Astrological iconography in the Middle Ages

Reviewing ongoing debates about the origins of image worship in the study of Hinduism, this chapter investigates the transfer of the Vedic-astrological royal cult to the Hindu cult...

Ebenezer Sibly’s friendship with Quaker physician John Till Adams and his brother, William, seems to have been one of Ebenezer’s primary motivations for moving to Bristol in 1783 o...

Gender and Violence in the Middle East argues that violence is fundamental to the functioning of the patriarchal gender structure that governs daily life in Middle Eastern societie...

The scholarly literature on Middle Eastern foreign policies has long treated the region as a pawn in the larger game of the great powers’ international rivalry for global supremacy...

This volume explores a world that thought deeply about imperial power and emperors but one that perhaps never had an “empire” of its own. These synthetic essays from experts across...

This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by compet...

The traditional focus on early Islamic art has often obscured the specific contexts of the production of particular artworks. The famous wall paintings at the bath and audience hal...

There are far fewer publications on the ethnology of Micronesia than for any other region in the Pacific. This dearth is especially seen in the traditional religion, folklore, and ...