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The Echoes of Fitna: Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War
ISBN: 9789004524231 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler compares the fitna narratives of al-Ṭabarī, Ibn al-Athīr, and Ibn Kathīr, demonstrating that small, apparently insignificant changes to the stories can fundamentally change their meaning.
In The Echoes of Fitna, Aaron M. Hagler compares the fitna narratives of al-Ṭabarī, Ibn al-Athīr, and Ibn Kathīr, demonstrating tha...
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472,92 |
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Voices from the Desert: Glossary, Indices, and List of Recordings
ISBN: 9789004521018 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Voice from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of the Corpus Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. It presents a consolidated Glossary and the Indices for the entire series. In a Preface the author looks back on his twenty years of research in Arabian oral culture.
The Voice from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of the Corpus Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. It presents a consol...
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219,26 |
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World History and National Identity in China
ISBN: 9781108829502 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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119,25 |
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Take the Vinaya as Your Master: Monastic Discipline and Practices in Modern Chinese Buddhism
ISBN: 9789004533455 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the role played by monastic discipline in the emergence and evolution of modern Chinese Buddhism. A central feature of the Buddhist tradition, monastic discipline has received growing attention in the contemporary Buddhist world, but little from scholars. Adopting a diachronic perspective and a multidisciplinary approach, contributions by leading scholars investigate relevant Vinaya-related practices in twentieth and twenty-first centuries China and Taiwan, including issues of monastic identity and authenticity, updated ordination procedures, recent variations of...
This volume explores the role played by monastic discipline in the emergence and evolution of modern Chinese Buddhism. A central feature of the Budd...
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515,91 |
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India's Social Heritage
ISBN: 9781032439310 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1937, India’s Social Heritage is intended to give a simple statement of the principal features of the social system in pre-independence India.
First published in 1937, India’s Social Heritage is intended to give a simple statement of the principal features of the social system in pre-indepe...
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471,87 |
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Caucasian Albania: An International Handbook
ISBN: 9783110794595 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the region, the discussion on Caucasian "Albania", which is little known in the West in both academic and public circles, has been reignited. The handbook provides an overview of the current state of research on the Caucasian "Albanians" in an objective, scientifically sound manner. The contributions are not necessarily intended to reveal new scientific findings but rather to summarise approved knowledge. The volume brings together internationally renowned...
By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the region, ...
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859,64 |
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Muslim Al-Naysābūrī (D. 261/875): The Sceptical Traditionalist
ISBN: 9789004524194 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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640,58 |
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Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain
ISBN: 9780192848239 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,38 |
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Asian English: Histories, Texts, Institutions
ISBN: 9789811635151 / Angielski / Miękka / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts. It argues that the establishment of Anglophone literature in Asia did not simply “happen”: there were extra-literary and -academic forces at work, inserting and domesticating...
Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the gen...
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610,90 |
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Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 3 Bedouin Poets of the Dawāsir Tribe: Between Nomadism and Settlement in Southern Najd
ISBN: 9789004520998 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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219,26 |
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Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia, Volume 4 Saudi Tribal History: Honour and Faith in the Traditions of the Dawāsir
ISBN: 9789004521001 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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219,26 |
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In Defence of British India: Great Britain in the Middle East, 1775-1842
ISBN: 9781032457482 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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521,60 |
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Between Memory and Power: The Syrian Realm Under the Last Umayyads and the First Abbasids (C. 72-193/692-809)
ISBN: 9789004466319 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated...
Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodo...
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967,32 |
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On the Frontiers of History: Rethinking East Asian Borders
ISBN: 9781760463694 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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143,26 |
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Body and Soul
ISBN: 9780197666005 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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359,26 |
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Frontier Peoples and the Making of the Modern Union of Myanmar
ISBN: 9781433177187 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with three major issues in the relationship between the frontier peoples and the modern Union of Myanmar: the awakening of a sense of national identity among the frontier peoples of Myanmar and their nationalist movement; main factors driving the minorities to merge with Burmans to form a federal union; and the role of the British government in this the interlinked history of Burma Proper and the ethnic minorities. Chapters 1–3 present an overall account of the historical evolution, geographical distribution and colonial experiences of the frontier peoples in...
This book is concerned with three major issues in the relationship between the frontier peoples and the modern Union of Myanmar: the awakening of a se...
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461,61 |
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After the Last Post: The Lives of Indian Historiography
ISBN: 9780192867865 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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411,02 |
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Parthian Stations by Isidore of Charax
ISBN: 9781666773149 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,87 |
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The Islamic-Confucian Synthesis in China
ISBN: 9781666913361 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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347,73 |