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Pearls of Meanings
Studies on Persian Art, Poetry, Ṣūfīsm and History of Iranian Studies in Europe
2020 || Paperback || Hans de Bruijn || Leiden University Press
Pearls of Meaning offers a collection of essays by J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn, a leading scholar in the field of Persian Studies, in which essential domains of Persian culture such as poetry and Sufism are analyzed in an exemplary fashion. While poetry plays a pivotal position in these essays, the reception of the Persian literary tradition in Europe is another focus of the volume. De Bruijn evaluates the works of a generation of scholars such as A. Reland (1676-1718), C.H. Ethé (1844-1917), J....
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East Asia beyond the Archives
Missing Sources & Marginal Voices
2023 || Hardcover || Catherine Chan e.a. || Leiden University Press
For a long time, silk, tea, sinocentrism, and eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history. Simultaneously deviating from and complicating these tags, this edited volume reconstructs narratives from the periphery and considers marginal voices located beyond official archives as the centre of East Asian history. The lives of the Japanese Buddhist monks, Eastern Han local governors, Confucian scholars, Chinese coolies, Shanghainese tailors, Macau joss-stick makers, Hong Kong locals, a...
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Iranian Studies Series A Journal of Three Months’ Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne
2017 || Paperback || Russell Harris e.a. || Leiden University Press
In 1884 an obscure British soldier, having finished his tour of duty in India, decided to make a detour on his trip home in order to spend three months crossing Persia unaccompanied except for the local muleteers. Among his accoutrements he packed a small leather-bound sketchbook in which he not only wrote a journal but in which he also added accomplished and charming water-colour illustrations. The authors' introduction contextualises this trip made in 1884 against the background of Persiana...
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Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka
Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society
2022 || Paperback || Nadeera Rupesinghe || Leiden University Press
Navigating Pluralities marks a break in understanding the history of Roman-Dutch law in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, it challenges socio-legal studies that concentrate on major jurisdictional conflicts alone, emphasizing the lived experience of everyday practices of judicial forums. It uncovers the navigation of plural practices in the Landraad, a judicial forum set up by the Dutch East India Company in seventeenth-century Sri Lanka. A choice of laws came into play in that forum, that choice ...
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The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization
A History of Entanglements
2022 || Hardcover || Harald Fischer-Tiné e.a. || Leiden University Press
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The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism
2022 || Hardcover || Carolien Stolte e.a. || Leiden University Press
The Afro-Asianism of the early Cold War has long remained buried under the narrative of Bandung, homogenising and subverting the different visions of post-colonial worldmaking that co-existed alongside the Bandung project. This book turns the lens on these other visions, and the transnational interactions which emerged from various other gatherings of the 1950s and 1960s that existed beyond the realm of high diplomacy, while blurring the lines between state and non-state projects. It examines...
Tourism And The Emergence Of Nation-States In The Arab Eastern Mediterranean / Druk 5
1920s-1930s
2023 || Paperback || Jasmin Daam || Leiden University Press
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South Asia Unbound
New International Histories of the Subcontinent
2023 || Hardcover || Bérénice Guyot-Réchard e.a. || Leiden University Press
Whose international matters, and why? How are geographic regions constructed? What are the channels of engagement between a place, its people, its institutions, and the world? How do we understand the non-West’s influence in contemporary global interactions? From humanitarianism and activism to diplomacy and institutional networks, South Asia has been a crucial place for the elaboration of international politics, even before the twentieth century. South Asia Unbound gathers an interdiscipli...
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Debates on Islam and Society: Politics and Change
the Indonesian experience after the fall of Suharto
2016 || Paperback || Kees van Dijk e.a. || Leiden University Press
After violent protests across the country had forced President Suharto to step down in 1998, Indonesia successfully made the transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy. For the first time in forty years Islamic parties and organizations - including some inspired by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood - were free to propagate their ways of thinking. The new government also succeeded in negotiating an end to a separatist rebellion in Aceh, making the province the only region in Indonesia...
Monsoon Asia
A reader on South and Southeast Asia
2023 || Paperback || Nira Wickramasinghe e.a. || Leiden University Press