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Colonial and Global History through Dutch Sources The Travels of Pieter Albert Bik

writings from the Dutch Colonial World of the Early Nineteenth Century

2017 || Paperback || Mikko Toivanen || Leiden University Press

The unpublished writings of a Dutch colonial official, Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) are studied and contextualized in this book. The remarkable autobiographical manuscript of Bik, which is here presented in English translation with annotations, provides a unique glimpse of the wide horizons of the world of Dutch colonialism, tracing his many journeys in Europe, the Dutch East Indies and Japan as well as across the oceans in the first half of the nineteenth century.

In this work, Mikko Toivan...

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Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination

Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

2020 || Paperback || Nadine Willems || Leiden University Press

In modern Japan, anti-establishment ideas have related in many ways to Japan’s capitalist development and industrialisation. Activist and intellectual Ishikawa Sanshirō exemplifies this imagination, connecting European and Japanese thought during the first decades of the twentieth century. This book investigates the emergence of a strand of non-violent anarchism, reassessing in particular the role of geographical thought in modern Japan as both a vehicle of political dissent and a basis fo...

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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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Principles for Progress

Essays on Religion and Modernity by Abdu’l-Bahā

2018 || Paperback || Sen McGlinn || Leiden University Press

This book presents three of the works of Abduʾl-Bahā, son of the founder of the Bahāʾi Faith, dealing with social and political issues.

In ‘The Secret of Divine Civilization’ (1875) Abduʾl-Bahā supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirzā Hosayn Khān, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to waken and educate the masses. In this work, Abduʾl-Bahā gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among th...

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The Colonization of Freed African Americans in Suriname

Archival Sources relating to the U.S.-Dutch Negotiations, 1860-1866

2019 || Paperback || Michael J. Douma || Leiden University Press

During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln’s administration engaged in protracted negotiations with representatives of the Netherlands to aid in the voluntarily colonization of free African Americans to Suriname. Scores of diplomatic letters in Dutch, English, and French, dating to the period 1862 to 1866 attest to the very real possibility that such a migration stream could have become a reality. They also indicate reasons why this scheme failed: it was bogged down by differe...

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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...

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Monsoon Asia

A reader on South and Southeast Asia

2023 || Paperback || Nira Wickramasinghe e.a. || Leiden University Press

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The exposition of artistic research / druk 1

publishing art in academia

2013 || Paperback || M. Schwab e.a. || Leiden University Press

The Exposition of Artistic Research: Publishing Art in Academia introduces the pioneering concept of 'expositions' in the context of art and design research, where practice needs to be exposed as research to enter academic discourse. It brings together reflective and methodological approaches to exposition writing from a variety of artistic disciplines including fine art, music and design, which it links to questions of publication and the use of technology. The book proposes a novel relati...

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Paint Feet on a Snake Simplified character edition

an intermediate Mandarin reader

2015 || Paperback || Lin Chin-hui e.a. || Leiden University Press

This book is intended for Chinese Studies majors, China-focused students in other fields, heritage learners, and professionals. It will help improve vocabulary and grammar competence, and foster reading strategies and writing and translation skills, for use in academic and professional settings.

Paint Feet on a Snake

*is available in full-form and simplified character editions

*is aimed at learners of Mandarin with a command of about 850 characters and 1200 vocabulary items

*is suitable for...

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Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community

contemporary Maya Calendar Knowledge and Practices in the Highlands of Guatemala

2018 || Paperback || Paul van den Akker || Leiden University Press

This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K'iche' community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala. The research presented here discusses the indigenous calendar system, forms of synergy between the Christian and the Highland Guatemalan calendar, the indigenous perception of history and continuity in time-related sy...