notes on Sun Tzu and his work and including key Chinese characters, this book contains chapters on laying plans; waging war; attack by strategem, tactical dispositions, energy, weak points, and strong; maneuvering; variation of tactics; the army on the march; terrain; the nine situations; attack by fire; and the use of spies.

First Published in 2001. These extremely entertaining shorter pieces by the leader of Islamic literary culture aim to instruct us on matters of moral and social concern. They cover such uses as Chanteuses, The Pleasure of Girls and Boys, This Life and the Life to come, Drink and Drinkers, Envy, and the Superiority of the Front to the Back. Always taking a moral tone, Jahiz seldom fails to lighten with humour and wit.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.