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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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Discourses of Disruption in the Time of COVID

Creating and Contesting Meaning through Asian languages

2023 || Hardcover || Michael Ewing e.a. || Leiden University Press

'Discourses of Disruption in Asia: Creating and Contesting Meaning in the Time of COVID-19' makes a unique contribution to research on meaning making in times of crisis. Using diverse analytical approaches to the study of languages in societies from the Asia-Pacific region, this volume explores the struggles over national identity and manifestations of socio-political issues in the context of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter interrogates how social actors in diverse c...

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Black Transnationalism and Japan

2024 || Hardcover || Natalia Doan e.a. || Leiden University Press

Since before the American Civil War, African American and Japanese encounters produced relationships and discourses of knowledge that transcended Eurocentric conceptions of civilization and hierarchies of personhood. 'Black Transnationalism and Japan' introduces the diverse activity and intellectual movements created, shaped, and led by Japanese and African American people. While some Pan-Asianisms and Pan-Africanisms urged a uniting of colonized spaces against the colonizer, and were often e...

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The reception of Hafiz / druk 1

the sweet poetic language of Hafiz in nineteenth and twentieth century persia

|| Paperback || Bahman Solati || Leiden University Press

"For us non-Iranian readers of Hafiz's 14th-century ghazal poems, Iranian

attitudes toward the premier lyric poet in the 1,000-year history of Persian

literature, are almost as intriguing as Hafiz's poetry itself. First is the

inclination of Iranian readers to find deep, spiritual meaning in that poetry.

Second is their personal identification with what they perceive as Hafiz's

philosophy. Third is their linking of Iranian cultural identity with Hafiz's life and works to the point where some educa...

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Philippine Confluence

Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, c. 1500-1800

2020 || Paperback || Jos Gommans e.a. || Leiden University Press

Situated at the crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Spanish Philippines offer historians an intriguing middle ground of connected histories that raises fundamental new questions about conventional ethnic, regional and religious identities. This volume adds a new global perspective to the history of the Philippines by juxtaposing Iberian, Chinese and Islamic perspectives. By navigating various underexplored archival resources, senior and junior scholars from Asia, Europe and the A...

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Atlas of Material Life

Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century

2020 || Paperback || Peer Vries e.a. || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia is of importance for the understanding of global history. The book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, with a focus on developments in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand. Like an atlas it provides information, in an accessible format, on the mai...

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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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Middle High German Legends in English Translation

2021 || Hardcover || Jef Jacobs e.a. || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar

This book contains five legends from the German Middle Ages, presented in the Middle High German source language, with a modern English translation. These include the narratives of Veronica, Vespasian, Theophilus, Mary Magdalene and the miraculous history of the True Cross. Thisoutstanding and timely translation of these Middle High German texts will make them more accessible to an English speaking academic community.

The introduction provides an overview of Germanic legend research, discusses...

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Animals In Dutch Travel Writing

1800-Present

2023 || Hardcover || Rick Honings e.a. || Leiden University Press

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ISS Safina Revealed

a Compendium of Persian Literature in 14th Century Tabriz

2010 || Paperback || A.A. Seyed-Gohrab || Leiden University Press

Eerste introductie op diverse aspecten van de 'Safina'.

De 'Safina' is een groot, goed bewaard gebleven manuscript uit het 14de-eeuwse Tabriz in Perzië, het toenmalige centrum van educatie en culturele activiteiten. Met zijn 209 werken in het Perzisch en Arabisch is het een schatkamer van informatie. De teksten in het compendium toont namelijk de canon voor de wetenschapper in de islamitische wereld van toen.

De 'Safina' omvat tradities, ethiek, mystiek, jurisprudentie, theologie, exegese, ge...