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Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria
Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons under the Zangids and Ayyūbids (1146-1260)
Inbunden, 2007
2791 kr
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A study of religious thought and practice across a broad social spectrum, but within a well-defined historical context, this book is an interdisciplinary endeavor that incorporates the tools of philology, social-history and historical-anthropology. Focusing on the mosques, public assemblies, …
Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign
Inbunden, 2007
3548 kr
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This book examines the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos. Individual essays discuss how many of the great civilizations provide cognitive maps that emerge from a metaphysical linguistics in which sounds, syllables and other signs form the constructive elements of reality. The …
Interprétations de Moïse
Égypte, Judée, Grèce et Rome
Inbunden, 2009
2476 kr
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The present volume is the result of a team research which gathered biblical scholars, philologists, and historians of religions, on the issue of the multiple "Interpretations of Moses" inherited from the ancient mediterranean cultures. The concrete outcome of this comparative inquiry is the common …
Syriac Idiosyncrasies
Theology and Hermeneutics in Early Syriac Literature
Inbunden, 2010
2114 kr
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The study of early Syriac Christianity has for decades been steadily expanding, yet its scope still lags way behind that of research relating to Greek and Latin Christianity. One of the intriguing and understudied topics here is the nature of Syriac Christianity's autonomous identity in late …
Secret Sankara
On Multivocality and Truth in Sankara's Teaching
Inbunden, 2010
2048 kr
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Sankaracharya of the 8th century A.D is considered the greatest philosopher of India up to this day. His teaching of the one and only self has become the most prestigeous expression of the Hindu spirit. Sankara is the author of the Brahmasutrabhasya, the most important text of the school known as …
Le Soi et l’Autre
Identité, différence et altérité dans la philosophie de la Pratyabhijñā
Inbunden, 2011
5394 kr
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Recent scholarship on Śaivism has significantly expanded our knowledge of the religious dimensions of Medieval Śaiva movements. However, the philosophical aspects displayed by some of the texts produced in these milieux remain largely unrecognized. The present study helps fill this lacuna by …
Continuity and Innovation in the Magical Tradition
Av Gideon Bohak, Yuval Harari m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
3347 kr
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This volume brings together thirteen studies by as many experts in the study of one or more ancient or medieval magical traditions, from ancient Mesopotamia and Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt to the Greek world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It lays special emphasis on the recurrence of similar …
Duty, Language and Exegesis in Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā
Including an edition and translation of Rāmānujācārya’s Tantrarahasya, Śāstraprameyapariccheda
Inbunden, 2012
3052 kr
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The book is an introduction to key concepts of Indian Philosophy, seen from the perspective of one of its most influential schools, the Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā, which flourished from the 7th until the 20th c. AD. The book includes the critical edition and translation of Rāmānujācārya's …
One God, Two Goddesses, Three Studies of South Indian Cosmology
Inbunden, 2013
2009 kr
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One, God, Two Goddesses presents three studies, one of Tamil myths of the god Murugan and two of goddess rituals: Gangamma in Tirupati and Paiditalli in Vizianagaram, both in Andhra Pradesh. All three essays search for lineaments of the cosmos that these deities inhabit and shape. These cosmoi are …
Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World
Patterns of Interaction Across the Centuries
Inbunden, 2015
3586 kr
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The volume demonstrates the cultural centrality of the oral tradition for Iranian studies. It contains contributions from scholars from various areas of Iranian and comparative studies, among which are the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition with its wide network of influences in late antique …
Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman
A Journey between Performance and the Politics of Cultural Representation
Av Carola Lorea
Inbunden, 2016
2700 kr
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This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if …
Regimes of Comparatism
Frameworks of Comparison in History, Religion and Anthropology
Av Renaud Gagné
Inbunden, 2018
4082 kr
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Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice …
Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting
Inbunden, 2019
2757 kr
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In Esoteric Images: Decoding the Late Herat School of Painting Tawfiq Daʿadli decodes the pictorial language which flourished in the city of Herat, modern Afghanistan, under the rule of the last Timurid ruler, Sultan Husayn Bayqara (r.1469-1506). This study focuses on one illustrated manuscript of …
Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination
Inbunden, 2021
3052 kr
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The focus of Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination is the (mostly Western) understanding, representation and self-critical appropriation of the "religious other" between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Mutually constitutive processes of …
