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ean: 9789004124448, isbn: 9004124446,

A guide to the scholarly and literary production of Muslim writers of West Africa, other than Nigeria,including both biographies of scholars and lists of their writings....

ean: 9789004164628, isbn: 9004164626,

By integrating cultural, political, social and economic factors the book empirically affirms, the importance of culture, represented by religious values, in the fight against poverty and that political and economic attitudes have a role to play in th...

ean: 9789004202689, isbn: 9004202684,

The volume contains the 22 papers presented to Hanan Eshel before his death, covering topics in archaeology, history, and textual studies, with a particular emphasis on aspects relating to the Dead Sea Scrolls, spanning the late Iron Age through late...

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ean: 9789004099746, isbn: 9004099743,

This two-volume work is a comprehensive collection of the pictorial sources for sport in Pharaonic Egypt. Adopting a broad definition of sport, its scope embraces relevant cultic scenes as well as archery, charioteering and horsemanship, hunting, wre...

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ean: 9789004345652, isbn: 9004345655,

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 10 (CMR 10) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in the Ottoman and Safavid empires. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments and comprehe...

mpn: 9789004145078, ean: 9789004145078, isbn: 9004145079,

This book of essays samples current scholarship on New Netherland, touching on topics such as New Netherland in Historical Memory. New Netherland in the Atlantic World, the Political Economy of New Netherland, and New Netherland’s Directors....

ean: 9789004338159, isbn: 9004338152,

This collection problematizes the relationship between protests and generations. It examines how the production of generations relates to mobilization, forms of protest, and the generation of memory. It explores genealogies of generational formations...

ean: 9789004166561, isbn: 9004166564,

Addressing an urgent and deeply felt need for more dialogue between interpreters of the Bible from radically different contexts, this book reflects in a comprehensive and existential manner on how to establish new alliances, how to learn from each ot...

ean: 9789004062955, isbn: 9004062955,

ean: 9789004104525, isbn: 9004104526,

This two-volume publication provides a unique introduction to the qadisa, a major poetic genre current in Islamic literatures from medieval times to the present; it comprises a volume of papers and an accompanying anthology of 50 poems in 14 language...

ean: 9789004101272, isbn: 9004101276,

Astronomy and astrology, or the astral sciences, played an enormous, if not key role in the political and religious life of the Ancient Near East, and, later, of the Greek and Roman world. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the...

ean: 9789004325524, isbn: 9004325522,

Nefertiti's Sun Temple publishes stone relief fragments excavated from the site of Kom el-Nana at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, dating to approximately 1350 BCE. This is the first time relief fragments can be associated with a specific wall from a specific ...

ean: 9789004137578, isbn: 9004137572,

This study of the reception of Paul of Aegina's handbook (or pragmateia) in the Syriac and Arabic traditions provides fascinating new insights into Greek-Syriac-Arabic translation techniques and the impact of Greek medical theory on the development o...

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ean: 9789004110496, isbn: 9004110496,

This edited volume explores the history, social structure and economy of Kordofan in the Sudan. Representing several academic disciplines, each chapter is concerned with the long-term incorporation - through invasions - of the region into wider socio...

ean: 9789004123878, isbn: 9004123873,

This volume is about the history, literature, ritual, and thought associated with ancient Mesopotamian witchcraft. With chapters on the changing forms and roles of witchcraft beliefs, the ritual function, form, and development of the Maqlu text (the ...

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ean: 9789004124417, isbn: 9004124411,

This volume traces the origins of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, a group of African women theologians established in the 1980s. It is a movement which has been dedicated to research, publication and support of African women. The b...

ean: 9789004271869, isbn: 9004271864,

In Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry Elina Hankela engages with the socio-moral meanings ofubuntu (Nguni: humanness/humanity) in contemporary Johannesburg drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at the Central Methodist Mission, a Johannesburg inner-city chur...

ean: 9789004103245, isbn: 9004103244,

This volume focuses on the role Christian churches have played in Africa's democratisation movements since the late 1980s. In some cases churchmen have presided over national conferences; in many, Christians comprise arguably the most significant seg...

ean: 9789004107717, isbn: 9004107711,

The story of Hadhramaut and its diaspora illuminates significant aspects of Indian Ocean history, notably the role of non-Western merchants, Islamisation and controversies within Islam, British clashes with the Ottomans, and social transformations th...

ean: 9789004083325, isbn: 9004083324,