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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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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 ...
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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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