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Reducere. Almost from the moment, some five centuries ago, that their religion was founded in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, Sikhs have enjoyed a distinctive iden...

Reducere. Timely and wide-ranging, ""Art and Architecture"" explores the proliferation of recent work by both artists and architects that seeks to blur tradi...

The Kuwaiti population includes around 100, 000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often...

Reducere. Spaghetti Westerns is the major critical exploration of the European Western. Christopher Frayling approaches the Westerns produced at Cinecitta St...

How did the early Christians manage to establish a religion and institution which, despite persecution, flourished and grew? How did their initial ...

Reducere. "Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film" offers an extraordinary close-up of the hitherto overlooked golden age of Japanese cult, action and exploitation ...

Reducere. Ali Shari ati is, for many, the ideological father of the Iranian revolution. A charismatic leader and teacher, his radical blend of Islam and Marx...

The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their c...

Reducere. Now recognized as the standard work on the subject, Realm of St Stephen is a comprehensive history of medieval Eastern and Central Europe. P l Enge...

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics. This book asks whe...

DescriptionThe modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic - ...

The great river civilization of the Oxus is one of the forgotten jewels of the ancient world. In history, this grand arterial 1, 500-mile waterway ...

For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all...

Reducere. Even before Tito's Communist Party established control over the war-ravaged territories which became socialist Yugoslavia, his partisan forces were...

Reducere. Nasir al-Din Tusi, the renowned Shi'i scholar of the 13th century, produced a range of writings in different fields of learning under Ismaili patro...

Reducere. DescriptionAsadollah Alam, an urbane aristocrat from the oldest of Iran's great families, was the Sha's most trusted friend and confidant. As Prime...

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist...

DescriptionViolent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines...

Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half ...

Reducere. The fourth volume of the Anthology of Philosophy in Persia deals with one of the richest and yet least known periods of philosophical life in Persi...

DescriptionArt is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship. This may be by the Church to guard against moral degeneration, by the St...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

DescriptionFor South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formati...

The revolutionary year of 1958 epitomizes the height of the social uprisings, military coups, and civil wars that erupted across the Middle East an...

The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the...

No other European city can claim to have experienced such division and togetherness as Berlin. This volume of essays attempts to address the questi...

This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the ...

How are forbidden histories told and transmitted among young people in Israel/Palestine? What can their stories teach us about their everyday exper...

DescriptionDuring states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the ...

DescriptionReception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. ...

DescriptionFor many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insula...