For around 150 years, the richly illustrated Wigalois manuscript from Amelungsborn Abbey in Germa...

This book provides a critical assessment of the broadly held view that states 'own' war. The cent...

This volume intervenes in the growing field of transimperial history, which explores interactions...

For almost half a century, NATO's armies deterred a Soviet attack on Western Europe. Today, they ...

In 1860, seventeen-year-old samurai Tateishi Onojirō, nicknamed 'Tommy,' made headlines across Am...

This book examines the dynamics of a 'return to custom' in post-independence Timor-Leste; a set o...

Persian in Use is an elementary Persian language and culture textbook designed for first-year Per...

Terrorism has arguably been one of the defining factors of our age. In many parts of the world, i...

is the first monograph investigating how Persian compound verbs are processed in the mental lexic...

In September 2017, Leiden University opened the Asian Library to house its world renowned and ext...

Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated wit...

Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defence College of Japan (now the C...

This volume provides new insights in the concept of shari'a in the West, and sets out a framework...

Abu 'Abdollâh' Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki (c. 880 CE-941 CE) was a poet to the Samanid court which...

The Large Farāmarznāme (Farāmarznāme-ye bozorg), a poem from the Persian epic cycle dated to the ...

This volume focuses on reconstructing the daily lives of Bronze Age farmers as well as the landsc...

Persian passion play or ta'ziya depicts the role of the Prophet's granddaughter Zeynab during the...

Rufus Ephesius

Since 1992, when the World Heritage Committee established its category of 'cultural landscapes', ...

Reclaiming the Faravahar is an ethnographic study of the contemporary Zoroastrians in Tehran. It ...

Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Pe...

The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt explores how and why farming and herding sta...

This book collects contributions by Richard T. Griffiths on the history of European integration, ...

Over the past decade the Middle East has undergone huge geopolitical shifts, including widespread...

Egypt beyond representation develops and applies a new approach to study Aegyptiaca Romana from a...

Agreement Restrictions in Persian is the first comprehensive attempt to tackle the issue of verba...

Based on exclusive access to both the personnel and the archives of the Royal Netherlands Army Sp...

Rudolph Agricola

Rethinking Environmental Governance brings to light the pluralistic views, diverse forces, and mu...

The quantity of scholarship on Persian literature is enormous. Yet works of literary criticism an...

A Brief History of Islam in Europe presents an overall presentation and discussion of development...

Textiles from the early medieval period that are occasionally found in excavations are the scarce...

This book comprises six essays by prominent scholars of medieval Insular manuscripts. The main em...

Tulou are traditional fortified multifamily dwellings prevalent in southern Fujian. In this 34st ...

How is it possible that three playwrights in the early modern Dutch Republic wrote dramas based o...

This volume explores the production and use of medieval manuscripts that contain classical Latin ...

Aegean archaeology has mainly concentrated on Prehistoric and Greco-Roman times and has provided ...

Verhelderend archeologisch onderzoek naar werktuigen van schelp uit de pre-Colombiaanse tijd, maa...

This innovative work attempts to piece together the cultural biography of Mesoamerica's precoloni...

The aim of Sharia Incorporated is to provide unbiased and contextual information about a topic th...

By examining photography through geography and philosophy, this book makes evident that place is ...

The revised prose version of the Babad Tanah Jawi was originally prepared by C.F. Winter Sr. (179...

Terrorism has arguably been one of the defining factors of our age. In many parts of the world, i...

Starting in the late nineteenth century, unusual pictographic books began to flow from a remote c...

Between 1848 and 1914 around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) t...

This book explores the making of Buddhism in modern Indonesia. Buddhism started a second life dur...

In October 1740, a tragedy unfolded in Batavia, the Asian headquarters of the Dutch East India Co...

By the closing decades of the 19th century, photography and postcard production arrived in Britis...