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(P/B) EXPLORING ART FOR PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATION
We live in a socio-cultural reality which is dominated by an entrepreneurial and instrumental rationality, as well as by a discriminative and populist mentality. Questioning the validity of taken-for-granted sovereign perspectives is thus of vital importance. Our contact with art can serve as a pathway through which we might be empowered to identify false life values and develop the disposition and ability to challenge them. The learning potential of aesthetic experience is, however, barely exploited within educational systems. In additio...
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(H/B) THE TRANSMISSION OF THE VARIANT READINGS OF THE QUR'AN
This work is a study of the transmission of the variant readings of the Quran, the canonization of the system Readings, and the emergence of the non-canonical shawadhdh readings. Nasser argues that Ibn Mujahid and the early Muslim scholars viewed the variant readings as legal rulings ahkam and that the later generation of Qurra were responsible for moving the discipline of Qiraat from the domain of fiqh to the domain of Hadith. After studying the theories of tawatur in detail, Nasser shows that the transmission of the system Readings of th...
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(H/B) THE SEMANTICS OF QUR'ANIC LANGUAGE
In The Semantics of Quranic Language: al-Ahira, Ghassan el Masri offers a semantic study of the concept al-ahira 'the End' in the Quran. The study is prefaced with a detailed account of the late antique concept of etymologia (Semantic Etymology). In his work, he demonstrates the necessity of this concept for appreciating the Quran's rhetorical strategies for claiming discursive authority in the Abrahamic theological tradition. The author applies the etymological tool to his investigation of the theological significance of al-ahira, and con...
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(H/B) THE INIMITABLE QUR'AN
In The Inimitable Quran: Some Problems in English Translations of the Quran with Reference to Rhetorical Features, Khalid Yahya Blankinship examines certain Arabic rhetorical features of the Quran as represented in seven English translations. The author addresses the intersection of two important topics in Quranic studies: the critique of the available English translations and the role of rhetoric in the interpretation of the Quran. He identifies a number of figures characteristic of Quranic style which represent some of the chief stumblin...
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(H/B) INTERPRETING THE QUR'AN WITH THE BIBLE
In Interpreting the Quran with the Bible, R. Michael McCoy III brings together two lesser known yet accomplished commentators on the Quran and the Bible: the mutabir Abu al-Hakam Abd al-Salam b. al-Isbili (d. 536/1141), referred to as Ibn Barragan, and qari' al-qurra Ibrahim b. Umar b. Hasan al-Biqa 'i (d. 885/1480). In this comparative study, comprised of manuscript analysis and theological exegesis, a robust hermeneutic emerges that shows how Ibn Barragan's method of nazm al-qur'an and al-Biqa'i's theory of 'ilm munasabat al-quran motiva...
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(H/B) REASON, ESOTERICISM, AND AUTHORITY IN SHI'I ISLAM
This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shii Islam. Naive dichotomies of "reason" and "esotericism" in Islamic Studies have often marginalized Shii thought or impeded its understanding. The studies presented here aim to foster more exacting frameworks for interpreting the diverse modes of rationality and esotericism in Twelver and Ismaili Shiism and the socio-epistemic values they represent within Muslim discourse. The volume's contributions highlight the cross-sectarian genealogy of ea...
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(H/B) UNLOCKING THE MEDINAN QUR'AN
The Qur'anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to postdate Muhammad's emigration to Medina occupy a key position in the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later convictions about Muhammad's paradigmatic authority and universal missionary remit; they constitute an important basis for Islam's development into a religion with a strong legal focus; and they demarcate the Qur'anic community from Judaism and Christianity. The volume exemplifies a rich array of approaches to the challenges posed by this part of the ...
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(P/B) VITSENTZOS KORNAROS, EROTOKRITOS
During the later years of the Venetian occupation of Crete (1211-1669) the island enjoyed the intellectual and cultural stimulus of the Renaissance. This bore fruit not only in the work of painters such as Dominikos Theotokopoulos, alias El Greco, but also in poetry, where Vitsentzos Kornaros composed the most important work of early modern Greek literature, Erotokritos. Written c. 1600, this romance takes over the theme of a minor French poem, Paris et Vienne of Pierre de la Cyp?de, and puts it in a Hellenic setting where knights, both Gr...
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(P/B) THE CHRONICLE OF JOHN MALALAS
Preliminary Material Introduction Preface Book 1 The Time of Adam Book 2 Book 3 The Time of Abraham's Knowledge of God Book 4 The Time of the Empire in the Land of the Argives Book 5 The Time of the Trojans Book 6 The Time of the Empire of the Assyrians and of Askanios, son of Aineias Book 7 Concerning the Building of Rome Book 8 The Time of the Macedonians Book 9 The Time of the Consuls of Rome Book 10 The Time of the Reign of Augustus Book 11 The Time of the Emperor Trajan and the Third Calamity at Antioch Book 12 The Time ...
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(H/B) MUQARNAS (VOLUME 24)
Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HELLENIC RELIGION AND CHRISTIANIZATION C.370-529 (VOLUME 1)
This work discusses the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws of Justinian the Great against paganism, c. 370-529. It examines such questions as the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery, temple conversions, the degradation of pagan gods into daimones, the christianization of rite, and the social, political and economic background of conversion to Christianity. Several local contexts are examined in great detai...
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(P/B) HELLENIC RELIGON AND CHRISTIANIZATION C.370-529 (VOLUME 2)
This work discusses the decline of Greek religion and the christianization of town and countryside in the eastern Roman Empire between the death of Julian the Apostate and the laws of Justinian the Great against paganism, c. 370-529. It examines such questions as the effect of the laws against sacrifice and sorcery, temple conversions, the degradation of pagan gods into daimones, the christianization of rite, and the social, political and economic background of conversion to Christianity. Several local contexts are examined in great detai...
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(H/B) THINKING BODIES - SHAPING HANDS
Thinking Bodies - Shaping Hands focuses on the critical as well as historical dimension of the handling of the brush and of the resulting appearance of colour on the painted surface in art and art theory from the middle of the 17th (above all from 1660) to the dawn of the 18th century in the Netherlands. More specifically, it deals with Rembrandt's last pupils such as Arent de Gelder. "Handeling" describes an active, embodied process that is connected to the motion of the hand with the brush or with any other kind of tool. This term, up to...
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(H/B) HERODES ATTIKOS AND THE CITY OF ATHENS
Herodes Attikos, teacher, orator, millionaire, is perhaps best known for the many buildings and sculptures he erected in Greece, Italy and Asia Minor. No area benefited more than his native Athens, where his munificence rebuilt the Panathenaic Stadium, constructed the Odeion on the slopes of the Acropolis, and funded many public festivals. In addition to these donations, his position as the wealthiest citizen in Athens as well as his ties to the imperial family gave him political power in the city, against which the Athenians at times rebe...
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(P/B) BRILL'S COMPANION TO ANCIENT MACEDON
In the past 35 years our archaeological and epigraphic evidence for the history and culture of ancient Macedon has been transformed. This book brings together the leading Greek archaeologists and historians of the area in a major collaborative survey of the finds and their interpretation, many of them unpublished outside Greece. The recent, immensely significant excavations of the palace of King Philip II are published here for the first time. Major new chapters on the Macedonians' Greek language, civic life, fourth and third century BC ki...
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(H/B) WHITE LIES AND BLACK MARKETS
In White Lies and Black Markets, Fatah-Black offers a new account of the colonization of Suriname - one of the major European plantation colonies on the Guiana Coast - in the period between 1650-1800. While commonly portrayed as an isolated tropical outpost, this study places the colony in the context of its connections to the rest of the Atlantic world. These economic and migratory links assured the colony's survival, but also created many incentives to evade the mercantilistically inclined metropolitan authorities. By combining the avail...
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(H/B) THE REMARKABLE HYBRID MARITIME WORLD OF HONG KONG AND THE WEST RIVER REGION IN THE LATE QING PERIOD
Focusing on the hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta and West River in the last two decades of the late Qing period, this work tells a vivid trading and competition story of previously unknown private Chinese traders and junk masters. This challenges the prevailing view of the domination of China's maritime trade by modern foreign steamships. Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private Chi...
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(H/B) IMPERIAL ODESSA
Imperial Odessa: Peoples, Spaces, Identities is a book about a cosmopolitan city written by a cosmopolitan scholar with a literary flair. Evrydiki Sifneos conceives Odessa as more of a fin-de si?cle east Mediterranean port-metropolis than as a provincial port-city of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century due to two of its principal characteristics: its function as a hub of international trade and travel, and the multi-ethnic character of its inhabitants. The book unfolds around two interpenetrating axes. The first one introduces a n...
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(H/B) WOMEN IN PORT
In the last few decades the scholarship on women's roles and women's worlds in the Atlantic basin c. 1400-1850 has grown considerably. Much of this work has understandably concentrated on specific groups of women, women living in particular regions or communities, or women sharing a common status in law or experience. Women in Port synthesizes the experiences of women from all quarters of the Atlantic world and from many walks of life, social statuses, and ethnicities by bringing together work by Atlantic world scholars on the cutting edge...
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(P/B) PLOTINUS AND THE MOVING IMAGE
Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like "the One" in a cinematic context and relates Plotinus' theory of time as a transitory intelligible movement of the soul to Bergson's and Deleuze's time-image. Film is a unique medium for a rapprochement of our modern consciousness with the thought of Plotinus. The Neoplatonic vestige is particularly worth exploring in the context of the newly emerging "Cinema of Contemplation." Plotinus' search for ...
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