Publications
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Sharīʿa in Africa Today
(2020)
Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in four African countries: ...
Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
(2018)
In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme. ...
Outline of Dani Morphology
(1966)
Indonesia
The Mapping of a Russian War: The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanisław Pachołowiecki (1580)
(2024)
This volume is a comprehensive analysis of the Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk (1580), one of the oldest cartographic representations of the military conflict between Russia (Muscovy) and the Western world. Its author, ...
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
(2015)
This book examines large-scale land acquisitions, or
The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe
(2016)
The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe presents an overview of the critical reception of Günter Grass’s classic novel throughout Europe since its publication in 1959. Readership: The book aims at a relatively broad readership ...
Jade-Carving Chisel and Luminous Ocean
(2024)
Jao Tsung-i’s scholarship illuminated the development of classical Chinese literature from antiquity through the end of the Qing dynasty. In this volume, eight interviews with and essays by Jao are translated faithfully ...
At the edges of states; Dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderlands
(2012)
Set in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, this study explores the shifting relationships between border communities and the state along the political border with East Malaysia. The book rests on the premises that remote ...
Beyond Empire and Nation; The Decolonization of African and Asian societies, 1930s-1960s
(2012)
The decolonization of countries in Asia and Africa is one of the momentous events in the twentieth century. But did the shift to independence indeed affect the lives of the people in such a dramatic way as the political ...
News Networks in Early Modern Europe
(2016)
In News Networks 35 scholars from 10 countries give a new account of the history of European news, emphasising its transnational character and the international transmission of forms and modes of news as well as information. ...