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The Heirs of Vijayanagara

Court Politics in Early Modern South India

2021 || Paperback || Lennart Bes || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research offers a captivating new analysis of political culture, power relations, and dynastic developments.

In great detail, this monograph provides both new facts and fresh insights that contest exi...

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Colonialism and Slavery

An Alternative History of the Port City of Rotterdam

2021 || Paperback || Gert Oostindie || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

In this book the focus uniquely lies on the colonial and slavery part of a city. Rotterdam, the second-largest Dutch city, is one of the leading European port cities. Its maritime expansion was intrinsically linked to Dutch colonialism, including slave trading and colonial slavery in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This painful history sits uneasy with the city’s contemporary profile, with its large number of ‘new Rotterdammers’ with colonial roots. The present volume provides a summary...

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Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography

2021 || Paperback || Ali Shobeiri || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

By examining photography through geography and philosophy, this book makes evident that place is not the content of a definite representation. To do this, it breaks down the participatory elements of photography into six tropes: the photographer, the camera, the photograph, the image, the spectator, and the genre. Afterwards, through a rigorous theoretical analysis of each of these themes vis-à-vis the notion of place, it shows how they manifest inactive, contingent, unlocalizable, liminal, ...

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Inescapable Entrapments?

The Civil-Military Decision Paths to Uruzgan and Helmand

2021 || Paperback || Mirjam Grandia Mantas || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

Military involvement in foreign policy decision-making, and its role as a driving force in that process, has long been anathema to both academic and practitioner circles. Without wanting to pursue the quest for principles or ultimate predictions this study looks specifically into the role of the military in foreign policy decision-making. It does so by carefully reconstructing and comparing the sequential series of decisions of a group of British and Dutch senior civil and military decision-m...

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Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses

Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture

2021 || Paperback || M. Mehdi Khorrami e.a. || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

By bringing sensory studies to the study of Persian literature and culture, 'Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture' inaugurates a new chapter for Iranian and Persian studies. This volume offers a diverse set of readings across periods, genres and forms throughout Persian literary history, demonstrating the value of sensory studies as an approach to Persian cultural production, literary or otherwise. The book’s chapters conceptualize senso...

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The Rise of the Ni‘matullāhī Order

Shi'ite Sufi Masters against Islamic Fundamentalism in 19th-Century Persia

2021 || Paperback || Reza Tabandeh || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

How were the Ni‘matullāhī masters successful in reviving Ni‘matullāhī Sufism in Shi‘ite Persia? This book investigates the revival of Ni‘matullāhī Sufi order after the death of the last Indian Ni‘matullāhī master, Riḍā ‘Alī Shāh (d. 1214/1799) in the Deccan.

After the fall of Safavids, the revival movement of the Ni‘matullāhī order began with the arrival in Persia of the enthusiastic Indian Sufi master, Ma‘ṣūm ‘Alī Shāh, during the last quarter of the eigh...

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Being Muslim in Indonesia

Religiosity, Politics and Cultural Diversity in Bima

2021 || Paperback || Muhammed Adlin Sila || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

How Muslims in Indonesia consider their religious practices, politics and culture as Islamic is described in this volume. By examining the various ways Bima Muslims constitute their Islamic identities and agencies through rituals and festivals, this book argues that religious practice is still vigorous in present Bima. It explores the reproduction of religious meanings among various local Muslims and the differences between social groups. Islam is represented as divided between the traditiona...