The ex-Portuguese Island of Diu - a once strategic maritime gateway to the bay of Cambay, Gujarat, India - features in the corpus of Portuguese history and literature, but a comprehensive study of the island was lacking.
The central questions shaping this book revolve around how the Church of England’s engagement in the public sphere has changed over time, and how Anglicans more broadly have participated in public debates over military intervention.
Winner of the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arab Culture in Other Languages) This groundbreaking work studies the Arabic literary culture of early modern Southeast Asia on the basis of largely unstudied and unknown manuscripts.
The Persian Iskandar-nama or Alexander romance is a collection of mostly legendary stories about Alexander the Great, whose core narrative goes back to a Greek account of his life and accomplishments, written between the third century BCE and the first century CE.
In Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th - 15th Century Tabriz, an international group of specialists from different disciplines investigate the role of Tabriz as one of the foremost centres of learning, cultural productivity, and politics in post-Mongol Iran and the Middle East.
This magisterial history of Japanese nationalism reveals nationalism to be a contested and pluralistic practice that seeks to center the people in political life.
Dala'il al-Nubuwwa literature that is centered on narratives from the Prophet Muhammad's life has most commonly been viewed, or even dismissed, as the product of popular veneration.
This edited volume follows the panel "e;Earth in Islamic Architecture"e; organised for the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Ankara, on the 19th of August 2014.
The question "e;how has ancient India's incredibly rich literary heritage been visually represented"e; forms the centerpiece of this latest volume in Brill's series Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology.
Through its material remains, Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem analyzes several overlooked aspects of the earliest decades of Islamic presence in Jerusalem, during the seventh century CE.
In Persian literature, tadhkira ('note', 'memorandum') works are for the most part collections of biographies of poets, combined with selections from their writings.
This book is the result of a conference held at the University of California, Irvine, covering the contacts between Iran and India from antiquity to the modern period.
In A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic Hendrik Boeschoten describes the lexical material contained in works written in different varieties of Eastern Turkic in and around the fourteenth century, e.
