Tabla de Contenidos: “…On the skills to navigate the world, and religion, for coastal Muslims in Kenya Kai Kresse.- Beyond Islam: tradition and the intelligibility of experience Johan Rasanayagam.- Becoming sacred: humanity and divinity in East Java, Indonesia Konstantinos Retsikas.- Self-similarity and its perils Gabriele vom Bruck.- The universal and the particular in rural Xinjiang: ritual commensality and the mosque community Chris Hann.- Apolitical "Islamisation"? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: The question of world order -- Europe : the pluralistic international order -- The European balance-of-power system and its end -- Islamism and the Middle East : a world in disorder -- The United States and Iran : approaches to order -- The multiplicity of Asia -- Toward an Asian order : confrontation or partnership? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Phillips, The Kurdish Spring: A New Map of the Middle East -- Esin Duzel -- Bedross Der Matossian, Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire -- Thomas Schmutz and Hans-Lukas Kieser -- Yaniv Voller, The Kurdish Liberation Movement in Iraq: From Insurgency to Statehood -- Mariwan Kanie -- Özlem Galip, Imagining Kurdistan: Identity, Culture and Society -- Francesco Marilungo -- Mahir A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nelson -- Globalization, Islamic resurgence, and state autonomy, the response of the Malaysian state to Islamic globalization / Norani Othman -- The national culture policy and contestation over Malaysian identity / Sumit K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Jakob Tanner -- The Postwar Marxist Milieu of Microhistory / Brigitta Bernet -- Antonio Gramsci's Moment of Arrival in India / Benjamin Zachariah -- The Science Problem in Marxism / Kavita Philip -- Part two: Marxism and the Pre-Modern Worlds of the Near East and Nort Africa. Marxist Historiography and the Ancient Near East / Mohammed Maraqten -- Maḥmūd Ismāʻīl and his Historical-Materialist Approach to the History of the Medieval Islamic World / Amar S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Premodern Regimes and Practices -- Realms of Information in the Medieval Islamic World -- Information in Early Modern East Asia -- Information in Early Modern Europe -- Networks and the Making of a Connected World in the Sixteenth Century -- Records, Secretaries, and the European Information State, circa 1400-1700 -- Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era -- Documents, Empire, and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century -- Nineteenth-Century Media Technologies -- Networking -- Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising -- Communication, Computation, and Information -- Search -- Glossary…”

“…Iran's Revolutionary Guards are one of the most important forces in the Middle East today. As the appointed defender of Iran's revolution, the Guards have evolved into a pillar of the Islamic Republic and the spearhead of its influence. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Premessa (Foreword) / Pietro Rossi -- Mediterraneo da "mare nostrum" a frontiera tra civilta (The Mediterranean from "mare nostrum" to frontier between civilisations) / Arnaldo Marcone -- L'Europa e l'Islam : incontri e scontri (Europe and Islam : encounters and confrontations) / Franco Cardini -- The conquest of the north / Bo Strath -- Die Ausdehnung nach Osten (The expansion towards the East) / Manfred Hildermeier -- Europa und das osmanische Reich (Europe and the Ottoman Empire) / Markus Koller -- La russia tra europa e asia (Russia between Europe and Asia) / Alberto Masoero -- Europe and the Atlantic / John H. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 HOLY SPACES AND HOLY CORPSES DEFINING SANCTITY AND VENERATION OF THE DEAD FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES -- Chapter 2 THE OTHER AS WITNESS TO THE TRUTH POSITIVE RESPONSES TO SHARED RELIGIOUS VENERATION AMONG JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS TO THE MIDDLE EAST FROM WESTERN EUROPE -- Chapter 3 FORCEFUL SAINTS AND COMPELLING RITUALS REAL AND IMAGINED JEWISH AND MUSLIM PARTICIPATION IN CHRISTIAN RITUALS AND SAINT CULTS FROM BYZANTIUM TO WESTERN EUROPE -- Chapter 4 PRAISING, CURSING, OR IGNORING THE OTHER JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND MUSLIMS AT ONE ANOTHER’S HOLY SPACES IN THE ISLAMICATE MEDITERRANEAN -- Chapter 5 OPPOSITION TO SHARED SAINTS AND FESTIVALS IN THE ISLAMICATE WORLD -- Chapter 6 UPHOLDING THE DIGNITY OF THE FAITH AND SEPARATING BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part One -- Premodern Regimes and Practices -- Information in the Medieval Islamic World -- Information in Early Modern East Asia -- Information in Early Modern Europe -- Networks and the Making of a Connected World in the Sixteenth Century -- Records, Secretaries, and the European Information State, ca. 1400-1700 -- Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era -- Documents, Empire, and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century -- Nineteenth-Century Media Technologies -- Networking: Information Circles the World -- Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion from the Disaster to the HungarianUprising -- Communication, Computation, and Information -- Search -- Part Two -- Alphabetical Entries…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Beginning in Jerusalem -- Ephesus, Rome, and Edessa : the spread of Christianity -- The making of a Christian community -- Divisions within -- Constructing a catacomb -- A learned faith : Origen of Alexandria -- Persecution : Cyprian of Carthage -- A Christian emperor : Constantine -- The Council of Nicaea and the Christian creed -- Monasticism -- A Christian Jerusalem -- Emperor Julian, the Jews, and Christians -- Bishop and Emperor : Ambrose and Theodosius -- Architecture and art -- Music and worship -- The sick, the aged, and the poor : the birth of hospitals -- The bishop of Rome as pope -- An ordered Christian society : canon law -- Augustine of Hippo -- The great controversy over Christ -- Egypt and the Copts; Nubia -- African Zion : Ethiopia -- Syriac-speaking Christians : the Church of the East -- Armenia and Georgia -- Central Asia, China, and India -- A Christian empire : Justinian -- New beginnings in the West -- Latin Christianity spreads north -- The SACKING of Jerusalem : more controversy over Christ -- No God but God : the rise of Islam -- Images and the making of Byzantium -- Arabic-speaking Christians -- Christians under Islam : Egypt and North Africa -- Christians under Islam : Spain -- An emperor in the West : Charlemagne -- Christianity among the Slavs…”
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“…It explores the uprisings themselves, their legacy and the contemporary relevance they hold in the context of the current political climate of the Middle East. The book also contends that the sort of politics espoused by various kinds of Islamist during the uprisings can be interpreted as a form of early 'post-Islamism', in which Islamist political agendas were seen to be compatible with liberalism and democracy. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY; NEW ACTORS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY; PUBLIC OPINION AND THE MEDIA; SECURITY POLICY THROUGH A DOMESTIC LENS; ISLAMISM, NATIONALISM, AND TURKISH IDENTITY…”

“…Historian Jerry Brotton reveals why Hebrew culture privileges east; why Renaissance Europeans began drawing north at the top of their maps; why early Islam revered the south; why the Aztecs used five color-coded cardinal directions; and why no societies, primitive or modern, have ever orientated themselves westwards. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Professor Peter Bellwood's ongoing journey in archaeology / Hsiao-chun Hung -- Initial movements of modern humans in East Eurasia / Naruya Saitou, Timothy A. Jinam, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama and Katsushi Tokunaga -- Ancient DNA analysis of Palaeolithic Ryukyu Islanders / Ken-ichi Shinoda and Noboru Adachi -- Mid-Holocene hunter-gatherers "gaomiao" in Hunan, China : the first of the two-layer model in the population history of East/Southeast Asia / Hirofumi Matsumura, Hsiao-chun Hung, Nguyen Lan Cuong, Ya-feng Zhao, Gang He and Zhang Chi -- Using dental metrical analysis to determine the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene population history of Java / Sofwan Noerwidi -- Terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene human occupation in the rainforests of East Kalimantan / Karina Atifin -- Understanding the Callao Cave depositional history / Armand Salvador Mijares -- Traditions of jars as mortuary containers in the Indo-Malaysian archipelago / David Bulbeck -- An Son ceramics in the Neolithic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia / Carmen Sarjeant -- The Ryukyu Islans and the northern frontier of prehistoric Austronesian settlement / Mark J. …”

“…This chapter focuses on the Script of the Lord’s Infancy (LI), whose nucleus, an early apocryphal text about the birth and the infancy of Jesus, was introduced into Armenia in 588 by missionaries of the Syriac Church of the East. Although after the Œcumenical Council of Ephesus (431) the Armenian Church had officially condemned the strict dyophysite doctrine of the Church of the East and later even embraced strict Cyrilline Christology, this new theological orientation could not be implemented overnight across the entire territory of Armenia. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contact -- Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in medieval Norway / Bjørn Bandlien -- The evidence for Islamic scientific works in medieval Iceland / Christian Etheridge -- Fire-worshipping magicians of the north : Muslim perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen / Kay Peter Jankrift -- The encounter with Islam between doctrinal image and life writing : Ambrosius Zeebout's report of Joos van Ghistele's travels to the East, 1481-1485 / Stefan Schröder -- II. …”

“…It explores aesthetic experience in the religious field through a series of case studies. These include Islamic sermons from the Middle East and South Asia, Islamic religious chanting, a chapter of the Qurʼān, a German performance artist, Indian rasa theory, and Arabic and Bengali literature. …”