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Persian in Use
Persian in Useis an elementary Persian language and culture textbook designed for first-year language students at a university level and specifically focused on teaching …
Autumntide of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga was the most renowned Dutch historian of the twentieth century, and his work ranged from medieval art to mechanization in modern America. His influential book …
A Brief History of Islam in Europe
The relationship between Europe and Islam has been complicated, if not troubled, throughout the thirteen centuries since Muslims first began playing a part in European history. …
Pearls of Meaning
Pearls of Meanings offers a collection of essays by J. T. P. (Hans) de Bruijn, a pivotal and leading scholar of Persian studies. The volume covers a number of essential domains of …
Persian Whitman
Walt Whitman, a world-renowned poet and the father of American free verse, is read by diverse audiences around the world. Literary and cultural scholars have studied Whitman's …
Chaucer in early English dictionaries
Islam, Politics and Change
China and the Barbarians
China's development over the centuries has purposely diverged from that of the West in terms of language, philosophy, and history, and for many decades its nationalism created a …
Health-related votive tablets from Japan
Many Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan sell illustrated wooden votive tablets, known as ema, which provide space for handwritten prayers or words of gratitude and are …
The Eighty Years War
The Eighty Years War follows the history of how the mightiest European power of the sixteenth century was finally brought to defeat. In 1648 the Spanish empire agreed to a peace …
Islam, Humanity and the Indonesian Identity
Middle High German Legends in English Translation
Five medieval German legends, freshly translated with accessible reading guides. This volume collects five medieval German legends--the story of Veronica, Vespasian, Theophilus, …