Thus spake the dervish : Sufism, language, and the religious margins in Central Asia, 1400-1900 /
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Thus Spake the Dervish explores the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years. It draws on various sources (Persian chronicles and treatises, Turkic literature, Russian and French ethnography, the author's fieldwork) to examine five successive cases, each of which corresponds to a time period, a specific socially marginal space, and a particular use of mystical language. Including an extensive selection of writings by dervishes, this book demonstrates the diversity and tenacity of Central Asian Sufism over a long period. Here translated into a Western language for the first time, the extracts from primary texts by marginal Sufis allow a rare insight into their world. The original French edition of this book, Ainsi parlait le dervice, was published by Editions du Cerf (Paris, France). Translated by Caroline Kraabel.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004402027
"Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela" : prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian period /
: "This volume presents fourteen of the papers read at a meeting of the Edinburgh Prophecy Network held at New College, Edinburgh, on 1-12 December 2009" ECIP introduction. : xiv, 322 pages ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9781575062822
The Nile : downriver through Egypt's past and present /
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Egypt is the most populous country in the world's most unstable region. It is the key to Middle East peace, the voice of the Arab world and the crossroads between Europe and Africa. Its historical and strategic importance is unparalleled. In short, Egypt matters. And the key to Egypt - its colourful past, chaotic present and uncertain future - is the Nile. From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life - fishing, farming, flooding - continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta.
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xv, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm. :
9781408830093
Barbaric splendour : the use of image before and after Rome /
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This text comprises a collection of essays comparing late Iron Age and Early Medieval art. Fundamentally, the work asks what making images meant on the fringe of the expanding or contracting Roman empire, particularly as the art from both periods drew heavily from - but radically transformed - imperial imagery.
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"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789696608 (ebook) :
On Western Influences and the Transformation of Chinese Academic Thought /
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This book analyses the growth of disciplinary knowledge in modern China through Sino-foreign cultural exchange. It examines Western influences and the transformation of Chinese academic thought through "modern scientific disciplines" rather than mere westernization based on the "nationality" of knowledge. Historically, this transformation is not the unidirectional "eastward dissemination of Western learning," but the "introduction of West learning into China" with more active participation and choice by Chinese scholars. This understanding of the historical process focuses more on the innovation of the medium of knowledge, emphasizing the material and technological background of the dissemination of Western learning.
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1 online resource (579 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004749436
Aoypmata : critical essays on the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in honour of E. Susan Sherratt /
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Over her career Susan Sherratt has questioned our basic assumptions in many areas of the later prehistory of the Mediterranean and Europe, deploying a canny eye for detail, but never losing sight of the big picture. Her collected works include contributions on the relationship between Homeric epic and archaeology; the economy of ceramics, metals and other materials; the status of the `Sea Peoples' and other ethnic terminologies; routes and different forms of interaction; and the history of museums/collecting (especially relating to Sir Arthur Evans). The editors of this volume have brought together a cast of 32 scholars from nine different countries who have contributed these 26 papers to mark Sue's 65th birthday.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784910198 (PDF ebook) :
The glamour of Near East excavation : an account of the treasure hunt for the buried art, wisdom & history of the ancient East, from the Nile to Babylon, the adventures, disappointments & triumphs of the hunters, & the knowledge thus acquired of the ancient world /
: 2 preliminary leaves, 11-348 pages : frontispiece, plates ; 23 cm.