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    Medieval Cultures in Contact
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    Medieval Cultures in Contact

    Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world, the west's debts to Byzantium, European expansion during the...
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  • The Medieval Kingdoms of Cyprus and Armenia The Medieval Kingdoms of Cyprus and Armenia
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    The Medieval Kingdoms of Cyprus and Armenia

    This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come...
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  • Medieval Europe 400 - 1500 Medieval Europe 400 - 1500
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    Medieval Europe 400 - 1500

    This book traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European identity. Koenigsberger covers the Islamic, Byzantine and central Asian worlds...
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  • Exploring South Asian Urbanity Exploring South Asian Urbanity
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    Exploring South Asian Urbanity

    This book looks at the typologies of cities and ideas of urbanity. Focusing specifically on cities in South Asia, it analyses the unique planning concepts, archaeology, art, culture, life, and...
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  • Philosophie asiatique/Asian philosophy Philosophie asiatique/Asian philosophy
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    Philosophie asiatique/Asian philosophy

    The present publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chronicles, Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Contemporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Klibansky...
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  • Ancient Asian History Ancient Asian History
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    Ancient Asian History

    If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Asia, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book:Ancient China: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of China and the...
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  • The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantra The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantra
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    The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantra

    This book presents an account of the concept of mind in Hindu Tantra through a study of religious and philosophical texts in the medieval period. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of...
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  • Rewriting Caucasian History
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    Rewriting Caucasian History

    After the invention of a national script, c.400 AD, Armenians rapidly developed their own literary forms, drawing on foreign texts as well as their own traditions. Historical writing is the most...
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  • The Transformation of Nature in Art The Transformation of Nature in Art
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    The Transformation of Nature in Art

    In The Transformation of Nature in Art, Ananda Coomaraswamy explains the theory behind medieval European and Asian art, especially art in India. He further supplements the Indian theory with that of...
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  • The Gaṇitatilaka and its Commentary The Gaṇitatilaka and its Commentary
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    The Gaṇitatilaka and its Commentary

    The Ga¿itatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Ga¿itatilaka by Sripati and its Sanskrit commentary...
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  • Temples of India Temples of India
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    Temples of India

    Are you a general reader or pilgrim on a religious and spiritual journey? Are you someone that is curious about historical aspects and local legends of a temple? This book, "Temples of India:...
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  • History of the Concept of Mind History of the Concept of Mind
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    History of the Concept of Mind

    Exploring the 'roads less travelled', MacDonald continues his monumental essay in the history of ideas. The history of heterodox ideas about the concept of mind takes the reader from the earliest...
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  • Madame Wu's Handbook on Home-Cooking Madame Wu's Handbook on Home-Cooking
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    Madame Wu's Handbook on Home-Cooking

    Madame Wu's Handbook on Home-Cooking: The Song Dynasty Classic on Domestic Cuisine is the first Western language edition of the Wushi Zhongkuilu 吳氏中饋錄, one of the earliest Chinese works on home...
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  • Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
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    Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia

    The area of Buddhist monasticism has long attracted the interest of Buddhist studies scholars and historians, but the interpretation of the nature and function of monasteries across diverse cultures...
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  • Documents from the African Past Documents from the African Past
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    Documents from the African Past

    This fascinating collection spans two millennia, beginning with a first-century merchant’s guide to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. Primary sources describe ancient and medieval trade routes,...
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    Before Orientalism
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    Before Orientalism

    A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that...
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  • Mapping Global Theatre Histories Mapping Global Theatre Histories
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    Mapping Global Theatre Histories

    This textbook provides a global, chronological mapping of significant areas of theatre, sketched from its deepest history in the evolution of our brain's 'inner theatre' to ancient, medieval,...
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    Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages

    This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time...
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  • The Indian Frontier The Indian Frontier
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    The Indian Frontier

    This omnibus brings together some old and some recent works by Jos Gommans on the warhorse and its impact on medieval and early modern state-formation in South Asia. These studies are based on...
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    Sea of Silk
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    Sea of Silk

    Sea of Silk A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature E. Jane Burns""Burns shifts our focus from questions of the consumption of silk to those of its production and...
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  • Receptacle of the Sacred
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    Receptacle of the Sacred

    In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for...
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  • Archaeoastronomy in East Asia Archaeoastronomy in East Asia
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    Archaeoastronomy in East Asia

    Until now, important research on the historical records of comets and meteor showers from China, Japan, and Korea has remained the exclusive preserve of those with expertise in the relevant languages...
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  • Religion and the City in India Religion and the City in India
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    Religion and the City in India

    This book offers fresh theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses of the relation between religion and the city in the South Asian context. Uniting the historical with the contemporary by...
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    Power Misses II
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    Power Misses II

    Like David James' earlier collection of essays, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), the present volume, Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern is concerned with popular...
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  • The Avars
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    The Avars

    The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers,...
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  • Same-Sex Love in India Same-Sex Love in India
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    Same-Sex Love in India

    Lambda literary award finalist, Same-Sex Love in India presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages...
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  • Cultural Histories of Central Asia Cultural Histories of Central Asia
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    Cultural Histories of Central Asia

    Central Asia, the 'heart' of the Eurasian landmass, has through the centuries been the hub of diverse and varied cultures. These cultures have encompassed pre-Islamic religions and Islam, sedentary...
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  • Pali Grammar for Students Pali Grammar for Students
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    Pali Grammar for Students

    This book is intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, as a work of reference rather than a "teach yourself" textbook. It presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both...
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  • The Khazars
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    The Khazars

    The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches of the Central Asian steppes from the 4th to the...
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    Hidden Intercourse
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    Hidden Intercourse

    From rumors about gnostic orgies in antiquity to the explicit erotic symbolism of alchemical texts, from the subtly coded eroticism of medieval kabbalah to the sexual magic practiced by contemporary...
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  • Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World
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    Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World

    Beginning with the medieval period, this book collates and reviews first-hand scholarship on Muslims in the Middle East and South Asia, as noted down by eminent British travellers, sleuths and...
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  • Asceticism and Its Critics
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    Asceticism and Its Critics

    Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this radical way of life-- the withdrawal from the world, combined with practices that seriously affect basic...
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    Clio and Her Descendants

    Professor Kesavan Veluthat, in a significant departure from the existing scholarship, represented by K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, T.V. Mahalingam, and Elamkulam P.N. Kunjan Pillai, explored aspects of...
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  • Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition
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    Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition

    Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to...
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  • Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
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    Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures

    Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women's contributions from memory. Women's agency has also been a glaring blind spot in the scholarly pursuit of gender...
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    Indian Epigraphy

    This book provides a general survey of all the inscriptional material in the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and modern Indo-Aryan languages, including donative, dedicatory, panegyric, ritual, and literary texts...
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  • Tuqviuti-Din-I-Mazdiasna, Or, a Mehzur, Or, Certificate, Given by Huzrut Mahomed, the Prophet, of the Moosulmans, On Behalf of Mehdi-Furrookh Bin-Shukhsan (Brother of Sulman-I-Farsi, Otherwise Called Dinyar Dustoor), and Another Mehzur Given by Huzr Tuqviuti-Din-I-Mazdiasna, Or, a Mehzur, Or, Certificate, Given by Huzrut Mahomed, the Prophet, of the Moosulmans, On Behalf of Mehdi-Furrookh Bin-Shukhsan (Brother of Sulman-I-Farsi, Otherwise Called Dinyar Dustoor), and Another Mehzur Given by Huzr
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    Tuqviuti-Din-I-Mazdiasna, Or, a Mehzur, Or, Certificate, Given by Huzrut Mahomed, the Prophet, of the Moosulmans, On Behalf of Mehdi-Furrookh Bin-Shukhsan (Brother of Sulman-I-Farsi, Otherwise Called Dinyar Dustoor), and Another Mehzur Given by Huzr

    This remarkable historical document is a testament to the enduring influence of Islamic culture and religion on the Indian subcontinent. Written in Persian and accompanied by an English translation,...
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  • The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
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    The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen

    The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance...
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