Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Digby Simon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-03
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780947593353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East
Author: Andrew J. Newman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9789004127746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume comprises a collection of 20 of the 43 papers presented at the Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held at the University of Edinburgh in August, 1998 and edited by the Round Table's organiser. The Third Round Table, the largest of the series to date, continued the emphasis of its predecessors on understanding and appreciating the legacy of the Safavid period by means of exchanges between both established and 'newer' scholars drawn from a variety of fields to facilitate an exchange of ideas, information, and methodologies across a broad range of academic disciplines between scholars from diverse disciplines and research backgrounds with a common interest in the history and culture of this period of Iran's history.
Shahnama
Author: Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1351548913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings presents the first comprehensive examination of the interplay between text and image in the celebrated Persian national epic, the Shahnama, written by the poet Firdausi of Tus. The Shahnama is one of the longest poems ever composed and recounts the history of Iran from the dawn of time to the Muslim Arab conquests of the seventh century AD. There is no Persian text, in prose or poetry, which has been so frequently and lavishly illustrated. Offering fresh insights through a range of varied art-historical approaches to the Shahnama, the essays in this volume reveal how the subtle alterations in text and image serve to document changes in taste and style and can be understood as reflections of the changing role of the national epic in the imagination of Iranians and the equally changing messages - often political in nature - which the familiar stories were made to convey over the centuries.
Middle East Sources
Author: Ian Richard Netton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 113681017X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiddle East Sources provides an invaluable resource for the busy librarian, student or scholar with Middle Eastern interests. It aims to guide readers to the major collections of books and other materials on the subject in the UK and Ireland, as well as to some lesser known but nonetheless interesting collections in smaller libraries. Entries are fully up to date and include information on addresses (including telephone, fax and e-mail details), brief descriptions of collections held, along with references to relevant catalogue material and other directories. The guide also highlights the extent of collections and gives help in accessing. The MELCOM Area Specialisation Scheme (MASS) designation of the collections is also included where relevant.
The Artificial Empire
Author: Giles Henry Rupert Tillotson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0700712828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the role of the visual arts in the assertion of European colonial power, examining the representation of Indian scenery and architecture by British artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Anthropological Resources
Author: Lee S. Dutton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 1134818939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work provides access to information on the rich and often little known legacy of anthropological scholarship preserved in a diversity of archives, libraries and museums. Selected anthropological manuscripts, papers, fieldnotes, site reports, photographs and sound recordings in more than 150 repositories are described. Coverage of resources in North American repositories is extensive while Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Australia and certain other countries are more selectively represented. Entries are arranged by repository location and most contributors draw upon a special knowledge of the resources described. Contributors include James R. Glenn (National Anthropological Archives), Elizabeth Edwards and Veronica Lawrence (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford), Francisco Demetrio, S.J. (Museum and Archives, Xavier University, Philippines) and many others. The guide covers selected documentation in social and cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology and folklore. Some major area studies collections (such as the Asia Collections, Cornell University Libraries, and the Melanesian Archive at the University of California, San Diego) are also represented. Web URLs have been cited when available and personal, and ethnic name indexes are provided.
Royal Asiatic Society.Its History and Treasures
Author: Simmonds
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9004642870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe School of Oriental and African Studies
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-07-21
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1316712591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe School of Oriental and African Studies, a college of the University of London, was established in 1916 principally to train the colonial administrators who ran the British Empire in the languages of Asia and Africa. It was founded, that is, with an explicitly imperial purpose. Yet the School would come to transcend this function to become a world centre of scholarship and learning, in many important ways challenging that imperial origin. Drawing on the School's own extensive administrative records, on interviews with current and past staff, and on the records of government departments, Ian Brown explores the work of the School over its first century. He considers the expansion in the School's configuration of studies from the initial focus on languages, its changing relationships with government, and the major contributions that have been made by the School to scholarly and public understandings of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 1425
ISBN-13: 1135456631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Let Us Go Up to Zion
Author: Iain Provan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-07-23
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9004215980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume honours Professor H. G. M. Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University through a collection of essays by colleagues and former students from across the globe. The various contributions intersect with the previous work of Professor Williamson related to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Hebrew language and texts.
